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Night Speakers: Sleepless
Name: Aidan Severs
23 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
The Breakfast Club meets The Rest Of Us Just Live Here, but for a slightly younger audience. An unlikely trio of youngsters are drawn together by a mysterious commonality: they all wake up at exactly 1:34 am every night. Something strange is going on, and they';re desperate to discover exactly...
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Witch for a Week
Name: Erin Foote
23 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
Elsie Pickles helps to run the family shop in Smallbridge. One day the local witch Magenta Sharp advertises for a caretaker for her tower in the forest. Elsie takes the position and there begins a week of adventure and fun! Elsie Pickles is a brilliant female character and she is just the righ...
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Safari Pug
Name: Rachael Salmon
18 January 2018;Genre: Animals
What a lovely book! The first thing that struck me were the illustrations in green and yellow, with their echoes of Dr Seuss. Seuss-like too was the way the story meandered and rambled through various unlikely scenarios, and yet it somehow still had one paw in reality. As I am used to reading bo...
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Supertato: Evil Pea Rules
Name: Nicki Cleveland
17 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
The ghastly green super villain is back and determined to stop his nemesis once and for all. Evil Pea is set on ruling the supermarket once and for all, and has a dastardly plan to put Supertato out of action for good. With his plans underway to turn the supermarket into his very own ice kingdom,...
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The Accidental Father Christmas
Name: Erin Foote
17 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
This is my kind of story! Ben has had enough of impostor Santas, and sets a trap to catch the real one. But it all goes wrong and Ben ends up chasing a forgetful Santa through town. A hilarious story from the brilliant author Tom McLaughlin. I laughed throughout the entire story. Once you star...
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The Parent Problem
Name: Maddie Age 10
15 January 2018;Genre: Friends and family
12 year old Skye Green is determined to have a book of her very own published so she writes about her mortifying life as an almost 13 year old girl - she is always being embarrassed by her flamboyant, quirky mum. I found that this book was one of my top 12 favourite books because I just kept want...
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Nevermoor
Name: Azra Age 9
15 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
I liked this book because it's a mixture of all the things I like in books like fantasy, mystery and magic and adventure. It's a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to find all the missing bits as you read and then it all makes sense at the end.
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Nevermoor
Name: Emily Age 9
15 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
I really liked this because it is a fantasy story that's full of adventure and you don't know where it's going so it's always surprising! I especially liked the trials in the story where the children have to discover what skill they have, their 'knack' - one of the children can ride dragons!
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Words and Your Heart
Name: K Kaur
11 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
This is the first book I've read by the author Kate Jane Neal and I think the message is a very important one: Your words have the ability to change someone else's heart and how they feel. It's a message suitable for anybody and for children of any age. Young children may be surprised by the powe...
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What Makes Me a Me?
Name: Fiona Dalu-Chandu
11 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
What Makes Me a Me? is a beautiful picture book written by Ben Faulks (Mr Bloom - CBeebies). It is the story of one little boy trying to work out who he is. He compares himself to everything from inanimate objects like a jumper for size and shape, to a volcano for temperament. Along the way he di...
