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Bird, Bee and Bug Houses: Homes and Habitats for Garden Wildlife
Name: Jenny Caddick
10 June 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Bird, Bee and Bug Houses is a beautifully crafted nature book, packed full of information, ideas and instructions on activities to help young readers learn about and create their own bird, bee and bug houses and contribute to supporting and conserving the natural habitats and...
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Outdoor Science: 30 Awesome STEM Experiments to Try at Home
Name: Jenny Caddick
07 June 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
Having already read and reviewed two other fantastic non-fiction activity books by this duo of authors (Science School and Kitchen Science), I knew that this book would be a colourful outburst of lively, fun and engaging science activities for young readers. Outdoor Science: 30...
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Freya's Gold
Name: Jennifer Caddick
04 June 2024;Genre: Adventure
Freya's Gold is a perfectly perilous and deliciously dramatic middle grade novel with a pacey plot, an endearingly under-confident heroine, a sharply suspicious and perfectly coiffured stranger and an unusual new acquaintance found in the unlikeliest place. The seaside...
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Dungeon Runners Level 1: Hero Trial
Name: Jane Rew
01 June 2024;Genre: Adventure
Dungeon Runners Level 1: Hero Trial is a great book to put into the hands of those newly independent readers who are drawn to the fantasy titles their older siblings are reading. Here, in Dungeon Runners, they have a story which will stretch their reading skill by its use of l...
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Dragon Force: Devourer's Attack
Name: Nathan Cox
31 May 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Dragon Force: Devourer's Attack is part of an exciting new series by Katie and Kevin Tsang. The first book was fantastic, and this one continues the excitement seamlessly. This series provides young readers with an excellent introduction to the fantasy genre. It is an action-p...
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The Cheat Book (1)
Name: Margaret Pemberton
30 May 2024;Genre: School Stories
Kamal desperately wants to be one of the 'cool' kids at school, but life is not making it easy. So, when he finds a book called 'The Cheat Book' he decides to take any advice that it can give him. With the help of his best friends and his inner 'angels', from his Muslim heritage, he hopes to u...
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University of Cambridge: Beasts from the Deep
Name: Sue Wilsher
29 May 2024;Genre: Animals
Beautifully presented, Beasts from the Deep offers a fascinating and absorbing look at the mysterious creatures which inhabit the depths of the ocean. The introduction carefully explains that there is much that is unknown about the deep sea, 'a vast environment that, despite n...
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Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
Name: Jenny Caddick
24 May 2024;Genre: Adventure
Dungeon Runners Level 1: Hero Trial is a lively, fast-paced adventure quest full of fantastical creatures such as gnorfs (part gnome, part dwarf), trolls, giants and killer jelly monsters. Kieran Larwood, one of my favourite authors, has taken the creative fl...
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Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales: Fact-checking your favourite stories with SCIENCE!
Name: Maria Faithorn
24 May 2024;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Meet the Big-Not-Quite-As-Bad-As-You-Thought-Wolf! You’ll definitely have come across him before in many traditional tales, he's always the one causing trouble and often ends up running away in pain! This laugh-out-loud book will have the reader questioning the possibility of events suc...
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On Poetry Street
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2024;Genre: Poetry
In this collection, Brian Moses offers not only 52 poems (one for any week of the year), but oodles of inspiration and possibility. On Poetry Street shows just how accessible and enjoyable creating poems can be and is sure to leave readers itching to get started. This...
