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Shiny Broken Pieces
Name: Linda Brown
06 August 2020;Genre: Bullying
The drama, the competitiveness, the nasty remarks and actions in the ballet world ( please remember it’s all fantasy!) continue into this wonderful, well written sequel, Shiny Broken Pieces. The stakes are higher than ever, they have so much more to lose and as you delve into...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Beverley Somerset
06 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Cinderella is Dead is an unusual book - a horror story based upon a well-loved fairy tale. In the fictional town of Lille, it is 200 years since Cinderella met Prince Charming and (apparently) lived 'happily ever after'. But for the girls and women living in Lille today, life...
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Name: Lorraine Ansell
06 August 2020;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Greer MacDonald is once again reeling from events connected to the Order of the Stag, but this time no one can quite believe what she has seen, causing her to doubt her own mind. Drawn very quickly to the de Warlencourts' London home, Greer and her friends discover further secrets and secretiv...
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The Great Revolt
Name: Bryony Davies
06 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Great Revolt by Paul Dowswell is a historical novel covering the peasant rebellion of 1381 over the unpopular poll tax. Covering a non-statutory element of the Key Stage 3 history curriculum, this text sits firmly on secondary school bookshelves.Tilda Rolfe and...
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Small Town Hero
Name: Joanna Hewish
06 August 2020;Genre: Bereavement
An emotional roller coaster of a plot line with a very real protagonist who will hook you in and leave you reeling. A fantastic Young Adult story that deals with many issues surrounding young people - death, bullying, friendships, maturity.Small Town Hero begins in...
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Every Little Piece of My Heart
Name: Sharon Bolton
06 August 2020;Genre: Friends and family
For Sophie, the last five months have been doubly rubbish. Not only has her best friend Freya disappeared suddenly and is proving impossible to contact, but she has also been battling lupus and its effects on her body. When a parcel from Freya arrives, Sophie experiences a brief upturn in her...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
From the distinctive front cover, celebrating Sophia Grimmins as proud, beautiful, defiant, fierce and brown skinned, to her explosive story inside, Kalynn Bayron reclaims the iconic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm with her new YA fantasy, Cinderella Is Dead. Groundbreaking...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Linda Brown
31 July 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
After reading Cinderella Is Dead, you will never look at the original Grimms fairytale in the same way ever again... It's been 200 years since Cinderella found her Prince Charming and they lived happily ever after, or did they? Sophia, our lead character, knows th...
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Far From Perfect
Name: Jess Locke
23 July 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Far From Perfect, he second book in the Valentines series from Holly Smale, follows Faith, the 16 year old beautiful Valentine sister.Faith appears on the surface to have it all, looks, fame, a famous rock star boyfriend and a glittering future ahead of her. Yet al...
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Far From Perfect
Name: Elen Green
13 July 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Far From Perfect is the second book in The Valentines series about a family of actors - the Valentines - whose lives are constantly under the spotlight of a voracious press. Each book in the series by Geek Girl author Holly Smale tells the story of one of the...
