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The Gilded Ones
Name: Clair Bossons
04 February 2021;Genre: Fantasy
The Gilded Ones is an amazing debut novel by Namina Forna. I was fortunate to receive a limited-edition book proof from Usborne and it had a stunning golden cover!This fantasy fiction is set in Otera, an ancient patriarchal empire. Women are forced to wear masks in...
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Name: Eileen Armstrong
04 February 2021;Genre: Real life
Everyone has met a Lexi, 15 years old and angry at seemingly everything and everybody. Lexi lives with her mum, her mum's new boyfriend John and her 6 year old half-sister Iris. She desperately wants John's love and approval but always seems to fall short of his sky-high ideals, especially com...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
04 February 2021;Genre: Adventure
Nirana Farook, author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant, dishes up a dazzling Sri Lanka-set adventure featuring a mysterious shipwreck, an overzealous child and a big, blue whale.Razi, a fisherman's son, stares wide eyed in paralysed fear as a mysterious boat appears on the sparkli...
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Name: Jane Rew
04 February 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Rosa is one little bird, one feisty little robin, in fact. If the man can take away her home at the chop of his axe, then, she decides, she can take away his hat at the beat of a wing. And what's more, she can muster other creatures to join her cause: to defend their homes from tree-fellers an...
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Everybody Worries
Name: Maria Faithorn
04 February 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Everybody Worries is engaging from the offset. With a bright, busy front cover you are hooked! Because it's true... everybody worries! It's ok to have worries. Even the bravest, coolest, toughest and smartest people worry. The worry of one person others may find fun, but that'...
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The Tindims and the Turtle Tangle
Name: Sam Phillips
04 February 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
The first Tindims book was lovely, the second one, The Tindims and the Turtle Tangle, is just as lovely! Written by children's author Sally Gardner and made even more appealing with a collection of detailed, fun illustrations by Lydia Corry.When Bottle Mountain bre...
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Name: Kyron Age 10
04 February 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
I rate Mort the Meek 5 stars because Mort liked peace but he had to be a brute and chop his friend's head off! That was quite gruesome to me but I loved it! I would recommend it to adventurous people.
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Name: Beverley Somerset
04 February 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
The Widdershins sisters go from strength to strength in this wonderful book by Michelle Harrison!In A Tangle of Spells, Fliss, Betty and Charlie Widdershins move from Crowstone with their Granny and their father Barney. They are hoping for a new start in the pretty...
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Magpie
Name: Janet Fisher
04 February 2021;Genre: Family & Home
This deceptively slight book tells a story I sincerely hope that most children will never encounter. Alice and her family are on the run from an abusive man whom her mother became involved with, and returned to several times, until he hit Alice which was the wake- up call for her mother. They...
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44 Tiny Acrobats
Name: Lauren Maidman
04 February 2021;Genre: Friends and family
44 Tiny Acrobats is the next instalment from Betsy Bow-Linnet and her 44 tiny African pygmy mice! Betsy has to take her mice to the vets and told to come straight back home, but she gets distracted by the circus in town and cannot resist going inside to see the special guest a...
