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The Time Tider
Name: Donna Ritchie
19 February 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
Such a brilliant idea for a story…a Time Tider - whose job is to collect unused time!!! Absolutely brilliant! 12-year-old Mara has many missing elements in her life; what happened to her mother?; why does she live in a van with her dad?; why are they always on the move? Arriving in different t...
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The Rescue of Ravenwood
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 February 2023;Genre: Environment & Nature
Ravenwood has been home to Bea and Raffy for as long as they can remember. To them, it's perfect, so when faced with the idea it could be sold, the children are determined to save it no matter what. Natasha Farrant crafts the most beautiful stories which are full of heart and hope and in The R...
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Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind
Name: Donna Ritchie
17 February 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind is full of excitement, adventure and terrifying thrills! Living with her mum (who has health issues), Momo has been brought up with the Japanese stories of old being in the forefront of her life. Her mum has always told her about the...
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Explorers on Witch Mountain
Name: Jacqueline Harris
15 February 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Stella Snowflake Pearl is back, along with her friends from her previous adventure with the Polar Bear Explorers Club. But this time it is different and it is very personal. Stella's father Felix has been kidnapped by a giant vulture and taken to Witch Mountain. Stella, with her friends Ethan,...
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The Monkey Who Fell from the Future
Name: Sue Wilsher
14 February 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
The world in 2425 is a very different place. After a meteor struck the earth, technology has been lost and nature has reclaimed the land. London is now a hellish, flooded wasteland, but a few cities, like Newcastle where Ocean Mooney lives with her Nanny Moo, still stand. When she meets Deucal...
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Blackbeard's Treasure
Name: Sam Phillips
11 February 2023;Genre: Adventure
What an absolutely cracking read; Pirates of the Caribbean for under 10's! Abigail, the story's main protagonist, is fearless in her search for revenge after pirates attack her home and kill her father. With no one left to stop her Abigail joins her family's slave boy, Boubacar when he reasons...
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All Four Quarters of the Moon
Name: Tracy Parvin
10 February 2023;Genre: Family & Home
It is the night of the Mid-Autumn festival and Peijing is in the kitchen making mooncakes with Ah-Ma (Grandma). In the living room, all of the aunties and uncles are playing what is to be their last game of Mah-jong: the next day, the Guo family will be leaving Singapore to start a new life in...
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Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum
Name: Hayley Summerfield
09 February 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum is a brilliantly funny murder mystery story by Alasdair Beckett-King. The new sleuth is humorous and witty and will inspire budding detectives everywhere, as all that is clearly needed is a clever disguise, a fake moustache, a notebook a...
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Wishes Come in Threes
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 February 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
Phyllis (who prefers to be called Phyll) has moved to the countryside, away from all her friends. Her mother is ill with depression and on her first day at summer camp she makes an enemy of Hilda. Phyll is miserable and lonely. On a visit to an old people's home she meets Mr Djinn, who tells h...
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Mort the Meek and the Perilous Prophecy
Name: Sue Wilsher
04 February 2023;Genre: Funny Stories
When the Queen of Brutalia declares that everyone must be alert to the presence of strangers, fear falls over the land 'like an itchy blanket'. As a pacifist, Mort is more inclined to believe that strangers might be friends than enemies and when he and Weed meet Genia and Vita from the tropica...
