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The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime
Name: Nicola Cleveland
23 December 2021;Genre: Adventure
The Unadoptables is a stunningly spooky and sinister story of loyalty, determination and family packed with adventure and adversity.Amsterdam, 1886. The Little Tulip Orphanage has strict rules on how babies should be delivered, but that autumn, five children arrive...
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When the War Came Home
Name: Beverley Somerset
22 December 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Set in the early 1920's, this wonderful novel explores the after effects of World War 1 on both the surviving soldiers and the families they return to. Natty lives in the small Welsh village of Libanwy with her mother, Ffion, who is a vocal supporter of women’s rights. When her outspokenness c...
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Roar Like a Lion
Name: Jo Clarke
15 December 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
Carlie Sorosiak has written a fun and quirky guide to well being and life in general. Uniquely, Roar Like a Lion uses the animal kingdom to draw parallels between the difficulties that we face as humans and those presented to our close relatives in the animal world. Using char...
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How I Saved the World in aWeek
Name: Jan Blagden
10 December 2021;Genre: Adventure
How I Saved the World in a Week kept me engrossed. The chapter headings give clues to the next part of the story without giving anything away, and I liked that some were only a page whilst others were several pages long. This uneven pace of chapter length draws the reader into...
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Grown: The Black Girls' Guide to Glowing Up
Name: Amiran Age 14
01 December 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
I would definitely recommend this book, but to a specific audience. Me being of South Asian minority, I don't think I related to this as much as other black girls would, but I would definitely recommend it to them. It was an interesting read and could give a girl some great insights into growi...
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Diary of a Christmas Elf
Name: Lisa Watkins
01 December 2021;Genre: Humour
Diary of a Christmas Elf is a charmingly hilarious story of Tog, an apprentice elf. Being selected by Santa isn't quite what Tog had dreamed of and it doesn't take long before he is relegated to cleaning out the reindeer stables. Tog finds himself being accused of a terrible C...
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Tiny Reindeer
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 December 2021;Genre: Picture Books
Tiny Reindeer is a beautifully written, seasonal story focusing on an underdog character with a huge heart and an even stronger determination. Children will easily identify with Tiny as he is desperate to help Santa do jobs, but often makes them worse rather than helping. A he...
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Little Santa
Name: Kyle Matravers
01 December 2021;Genre: Picture Books
Little Santa is the tale of how Santa grew up to become the jolly red-suited gift giver that we know and love today. Jon Agee has done a superb job in creating a story that engages young readers in Santa's origin story…something that, admittedly, I had never considered before....
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Zoom: Building Site Adventure
Name: Elen Green
30 November 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
What an unexpected find the Zoom books were - this one is the Zoom Building Site Adventure, which is great to help teach building and construction with young children, but there is also Zoom Farm Adventure in the series. These are small, sturdy board books with peep-throughs and a lovely pop-u...
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Art of Protest: What a revolution looks like
Name: Lorraine Ansell
30 November 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Big Picture Press have hit the nail on the head with this new book, Art of Protest: What a revolution looks like, by artivist De Nichols. Formatted and produced to simulate a zine, it is illustrated by several artists, resulting in a powerfully visual and educational book....
