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Iguana Boy saves the world with a triple cheese pizza
Name: Leia Sands
06 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
This is the story of Dylan, a boy who dreams of being a superhero just like his brother Arctic Thunder and his sister Millie Monday. However, on discovering his slightly disappointing superpower - the ability to talk to iguanas - Dylan feels rather inadequate. The evil Super Villain Platypus Kid...
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Children of Blood and Bone
Name: Linda Brown
03 August 2018;Genre: Fantasy
This debut YA novel has breathless pacing, wonderful worldbuilding that lets your imagination run wild and a strong heroine that the reader roots for. Children of Blood and Bone is told through four different points of view, but their lives are all woven around the main charac...
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The Eye of the North
Name: Matt Davies
02 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
What an adventure! This book centres around Emmeline, whose parents mysteriously vanish. Before long, she is on a ship to France where she encounters her side-kick-to-be, Thing. Everything takes a turn for the worse when Emmeline is kidnapped and taken to the North. From here on in, we have sc...
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Name: Sam Holmes
02 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Emmeline is trying to find her parents and is desperate to know why they can't be contacted. She receives a ship ticket and instructions to meet her new guardian in Paris. However, things don't go to plan and, despite befriending a stowaway named 'Thing', Emmeline is kidnapped by the evil Dr....
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Name: Susan Wilsher
02 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Living high in the mountains of the Philippines in 1899, Samkad's world is his tribe, his village. Now he is about the have the Cut and become a man. He is desperate to play his part in keeping the tribe safe from their enemy, the head-hunting Mangili, even if it means he will no longer be abl...
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A Kid in My Class: Poems
Name: Alison Kelly
02 August 2018;Genre: Poetry
What a lovely collaboration between two acclaimed figures in the field of children's literature this is! CLIPPA prize-winner, Rachel Rooney, brings a whole school classroom to life (and I don't just mean its pupils), beautifully complemented by former Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell...
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Bad Nana: Older not Wiser
Name: Kristen Hopwood
01 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Bad Nana: Older not wiser is a brightly illustrated delight for children beginning to read chapter books as it is split into three sections. The whole book is told from the point of view of Jeanie, the 7 3/4 year old granddaughter of Bad Nana. The first section is an introduction to the charact...
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The Truth About Lies
Name: Lorraine Ansell
01 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Jess Wilson is a teenager escaping from the grief and torture of her past. Able to recall every minute detail of her life and experiences from the age of 11, she has been tested to see if her condition, hyperthymesia, can be altered with alternate memories.Previously known as Freya...
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Cannonball Coralie and the Lion
Name: Lucy Newton
30 July 2018;Genre: Adventure
A nice story based around an unlikely friendship between a little girl and a lion! The girl, Coralie, lives in the woods and doesn't like to follow the rules of society. She likes doing tricks and playing in the woods but she feels quite lonely. Without warning, a group of circus acts come troop...
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The Colour of the Sun
Name: Laura Taylor
30 July 2018;Genre: Adventure
'It's an ordinary summer day, the day that Jimmy Killen dies and comes to life again.' So begins the latest novel from award winning author David Almond. In actual fact It begins with two deaths - that of the protagonist Davie's father, a few weeks earlier, and the stabbing of a teenage boy. A fi...
