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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...
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Bouncing Bunnies: The Perfect Picture Book for Easter
Name: Elen Green
01 April 2025;Genre: Baby & Toddler Books
Flagged as 'a perfect book for Easter', Bouncing Bunnies is a lovely engaging picture book, and perfect to share with young children at any time of the year. Young children will love bouncing along to the instructions in the story, learning effortlessly through play</...
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Rebel Heart
Name: Sara Sumner
28 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Rebel Heart is a new and exciting historical adventure story from Ally Sherrick, set in the English Civil War. The year is 1645 and with her father away fighting for the Royalists and her step mother about to surrender her home to the troops bombarding it, you...
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Six Queens: An illustrated guide to the iconic queens of Henry VIII
Name: Sue Wilsher
28 March 2025;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Like the author, I have always been fascinated by the women who were unlucky enough to be married to King Henry VIII. In Six Queens, Lydia Monks sets out to show that they should not just be remembered by the rhyme, 'Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived', but...
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The Appletree Animal Agency
Name: Elen Green
28 March 2025;Genre: Animals
I loved this story of a group of children finding their way as 'apprentice vets' at an animal rescue centre. The children's love of the animals shines through every mishap and gentle misadventure, as ferrets go missing, their pets go astray and the children's plans to rehome the animals at the...
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Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)
Name: Donna Ritchie
27 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
I love a book that has a little bit of real history entwined within the story. Deep Dark is such a book. Cassia Thorne is the main character; a patterer (a child singer who sings songs - that tell a story - on the streets of early 19th century London), but who also teaches pia...
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The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day
Name: Wendy Kelly
27 March 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Nicola O'Byrne does it again with another lovely book about Rabbit and his unique take on everyday problems that children can relate to. Last time we saw him finding out about the dark with the help of a biscuit tin; this time he risks having his glorious fishing trip ruined by a rain cloud. W...
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Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure
Name: Beverley Somerset
21 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Bo Delafort is a mudlarker. She lives in London with her mother and her older brother Harry, who has just left home to fight in the First World War. When she meets the orphan Billy River on the banks of the Thames they instantly form a bond. Then Bo finds a fabulous jewel in the mud of the riv...
