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The Arctic Railway Assassin
Name: Sue Wilsher
28 September 2022;Genre: Adventure
Hal is flying off to Sweden to meet his Uncle Nat. Together, they are going to make a special Christmas trip to the Aurora Sky Station to see the Northern Lights. Uncle Nat's friend, Mortimer, has just won a Nobel Prize, and has been scared by a series of inexplicable events since the announce...
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Sticky Pines: The Valley of The Strange
Name: Sam Phillips
27 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
The Valley of The Strange is the third in the Sticky Pines - where things get weird - series by Dashe Roberts. The Sticky Pines adventures is fast becoming one of my favourite series of middle grade books in a long time and, as someone who has never been a fan...
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The Treekeepers
Name: Sue Wilsher
26 September 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Home to thousands, the city of Arborven owes its existence to the Undrentree. A well as the buildings covering the tree, set in rings around it are the city circles where the different layers of society live - the farther away from the tree, the less magic the inhabitants have. As a shapewalke...
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Darwin and Hooker
Name: Sharon Porter
26 September 2022;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Darwin and Hooker is no ordinary story book, it reveals the development of a friendship as well as the mind of one of our greatest biologists. With explanations of journeys to far shores to develop theories and giving presentations to the scientific communities in academia, th...
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The Valley of the Strange
Name: Sue Wilsher
25 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
As Lucy Sladan continues her investigation into the Pretenders - a race of shapeshifters she and her friend, Milo, discovered which has been living secretly in Stinky Pines for generations - things are about to get weird once more. Her father - Silas - has suddenly decided that the family shou...
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Mouse Heart
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 September 2022;Genre: Adventure
In the reign of Queen Anne II, in an alternate Bristol, a foundling called Mouse lives in the Moth Theatre with the people who took her in. Loving and loyal, Mouse adores her theatre family and so when Walter, the troupe's leading man, is wrongly arrested for murder, she is determined to ident...
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The Lost Girl King
Name: Donna Burkert
16 September 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
When their mum goes away with her new boyfriend, Amy and her brother Liam are left with their gran. For Liam, being curled up on a beanbag reading, or listening to one of gran’s stories about magical worlds, is just fine, but for restless Amy, it feels like she is being imprisoned. As soon as...
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Beyond the Frozen Horizon
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
In 2030, the world leaders pledged a coordinated and unprecedented response to the Climate Crisis, introducing strict Climate Laws and establishing World Wilderness Zones, including the High Arctic. Rory's mum is an environmental geologist whose new job with Greenlight, a company which claims...
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Pages and Co: The Treehouse Library
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;Genre: Fantasy
With his Uncle Horatio still trapped in a poisoned sleep, Milo steals away with his new friend, Alessia, to find the cure. They need to find the Botanist and discover her magical treehouse - and Milo's grandmother. The children work with the Botanist to find the ingredients for the cure, forag...
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The Consequence Girl
Name: Clare Parkinson
13 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
I was grateful to receive this from a ReadingZone competition, and looked forward to the children in my primary school library enjoying it. I confess science fiction isn't really my thing. We had read Orion Lost in a year 5 book group, and I had found it slight...
