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Will Shakespeare Mysteries: The Stinky Stolen Toenails
Name: Donna Burkert
24 March 2026;Genre: Historical Fiction
Will Shakespeare Mysteries: The Stinky Stolen Toenails is as hilarious as the title suggests. We follow young William Shakespeare on his quest to prove himself as the 'Greatest-Person-Who-Solves-Crimes'. He and his best friend Tybalt get up to much mayhem whilst they try to un...
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Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles
Name: Jenny Caddick
23 March 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles is the second in the fun, fast and family-orientated lively middle grade stories, featuring Hope Crumble and her chaotic café-owning family. As usual, the daily dramas of keeping the Crumble Café afloat (and dealing with the unusu...
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This Book Will Make You a Scientist
Name: Sue Wilsher
20 March 2026;Genre: STEM
Perfect for igniting ideas and creating curious children, The Book Will Make You a Scientist is packed with accessible experiments, inspired by the work of 25 scientists from the past and present, from different cultures and locations across the world. Starting with adv...
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SuperQuesters Mission: Rainforest Magic
Name: Anna Cartwright
20 March 2026;Genre: STEM
SuperQuesters Mission: Rainforest Magic is a wonderful blend of magic, STEM, imagination and illustrations. Again we join the trio of questers as they attempt to help a friend who is ill. Enter the magical rainforest where they must try to find a cure. Assisted by some new fri...
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Bunnies in a Boat
Name: Lucy Hopkins
20 March 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
Bunnies in a Boat is an engaging picture book for very young readers! One of the most appealing things about this story is the clear, well-paced page spreads. The text is relatively simple but there is so much going on in each picture, there's lots to explore visually and to d...
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Birdie
Name: Louisa Farrow
20 March 2026;Genre: Animals
This heart-warming story has a well-crafted plot that first draws you in and then leaves you with a feeling of satisfaction. Birdie lives in a children's home specifically for the illegitimate children of white English women and black American GI's. Surrounded by others like h...
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Marty Moose: The Great Stamp-ede
Name: Maria Faithorn
20 March 2026;Genre: Adventure
In Marty Moose: The Great Stamp-ede, Marty has a very important job to do: he must deliver the eggstra-special prize to the finish line before the race ends. It sounds simple. This action-packed story keeps readers eager to discover what will happen next as Ma...
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The Gumdrops: Quest for Bravery
Name: Michelle Bailey
19 March 2026;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
The Gumdrops: Quest for Bravery is a new, interactive graphic novel by Elissa Elwick, aimed at readers aged 5-8 years old. It follows The Gumdrops, guardians of a magical land, on their quest to find a friend for Daisy. The first thing that caught my eye with this book...
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Day of Now: A powerful post-apocalyptic story about facing impossible choices
Name: Clair Bossons
18 March 2026;Genre: Dystopian
Day of Now is an action-packed, high-stakes survival story that grabbed me from the first chapter. The novel follows two siblings, Dayton and Pax, who have so far survived a devastating fungal pandemic. They race across a dangerous, unpredictable landscape to rescue their fath...
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A Golden Eid
Name: Linda Canning
16 March 2026;Genre: Seasonal
I read A Golden Eid to my three-year-old and, while much of the detail was a little over her head, it was still a lovely introduction to the celebration of Eid and a gentle way to begin talking about different world faiths. As a family that isn’t Muslim, it felt like a...
