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Good Knight, Bad Knight and the Big Game
Name: Emily Beale
14 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
What happens after you save the kingdom from a rampaging dragon with the aid of a stink bomb? You become the school hero, that's what! Instant popularity and fame is the reward. However, handling that fame can bring a whole new set of problems. At least that's what Berkley Paggle discovers in Goo...
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One Day, So Many Ways
Name: Emily Beale
14 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
One Day, So Many Ways is a beautifully illustrated look into the lives of over 40 children living around the world as they go about their daily routines. From Alaska to Brazil, Greenland to Tanzania, children are waking in homes all around the world. While there are many similarities to European...
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Vlad The World's Worst Vampire: Midnight Fright
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
14 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Have you ever felt like you didn't quite fit in? Well, young Vlad, son of Drax and Mortemia Impaler and distinctly unenthusiastic vampire-in-training, certainly knows what this feels like. He is afraid of the dark, terrified of graveyards and try as he might, he cannot seem to master the skill o...
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Head Kid
Name: Chloe Age 9
14 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Head Kid tells the story of cheeky prankster, Ryan Ward, and his best bud, Dionna Baxter. Ryan's headteacher has just about lost it with the school, so he leaves a new headteacher to attempt to control the hyperactive children. Unfortunately for many of the mischievous school pupils (AKA Ryan a...
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Power To The Princess
Name: Sian S
14 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Well where do I start with this book? What an empowering and beautiful depiction of an array of timeless classics such as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and many more. All with a feminine twist but not singling out male readers. I love the sense of fulfilment and belonging each story...
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The Way Past Winter
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
13 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
This story sparkles like sunlight on freshly fallen snow. It will transport you to a forested land of never-ending winter where Mila and her sisters, having already lost their parents, wake to discover that their brother Oskar has vanished. Before long it becomes apparent that he is far from th...
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Killer T
Name: Dylan Age 14
13 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Packed with action from start to finish and impossible to put down, this story's tragic ending will leave most readers in tears.
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Rosie Loves Jack
Name: Lorraine ansell
11 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Rosie isn't Rosie without Jack. And she's determined to follow him to Brighton so they can be together again. Travelling alone isn't so easy for Rosie as she has Downs Syndrome and when the weather shuts down the train lines, the people she meets, and events, soon take a turn for the worse. Rosi...
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The Bear and the Nightingale
Name: Linda brown
11 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Wow, what a debut novel... if you like your fairytales to involve demons, death, witches and vampires then you are going to love this first book of a new trilogy by Katherine Arden. The backdrop of this story is Russia, in deep winter. Vasya and her siblings cuddle up against the warm ovens in...
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Going to the Volcano
Name: Lauren Maidman
05 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Always wanted to go on an adventure up a volcano? Now you can with Jane and Dwayne and their funny, explosive story of 'Going to the Volcano', written by Andy Stanton, the author of the Mr Gum series. Jane, Dwayne and their friends go on an adventure to see the volcano, they travel on trains, p...
