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Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body
Name: Maria faithorn
26 May 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body is the perfect book to share with developing youngsters as they navigate and learn their way through puberty and their changing bodies. Simple and clear page layouts, personal and reassuring messages for the read...
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The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City
Name: Jacqueline Harris
25 May 2023;Genre: Adventure
Clem is part of a mudlarking club along with her friends Ash and Zara, looking for treasure on the banks of the Thames. Everything the club finds gets taken to the museum, where the slightly mysterious Oswald keeps a museum of finds. One day, the Thames starts behaving oddly and the water begi...
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Just Like Everyone Else
Name: Sam
24 May 2023;Genre: LBGTQ+
Most teenagers work hard to 'fit in', knowing that there is nothing worse than becoming an obvious target for the group of boys or girls in school who like nothing more than making your life difficult. Coming from a big family, who are well known not just to your school but also the local comm...
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The Thames and Tide Club
Name: Beverley Somerset
22 May 2023;Genre: Adventure
Clem and her best friends Ash and Zara are mudlarkers. Along with the other members of the Thames and Tide Club, they spend their weekends searching the river banks for lost objects that have been washed ashore. They meet at the mudlarking museum, run by Oswald, where many of the unusual thing...
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Until the Road Ends
Name: Jacqueline Harris
22 May 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Until the Road Ends is the story of Beau, a dog from the streets, who is saved by a girl called Peggy. When war breaks out, the two are separated, but when tragedy strikes, Beau has to find Peggy. Travelling across war-torn England, Beau and his companions, Mabel the cat and B...
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Every Word A Lie
Name: Clair Bossons
22 May 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Every Word A Lie is a murder mystery that is full of twists and turns. It is fast-paced and really builds the tension. It is also a bit of a cautionary tale on internet safety, but this is done in a way that is not condescending. The message is clear - Every Word could be A Li...
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How to be a Detective and Other Crime Fighting Jobs
Name: Lauren Maidman
21 May 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
How to be a Detective and Other Crime Fighting Jobs is from a new series of books all about amazing and incredible jobs. The book is set out clearly and is jam packed full of information from the basics of what a detective actually is, through to the history and also other job...
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Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins
Name: Maria faithorn
19 May 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins is the perfect resource to use in supporting children with their learning of 'Making a Baby'. In the ever developing world, with increased and changing medical advances, and the wide range of family set-ups, this bo...
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This is the Way the World Ends
Name: Clare Wilkins
19 May 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Attending prestigious Webber Academy in New York, scholarship student Waverly is used to keeping a low profile and fitting in. Academic but with parents in a different financial sphere from her wealthy peers, she works hard and subsidises herself by tutoring. When this brings her into the hall...
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Serpent of the Sands (A Brightstorm Adventure)
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 May 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Gan - Princess Ganzorig - has a real taste for adventure and when one of her beloved uncles, King Temur, falls dangerously ill, she sets off in her sky-ship, the Sky-archer, with Slink, a sapient gerbil who has taken a fancy to her and Thorn, a boy who's escaped from the slums of Lontown in se...
