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The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
Name: Louisa Farrow
30 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Meet Bridie Sweeney. She's a little match girl, working hard on the streets of Victorian London to help feed her family; she's poor, hungry and cold - but there ends the resemblance to the famous fairy tale character. As she says, match girls weren't all pretty things with with fair curls and...
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Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day
Name: Lucy Newton
29 November 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Another adventure with Princess Minna. In Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day, Minna wakes up and sees snow everywhere. She has a snowball fight and builds some dragons but she notices a problem. Her poor grandma can't get out of her house because there is so much snow, so s...
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SuperQuesters: The Case of the Missing Memory
Name: Wendy Kelly
22 November 2022;Genre: Adventure
I love these Super Questers books! They are written to promote problem solving, reasoning and a love of STEM. The characters are engaging and diverse and the stories are interesting. I particularly like the fact that each quest is a separate chapter, with an interactive elemen...
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The Missing Bookshop
Name: Wendy Kelly
22 November 2022;Genre: Young fiction
I just adore these Little Tiger short novels. The text is simple and easy to read and well spaced on the pages but the story is at a level that will spark discussion and comparison with real-life experience. The Missing Bookshop is all about the place a small independen...
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My First Book of Magnetism
Name: Jenny Caddick
19 November 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
This First Book of Electromagnetism is a fabulously colourful and engaging non-fiction science guide by the brilliant Button Books , who excel at producing bold and very visually appealing non-fiction books that are packed with incredible facts and written and illustrated by e...
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Transported
Name: Lucy Hopkins
16 November 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Transported is a lovely non-fiction book about 50 different vehicles that changed the world. The book starts with the Polynesian Canoe (several thousand years ago) and goes chronologically until more recent inventions like the electric bike and solar powered aeroplanes. It's g...
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The Bedtime book of Impossible Questions
Name: Carol Wright
11 November 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Our school Reading ambassadors really enjoyed this fascinating book. The Bedtime book of Impossible Questions answers those questions that you didn't know you had. Perfect for bedtime reading for those who ask 'why what when where and how', it will quench your child's thirst f...
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The Spell Tailors
Name: Jenny Caddick
07 November 2022;Genre: Fantasy
The Spell Tailors is a charming, magical and colourfully imaginative adventure fantasy. Family tailors Danelli and Co are the finest spell tailors around. They have a reputation for style, intricate stitches and perfectly sewn spells. They can sew protection spells to keep yo...
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You are History
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 November 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
In this lively, entertaining book, Greg Jenner guides the reader through an ordinary day, revealing how all the everyday things we all do are full of history. Starting first thing in the morning with the ringing of the alarm clock and ending with bedtime, there is so much to learn in these pag...
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Wishyouwas
Name: Megan Webb
02 November 2022;Genre: Adventure
Wishyouwas is a heartwarming, feel-good story set to be a future classic. This is a classic good versus evil story with a fantastic set of characters. Set at Christmas in 1952, the story starts with the protagonist, Penny, believing she spotted a rat. However, rats most...
