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You Are a Champion
Name: Jennifer Caddick
31 July 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
You Are A Champion: How to be the best you can be is a totally engaging, fabulous inspirational self help guide and support from one of the country's most famous young footballlers, Marcus Rashford. Rashford is a true role model for today's youth as he continue to use his voic...
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Exploding Beetles & Inflatable Fish: A World of Animal Weirdness
Name: Megan Webb
31 July 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Exploding Beetles & Inflatable Fish is an intriguing fact book written by Sam Quigley, who has an interest in all things surprising and disgusting. This book looks at the weird world of animals, ranging from the deep-sea fish called the blobfish, which was voted the world'...
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Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature
Name: Donna Burkert
31 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature is a beautiful mix of storytelling, poetry, science, craft and nature, all gloriously illustrated by Barry Falls. Dara opens the young readers eyes to what it is to be curious and how wonderful the world around us is. He takes us on a walk...
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Once Upon Our Planet
Name: Bryony Davies
30 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Once Upon Our Planet: Rewild Bedtime with 12 stories is a beautifully presented hardback compilation. Vita Murrow has skilfully woven mythology with traditional story telling to create these short stories that take the reader all over the globe (and under the sea) This book co...
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Do Not Mess With The Mermaids
Name: Megan Webb
30 July 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Do Not Mess With The Mermaids is the second book in a magic-packed series. This story takes place eight years after Princess Grace and her sister Princess Portia win the troll-o tournament. Over the past eight years, the Kingdom of Wondermere has changed a lot and rules are no...
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Theodora Hendrix and the Curious Case of the Cursed Beetle
Name: Jenny Caddick
30 July 2021;Genre: Adventure
Get ready for a second adventure with the MLM (Monstrous League of Monsters) and their only (and highly against the MLM rules) human family member, 10 year old Theodora Hendrix in Theodora Hendrix and the Curious Case of the Cursed Beetle. Abandoned at birth and adopted by the...
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Unicorn Magic
Name: Zhi Xin Age 9
28 July 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
It is very magical it has two girls trying to help get the unicorns locket and I love it
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The Great Food Bank Heist
Name: Jennifer Caddick
24 July 2021;Genre: Real life
A thoughtful, warm adventure story with an inspiring and meaningful message within. The Great Food Bank Heist takes the very relevant and often uncomfortable issues of food banks and child poverty and highlights then through the fictional family of Nelson, Ashley and their mum...
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Danny Chung does not do maths
Name: Lisa Watkins
16 July 2021;Genre: Friends and family
This is a must read story in my opinion! A heart warming story of Danny Chung who loves drawing but hates maths…until Nai Nai arrives. Nai Nai is his little gran from China who has come to stay with him, his Ba and Ma in their small flat and she doesn't speak a word of English! Danny is tasked...
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An Alien in the Jam Factory
Name: Sharon Porter
16 July 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
With a jam factory, a jealous neighbour and Fizzbee the alien, what's not to like about this book? There's enough humour in An Alien in the Jam Factory to keep me as an adult entertained and the laughs kept the children happy. The illustrations by Jenny Taylor really helped to...
