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Trailblazers: Albert Einstein
Name: Samantha Phillips
05 March 2020;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Trailblazers is a biography series that celebrates the lives of pioneers, past and present. A great series of books, each packed full of information and facts about scientists, inventors and athletes from all over the world.Trailbrazers, Albert Einstein, The Greatest Mind i...
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Demelza and the Spectre Detectors
Name: Alice Fanning
03 March 2020;Genre: Adventure
Demelza and the Spectre Detectors is an exciting and spooky middle grade adventure about Demelza Clock, a junior scientist with many madcap inventions under her belt who discovers she is a Spectre Detector: she can summon ghosts. This kicks off a well plotted mystery with more than a few twists...
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Name: Carol Carter
20 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
The City, a spear-topped island rising from the sea, is the only land remaining since the world was submerged by rising waters long ago. When a whale is beached on a church roof, singing mournfully, and a hand and then a mysterious blue-eyed boy emerges from its belly, the question is, who is...
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Orphans of the Tide
Name: Kelly Buxton
20 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Orphans of the Tide is a gripping adventure-filled story. An epic-adventure trilogy like no other. A city underwater. A beached whale. A girl with a heavy secret. The enemy has risen again and threatens the city - a story of good vs evil. Ellie, the Inventor's daughter,...
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The Magic of Mums
Name: Alison Kelly
14 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
In the early pages of this lovely new collection of poems by Justin Coe, there's a simple diamond shape poem which holds a lens to the themes and sentiments of the poems: MUM / I COULD / DIG DEEP DOWN / TO THE EARTH'S CORE / AND NEVER FIND A / DIAMOND AS / BEAUTIFUL / AS YOU / ARE //. The book...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
10 February 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Little Bird Lands is the second book in the adventures of Bridie , set in the mid-1800s. The first book, Little Bird Flies, took place on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. This book is set in America, where Bridie and part of her family have fled a cruel landlord.<b...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
06 February 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
Hurrah! The Widdershins sisters are back! Fliss, Betty and Charlie, whom we first met in Michelle Harrison's 'A Touch of Magic' return in a new action-packed adventure in the sequel 'A Sprinkle of Sorcery'.The girls are still living in The Poachers Pocket, the run-down pub they sha...
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Name: Carol Carter
06 February 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Little Bird Lands is the stunning conclusion to the historical diptych beginning with 2019's Little Bird Flies.At the end of the first novel, we left Bridie MacKerrie, also known as Little Bird, as she landed in New York in 1864, about to begin a new life having es...
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Name: Stephen Leitch
06 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Talking tigers, flying rugs and pancakes, what's not to like in Tiger Skin Rug, a brilliant debut novel from Joan Haig. The story follows young brothers Lal and Dilip who with their family have moved to Scotland from India. In the drawing room of their new home they discover a tiger skin rug,...
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Name: Donna Burkert
04 February 2020;Genre: Personal Growth
Frances Frida Ripley: born in a storm (or so her parents so often reminisce), filled with anger and unrest. She spends her life being told to quieten down, to control her anger, to just be something that she's not. But she can't! She can't be like her sweet sister Bridie, she can't be like her...
