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The Storm Dog
Name: Lucy Newton
04 November 2017;Genre: Adventure
The story follows a small girl called Tilly to Wales when she goes to stay with her grandma and great-grandma. She's learning about the Second World War at school and wants some help from her grandma who was an evacuee in the war. Tilly has to get on the train all by herself for the first time bu...
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Toto The Ninja Cat and The Great Snake Escape
Name: Jacqueline Harris
29 October 2017;Genre: Adventure
Toto is a nearly blind cat, who lives with her brother Silver in London. She is no ordinary cat however, as she is a trained Ninja cat. With Silver and other assorted animals, she takes on a dangerous mission to prevent an escaped snake from eating half the animals in London. This is a slightl...
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Animazes
Name: Sam Phillips
25 October 2017;Genre: Adventure
A beautifully produced picture book with 'treasure map' style illustrations. Young readers will be able to follow the journeys of some incredible animals as they migrate in search of food and warmer weather. Inquisitive minds will enjoy searching the pictures for detail, identifying the animals,...
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I'm Just No Good at Rhyming and Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown Ups.
Name: Sue Wilsher
24 October 2017;Genre: Adventure
From cover to cover, this book is full of fun, offering a very irreverent and appealing approach to poetry! Word play and nonsense sit alongside more reflective and thoughtful poems. All are gloriously illustrated. 'My Dessert Tummy' explains perfectly why so many of us can always find room for...
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Coder Academy
Name: Alison Hall
24 October 2017;Genre: Adventure
If you are looking for activities to get children thinking about coding, Coder Academy is a good place to start. Unlike many other books, it is focused on the child with stickers and press out models for them to make as well as the coding activities themselves, which is what we were interested in...
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Build it!
Name: Tim Caird
23 October 2017;Genre: Adventure
Build It! combines easy to understand instructions, colourful cartoon illustrations and engaging STEM projects. Each projects provides a snapshot of the science and engineering behind the project. Enough ideas to keep your child, class or STEM club busy for a good while! 120 pages / Ages 7+ / Re...
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Build It
Name: Bruce Robinson
19 October 2017;Genre: Adventure
A thoughtful, detailed and beautifully illustrated treasure trove of a book containing a wide range of progressive STEM activities for children from 5 to 85. Built It's layout, easy to follow instructions and appropriate scientific detail, lends itself to both the teacher and student who wants...
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Witch for a Week
Name: June Hughes
27 September 2017;Genre: Adventure
Elsie helps out in her family's shop, the grandly named Pickles Emporium. Unfortunately, the grandest thing about it is its name and it struggles to win customers and sell its wares. On one run-of-the-mill afternoon, however, the shop is visited by Magenta Sharp, a local witch looking for a caret...
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National Trust: The Secret Diary of Jane Pinny, a Victorian House Maid
Name: Ellen King
25 September 2017;Genre: Adventure
The Secret Diary series from Nosy Crow delves into specific periods in history to show what life would have been like at the time for young people honing their crafts and skills, whether as a young page learning to be a knight in The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge: Medieval Knight in Training, o...
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Class Six and the Eel of Fortune
Name: Stephen Leitch
13 September 2017;Genre: Adventure
More magic and mayhem in this second instalment of Class Six from Sally Prue. After a failed attempt to hide their magic from the snooping Mrs Knowall (would be new Chair of the school governors with super sensitive nostrils), and their teacher Miss Broom swept away back to training college, clas...
