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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Jane Rew
28 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Jasper Wilde adores his sister. They've spent many happy hours together, in trees, out walking, watching wildlife, listening to nightingales. So now, it's too much to bear that Rosie might be gone. If, as his parents say, she's gone 'to a better place', surely he can find her. She said she'd a...
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The Bird Singers
Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 January 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
The Bird Singers is a thrilling, intriguing and superbly sinister mystery - such a page turner! Laylah and younger sister Izzie reluctantly have to join mum on a last minute 'holiday' to the Lake District. Dad doesn't come (he is too busy working away - again). The girl...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Elen Green
26 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
The Hunt for the Nightingale is a book that stays with you for a long time, as you connect so completely with the child narrator, Jasper, as he sets out on a quest to find a nightingale and his missing sister, and on the way discovers new friends and the courage he didn't thin...
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What's New Harper Drew
Name: Natalie J. McChrystal Plimmer
24 January 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
What's New Harper Drew? begins a new series that follows the humorous stream-of-consciousness illustrated diary format that seems to be currently very popular, such as Tom Gates, Scarlet Fife and so on (I suppose they are the new generation of Adrian Mole characters). Plus, di...
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Cool Technology
Name: Sharon Porter
20 January 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
'I loved this book. When my teacher gave it to me, she said I should just dip into the book and read the things I was interested in. I didn't expect to read all of it, but I did. I think she knew I'd really like it.' D aged 10 This is the first time we had come across this series of "Co...
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The Ship of Cloud and Stars
Name: Donna Ritchie
20 January 2022;Genre: Adventure
The Ship of Cloud and Stars is a brilliant story which is set during a time where girls and women had little say in society. An epic tale in which 'girl power' and determination can lead to dreams coming true. Nico, who lives with her mother, father and two brothers (wh...
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A Thunder of Monsters
Name: Jacqueline Harris
18 January 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Patch, Barver and Wren are back in A Thunder of Monsters, their final adventure in the trilogy that began with A Darkness of Dragons. The end of the second book, A Vanishing of Griffins,...
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Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
Name: Jan Blagden
12 January 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep, from the imagination of Philip Reeve, is a story of the old magic that flows through land and sea. Utterly is an orphan, washed up as a baby on the island shore of Wildsea, part of the Autumn Isles, somewhere off the coast of England. Ree...
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When the War came home
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 January 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Natty is forced to leave her home and go with her mother to stay at her cousin's farm in another Welsh village. There she gets to know her wider family, including Nery's who is around her age and Nery's older brother Huw. Huw, only seventeen, has come back from the trenches a changed person, h...
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5 Minute Really True Stories for Family Time
Name: Lizi Backhouse
06 January 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Britannica's compendium of '5 Minute Really True Stories for Family Time' features 30 different sections that inform the reader about all sorts of different lifestyles - both human and animal. The book claims that each story takes 5 minutes and I'm dubious on this as there is...
