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The Wondrous Prune
Name: Kelly Buxton
30 April 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Have you ever dreamt about having a superpower? Prune is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, or so she thinks until one day, everything changes. New town. New school and new life awaits. Is this the fresh start that mama has been hoping for? Prune's brother, Jessie, is navigating the tr...
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The Girl Who Lost a Leopard
Name: Emma Nelson
30 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
The Girl who lost a Leopard is another sure fire hit for author Nizraa Farook. The book is set on the island of Serendib (Sri Lanka) and it opens with the main character named Selvi, who watches as hunters are trying to bait and trap a leopard - her leopard - Lokka. Lokka is a...
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Wonderscape
Name: Jennifer Caddick
30 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
Wonderscape is a modern, fast and clever adventure that combines time travel, reality gaming and historical figures in a thrilling and utterly mind-blowing journey to the year 2473. An unexpected and unusual combusting garden gnome situation throws together three very differen...
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Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale
Name: Jennifer Caddick
29 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale is a fabulously imaginative, intricately detailed and thrilling dystopian adventure, featuring the fabulously named Zeina Starborn. Just her name alone tells the reader that we are about to meet a unique, intrepid, ambitious character with a de...
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The Girl Who Lost a Leopard
Name: Jennifer Caddick
24 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
The Girl Who Lost a Leopard is a stunning, lush, vivid and exotic adventure. Wild-spirited Selvi is in her element living in the mountains of Serendib, where she feels a total affinity with the abundance of nature around her. At no time is she more content then when wild leopa...
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The Secret Sunshine Project
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 April 2022;Genre: LBGTQ+
Shortly after the death of their father, Bea, Riley and their mum leave their home in London to stay with their Gran in the country. Last summer, after Riley had come out as gay, the family had had the best day ever at London Pride and memories of this special, colourful day make their current...
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The Girl Who Lost a Leopard
Name: Carol Wright
23 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
Set on the island of Serendib, a young school girl by the name of Selvi loves to run wild with nature. She lives with her mother in humble surroundings. Her Uncle, Kandaraja, is rather judgemental of how her mother raises her daughter. Selvi has a connection with a leopard she has named...
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Every Cloud
Name: Elen Green
23 April 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Every Cloud explores the challenges that children might face when experiencing changes in their lives - in this case, the transition from primary to secondary school and especially how this impacts on friendships. Through the story, author Ros Roberts also explores other famil...
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The Thief Who Sang Storms
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 April 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The island of Morovia is shaped like a broken heart. It is home to Linnet, an alkonost, one of the bird-like people with magical songs who inhabit the island. Three years previously, alkonosts and humans had lived peacefully together on the island, but a tragic event which killed the queens of...
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Stick Boy and the Rise of the Robots
Name: Hayley Summerfield
22 April 2022;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Sticky Boy and the Rise of the Robots is the sequel to Stick Boy by Paul Coomey. This eye-catching book once again is filled with fantastic illustrations and a plot seeking to find an end to an evil plan. Stick Boy returns with his 'Myste...
