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Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women!
Name: Jane Rew
10 January 2025;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women! succeeds in engaging readers by asking questions that challenge our assumptions (Pocahontas was a princess, wasn't she? Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake!', didn't she?) and extend...
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Stormbreaker
Name: Matty Age 12
09 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
This book is amazing. I love it and it is the exact type of action book I read all the time. I have read it so many times because it is so exciting.
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The Wilderness of Girls
Name: Sam
09 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
At first glance, this debut YA novel appears to be a fantastical fairytale but is in fact a rather dark and emotionally fraught story of the wild girls. The Wilderness of Girls' themes are hard hitting and include PTSD, suicide, eating disorders, family and domestic violence,...
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne
Name: Stephen Leitch
08 January 2025;Genre: Dystopian
The Legendary Scarlett and Browne is the third and final instalment of this incredible series following the exploits of the now most wanted Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne, who are in a doggedly determined and driven mood. Two years since escaping death at the hands of the H...
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Frank and Bert: The One Where Bert Plays Football
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 January 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Frank is teaching Bert all about football. Sometimes things go wrong, but Bert has a new ball and the two best friends are ready to play. When Frank spots Barbara, the best football player ever, he is delighted that she agrees to have a game with him, forgetting all about poor old Bert. But as...
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My Path
Name: Sue Wilsher
03 January 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
Every morning, a little snail sets off to follow their Path. Sometimes this path is shared by others; sometimes it is a lonely one; sometimes hard or unexpected. But the snail knows that it is their Path, their unique way forwards and, as long as it feels like the right thing to do, it is thei...
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Coorie Doon: A Scottish Lullaby Story
Name: Lizi Backhouse
03 January 2025;Genre: Family & Home
Corrie Doon is a Scottish lullaby story that follows Shona from being a small girl tucked in by her dad and having wonderful dreams, to being a grown woman tucking her dad in and experiencing magic in the nights herself. Written by Jackie Kay, an acclaimed Scottish poet...
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Ice Apprentices: Volume 1
Name: Jenny Caddick
03 January 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Prepare to be whisked away this Winter to the bitterly cold Tundra and the harshest winds, ice and snow. Surviving life is tough and requires the inhabitants of the settlements there to stand together, using skills, stamina and (more importantly) ice magic, to make it through the big Freeze.</...
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The Bed Book
Name: Lucy Hopkins
03 January 2025;Genre: Picture Books
The Bed Book is a rhyming story, which many children love. They enjoy spotting the words that rhyme together and predicting which words may finish different sentences. It's also a lovely book to help to develop children's imaginations by taking them to many weird and wonderful...
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Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book
Name: Lucy Hopkins
03 January 2025;Genre: Early Skills
Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book is an interesting book to help with children's language development. This book goes through the alphabet with lots of interesting little pictures. Within those pictures, different things are labelled using each of the let...
