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The Cloud Thief
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, like many other villages, is dependent on cloud deliveries from the Cloud Factory for its survival. With rising prices and smaller clouds, Mara and the other villagers are finding life harder. Worried about Old Bern, who is suffering from the Thwart, Mara overhears a...
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The Cloud Thief
Name: Rachel Bolton
08 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
The Cloud Thief is a gentle fantasy adventure with a big heart. The story begins in Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, where rain is in such short supply that the town must pay for clouds to be delivered. When Mara discovers that a cloud might also help cure Old Bern, she sets out to...
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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...
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Toxic
Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 March 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
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...
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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...
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Aliya to the Infinite City
Name: Sue Wilsher
08 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Since the death of her parents, Aliyah has lived in Cairo with her grandfather, Geddo. Recently, he has been acting strangely, disappearing for hours on end and forgetting her birthday. When a mysterious gift arrives, things change dramatically. Geddo is taken away and Aliya finds herself whis...
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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...
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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...
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Feather (The Twitchers)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
05 March 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The Twitchers are back in the final part of their adventures. This time, Ava takes centre stage as she is present during the robbery of rare bird feathers at a museum. The Twitchers join forces to try and get back the feathers before the skins are broken up and sold. At the scene of the crime,...
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Diary of a Big Bad Wolf
Name: Maria Faithorn
04 March 2024;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Just read the first chapter of Diary of a Big Bad Wolf and you will be HOOKED! Join Wolf as he prepares for the start of Spring - a time where he plans to eat as much meat and fairytale characters as he can imagine. There’s just one thing.. It doesn’t go quite to plan and time...
