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Name: Samantha Phillips
30 March 2020;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

This first book in the Dragon Detective series by Gareth P Jones was originally published in 2006, since then it has been tweaked, updated and re-released for a new audience earlier this year (2020). This first book in the series, Dragon Detective: Catnapped!, introduce...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;

Genre: Poetry

This vibrant book aims to get children performing poems, alone, with friends and in large groups. It's a fantastic introduction to a wide range of different poems - free verse, riddles, rhyming poems to name but a few. There are poems that personify, poems to be read by more than one person, e...

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Name: Dawn Woods
23 March 2020;

Genre: Friends and family

It's 2099 and Lyla's school announces some special visitors - cyborg robots, designed to look like human children. In an experiment, the plan is for these robots to interact with human children to learn how to become more like them. Three children from the class are specially chosen. As well a...

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Name: Lucy Newton
20 March 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

What a lovely book! This non-fiction book is all about how different inventions have developed including planes, computers and radar technology. It explains how they have all come from things that fly such as bees, bats, birds and butterflies. Each page is covered in colourful illustrat...

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Name: Carol Carter
16 March 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Skeleton Keys: The Haunting of Luna Moon is the second book in the series featuring the brilliant creation, Skeleton Keys, a 'dashing, key-fingered skeleton, with a thousand adventures under his belt and a thousand more to come!' (even if he does say so himself). Mr Keys used to be an IF (Imagina...

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Name: Bryony Davies
08 March 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage is a journey through all levels of the ocean from the surface to the deepest trenches. Clearly organised into interesting double page spreads that follow on from each other, this is a highly factual and informative book with superb graphics. Each spread, fr...

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Name: Bryony Davies
08 March 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

I Ate Sunshine For Breakfast: A Celebration of Plants Around the World certainly lives up to its name. This entire book feels like sunshine and full of pure joy from page one.Visually, this book is stunning and joyous. It is a true celebration of plants and nature....

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Name: June Hughes
05 March 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Sorrel tries really, really hard to be 'good'. She desperately wants to win the holiday promised by the headmaster, Mr Grittysnit, to the pupil who gains the most 'Obedience Points', but her life and eventually the lives of everyone around her are thrown up in the air by Sorrell's discovery of...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
23 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Fierce, Fearless and Free is the exciting new book by Lari Don. This inclusive collection of traditional tales from around the world features amazing women and their gifts. The empowering tales feature myths and legends from Scotland to the distant shores of the Solomon Islands. To select a few,...

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Name: Susan Wilsher
20 February 2020;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

This beautiful picture book is an emotional tribute to the history and experiences of African Americans, both past and present. Kwame Alexander's poetry takes the reader on a journey through the little known - the left-out history of those who are unforgettable, unflappable, undeniable and una...

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