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I'm Going to Make a Friend
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 May 2025;Genre: Friends and family
A child moves to a new house and is worried about making new friends. How long will it take? What games will they want to play? Will they have their own ideas? In the end, they realise, you just have to give it a go! How to Make a Friend is a delightful, reassuring book which ex...
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Glasgow Boys
Name: Stephen Leitch
29 April 2025;Genre: Social Issues
Set in modern day Glasgow, this powerful novel follows the lives of Finlay (18) and Banjo (17) as they both try to negotiate their ways through life, a life where something as simple as a hug is strange and alien act. Banjo is trying to stay out of trouble long enough (and kee...
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Where Shadows Meet
Name: Eileen Armstrong
28 April 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Some 20 years on from the Twilight phenomenon, a resurgence of the vampire narrative seems timely. The Sunday Times bestseller, Where Shadows Meet, provides an original twist - combining vampire lore with the romantasy subgenre popularised by...
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If My Words Had Wings
Name: Clare Wilkins
25 April 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
Ty Forrester's involvement in a high profile armed robbery results in an 18 month sentence in a Young Offenders' institution. Falling in with a crowd his close friends and family had warned him about has left him in Ryecroft and at the mercy of a chaotic system and an inmate hierarchy where an...
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Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words
Name: Jenny CADDICK
24 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This fantastic non-fiction collection features 22 fascinating, inspirational and incredibly honest and open true stories from a huge variety of disabled writers. Sharing their experiences of being young and growing up, of the challenges, achievements, stereotypes and expectati...
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The Bear and the Hare and the Fair
Name: Amanda Shipton
24 April 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
If you are looking for a fun tongue twister, look no further that The Bear and the Hare and the Fair. This rhyming story is full of fun, humour and fast-paced adventure. The brightly coloured illustrations will appeal to the younger reader, the characte...
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Ember Spark and the Unicorn's Secret
Name: Beverley Somerset
24 April 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ember Spark and her best friend, Arno Whisper, are apprentice vets to magical beasts. When Ember's pet nibblesqueak, Forty Winks, begins to behave oddly, Ember and Arno investigate and find themselves whisked off to the Amazon rainforest. The villainous Tabitha Bone is using magical beasts in...
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Odd Girl Out
Name: Clare Wilkins
23 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
15-year-old Maaryah is a fish out of water, plucked from a life of wealth and luxury in Dubai and thrown into a state secondary in Essex. Already reeling from the unfathomable breakdown of her parents' marriage and the lifestyle shift it has necessitated, she is soon navigating a new school, f...
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The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day
Name: Jessica Bunney
23 April 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
The Rabbit, The Cloud and the Rainy Day is brought to us by the creator of the VERY well-known The Rabbit, The Dark and the Biscuit Tin. It's great to re-encounter the well-loved rabbit again! Rabbit has plan...
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Not That Kind of Hero
Name: Sam
21 April 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
If you know a young YA romantic, then this is the book for them this summer. Not That Kind of Hero by Alexia Casale is a lovely read. The story has a dual perspective for Orla, the story's main protagonist, as part of a blended family, alongside her internal s...
