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Rebel Heart
Name: Sara Sumner
28 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Rebel Heart is a new and exciting historical adventure story from Ally Sherrick, set in the English Civil War. The year is 1645 and with her father away fighting for the Royalists and her step mother about to surrender her home to the troops bombarding it, you...
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Six Queens: An illustrated guide to the iconic queens of Henry VIII
Name: Sue Wilsher
28 March 2025;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Like the author, I have always been fascinated by the women who were unlucky enough to be married to King Henry VIII. In Six Queens, Lydia Monks sets out to show that they should not just be remembered by the rhyme, 'Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived', but...
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The Appletree Animal Agency
Name: Elen Green
28 March 2025;Genre: Animals
I loved this story of a group of children finding their way as 'apprentice vets' at an animal rescue centre. The children's love of the animals shines through every mishap and gentle misadventure, as ferrets go missing, their pets go astray and the children's plans to rehome the animals at the...
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Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)
Name: Donna Ritchie
27 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
I love a book that has a little bit of real history entwined within the story. Deep Dark is such a book. Cassia Thorne is the main character; a patterer (a child singer who sings songs - that tell a story - on the streets of early 19th century London), but who also teaches pia...
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The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day
Name: Wendy Kelly
27 March 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Nicola O'Byrne does it again with another lovely book about Rabbit and his unique take on everyday problems that children can relate to. Last time we saw him finding out about the dark with the help of a biscuit tin; this time he risks having his glorious fishing trip ruined by a rain cloud. W...
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Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure
Name: Beverley Somerset
21 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Bo Delafort is a mudlarker. She lives in London with her mother and her older brother Harry, who has just left home to fight in the First World War. When she meets the orphan Billy River on the banks of the Thames they instantly form a bond. Then Bo finds a fabulous jewel in the mud of the riv...
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The Notwitches
Name: Donna Burkert
20 March 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
When Melanda Notwitch meets Mitch the Witch and is encouraged to 'Join the Witches', things start to change. Up until now, Melanda has led a miserable life with her three aunts where she can never do anything right. To make matters worse, Melanda loves to write stories but wha...
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School of Doom - Be the Worst
Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 March 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Eddie doesn't feel she belongs in her school. Eating wheelie bins can make you stand out. So she gets sent to a school in another realm, where everyone is a monster of some sort and the motto is 'Be the worst'. Finally, Eddie can make friends, except the very existence of the school is in jeop...
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While We're Young
Name: Clare Wilkins
14 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
With graduation looming and the prospect of leaving home provoking both fear and excitement, school president and all round Grade A student Grace Barbour decides a day of skipping school is just the tonic she and her friends need. The only problems being the schism between her...
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Every Borrowed Beat
Name: Ruth Cornish
13 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
I really enjoyed reading Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. You might rightly expect this book to be extremely sad but the author has crafted the main character, Sydney Wells, as a pragmatic young person coming to terms with terminal illness, only for an unexpected emergency...
