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Escape Room: Game Zero
Name: Jennifer CADDICK
09 June 2025;Genre: Science Fiction
Escape Room: Game Zero is a fantastically futuristic, modern and thought-provoking sci-fi adventure quest and battle for survival story, from an author who seamlessly blends classic adventure style with thoroughly contemporary settings. Christoper Edge incorporates the intrigu...
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Nate Yu's Blast from the Past: boy meets ghost in a tale of unlikely friendship
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Nate Riley is an amateur myrmecologist and has his own ant farm, ruled by Queen Elizabeth III - or Betsy as she is affectionately known. With his mums, he has recently moved to Liverpool and unlike him, the 'parentals' (as he calls them) are very keen for him to take...
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Felix and the Future Agency
Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2025;Genre: Adventure
Felix Green doesn't fit in at school. He can predict the future, and this skill is constantly getting him into trouble. Everything changes when he is whisked off to join a top secret, magical government agency, where he finds he's not alone in having special powers. Here, for the first time, F...
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Guardians of the Source (Gargoyles, Book 1)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2025;Genre: Magical Realism
Callen moves with his parents to his father's childhood home, an old ramshackle house that is literally falling down. On his first night there, one of the gargoyles adorning the house wakes up and it quickly becomes clear a malevolent force is also waking. The gargoyles might look scary, but t...
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Dreamslinger
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Aria Loveridge lives at the Resthaven Home for Dreamslingers, a refuge for children born with genetic mutations that transport them to a powerfully magical realm while they sleep. Since the Great Outburst, a tragedy which killed her mother, she believes that her powers - and those of others li...
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The Doughnut Club
Name: Jenny CADDICK
16 May 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
A gently charming and warm-hearted family-focused debut story which features the summer holiday of 12-year-old Quinn, her two mothers and half-sibling, Olly. The Doughnut Club centres around Quinn's exploration of what to means to be a donor-conceived child bu...
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Felix and the Future Agency
Name: Sue Wilsher
16 May 2025;Genre: Adventure
Felix has a special ability - but one which often gets him into trouble and makes others think he's weird. Being able to foresee the future, he tries to warn others to keep them safe, often resulting in him getting the blame for what happens. However, when offered a place at Sparkleton High Sc...
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Dragonborn
Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 May 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Alex, still mourning the death of her father, finds out that she is in fact a dragon in human form. As if this was not shocking enough, she has to leave her home and travel to the Hidden Realm and the island of Skralla in order to learn how to be a dragon. There she meets other children who ar...
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Shrapnel Boys
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 May 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Two days before Britain's Declaration of War, Ronnie, his younger brother, Micky, and best friend, Lugs, watch children from their school set off as they are evacuated to the countryside. Ronnie's mum cannot bear to be parted from her boys and Ronnie has considered himself the man of the house...
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Valley of the Vikings
Name: Louisa Farrow
08 May 2025;Genre: Magical Realism
Valley of the Vikings is the tenth book in the Emily Windsnap series but there is no need to read the earlier books to enjoy it. It's full of magical excitement and magnetic charm, with some underlying themes that feel very relevant to now. For those wh...
