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The Secret of the Blood-Red Key
Name: Julie Broadbent
18 September 2023;Genre: Fantasy
In The Secret of the Blood-Red Key, we are reunited with the familiar world of Krasnia and its inhabitants. Our heroes Rachel and Robert Klein have saved the country from the wicked dictator Charles Malstain and peace and order has now been restored. They are rightly now recog...
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The Infinite
Name: Lily Age 12
18 September 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
Amazing book, I read it at school and it is such an exciting adventure. The author describes the setting and the characters really well!
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Impossible Creatures
Name: Clair Bossons
15 September 2023;Genre: Myths & Legends
Katherine Rondell's Impossible Creatures is a stunning book! The endpapers are illustrated with a map of The Archipelago, a secret cluster of islands where all the mythological creatures live side by side with humans. This is followed by The Guardian's Bestiary; a wonderful il...
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Impossible Creatures
Name: Beverley Somerset
15 September 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a run-down house with no internet or phone signal. He is told that he can go anywhere, but is forbidden to go to the top of the nearby hill. Of...
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The Secret of the Blood-Red Key
Name: Beverley Somerset
14 September 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Robert and Rachel Klein have defeated the villainous Charles Malstain; the land of Krasnia and its capital city, Brava, are now full of joy, colour and happy citizens, and Rachel and Robert are national heroes. Then a boy appears from nowhere and presents Rachel with a blood-red key. She has n...
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Mermedusa (An Eerie-on-Sea Adventure)
Name: Wendy Kelly
13 September 2023;Genre: Adventure
So here it is! We've reached the end of Herbie and Violet's winter shenanigans with the explosive story of the Mermedusa. Those devoted readers who have followed all their other adventures will find many loose ends pleasingly tied up in their final (perhaps?) adventure. Thomas...
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Orion Lost
Name: Review Age 11
09 September 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
This book was really fun to read, I loved the twists and turns in it - it made it seem a bit more like a mystery, with space pirates etc. Keep up the good work.
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The Stolen Songbird
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 September 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Caro Monday lives in a pub in Waterloo with her two mothers. One of her mothers runs the pub while the other is a famous whistling star, who travels the world. One day Caro is forced to go and stay with her great aunt who lives in Hampstead. Her whistling mother has disappeared, and Caro has n...
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Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire!: A Sprinkling of Danger
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 September 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
A Sprinkling of Danger finds Alice Éclair on another spying adventure. When an American film crew arrives at the beautiful palace of Versailles, there is great excitement, but suspicions that a spy is amongst them means Alice is once more on the case. Using her baking skills,...
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Brilliant Black British History (paperback)
Name: Elen Green
04 September 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
So you think you know Black British history? Well, this book will definitely make you think again. Brilliant Black British History brings the nuance back to our history that has been lost in today's dividing lines; shining a light on the ways that Black lives have been entwined in Brit...
