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Dungeon Runners Level 2: Sky Battles
Name: Jane Rew
07 February 2025;Genre: Fantasy
There is so much appeal to Dungeon Runners Level 2: Sky Battles: Joe Todd Stanton's wonderful illustrations capture the setting and the characters, perfectly infusing them with atmosphere and humour; the easy-to-read font and...
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The Notwitches
Name: Jacqueline Harris
07 February 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Melanda Notwitch lives with her three ghastly aunts, who use her as a skivvy and slave. Melanda's life changes when one day a girl knocks on her door and asks her to join the witches. This sparks off a chain of events where Melanda is thrust into a fast-paced adventure and meets a series of ex...
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The Great Theatre Rescue
Name: Jenny CADDICK
03 February 2025;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The Great Theatre Rescue is a stunning and exciting historical adventure story that takes place in 1930's London and evokes Dickensian themes of abandoned children and workhouse-harsh schools and villains. The Wren Theatre is home to yo...
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MEGA: The Most Enormous Animals Ever
Name: Jane Rew
03 February 2025;Genre: Animals
Using a simple, repeated pattern of headings, information about different animal groups is well presented, and there's clever use of the dust jacket which doubles up as a poster, with visual comparison of extinct animals and their nearest living equivalents.</...
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Cloud Boy
Name: Wendy Kelly
01 February 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Cloud Boy is a simple book with a very sophisticated message. Bobby can't concentrate; he tries hard but is continuously distracted by sights, smells and sounds going on in the world around him. Predictably, he gets told off by his mum, his teacher and his friends who don't understand how hard...
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Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat
Name: Maria Faithorn
17 January 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
The Year of the Rat is the second in the Guardians of the New Moon series and follows Rat's success at winning the Jade Emperor's race. As neither Miaow nor Ming completed the race, they did not have a lunar year named after them, but were instead awarded the...
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Oh No They Aren't: Nature
Name: Jane Rew
17 January 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
Oh No They Aren't: Nature succeeds in offering a new take on the bewildering beauty and variety of life on Earth, by challenging readers' assumptions or supposed know-how. Weren't dodos slow and simple-minded? All sharks are fearsome predators, aren't they? It's quiet beneath...
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Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow's Great Race
Name: Maria Faithorn
16 January 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
Ming and Miaow's Great Race is the first book in the Guardians of the New Moon series. The Jade Emperor has created a wonderful new planet which is full of life. But now he is bored. One day, whilst watching a cat chase a mouse, he decides to hold a race which...
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The Bold Kitten
Name: Elen Green
16 January 2025;Genre: Animals
The Bold Kitten, the latest book in the well loved Animal Stories series by Holly Webb, introduces young readers to a Syrian family settling into a new way of life in the UK. One of the children, Hana, is struggling to adapt until she makes friends with a tiny kitten, one of a...
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One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 January 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust is a wonderfully powerful story to highlight the courage, resilience and survival instincts of Jews during the second world war. Michael Rosen has waved his magical touch at the story with carefully chosen words to...
