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OOPS!: A laugh-out-loud picture book about manners for age 3+
Name: Lauren Maidman
15 May 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
OOPS! Is the hilarious tale of Clare, a little girl who makes A LOT of mistakes; you see, she is very clumsy! However, Clare has a problem. Instead of apologising for all that she does, she just says 'Ooops' - and every time Clare says 'Ooops', something happens to her . . . s...
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Tom Burne Has Left the Chat
Name: Clare Wilkins
15 May 2026;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
A touching YA debut about grief, mental health and acceptance and the role our digital lives have to play in them. Jamie Finnerty is in the wrong place at the wrong time when burgeoning teenage social media star Tom Burke takes his own life. Without thinking, Jamie grab...
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Do You See the Tiger?
Name: Jen Bevan
15 May 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
Do You See the Tiger? by the brilliant Philip Ardagh is a wonderful 'tail'. A little girl and her Dad travel on the underground one evening. The little girl keeps seeing parts of a tiger and then she sees the whole tiger. Daddy misses it all, as adults often do. This st...
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The Time Engine
Name: Ruth Cornish
15 May 2026;Genre: Science Fiction
Part adventure, part historical fantasy, The Time Engine by Lindsay Galvin is a cracking read with a likeable central character in the form of 11-year-old Eric Finch. Eric's scientist parents live with their son in the grounds of Cambridge University at the outbreak of...
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Wild Magic: Escape of the Sea Turtles (book 3)
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
15 May 2026;Genre: Environment & Nature
Escape of the Sea Turtles is the third title in the illustrated chapter book series Wild Magic about Misha and Ziggy, who travel the world with their nature documentary maker father. In each adventure, the children save wildlife using their secret magical abilities; Misha talk...
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Tadpole Summer
Name: Louisa Farrow
15 May 2026;Genre: Bereavement
In Tadpole Summer, Frances has been nicknamed Frog for as long as she can remember; probably because her little brother is Tad, short for Taddeus. She's big and strong, he's small and weak but Frog adores him. She is his self-appointed guardian as well as his playmate. This ye...
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Max and Ella, Stuck Together
Name: Louisa Farrow
15 May 2026;Genre: LBGTQ+
Max has two mums and he's always known that he's been donor conceived. He's happy with his family but snide comments from one of his new classmates at secondary school have drained all his confidence. Who is he really? Ella has different struggles. She loves her dad but misses her mum w...
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World of Sport
Name: Jane Rew
15 May 2026;Genre: Non Fiction
In World of Sport, particular sports are singled out for more detailed description followed by more general information about the sporting genre to which it belongs, in an 'Around the World' double page spread. History and notable champions, as well as how certain spor...
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Dragonborn: The Twilight Child
Name: Jacqueline Harris
15 May 2026;Genre: Fantasy
Alex is a dragon and now goes to a school for dragons. The evil Drak Midna is still at large and Alex and her friends need to try and stop him before he unleashes a war on humans. They travel to a magical place in Scotland, where dragons and humans work together, and there Alex finds a force p...
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Jolly Monster Town: The Party Pickle
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
14 May 2026;Genre: Friends and family
The Pickle Party is the first title in a new chapter book series for emerging readers set in Jolly Monster Town. The second title - The Treasure Hunt - is set to be published in the Autumn. Jolly Monster Town is a bizarre, colourful, and exuberant place inhabited by a cast of we...
