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Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
Name: Jennifer Caddick
23 April 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Libby and the Parisian Puzzle is a fabulous, enchanting mystery/adventure sleuthing story, ideal for MG readers and fans of the young detective genre (for example, the Agent Zaiba series by Annabelle Sami and...
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Neon's Secret Universe
Name: Jacqueline Harris
23 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
There are real unicorns; they are just not how you imagined them at all. The horse with a horn description is completely wrong. Unicorns are in fact magical being that live in an alternative UNI-verse and the horse with a horn was invented by a unicorn called Greg. Neon Gallup finds all of thi...
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Neon's Secret Universe
Name: Beverley Somerset
23 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
When Neon Gallup moves with her parents to the town of Brunty, she has no idea of the adventures in store for her! While exploring her new bedroom, she discovers an envelope containing an old green lipstick, and when she uses it to draw a line along her bedroom wall, she opens a portal into th...
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The Great Fox Illusion
Name: Jacqueline Harris
22 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
Flick Lions enters a competition to win a television contract for a magic show as the Great Fox's successor. The Great Fox, a world-famous illusionist has died and left a series of complicated puzzles to be solved. But no-on is quite what they seem, and Flick and the other contestants are all...
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Rumaysa: Ever After
Name: Elen Green
16 April 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
In this hugely entertaining follow-up to Radiya Hafiza's Rumaysa: A Fairytale, Rumaysa is seeking her own 'happily ever after' in the hunt for her parents, who she was stolen from as a baby. While all she wants to do is to find her home, during her travels, Rumaysa's help is sought from a vari...
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Animal Sidekicks: Amazing Stories of Symbiosis in Animals and Plants
Name: Jennifer Caddick
15 April 2022;Genre: Animals
Animal Sidekicks is packed with fascinating, true and sometimes strange facts about symbiosis - the relationship between members of two different species (whether positive or negative). Symbiosis and the science around it is made concise and clear in this brilliant book...
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Dino Knights: Invasion
Name: Sam Phillips
14 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
Dino Knights: Invasion is the second book in a fast-paced fantasy adventure trilogy, set in a medieval land where dinosaurs still roam. Written by Jeff Norton, this is an absolute must have for any Lower KS2 class library and for those new to chapter books and for reluctant re...
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SuperQuesters: The Case of the Stolen Sun
Name: Wendy Kelly
14 April 2022;Genre: Early Skills
Super Questers: The Case of the Stolen Sun tasks children with solving a range of problems, using STEM skills. This means they have to use logic and a variety of maths, science and technology approaches. The book itself is high quality, A4-sized and thick cardboard covers. The...
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Wished
Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 April 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Ed and his sister Roo are forced to stay with their elderly neighbour Miss Filey, whilst their parents are at work. Miss Filey lives in a home almost untouched by time, she knows little of the modern world. She also has a cat called Attlee, who is ancient in cat years and smells. Willard is th...
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Ella in the Garden of Giverny
Name: Sharon Porter
08 April 2022;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
When we read this picture book, Ella in the Garden of Giverny, it suddenly made sense why our teacher asks us to do thing again and again - it's so we can get better at the things we want to do, just like Monet and his waterscapes. "I like how he didn't give up on his painting...
