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The Adventures of Alfie Onion
Name: Jayne Gould
24 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
Aggie Onion has always dreamed of living Happily Ever After in Great Luxury and so marries a seventh son, with the aim of her seventh son fulfilling his, and her, destiny. This child is named Magnifico and Aggie devotes her time to making him a hero, though this means leaving her eighth son to be...
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Bear Grylles Adventures: The Blizzard Challenge
Name: Emily Smith
21 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
This new Bear Grylls Adventures series pits children against natural survival challenges, supported by non other than Bear Grylls. As well as teaching children some possibly useful survival tactics, the books' real strength is in guiding them to think about how they can contribute as one of a tea...
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In Space
Name: Lucy Chambers
20 March 2017;Genre: Information books
I've seen two of the The Find Your Way series by Paul Boston - In Space and Underground. In this series of games, mazes and puzzle books readers embark on problem solving quests. In Underground, the task is to retrieve gold stolen from Gnomes by Luna the Dragon; in In Space the reader is on a mi...
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The Cherry Pie Princess
Name: Jayne Gould
20 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
Princess Peony is the youngest of the royal family, with six older sisters, who as all good princesses should, only care about things like pretty dresses and shoes. Peony would rather be finding out and doing practical things, something their strict governess, Miss Beef, with her well-ordered tim...
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A Race for Toad Hall
Name: Alison Gray
19 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
The New Adventures of Mr Toad bring Kenneth Grahame's irrepressible Mr Toad from The Wind in the Willows back to life in an adventure that has bags of charm and car-fulls of adventure.... Whether or not children have read the original stories on which this new series is based, this story about fr...
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Little Legends - The Magic Looking Glass
Name: Beth Grant
16 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a fantastic little story. I love the way that the story weaves in different fairytale characters and introduces them to the reader in a way that they may have not seen them before. Children will also love the whole idea of a Story Tree. It is a magical story which makes you want to read...
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Lots
Name: Alice Bold
28 February 2017;Genre: Adventure
What an enticing way to explore the different landscapes our world offers, and how humans have left their footprint on it. From the wilds of Antartica to the deserts of Alice Springs and the bustling neighbourhoods of Cairo, this descriptive and evocative book brings the corners of the world to l...
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Attack of the Alien Dung
Name: Alison Urquhart
25 February 2017;Genre: Adventure
I have to confess that, despite loving some of Gareth P. Jones's books (the Steam Punk Pirates for younger readers and Constable and Toop for older readers), I was somewhat put off by the cover of this book although I can see it appealing to boys of a certain age! The book introduces the key cha...
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Dotty Detective: The Midnight Mystery
Name: Lucy Newton
29 January 2017;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Dot, Beans and McClusky the dog form their very own super-secret detective agency called the Join the Dots Detectives. This is their third adventure after 'Supersecret Agent' and 'The Pawprint Puzzle'. The children prepare to embark on a three day school trip on the Adventure Camp Nature Trail....
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Lyttle Lies - The Pudding Problem
Name: Lauren Maidman
29 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Sam Lyttle is a compulsive liar, who obviously cannot help it! The story shows the tales of Sam who keeps lying at home and school, which has led him into big trouble with the school bully, Feeny. Sam tries to get his way out of situations through lying, only making them worse. Not only has he go...
