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Trail Blazers - Harriet Tubman
Name: Carol Carter
13 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Trail Blazers: Harriet Tubman retells the well-known story of the brave slave who escaped on the Underground Railroad then returned many times to help other slaves follow in her footsteps. The book follows Harriet (born Araminta Ross) from her birth on a Maryland plantation, through childhood a...
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Fantastically Great Women Who Saved The Planet
Name: Lauren Maidman
10 February 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
I have been a huge fan of the Kate Pankhurst Great Women series and already have the first few in my collection. The new addition, Fantastically Great Women who Saved the Planet, is no exception. I love everything about these books from the illustrations and the layout to the...
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Name: Jenny Caddick
06 February 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This is a new, fun and action-packed detective mystery with a fabulously enthusiastic and determined young central character - Agent Zaiba. Zaiba has inherited her mum and aunt's love of crime solving and fully intends in follow in Aunt Fouzia's sleuthing footsteps (she owns Karachi's top dete...
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The International Yeti Collective
Name: Wiebke Howey
02 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
After a close encounter with human explorers, young mountain yeti Tick has to try everything in his power to protect the secret of yetis all over the world. Even if it involves travelling a long way, and working together with human girl, Ella. The book is told from two points of view, on the on...
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Amelia Fang and the Naughty Caticorns
Name: Linda Brown
01 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
This is the first time I have read any of the books in the Amelia Fang series and I hope it's not the last. The author has managed to merge creepy, scary images and make them cute and suitable for the younger reader who is ready to move on to something with more 'bite' in it (sorry for the pun!)....
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The Ice Bear Miracle
Name: Jenny Caddick
31 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
There is a glittering fairy-tale and folklore quality to this enchanting story. On the Isle of Bears, the close knit community of this frozen, Isolated land share their island with powerful and majestic roaming polar bears. 13-year-old Marv Jackson bears the scars of a now 'legendary' polar bear...
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Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet
Name: Alexandra Shorter
27 January 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Pankhurst has done it again in Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet. Her engaging and inclusive book introduces just SOME of the most inspirational women who have looked after elements of our world. With climate change and other environmental issues at the for...
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Sam Wu is NOT afraid of Zombies
Name: Sam Phillips
27 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
Somehow I've managed to miss the other books in the Sam Wu series but having read this one I shall be off to my local library or book shop pretty sharpish to read all about Sam's earlier adventures. Sam Wu is NOT afraid of Zombies is a laugh out loud, funny book; the fifth in a series of stories...
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A Super Weird Mystery: Danger at Donut Diner
Name: Carol Carter
27 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
The Pebbles family are moving to Donut Island and, in a break with his past life, Melvin has decided that he is DEFINITELY going to be cool from now on. Unfortunately, the first person he meets is new next-door neighbour, Rhubarb Plonsky. Soon, despite Melvin's best efforts, he has accidentally j...
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PESTS
Name: Jenny Caddick
26 January 2020;Genre: Animals
A fun and charming story of an adventurous mouse called Stix. He's the tiny size of an egg cup and his life revolves around sneaking out from his home (in a kitchen, behind a washing machine) at night with his beloved Grandma. Together they scurry for food but security conscious Grandma insist...
