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Across the Risen Sea
Name: Clair Bossons
06 August 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Across the Risen Sea, Bren MacDibble's (The Dog Runner) latest environmentally-themed children's novel, is set in a post climate change world. Sea levels have risen and flooded most of the land, leaving whole cities underwater. Neoma's smaller community now tries to live a gen...
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After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside
Name: Donna Ritchie
06 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
What a thoughtfully written story, based on real-life events after WW2. It is set in the summer of 1945 and is about a group of boys who are taken to Windermere to recuperate after being liberated from the concentration camp. They have encountered horrors beyond comprehension and struggle with...
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After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside
Name: Donna Burkert
06 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Yossi, Leo and Mordecai: three boys bonded together through extreme experiences. Their very survival a miracle and yet here they are, on a plane together to a safe haven, they hope. Hope is really the only thing that has kept them going for so long.The boys are fearful and distrust...
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The Great Revolt
Name: Bryony Davies
06 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Great Revolt by Paul Dowswell is a historical novel covering the peasant rebellion of 1381 over the unpopular poll tax. Covering a non-statutory element of the Key Stage 3 history curriculum, this text sits firmly on secondary school bookshelves.Tilda Rolfe and...
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Small Town Hero
Name: Joanna Hewish
06 August 2020;Genre: Bereavement
An emotional roller coaster of a plot line with a very real protagonist who will hook you in and leave you reeling. A fantastic Young Adult story that deals with many issues surrounding young people - death, bullying, friendships, maturity.Small Town Hero begins in...
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Jefferson
Name: Susan Wilsher
06 August 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
One morning, Jefferson Ponsonby-Smythe, a young hedgehog fond of order and routine, sets off to the hairdresser's to have his quiff trimmed. To his horror, he finds the dead body of Mr Edgar, the owner of Cut & Dye, and is seen, murder weapon in hand, by a witness who accuses him of the cr...
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Every Little Piece of My Heart
Name: Sharon Bolton
06 August 2020;Genre: Friends and family
For Sophie, the last five months have been doubly rubbish. Not only has her best friend Freya disappeared suddenly and is proving impossible to contact, but she has also been battling lupus and its effects on her body. When a parcel from Freya arrives, Sophie experiences a brief upturn in her...
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The Grumpy Fairies
Name: Joanna Hewish
04 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Fairies = delicate, happy, smiling creatures? Not in this book they're not. The fairies have toddlers / children who behave exactly the same way as human children and if you don't learn how to behave, the goblin will get you.This picture book appeals to parents and children on so m...
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The Diddle That Dummed
Name: Samantha Phillips
04 August 2020;Genre: Picture Books
The Diddle that Dummed is another great picture book by children's author Kes Gray and has the same style and repetitive pattern as his 'Oi Frog' series. It's this pattern that helps young children re-tell the story, which in turn supports their understanding of the story form...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
From the distinctive front cover, celebrating Sophia Grimmins as proud, beautiful, defiant, fierce and brown skinned, to her explosive story inside, Kalynn Bayron reclaims the iconic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm with her new YA fantasy, Cinderella Is Dead. Groundbreaking...
