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Name: Rachel Esling
27 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Wilf is not the bravest boy in the class but he has many strategies for dealing with his worries. It's handy that he is getting to grips with these worries as his new next door neighbour, Alan, is definitely a cause for worry! Helped by his stinky sister and his pet woodlouse, Wilf attempts to s...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
25 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

I'm not sure how I feel about this book; initially I felt that it would be great for reluctant readers; every page is fast paced with dynamic pictures and the story has an exciting plot that follows Pablo and Jane as they go off to explore 'The Old House on the Hill', stumbling upon a 'hot air c...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
11 October 2015;

This is a collection of short, quaint stories about a young girl (Mango) who discovers a Tapir trying to hide himself on a zebra crossing. The text is easy to follow and has some good, old fashioned themes - of friendship and bravery - set in a more modern, humorous background. The book reminde...

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Name: June Hughes
11 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Pugs of the Frozen North is the third 'Reeve and McIntyre Production' and continues the pairing of illustration and text, where you really cannot imagine one without the other. Every page has something to look at, all in various shades of green and grey, making it very readabl...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This book looks at extreme weather conditions. Big Weather is full of interesting facts, supported by some amazing pictures. The book explains extreme weather conditions in a number of ways - Q and A, diagrams, sections of text, fact files - which makes the subject easy to understand. The book w...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
20 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This is an animal based, humourous crime book.... how do you categorise that?! Adam Frost has written a series of Fox Investigates , and I've read two of them - this one and A whiff of mystery. I found them both fast-paced, witty and funny whilst also being easy for children to access. The stor...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

From The Natural History Museum, this book presents facts about Dinosaurs, hand in hand with playful rhyming verses that bring the animals to life. This book is more accessible than 'Wooly Mammoth' of the same series and has a more jokey approach to the description of the dinosaurs in the verses...

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Name: June Hughes
18 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This is another in a series of books featuring the exploits of Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face, the brother and sister mystery-solving duo from the isle of Great Kerfluffle. The mystery this time involves a group of missing evil and wicked badgers, stolen clothing, a swarm of bees (or maybe not) and...

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Name: Kerra Dagley
16 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Scout is a German Shepherd puppy at the Sausage Dreams Puppy Academy for working dogs in Little Barking. Her parents are both well-known working police dogs and Scout hopes to follow in their paw prints when she grows up. The story is set on an important day for Scout, as she gets ready to take...

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Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;

Genre: Young fiction

Mr Hyde is a teacher with a difference. When he gets excited, he turns into a wild uncontrollable creature that leaps about and causes all manner of mayhem. He cannot stop himself from becoming Creature Teacher so Jake, Nora and their classmates have taken it upon themselves to protect him from t...

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