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Let's Go Home Baby Chick
Name: Jessica Bunney
18 March 2024;Genre: Animals
Let’s talk about the new Easter edition to the 'Let's Go Home' collection of books with interactive sliding counters. In this book, your toddlers are tasked with moving the baby animals on the sliding counters through the farm and home to their family. If your child is anythin...
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Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - The NEW Illustrated Guide
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 March 2024;Genre: Environment
Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - An Illustrated Guide tells the story of the Knepp Estate in West Sussex and how the owners have allowed nature to return, bringing wildlife back to the estate. Now home to an abundance of creatures, including many rare species, the estate...
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The No Girlfriend Rule
Name: Clair Age 14
15 March 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
In The No Girlfriend Rule, Hollis finds herself unable to join her boyfriend Chis and his group's table top game due to their 'No Girlfriends at the table' rule. Eager to continue playing so that she can have something to talk to Chris about, Hollis seeks another group to join...
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Elki is Not my Dog
Name: Wendy Kelly
15 March 2024;Genre: Animals
Elki is Not my Dog is a simple story about a dog who has no home or family, but makes friends with the children in block of flats, who play with her through the changing seasons. Then one day Elki is not there and the children begin to worry. Poor Elki has been trapped under s...
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Pirates of Darksea
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
In Pirates of Darksea, Christopher Reid longs to go on an adventure with Captain Thorne O'Malley aboard his pirate ship, the Stolen Sunrise, in a secret kingdom called Darksea. Followed by his younger brother, Max, he waits on the shore until, realising the Captain isn't comin...
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Lola and Larch Fix a Fairy Forest
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
15 March 2024;Genre: Fairies
Lola and Larch Fix a Fairy Forest is the first book in a new series with further titles announced for publication later this year. This engaging, humorous chapter book is a lovely read and I look forward to these new installments. Lola's mum runs an animal sanctuary so...
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Wanna See a Llama?
Name: Jen Bevan
15 March 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
Wanna see a Llama? A so-called llarma expert leads her friend in an adventure around the city, trying to find a llama. The children keep looking and looking but, instead of llamas, find other things. On every page there is so much to look at. As you read Wanna See a Llama?</stro...
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Name: Ruth Cornish
15 March 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Faridah Abike-Iymide's long awaited follow up to her YA novel Ace of Spades will be equally popular and is well worth the wait. Where Sleeping Girls Lie is a combination of a mystery requiring detective work from the main character, Sade Hu...
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The Most Amazing Thing
Name: Jacqueline Harris
14 March 2024;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Henry is bored. He is stuck inside because of the weather and nothing anyone suggests to him appeals. He also feels useless and tries to find something amazing to do. His family all offer suggestions but nothing piques his interest of imagination. Then his mother says something that completely...
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The Midnight Clock
Name: Rachel Bolton
14 March 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
The Midnight Clock is compulsive reading! 16-year-old Millie is having to live with her father in his new flat which used to house an infamous women's prison. When the former prison clock begins to strike, Millie finds herself back in 1955, witnessing the final few days of a y...