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University of Cambridge: Secrets of Bees: A Kid's Guide to Hives, Pollination and Electro-Sense (Think Big)
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 May 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Beautifully presented, Secrets of Bees is both informative and engaging. The role of bees and their importance is celebrated throughout the book, leaving readers with a deeper understanding of, and respect for, the brilliant creatures. Fabulous illustrations</st...
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Land of the Last Wildcat
Name: Sharon Porter
01 May 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Puffin is a girl on a mission. She has a family interest in science and loves to investigate things. Her mum is an ecologist and often works away from home, leaving Puffin with her other “family”. After a chance adventure into her mum’s laboratory (into which she is never allowed), Puffin disc...
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The Bear-Shaped Hole
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 May 2025;Genre: Bereavement
If you have not read The Bear-Shaped Hole, this should be the next book you pick up. I have not read such a powerful picture book for a very long time. This beautifully illustrated, rhyming picture book, tackles the difficult topics of preparing to lose a loved...
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I'm Going to Make a Friend
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 May 2025;Genre: Friends and family
A child moves to a new house and is worried about making new friends. How long will it take? What games will they want to play? Will they have their own ideas? In the end, they realise, you just have to give it a go! How to Make a Friend is a delightful, reassuring book which ex...
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Glasgow Boys
Name: Stephen Leitch
29 April 2025;Genre: Social Issues
Set in modern day Glasgow, this powerful novel follows the lives of Finlay (18) and Banjo (17) as they both try to negotiate their ways through life, a life where something as simple as a hug is strange and alien act. Banjo is trying to stay out of trouble long enough (and kee...
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Where Shadows Meet
Name: Eileen Armstrong
28 April 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Some 20 years on from the Twilight phenomenon, a resurgence of the vampire narrative seems timely. The Sunday Times bestseller, Where Shadows Meet, provides an original twist - combining vampire lore with the romantasy subgenre popularised by...
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The Light That Blinds Us
Name: Linda Brown
28 April 2025;Genre: Fantasy
The Light That Blinds Us is full of action. It's totally immersive with likeable characters whose dialogue bounce off one another with humour, respect and love. I have enjoyed every line of this fantasy adventure. Alexis has been haunted throughout his childhood by dist...
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If My Words Had Wings
Name: Clare Wilkins
25 April 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
Ty Forrester's involvement in a high profile armed robbery results in an 18 month sentence in a Young Offenders' institution. Falling in with a crowd his close friends and family had warned him about has left him in Ryecroft and at the mercy of a chaotic system and an inmate hierarchy where an...
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Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words
Name: Jenny CADDICK
24 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This fantastic non-fiction collection features 22 fascinating, inspirational and incredibly honest and open true stories from a huge variety of disabled writers. Sharing their experiences of being young and growing up, of the challenges, achievements, stereotypes and expectati...
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The Bear and the Hare and the Fair
Name: Amanda Shipton
24 April 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
If you are looking for a fun tongue twister, look no further that The Bear and the Hare and the Fair. This rhyming story is full of fun, humour and fast-paced adventure. The brightly coloured illustrations will appeal to the younger reader, the characte...
