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I Spy Island
Name: Ashley Clayton
08 July 2021;Genre: Friendship
I read this book to a class of 30 reception children who were excited by the front cover and who the characters were. The children liked joining in with the game of I spy, and laughed out loud at the ending! It definitely has some funny moments and some very colourful characters with a sense o...
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The Summer We Turned Green
Name: Katrina Waldron
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
The Summer We Turned Green is an entertaining and appealing story set on a street facing demolishment for an airport expansion. The story follows 13-year-old Luke and his family. When his sister Rose moves across the road to join a commune of climate rebels, his parents and ne...
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Name: Carol Wright
08 July 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
Chameleon can make himself invisible by blending in with his surroundings. This opens up the opportunity for him to be mischievous with his jungle friends. When frog turns the tables on him, Chameleon has the chance to see the error of his ways. Will Chameleon change his behaviour? Auth...
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Agent Llama
Name: Carol Wright
08 July 2021;Genre: Spy stories
Charlie Palmer is no ordinary Llama. She is a secret agent on a special mission to find some missing underpants! I loved Charlie Palmer, 00-LLama, a strong, female, secret agent hero. The Prime Minister has lost his underpants and Charlie is called in to solve the mystery in a story act...
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Me and the Robbersons
Name: Kelly Buxton
08 July 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
An absolute riot of a book that will make you laugh from cover to cover! 12-year-old Maisie is locked in the car with her annoying older sister, Primrose, on the way to Grandma's. It's the summer holidays and it seems set to drag on and on. Maisie longs for adventure and never suspects that sh...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Imagine starting into a flower that only flowers once in its lifetime one moment and stumbling back in time before you were even born the next. Well for Elsie that is exactly what happens while she is visiting her Uncle John, who she has never met, to while away the long summer holidays....
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Elsie has to stay with her Great Uncle John, who lived in India when he was younger. He talks about the terrible thing he regrets doing when he was still a child. Elsie is catapulted back through time to India in the 1940s; can she put that mistake right? Or is it wrong to try and change time?...
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Run Like a Girl
Name: Louisa Farrow
07 July 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
Across the world, there are female athletes hurdling barriers, breaking records and notching up phenomenal personal achievements. Run Like a Girl is a celebration of these women through 50 biographical stories that explore what it took for them to reach the top of their sports...
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Kitty Quest
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
06 July 2021;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Kitty Quest is truly laugh out loud funny; it follows the story of Woolfrik and Perigold on their quest to rid their town of Meowminster of monsters. This graphic novel is ideal for the more reluctant readers in KS2 and hasn’t been on the shelf since I bought it into school. T...
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Edie and the Box of Flits
Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 July 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
I absolutely fell in love with this modern but classic feeling magical, fantastical adventure. 11 year old Edie Winter helps out with Dad's job at the London Underground's Lost Property Office. Of all the random things she finds, she never expected it to be a curious wooden box containing a mi...
