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Name: Megan Webb
05 June 2021;

Genre: Funny Stories

Scarlett Fife has Big Feelings, which can sometimes get her in trouble. She had been working extra hard to control her anger so she could take the class hamster, Mr Nibbles, home. However, one Friday, William U is unfairly awarded eight Positivity Points, meaning that he is the one to take Mr...

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Name: Jo Clarke
03 June 2021;

Genre: Adventure

The Three Impossibles is exactly that: impossible to put down, impossible not to love and impossible to forget. In this fantasy adventure we meet Mim, a feisty protagonist with an Enquiring Mind. Mim always seeks answers and has determination and perseverance in bucket loads....

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Name: Jo Clarke
01 June 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

In Melt, two lives seemingly poles apart are thrown together in a quest to seek answers and, most importantly to survive. Bea is always the new girl. Her Dad's job means that she is forever moving home, moving schools, losing friends and trying to fit in. Yutu lives a t...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 June 2021;

Genre: Friends and family

The Incredible Record Smashers is an absolutely cracking story from Jenny Pearson, author of the brilliant The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates (a whole class read with my Year 6 class that they loved!) It is another perfect blend of humour and heart. The author tackl...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 June 2021;

Genre: Fantasy

A fantastical fantasy quest through a portal into another world. Two ( reluctant) young friends, Rohan and Myra, must challenge the darkly mischievous Fairy Queen for the return of Rohan's baby sister, who the Queen has stolen to be her latest changeling. Otherland is inventive, creativ...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 June 2021;

Genre: Funny Stories

An Engaging and exciting story which is full of hilarious humour and heart whilst tackling important wellbeing issues, such how to manage and harness (perfectly normal) feelings of anger without tempers (or smoothies and paint) exploding! Nine year old Scarlett is touchy, feisty and bol...

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Name: Andrew Mullen
31 May 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Returning to Starfell with Starfell - Willow Moss and the Vanished Kingdom was an absolute joy! Magical children are being allowed to go to 'normal' schools, but Willow Moss is suspicious. With faithful and grumpy companion Oswin by her side (in his hairy green carpetbag), she...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 May 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Harklights is a beautifully, classic feeling folklore / fairytale style adventure. In a grim, grey orphanage (surrounded by a forest full of unseen life and tiny magical creatures ) lives mistreated orphan Wick, who seeks an escape from the cruelty of his life. The story is a...

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Name: Jennifer caddick
27 May 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Rainbow Grey is the first book in a delightful, charming series by Amelia Fang author, Laura Ellen Anderson. City in the sky, Celestia, is inhabited by Weatherlings (folk who all possess different kinds of weather magic to help control Earth's weather and protect it from villa...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
22 May 2021;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

When a new girl starts a new school in a new town, she is faced with hostility and suspicion. Focusing on her differences, the other children in her class taunt and mock her. However, the appearance of a beautiful origami flower left on the teacher's desk ignites their curiosity, which leads t...

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