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Name: Carol Carter
01 October 2020;Genre: Supernatural
Hurrah, Mr Keys is back for his third gruesomely hilarious adventure! As regular readers will have come to expect from Guy Bass, we are in for a spooky-yet-warm, quirkily gothic, unputdownable treat!For readers new to the series, Skeleton Keys is a 'dashing, key-fingered skeleton,...
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Name: James Hewish
01 October 2020;Genre: Animals
Wild City: Meet the Animals who Share our City Spaces takes the reader on a wonderful journey through various urban environments from around the world. From Foxes to Flamingos and mice to monkeys this book provides a plethora of information in an unintimidating and easily acce...
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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 October 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
A Christmas in Time picks up the story of Alex and Ruby and the mysterious mirror in their great aunt's house. They have fallen through it for the second time and found themselves in the middle of a typical Victorian Christmas, complete with skating on the local lake and exped...
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Name: Carol Carter
01 October 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
From the moment you pick it up, The Egyptians feels like a treasure, weighty and vivid. The thick board pages and over 80 lift-up flaps feel as indestructible as a pyramid, perfect for young history lovers who will pore over it until every scrap of information has been ingeste...
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Frost
Name: Samantha Phillips
01 October 2020;Genre: Adventure
Part of the winter animals series by best selling children's author Holly Webb, Frost is an absolutely delightful tale of friendship between a young girl called Cassie and a fox cub she calls Frost.While her Mum is busy at work, Cassie is left in the care of her ol...
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Name: Bryony Davies
30 September 2020;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
Midnight Magic by Michelle Harrison and illustrated by Elissa Elwick is the first in a new series of young fiction. Written in rhyming verse, the text is accessible to younger readers in Key Stage One.Midnight is a black cat who is born with magical powers. She is looking for a pla...
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Name: Bryony Davies
17 September 2020;Genre: Young fiction
Furry Purry Beancat seems like any other cat. She loves to nap. Anywhere, anytime. However, when she wakes up, she finds herself on a new adventure. Furry Purry Beancat lives nine lives!In The Railway Cat, Beancat is woken by the sound of a steam w...
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Name: Nicki Cleveland
17 September 2020;Genre: Animals
Having made a 'tranimalator', Andy Seed has scoured the planet to conduct some amazing interviews with ten spectacular clawed creatures, including a tiger, wolf, and my personal favourite, a snow leopard.Each interview in Interview with a Tiger: and Other Clawed Beasts Too<...
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Name: Elen Green
17 September 2020;Genre: Young fiction
One of the first in a new series by Philip Ardagh - and with great illustrations by Rob Biddulph - The Pirate Captain's Cat stars Furry Purry Beancat, a loveable cat who finds a new adventure every time he wakes up. This really is a cat with nine lives - each of them an amazing new adventure!<...
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Name: Susan Wilsher
17 September 2020;Genre: Fantasy
Wish, Xar and Bodkin are still in great danger as they near the end of their quest to save the Wildwoods. They need to find the Cup of Second Chances to mix the spell to get rid of witches in which means breaking into the Mine of Happiness - a place full of unhappiness and the ever hungry Tatz...
