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I Really, Really Don't Like Parties
Name: Stephanie Gladdish
08 July 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
I Really, Really Don't Like Parties is a really fun picture book showing children that it’s okay to be different and prefer quiet to noise! The story is simple but brilliant as Dora thinks up the wildest reasons for not going to Rashid’s party - including a giant frog eating h...
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The Dawn of Adonis: follow-up to When the Sky Falls
Name: Linda Brown
07 July 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Dawn of Adonis is the powerful prequel to the deeply moving story, When the Sky Falls. Once again this magnificent children's writer feeds the reader a rollercoaster of emotions with this emotive, nail biting read… The novel explores the heart-wrenching story of Ado...
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Somadina: An epic YA fantasy
Name: Julie broadbent
07 July 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Somadina is a new epic YA fantasy novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Akwaeke Emezi. We are introduced to Somadina and her family after the 'Split' which ended the Starvation Wars - battles fought with neighbours over land. These wars angered the Gods, they sent...
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Kerfuffle Bird
Name: Maria Age 6
07 July 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Kerfuffle Bird is a book of vibrant colours, rhyming text and an important message too! The Hushlings of Hushville are quiet and always polite and seem happy - except for Maeve, who longs to be different. One day a strange, blue egg appears, cracks and out steps a noisy, colo...
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Runaways: An irresistible story about finding your true home
Name: Sue Wilsher
04 July 2025;Genre: Family & Home
Jamie and July are both 11 and both live in London, but their lives are very different. Both are desperate to get away from home - Jamie to escape something he has done and July to find help for her mother. Each is wary and suspicious of others, but somehow the two form a partnership as they h...
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The Week Junior Ultimate Puzzles and Quizzes
Name: Elen Green
04 July 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
This puzzle book from The Week Junior newspaper stands out for its format, a mix of photographs, fact boxes and drawings that make the puzzles and quizzes (over 100 of them) something that children will want to dive into this summer. The puzzles are sorted into sections...
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Almost Nothing Happened
Name: Clare Wilkins
03 July 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
A teenager who should be on the Eurostar home to London after a lacklustre French exchange is instead riding pillion on a motorbike through the backstreets of Paris, in search of an oboe. In no particular order there is also a Matisse, a formidable French girl, an erran...
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Skrimsli
Name: Lorraine Ansell
03 July 2025;Genre: Fantasy
A little tiger cub is saved by a boy named Owl, who is called 'freak' and lives in the circus. So begins a relationship that will traverse across time and place. Born under the watchful gaze of the evil and tortuous ringmaster, the cub Skrimsli is separated from his loved ones and coercively f...
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Supersized Squirrel: Attack of the Zombears
Name: Amanda Shipton
03 July 2025;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
What's not to love? The very first thing that you are greeted by is the heroes page and the FART (villains) page! Well if children were in any doubt that they wanted to read on, they are clear at this point that this is the book for them! The giggles that you hear the moment that child...
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Running My Own Race
Name: Rachel Bolton
02 July 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
There is so much to unpick in this novel: it's about running, which makes a change from football; it's about family relationships that aren't often written about (a pushy but adoring mother), and it's about fitting into a new school where racism rears its ugly head. It's edgy and at times make...
