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Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Smuggler's Secret
Name: Ayona Age 10
17 March 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This book is very adventurous and mysterious because it is about an artefact being lost/missing but this girl (Zaiba) and her team set out to find the artefact and the people who hid it. My favourite character was Ali (Zaiba's brother) because when Zaiba said something about Poppy and Mariam,...
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Baby Love
Name: Nicola Jenkin
17 March 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Set in the 1960s, before sex education in schools was the norm, a time when unmarried mothers were pitied and shamed and teen pregnancies were hidden from society - girls often left with little support from family and authorities and had no choice but to give up their babies - the story follow...
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Toto the Ninja Cat and the Legend of the Wildcat
Name: Donna Ritchie
17 March 2022;Genre: Adventure
Toto the Ninja Cat and the Legend of the Wildcat is book 5 in the series of stories about Toto, a blind cat. I have found these books excellent for reluctant readers. The illustrations are as amazing as ever - well done as always Nick East! With Toto's brothers - Silver...
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Epic Adventures
Name: Donna Ritchie
16 March 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Sam Brewster's illustrations are absolutely amazing and help to bring Epic Adventures to life, alongside Sam Sedgman's interesting facts. This book is for you if you love trains, if you don't love trains, if you are interested in the culture of countries, if you love ge...
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Dragon Storm - Cara and Silverthief
Name: Lauren Maidman
15 March 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Cara and Silverthief is the second instalment in the Dragon Storm series. I was very excited to read this, as are my class, as the first one was brilliant. Much like the first we follow the story of Cara, a 'street r...
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The Infinity Guardians
Name: Beverley Somerset
15 March 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
Ash Yang is the youngest ever Guardian of the Infinity Files and is responsible for the most powerful and dangerous artefacts in the universe. They are stored in the Library, and Ash, along with her friends Ezra, Trik and Amara, are charged with visiting different planets to retrieve, protect...
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Hedgewitch
Name: Sue Wilsher
14 March 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Cassie Morgan has been waiting for her mother to return for her for seven long years. Now her mother has been declared legally dead and she is faced with going to the orphanage, Cassie decides to run away from Fowell House, the awful boarding school she has been attending, whatever the danger....
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Swift and Hawk: Cyberspies
Name: Clair Bossons
12 March 2022;Genre: Adventure
Swift and Hawk: Cyberspies is the first in a new spy series written by Logan Macx, which is a pseudonym for two writers, Edward Docx and Matthew Plampin. Swift and Hawk is fast paced, action packed and filled with cutting edge technology. It will definitely appeal to fans of R...
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It's her story Amelia Earhart
Name: Amanda Shipton
11 March 2022;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
'I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through experience what she wants to do.' Amelia Earhart. Clear, detailed research has been dedicated into the writing of this wonderful graphic novel, It's Her Story: Amelia Earhart...
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Little People, Big Dreams: Nelson Mandela
Name: Wendy Kelly
11 March 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Part of the incredibly popular Little People, Big Dreams series, this book tells the incredible life story of Nelson Mandela. It starts with his childhood in the African Tribe his father was the chief of and recounts how his name was changed from Rolihlahla, w...