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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Jane Rew
28 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Jasper Wilde adores his sister. They've spent many happy hours together, in trees, out walking, watching wildlife, listening to nightingales. So now, it's too much to bear that Rosie might be gone. If, as his parents say, she's gone 'to a better place', surely he can find her. She said she'd a...
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The Bird Singers
Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 January 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
The Bird Singers is a thrilling, intriguing and superbly sinister mystery - such a page turner! Laylah and younger sister Izzie reluctantly have to join mum on a last minute 'holiday' to the Lake District. Dad doesn't come (he is too busy working away - again). The girl...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Louisa Farrow
27 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Jasper is feeling lost and anxious. His parents have been preoccupied with work since starting their own business and now they seem tired and upset too. His big sister Rosie hasn't come back from university to see him, even though she promised she would; apparently she has gone to a 'better pl...
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Apple Grumble
Name: Maria Faithorn
27 January 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
Uh oh.. Bad Apple is back! Still as nasty as ever but now he's grumpy, too! Will Granny Smith and all the other apples be able to change his ways and teach him some manners? Red and Golden encourage Bad Apple to be sweet like them, Bramley, Braeburn and Cox show him how teamwork makes the drea...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Elen Green
26 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
The Hunt for the Nightingale is a book that stays with you for a long time, as you connect so completely with the child narrator, Jasper, as he sets out on a quest to find a nightingale and his missing sister, and on the way discovers new friends and the courage he didn't thin...
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Diary of an Accidental Witch: Flying High
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
25 January 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Bea Black is back! (see book 1, Diary of an Accidental Witch). Bea Black is settling into life as a witch, she is finally mastering some spells and shows real skill at looking after animals, especially frogs, but life isn't all rosy. Unable to tell her best (non-magical) friend Ash about her n...
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Mort the Meek and the Monstrous Quest
Name: Elen Green
25 January 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
It was so much fun to return to the island of Brutalia and to get another glimpse into the (brutal!) lives of its inhabitants. Mort the Meek and the Monstrous Quest is, if anything, even more anarchic than book 1 (Mort the Meek and the Raven's Revenge), with the citizens of Br...
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The Marvellous Granny Jinks and Me
Name: Liz Webb
25 January 2022;Genre: Young fiction
I loved the sense of fun and camaraderie in the relationship between Jada and her Granny Jinks, and this relationship lies at the heart of The Marvellous Granny Jinks and Me. As her father focuses on his work, Jada and Granny Jinks are left to enjoy each other's company in fu...
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Dragon Storm: Tomas and Ironskin
Name: Elen Green
25 January 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Can you imagine being able to summon a dragon from the ether into the real world? A small number of children in this medieval world are able to do just that and, once they have summoned their dragon, they form a unbreakable bond with it. So begins a regime of training and bonding at the specia...
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What's New Harper Drew
Name: Natalie J. McChrystal Plimmer
24 January 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
What's New Harper Drew? begins a new series that follows the humorous stream-of-consciousness illustrated diary format that seems to be currently very popular, such as Tom Gates, Scarlet Fife and so on (I suppose they are the new generation of Adrian Mole characters). Plus, di...
