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  • Secrets of the Snakestone

    Secrets of the Snakestone

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Adventure

    Zélie Dutta may be able to crush the head of a cobra with a bare heel, lick her elbow and peel a banana with her toes, but for all that she is stuck working as a maid in Paris where all the other servants think she is a witch. She has never fully understood why she has been shipped there from...

  • Hen in the Bed

    Hen in the Bed

    Name: Joanne Thomas
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    A fun and colourful twist on the classic song 'ten in the bed' where you get one less animal occupying the bed each time round. The lovely split page design is interesting and intriguing for little ones who enjoy turning the page to find out which animal 'fell out' and name them. As more anima...

  • Rex Dinosaur in Disguise: Undercover Alien

    Rex Dinosaur in Disguise: Undercover Alien

    Name: Maria Faithorn
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    YES! Rex, the dinosaur in disguise, is back! Rex has made it in the human world, and is now a PE teacher! However, not everyone is happy about monsters being involved in society and when all the grumpy pigs... gwinty squids... guinea pigs! go missing at the fair, Rex is the obvious culprit. Bu...

  • Cactus Kid and the Battle for Star Rock Mountain

    Cactus Kid and the Battle for Star Rock Mountain

    Name: Sharon Porter
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    This feisty graphic novel is described as a mission to be the best wizard in the world world in the blurb, and it does not disappoint. There is magic, motorcycles and adventure throughout as Cactus Kid tries to attain his must desired chunk of star rock to complete his wizard training. Little...

  • Cross My Heart and Never Lie

    Cross My Heart and Never Lie

    Name: Clair Bossons
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    A heart-warming graphic novel, translated to English from Norwegian by Matt Bagguley. Perfect for girls on the cusp of becoming a teenager and navigating changing friendship circles and social media drama. Told in diary form, Cross My Heart and Never Lie</stron...

  • Toxic: A rainforest adventure that might just be deadly.

    Toxic

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Environment

    Jessica moves around the world with her scientist parents. She finds each move difficult as she has to make new friends and then leave them. This time the family are in South America, in the heart of the rainforest, while her parents research frogs. Jessica meets a local girl, Renata, and they...

  • Black Hole Cinema Club

    Black Hole Cinema Club

    Name: Tracy Parvin
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Have you ever watched a film wishing that you were a part of the action, the hero, the person who saves the town, saves the day, saves the world?  You need wish no more. Welcome to 4Di, the fantastical immersive cinematic technology, technology that (so far) can only be experienced at the Blac...

  • Secrets of the Snakestone

    Secrets of the Snakestone

    Name: Emma Urbonas
    07 March 2024;

    Genre: Adventure

    Secrets of the Snakestone is a thoroughly enjoyable read that thrusts you into the underbelly of 1800s Paris, joining two children in their search of a mystical stone to keep it from the clutches of an evil society. Zélie and Jules make for enthralling characters whom y...

  • The Dark Portal: Book One of The Deptford Mice

    The Dark Portal (no.1 in the Deptford Mice trilogy)

    Name: Jane Rew
    07 March 2024;

    Genre: Fantasy

    The Dark Portal (book one of The Deptford Mice series) may be a classic, but very many young readers will not have heard of it, let alone read it. Indeed, with its new illustrations both inside and on the cover, it could surely pass as a brand new title and is sure to ignite t...

  • The Magician Next Door

    The Magician Next Door

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    06 March 2024;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Who doesn't love a beautiful story, brimming with magic? The author of The Wishkeeper's Apprentice, Rachel Chivers Khoo, has done it again. The Magician Next Door is a beautifully written story with gorgeous black-and-white ill...