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The Jolley-Rogers and the Cave of Doom
Name: Emma Small
05 June 2015;Genre: Adventure
Piratical fun in huge amounts for all land-lubbers out there! The story starts with the Jolley-Rogers deciding to swap a day on their pirate ship for a day at the beach. It's soon clear that this will not be a day of sandcastles and ice creams, but instead a high adventure filled with gold treas...
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Circus Mirandus
Name: Lynn Roulstone
02 June 2015;Genre: Adventure
As a young man Micah's grandfather Ephraim visited the magical Circus Mirandus where he met the Lightbender, who promised him a miracle. Ephrain decided to keep his miracle for a later date and now he is dying, wants to use it to help Micah. The story moves between Ephraim's story in the past, an...
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Those Pesky Rabbits
Name: Rachel Esling
31 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
This delightful book will ease any youngster out of a grump! Bear has enjoyed his solitary life for so long he has become used to peace and quiet and having things just the way he wants them. So it comes as a shock when, 'those pesky rabbits' move in close by and Bear suddenly has to come to term...
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Whoops!
Name: Rachel Esling
31 May 2015;Genre: Humour
Any little person will hardly be able to stop themselves from joining in and helping to tell the story of how a little old lady tried to give back the right voices to a dog, a cat and a mouse. Rhyme, repetition and humour will cement this story into their memory and before you know it, they'll be...
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Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed
Name: Jayne Gould
25 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Malcolm is an ordinary ten year old boy who lives with his mum and her brother, Uncle Gobb. Uncle Gobb has been a very important person for many years, and as a consequence is extremely bossy, as well as being very fond of worksheets, asking questions, correct answers and telling Malcolm do more...
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Herculfleas
Name: Jayne Gould
25 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Every month a monstrous giant called Yuk comes to the town of Tumber and eats its people. The first he munched were the parents of a girl called Greta, who is on a mission to save what is left of her town. Heroes have come to try and defeat the giant but all have met their own death. Greta takes...
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Delete
Name: Melanie Chadwick
20 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Delete manages to maintain the momentum, excitement and all out action of Shift, the first book in the series without falling short of sensible storyline. A group of teenagers were in detention when a flash of light shifts them to an alternate version of the world where they and their evil copies...
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The Last Summer Of Us
Name: Catherine
20 May 2015;Genre: Friends and family
This book came at the perfect time for me, I'd read a couple of books that had road trips in but they were either journeying away from suicide or toward them and there was a predictable amount of self discovery to be had along the way. Then The Last Summer of Us landed on my doorstep and I'm real...
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Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick
Name: Lizzie Steer
19 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Since it was published more than 40 years ago, Rosie's Walk has become a classic so it's a real pleasure to see Pat Hutchins' follow-up picture book, Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick? The new picture book has many echoes of Rosie's Walk, including its style of story telling where the text tells...
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Because You'll Never Meet Me
Name: Catherine
18 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the blurb; Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his...
