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Name: Andrew Mullen
03 May 2020;

Genre: Funny Stories

What a great start to a hopefully very successful series. Johnny loves football and so do the rest of his family! His mum and dad both used to play for the local football team and his older brother was a legend at school. Unfortunately, Johnny is not a great player but he has a wonderful footb...

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Name: Lucy Newton
22 April 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

A Climate in Chaos tackles the difficult subject of climate change. Such a huge and complex topic is difficult for many adults to understand so trying to explain it to children can be hard. Instead of giving reams of tricky facts to understand, this book breaks down the import...

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Name: Bryony Davies
19 April 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

Real-Life Disasters: Investigate what really happened is an interesting book covering a range of real disasters throughout history. These range from volcanic eruptions to icebergs.Each disaster has two double page spreads. The first of these covers the story of the...

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Name: Sam Phillips
10 April 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

River stories by Timothy Knapman is an illustrated collection of facts and traditional folklore tales about five of the most well-known rivers that stretch across the continents of the world. From the Rhine in Germany and the Netherlands, to the Yangtze in Tibet and China; eac...

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Name: Ellen Green
09 April 2020;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Dastardly thieves, gadgets that Bond would die for - and pizzas! Mark Anchovy: Pizza Detective is a fun, fast-paced adventure story featuring a group of detective children who go undercover as waiters, icecream sellers - or, in Colin's case, a pizza delivery boy - who would su...

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Name: Sam Phillips
03 April 2020;

Genre: Adventure

This very funny book by Dave Cousins is the second in the series about a chaos-causing robot babysitter. Robin the robot was built by twins, Jess and Jake's, inventor Grandma to help look after them. However, one morning he wakes up convinced he's no longer the twins' babysitter but is actually t...

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Name: Lucy Newton
02 April 2020;

Genre: Animals

The Midnight Visitor (Museum Kittens) is an exciting new series for developing readers, with cats, rats and dinosaur galleries!Tasha the cat lives in the museum with her brother and sister, Bianca and Boris, as well as lots of other 'museum cats'. One night as they...

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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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