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Spread Your Wings
Name: Maria faithorn
01 November 2023;Genre: Personal Growth
Spread Your Wings is a beautiful story about a cockatoo that provides a loving and stable home for its young bird. Through reassurance, hope and encouragement, the young cockatoo learns to fly high in the sky, 'swooping, diving, circling in the clear blue sky'. And even when t...
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A Way to the Stars
Name: Maria faithorn
01 November 2023;Genre: Family & Home
If you want a story to show resilience, then this A Way to the Stars is the go-to book! Joe wants to go to the stars. His friends laugh, but his Dad offers to help. After several humorous and failed attempts; with many whoops! Oh no! Crash! Bangs! And wallops!, Joe and his Dad...
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Check & Mate
Name: Grace Age 15
01 November 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
I binged this book, its characters and plot add up together to make the perfect romance. Check & Mate is written from the perspective of Mallory Greenleaf, a girl struggling to support her family and who holds a vow to never play chess again. That is, until she enters a sm...
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Legendary Creatures: Mythical Beasts and Spirits from Around the World
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 November 2023;Genre: Myths & Legends
Legendary Creatures: Mythical Beasts and Spirits from Around the World offers a fascinating introduction to mythical beasts and spirits. A map of the world identifying each creature's location is included at the beginning of the book and a note from the author explains that th...
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Ultra Wild
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 November 2023;Genre: Environment & Nature
Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan to Rewild Every City on Earth is a graphic book-style nonfiction text. Filled with drawings and tiny writing, this is a book to study closely and pore over each page. It is presented as a series of ideas to combat climate change. While it is presented as a sort of...
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You Could Be So Pretty
Name: Clare Wilkins
01 November 2023;Genre: Dystopian
What a fascinating, disturbing read. What initially appears to be a YA Handmaid's Tale is actually an only a slightly distorted snapshot of society today. Belle and Joni are polar opposites, living either side of The Doctrine that governs insular communities like their own. Subjugated f...
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The Love Report
Name: Julie Broadbent
01 November 2023;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Grace and Lola are best friends. They want to try to unravel the mystery of how teenagers fall in love and what that looks like, so they decide to write the Love Report. Curious at first, it all begins as a bit of fun. They observe the popular girl in school and try to figure out what exactly...
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Juniper's Christmas
Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 November 2023;Genre: Adventure
Eoin Colfer's new book Juniper's Christmas is a heartwarming modern twist on a story about saving Santa Claus. This story brings attention to the real people who try to help restore Christmas spirit and Christmas magic but also highlights our struggles with modern day corporat...
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The Panda's Child
Name: Amanda Shipton
30 October 2023;Genre: Environment & Nature
The award-winning Welsh author Jackie Morris, who lives in a cottage held together with cobwebs, has yet again demonstrated her mastery with words. She has teamed with the incredible illustrator Cathy Fisher which is a stoke of genius. Through her art, Cathy demonstrates her deep connection wi...
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The Deadlands: Trapped
Name: Nathan Cox
30 October 2023;Genre: Adventure
The Deadlands: Trapped is the second book in the Deadlands series from Skye Melki-Wegner and the action-packed thrill ride immediately leaps back into full force where the first book ended. After reading the first book, <a href="/books/the-deadlands-hunted-the-dinosaurs-are-at...
