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The Wild Way Home
Name: Nicola Cleveland
01 July 2020;Genre: Adventure
Charlie has long dreamed of having a sibling and is delighted when he's woken on his 12th birthday to be told he has a baby brother. But his happiness doesn't last when he discovers Dara is very poorly. He's not the pink, beautiful baby brother he was expecting. As fear takes over, Charlie run...
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Bright Bursts of Colour
Name: Alison Kelly
23 June 2020;Genre: Poetry
What could be better than some Bright Bursts of Colour in these difficult times? Matt Goodfellow's latest publication is a much needed pallet of colour and emotion. There's a wonderful poem towards the end of the collection celebrating story time: 'Still Aloud' (p.92). In a pr...
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Planet SOS
Name: Bryony Davies
20 June 2020;Genre: Adventure
Planet SOS: 22 Modern Monsters Threatening Our Environment (and What You Can Do To Defeat Them) is a very clever book about the environment and climate change. The author has cleverly turned the biggest threats to the planet into beasts and suggested ways that the reader can vanquish them through...
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Name: Donna Ritchie
20 June 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
This book drew me in straight away - being a sucker for a story with a bit of magic. It is a story that begins with the two main characters - Ned and Aine - telling their own story. Ned is a young boy whose twin brother, Tam, sadly dies (but is still with him!) and Aine, a young girl whose mot...
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The Clockwork Crow
Name: Janet Fisher
16 June 2020;Genre: Adventure
A beautifully designed cover and stars on every other page make this a lovely book to hold, and the story inside does not disappoint. Orphaned Seren is travelling to what she hopes will be her new home in Wales one cold evening before Christmas, when a tall thin man thrusts a parcel into her h...
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Invisible Nature: A Secret World Beyond our Senses
Name: James Hewish
13 June 2020;Genre: Animals
Invisible Nature: A Secret World Beyond our Senses is a non-fiction book by Catherine Barr and Anne Wilson. The authors make a brilliant and successful attempt at trying to demonstrate, explain and illustrate some challenging scientific concepts.This book will sati...
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Mohinder's War
Name: Donna Ritchie
11 June 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Mohinder's War is set during WWII in occupied France. It follows 13-year-old Joelle's father/daughter-like relationship with Indian RAF pilot Mohinder Singh. Shot down over France and crash landing, he is rescued and then hidden by Joelle and her parents (an English mother and...
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My Name is River
Name: Kelly Buxton
08 June 2020;Genre: Adventure
I just could not help falling in love with the characters in My Name is River - a beautifully told story about friendship, courage adventure and family.Dylan has always wanted to live and work on his family farm in Wales, which had been passed down through many gen...
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Wilde
Name: Jenny Caddick
04 June 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
Wilde knows she is not a 'normal' girl; strange things happen around her ... When she moves in with her aunt, in her mother's old home town Winter, she just wants to be a regular kid and to fit in. Yet Winter itself doesn't appear to be a normal town. In an unusually oppressive heatwave, Year...
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The Promise Witch (The Wild Magic Trilogy, Book Three)
Name: Jennifer Caddick
04 June 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
A thrilling and tense story from start to finish, the return to Witches Borough and to Mup and Crow is an epic, heart-in-the-mouth finale to the tale of the raggedy witches. The dark power they unleash again battles with the strength and purity of Mup's own magic.In The Pro...
