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Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health
Name: Stephen Leitch
22 April 2022;Genre: LBGTQ+
"Breathe. Just breathe", is the starting advice in Queer Up by Alexis Caught, an incredible, uplifting and honest book offering positive advice and information to LGBTQ+ teens and allies, who may have questions about their identity. Chapter themes include looking at coming out...
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Ready Or Not
Name: Clare Wilkins
22 April 2022;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Millie adores the shared summers with family and friends at Creek House. Whilst the adults reminisce over their youth, the children have the run of the idyllic estate. But as the children become teenagers, tensions and differences emerge and the youngest, Millie, realises that the carefree sum...
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Who will you meet on Dinosaur Street?
Name: Amanda Shipton
22 April 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
This beautifully illustrated, colourful book is bound to draw even the youngest child in. The front cover demonstrates the fun and creativity within through the bold colours and expressions on the characters faces. This is a story that children will be joining in with and asking for again and...
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Blood To Poison
Name: Tanja Jennings
22 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
South African born fantasy YA author Mary Watson, known for her bewitching ‘Wren’ books, returns to her Cape Town roots for her latest thriller. Reminiscent of Tracy Deonn’s ‘Legendborn’ with its blood magic, heady sense of place, colloquial language, generational pain, interwoven mythology an...
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Read Between the Lies
Name: Sharon Bolton
22 April 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
Imagine having to go live with your dad and his new girlfriend, miles away from the rest of your family, and then her son is released from the Young Offenders Institution he has spent time in. Ryan is dealing with his mum and dad's divorce and a move to London. Then when Tommy is released, he...
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The Great Fox Illusion
Name: Jacqueline Harris
22 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
Flick Lions enters a competition to win a television contract for a magic show as the Great Fox's successor. The Great Fox, a world-famous illusionist has died and left a series of complicated puzzles to be solved. But no-on is quite what they seem, and Flick and the other contestants are all...
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John Agard’s Windrush Child
Name: Sharon Porter
22 April 2022;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
'When we first read John Agard's Windrush Child, illustrated by Sophie Bass, we didn’t realise how important the story was. We just thought it was about a boy moving home. When we realised just how unfairly people had been treated, it was surprising that these families stayed...
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Stick Boy and the Rise of the Robots
Name: Hayley Summerfield
22 April 2022;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Sticky Boy and the Rise of the Robots is the sequel to Stick Boy by Paul Coomey. This eye-catching book once again is filled with fantastic illustrations and a plot seeking to find an end to an evil plan. Stick Boy returns with his 'Myste...
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Coming Up for Air
Name: Emelia Helliwell
21 April 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Leaving life in Soho behind for a new adventure in the small seaside Town of Piscary Bay, Coco set out to make the most of her time there while secretly hoping her mother Min will return to London and get her job and home back. Coco's first impression of the sleepy seaside town is one of both...
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Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
Name: Jennifer Caddick
20 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief is a stunning, highly dramatic and exciting story that takes a totally new look at unicorns and every other story I've ever read about with them. My review copy arrived with an unexpected seal around it that I had to break open to discover which '...
