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  • Where the Heart Should Be

    Where the Heart Should Be

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    All of Crossan's books are deeply affecting, totally immersive and utterly unforgettable and Where the Heart Should Be is no exception. Where the Heart Should Be is the story of lowly scullery maid Nell and Johnny, English heir to his Uncle's estate in...

  • Secrets of the Snakestone

    Secrets of the Snakestone

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Adventure

    Zélie Dutta may be able to crush the head of a cobra with a bare heel, lick her elbow and peel a banana with her toes, but for all that she is stuck working as a maid in Paris where all the other servants think she is a witch. She has never fully understood why she has been shipped there from...

  • Cross My Heart and Never Lie

    Cross My Heart and Never Lie

    Name: Clair Bossons
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    A heart-warming graphic novel, translated to English from Norwegian by Matt Bagguley. Perfect for girls on the cusp of becoming a teenager and navigating changing friendship circles and social media drama. Told in diary form, Cross My Heart and Never Lie</stron...

  • Toxic: A rainforest adventure that might just be deadly.

    Toxic

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Environment

    Jessica moves around the world with her scientist parents. She finds each move difficult as she has to make new friends and then leave them. This time the family are in South America, in the heart of the rainforest, while her parents research frogs. Jessica meets a local girl, Renata, and they...

  • Black Hole Cinema Club

    Black Hole Cinema Club

    Name: Tracy Parvin
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Have you ever watched a film wishing that you were a part of the action, the hero, the person who saves the town, saves the day, saves the world?  You need wish no more. Welcome to 4Di, the fantastical immersive cinematic technology, technology that (so far) can only be experienced at the Blac...

  • Aliya to the Infinite City

    Aliya to the Infinite City

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    08 March 2024;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Since the death of her parents, Aliyah has lived in Cairo with her grandfather, Geddo. Recently, he has been acting strangely, disappearing for hours on end and forgetting her birthday. When a mysterious gift arrives, things change dramatically. Geddo is taken away and Aliya finds herself whis...

  • Secrets of the Snakestone

    Secrets of the Snakestone

    Name: Emma Urbonas
    07 March 2024;

    Genre: Adventure

    Secrets of the Snakestone is a thoroughly enjoyable read that thrusts you into the underbelly of 1800s Paris, joining two children in their search of a mystical stone to keep it from the clutches of an evil society. Zélie and Jules make for enthralling characters whom y...

  • The Dark Portal: Book One of The Deptford Mice

    The Dark Portal (no.1 in the Deptford Mice trilogy)

    Name: Jane Rew
    07 March 2024;

    Genre: Fantasy

    The Dark Portal (book one of The Deptford Mice series) may be a classic, but very many young readers will not have heard of it, let alone read it. Indeed, with its new illustrations both inside and on the cover, it could surely pass as a brand new title and is sure to ignite t...

  • Feather (The Twitchers)

    Feather (The Twitchers)

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    05 March 2024;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    The Twitchers are back in the final part of their adventures. This time, Ava takes centre stage as she is present during the robbery of rare bird feathers at a museum. The Twitchers join forces to try and get back the feathers before the skins are broken up and sold. At the scene of the crime,...

  • The Blind Bowman 1: Shadow of the Wolf

    Shadow of the Wolf (The Blind Bowman 1)

    Name: Lorraine Ansell
    04 March 2024;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    Robin is seven years old, alone and frightened, abandoned by his father one night in the feared Sherwood Forest. Angry, lonely, and surviving on his wits, one day a young girl rushes across his path and their lives are entwined forever. Largely left to live as they please, they fill their days...