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Hurricane Child
Name: Jane Rew
03 June 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
We begin this story with 12 yr old Caroline Murphy living with her dad on Water Island in the Virgin Islands archipelago. Her mum left home 1 year 3 months ago, without explanation. How is an adolescent supposed to cope with that, how understand it? How can she possibly learn to live without h...
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The Three Impossibles
Name: Jo Clarke
03 June 2021;Genre: Adventure
The Three Impossibles is exactly that: impossible to put down, impossible not to love and impossible to forget. In this fantasy adventure we meet Mim, a feisty protagonist with an Enquiring Mind. Mim always seeks answers and has determination and perseverance in bucket loads....
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Grow, Forage and Make - Fun Things to do with Plants
Name: Joanna Hewish
03 June 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Grow, Forage and Make - Fun Things to do with Plants is a fantastic non-fiction book that easily shows children how to design, create and grow using nature around them. I absolutely adore the style of this book; it feels and looks natural through its font choice, colour pallet...
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Sports Legends: 50 Inspiring People
Name: Sam Phillips
03 June 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
What an absolutely fantastic book! Sports Legends, 50 Inspiring People includes a selection of tales from well known athletes who at different stages in their lives have overcome a variety of challenges and issues in order to achieve their goal and ultimate sporting fame. Negative body image,...
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Tim Hopgood's Wonderful World of Colours
Name: Ellen Green
03 June 2021;Genre: Baby & Toddler Books
This is a beautiful board book that cleverly takes the introduction of colour a little further than most board books for young children. In Tim Hopgood's Wonderful World of Colours, we are introduced to red ('like strawberries'), blue (like the sky) and yellow (like the sun), and then we are s...
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Everyone Dies Famous In A Small Town
Name: Maddie Age 14
02 June 2021;Genre: Real life
This book was a different style from what I usually read. It was a collection of stories from teenagers' lives, but all of them are linked somehow as I read through snippets of their lives. It follows different people through Alaska, starting with Gina's life being flipped upside down when her...
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We Played With Fire
Name: Kimberley Lawson
01 June 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
We Played With Fire By Catherine Barter is based on the true story of the Fox sisters - Kate, Maggie and Leah - and it plunges the reader straight into the forbidden cellar of the Fox family's remote old house in New York State, full of bitter cold, brooding shadows and noises...
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Where the Wilderness Lives
Name: Azmeh Age 9
01 June 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
I really liked this book because there are so many twists and turns. It is action packed and adventurous. I would recommend this book
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Melt
Name: Jo Clarke
01 June 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
In Melt, two lives seemingly poles apart are thrown together in a quest to seek answers and, most importantly to survive. Bea is always the new girl. Her Dad's job means that she is forever moving home, moving schools, losing friends and trying to fit in. Yutu lives a t...
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Jane Austen Investigates: The Abbey Mystery
Name: Hamizah Aziz
01 June 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
A book for young readers but as a 30 something, I enjoyed reading it! The book has everything; adventure, humor, sibling love, and friendship. Jane Austen Investigates - The Abbey Mystery by Julia Golding tells the story of young Jane Austen as a young detective. When an accident in the family...
