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The Time Machine Next Door: Explorers and Milkshakes
Name: Jane Rew
10 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
Sunil and Alex (his babysitter, strangely) use the BM (time-travelling) machine to meet notables Neil Armstrong and Ernest Shackleton, as well as a kiwi called Wiki and a cat called Mrs Chippy. The Time Machine Next Door: Explorers and Milkshakes, a nattily illustrated,...
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The Boy Who Saved a Bear
Name: Emma Nelson
10 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
The Boy Who Saved a Bear is set in beautiful Sri Lanka. Whilst working in the library, Nuwan accidentally takes an important and valuable key that has been hidden in one of the books. Nuwan doesn't realise that the key is meant for great things until he encounters the libraria...
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Interview with Blackbeard and Other Vicious Villains - Ten talks between time-travelling author Andy Seed and some of history’s most fiendish villains.
Name: Jane Rew
07 April 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
In Interview with Blackbeard and Other Vicious Villains, you will find the usual suspects - Nero, Ivan the Terrible, Bonnie & Clyde - but there is also a spattering of more obscure names, like Zheng Yi Sao and Victor Lustig. We learn (e.g. that Blackbeard's real name was E...
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Royal Animals: An Illustrated History
Name: Wendy Kelly
07 April 2023;Genre: Animals
Royal Animals: An Illustrated History is a very timely addition for any school projects this summer regarding royalty. Most children are animal lovers and this book may well spark the interest of a child who hasn't quite taken to the humans being discussed! It's a glori...
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City of Secrets: The Wildsmith #2
Name: Beverley Somerset
07 April 2023;Genre: Fantasy
War is still raging in Rowan's home town of Holderby, and she and her mum are living safely by the Wild Forest with Grandpa. Rowan is happily learning to be a wildsmith like him; she can talk to and understand the magical creatures who inhabit the forest. Everything changes when Rowan's dad ar...
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Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch
Name: Jen Bevan
05 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
Welcome to Miracula and the first in a series of books about Ivy Newt and her friends. In Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch, it's Ivy's birthday and her parents perform a magic show for her which goes wrong. Ivy and her friend Tom go on an adventure to find out what has happens to...
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Courage Out Loud
Name: Lizi Backhouse
22 March 2023;Genre: Poetry
Written by the Children's Laureate for 2022-2024, Courage Out Loud is a collection of 25 poems that are all about bravery and courage in different ways. Each poem has a short blurb explaining it, the type of poem it is or suggesting a way the reader could respond to the poem....
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Stink. Worst. Fairy. Ever.
Name: Amanda Shipton
17 March 2023;Genre: Funny Stories
We all remember those surprise birthday presents when we think that people have bought us things that they wanted! None of us have received a present like Danny Todd was given by his little sister Sophie. Out of an innocent looking fairy door came Stink, the rudest, naughtiest fairy that there...
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Crookhaven: The School for Thieves
Name: Jennifer Caddick
06 March 2023;Genre: Adventure
Crookhaven: The School for Thieves is a superb start to a great new fantasy adventure series. Crookhaven features a boarding school cast of 'criminals in training' but this "bad education" is all about learning how to fake, deceive, hack and pickpocket your way to becoming a...
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No-Dig Children's Gardening Book
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 March 2023;Genre: Environment & Nature
Gardening - whether window box, allotment or vast estates - is proven to have many benefits. It provides exercise and fresh air, promotes team work and well-being as well as offering a hands on approach to scientific concepts such as plant life cycles and growing conditions. No-...
