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Clem Fatale has Been Betrayed
Name: Rachel Bolton
02 April 2025;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Clem Fatale has Been Betrayed is a fabulous new read packed with humour and dastardly adventure. I loved it! Set in London in 1951 we are introduced to Clem Fatale, youngest member of the Spider gang and daughter of one of the most notorious crooks in the city...
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Oh, Carrots!
Name: Amanda Shipton
02 April 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
This beautiful fable about friendship would be the perfect book for Spring projects at home or at school! We may not be able to literally grow our friends like Mr Rabbit, but his advice about the need to prepare your ground and show love, patience, care and warmth</str...
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Ady and Me
Name: Maria
02 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Ady and Me is a book exploring neurodiversity and the impact it has on Sophie as she navigates life and school. Sophie describes "the secret who lives in my brain" as Ady, but knows and shares with us the reader that the doctors told her Dad it is called "ADHD". The boo...
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Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake
Name: Jenny CADDICK
02 April 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake is the charmingly warm and downright funny new book, featuring main character, Hope Crumble, her fabulously engaging family members, and their trials and tribulations running the struggling family business Café Crumble. The "quiet"...
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Our Tree
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 April 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Little Red the squirrel scampers up Tree, declaring that it is all for him; however, Tree gently corrects him, pointing out a teeny-tiny caterpillar eating a leaf. Unhappy about sharing with caterpillar, Little Red is even more annoyed when Tree offers their branches for Swift to rest on. As m...
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Basil Dreams Big
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 April 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Basil Dreams Big is a beautifully illustrated, heartwarming picture book; a wonderful story of friendship and resilience told through carefully crafted, rhyming sentences. The vocabulary choices are just fantastic and would inspire young readers. My favourite...
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Basil Dreams Big
Name: Wendy Kelly
01 April 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
This is the perfect book for those who love bats - there are plenty of fruit bats in this lovely, uplifting tale about Basil the bat and friend, Moth. Basil hasn't learned to fly yet, he tries after encouragement from Moth and the rest of the fruit bat colony but falls repeatedly to the ground...
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Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion
Name: Wendy Kelly
01 April 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Looking for a chapter book that showcases a far-off country, features twins, promotes conservation of endangered species AND has a touch of magic? Look no further, just enjoy the first book in (what I hope will be) a new series. Abiola Bello is a recognised author of Young Adult books a...
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After
Name: Jo Clarke
01 April 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Set in a futuristic world of man versus automaton, After is another Padraig Kenny masterpiece. Main characters Jen and Father are travelling to Tranquility Lake in a time where technology has seen to the demise of the world as we know it. Father is a 'mek'; he looks human, he...
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Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This well-written and refreshing anthology of true stories is a journey through classic childhood experiences, reported by writers from a range of countries and with a variety of different disabilities. We see firsthand their struggle against the pressure of societal norms: as...
