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Name: Jane Rew
06 February 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
This book is a great way to weigh up the pros and cons of being vegetarian or vegan because the arguments on both sides are put succinctly and persuasively. Hope and the other characters are believable and their voices are authentic. She may be a strident campaigner, but Hope is open to doubt...
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Fantastically Great Women Scientists and their Stories
Name: Jenny Caddick
06 February 2021;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Fantastically Great Women Scientists and their Stories is a brilliantly presented and engaging read with a very accessible format that champions and celebrates some amazing women scientists of the past.The text and illustrations are absolutely full of humour and wa...
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Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Missing Diamond
Name: Surina Age 10
06 February 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I would give Agent Zaiba a 5/5 because it is funny and adventurous. I would recommend this book to children age 8-11. Zaiba and her brother (Ali) and her best friend (Poppy) work as a team to solve crimes. They want to be the world's best detectives. Will their dreams come true?
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Name: Clair Bossons
05 February 2021;Genre: Adventure
The Shark Caller is an outstanding, spell-binding story. The author, Zillah Bethell, was born and raised for most of her childhood in Papua New Guinea. Sharks are very special in Papua New Guinea. They are considered beautiful, dangerous and otherworldly. By reading this book...
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The Invisible
Name: Kyle Matravers
04 February 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
With The Invisible, Tom Percival has created one of the most beautiful books I have read in recent years. Centred around Isabel, a young girl who lives with her family, we are treated to a story that teaches us the important lesson that everyone in the world has a right to be...
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The Gilded Ones
Name: Clair Bossons
04 February 2021;Genre: Fantasy
The Gilded Ones is an amazing debut novel by Namina Forna. I was fortunate to receive a limited-edition book proof from Usborne and it had a stunning golden cover!This fantasy fiction is set in Otera, an ancient patriarchal empire. Women are forced to wear masks in...
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Name: Eileen Armstrong
04 February 2021;Genre: Real life
Everyone has met a Lexi, 15 years old and angry at seemingly everything and everybody. Lexi lives with her mum, her mum's new boyfriend John and her 6 year old half-sister Iris. She desperately wants John's love and approval but always seems to fall short of his sky-high ideals, especially com...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
04 February 2021;Genre: Adventure
Nirana Farook, author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant, dishes up a dazzling Sri Lanka-set adventure featuring a mysterious shipwreck, an overzealous child and a big, blue whale.Razi, a fisherman's son, stares wide eyed in paralysed fear as a mysterious boat appears on the sparkli...
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Name: Jane Rew
04 February 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Rosa is one little bird, one feisty little robin, in fact. If the man can take away her home at the chop of his axe, then, she decides, she can take away his hat at the beat of a wing. And what's more, she can muster other creatures to join her cause: to defend their homes from tree-fellers an...
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Everybody Worries
Name: Maria Faithorn
04 February 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Everybody Worries is engaging from the offset. With a bright, busy front cover you are hooked! Because it's true... everybody worries! It's ok to have worries. Even the bravest, coolest, toughest and smartest people worry. The worry of one person others may find fun, but that'...
