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Colin’s Castle
Name: Louise Gahan
09 September 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Colin's dream has come true. Something that every vampire wants and that's a castle of his own. There is just one problem. A duck! Colin's Castle is a simple but funny story about two very different characters who in time, with tolerance and acceptance, learn to live...
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Drown Me With Dreams: the darkly enchanting young adult fantasy
Name: Linda Brown
09 September 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Drown me with Dreams is the concluding book to the dark and seductive Sing Me to Sleep. With the characters more fleshed out and a plot full of dramatic twists and turns, you are in for a ro...
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Unicorn Academy: The Magical Guide (A Netflix series): An official guide
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
06 September 2024;Genre: Fantasy
This guide to the Netflix animated series Unicorn Academy will appeal to any fan of the series. Focused on characters, not episodes or the world as a whole, it includes outlines of each main character and their unicorns, as well as the teachers, the villains, and the magical c...
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Croaky: Quest for the Legendary Berry
Name: Amanda Shipton
06 September 2024;Genre: Adventure
In Croaky: Quest for the Legendary Berry, Croaky Hopper and the Woggle Scouts are heading to Giant Fruit Island in search of a legendary berry! The mysterious fruit promises everlasting youth. To reach it they must brave a perilous jungle, dodge mischievous lemurs, and tackle...
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Reggie Rabbit: The Great Carrot Heist
Name: Jen Bevan
06 September 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Reggie Rabbit is an aspiring detective with the hat and jacket to match. He longs to follow in the footsteps of his hero Detective Fox but in Little Critter, where he lives, there is not much for him to do. He also needs a sidekick. In flaps Pipsquark to his school one day. Th...
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This Ravenous Fate
Name: Clair Bossons
06 September 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
This Ravenous Fate is set in 1920s Harlem and is the first book in what will become the This Ravenous Fate duology. It will appeal to young adults who enjoy vampire fiction and is perfect for fans of T...
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Save Our Forest!
Name: Clair Bossons
06 September 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Save Our Forest! is an inspiring graphic novel. Bao, our main character, discovers that the forest they play in is about to be turned into an extended school car park. She attempts to go through the right channels to save their forest but when this doesn't work, the friends cl...
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The Night of the Unicorn Dance (Unicorn Seekers 3)
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
06 September 2024;Genre: Fantasy
The Night of the Unicorn Dance is the third title in the Unicorn Seekers series and although it is fine to read it without having read the other books, like I have, there is lots of referencing previous events and I think you will appreciate it more knowing th...
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Jack the Fairy: The Night Bigfoot Stole my Pants
Name: Amanda Shipton
05 September 2024;Genre: Fantasy
A monster has broken into Jack's garden and stolen his favourite yellow underpants. Jack sees his chance to embark on his first ever solo mission. Unfortunately, he leaves a trail of chaos in his wake, breaking every rule in the fairy rule book, and now he's the fairy equivalent of grounded....
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The Great Phoenix of London
Name: Jacqueline Harris
05 September 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
The place is London and the year is 1666. When fire breaks out, Gil is separated from his family and has to try and find his mother as the city burns. He carries with him a mysterious stone which others show an interest in. When the stone hatches, Gil finds himself looking after a creature of...
