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Ghostlines
Name: Jo Clarke
05 September 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Katya Balen does more than write stories: she orchestrates them. Her words have rhythm; they ebb and flow like the waters around the island on which this spectacular story is set. Ghostlines begins gently with an introduction to life on the remote, small isla...
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Shiver Point: Under A Howling Moon
Name: Hayley Summerfield
05 September 2024;Genre: Supernatural
Gabriel Dylan has brought us another spine-chilling adventure from the Shiver Point squad in Shiver Point: Under A Howling Moon. Its Oli's birthday and he wants nothing more than to spend the weekend camping, exploring and telling spooky stories round the campfire with his be...
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The Underhills: A Tooth Fairy Story
Name: Joanne Thomas
05 September 2024;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The Underhills: A Tooth Fairy Story is a cute story about tooth fairy sisters Esme and April and their adventure on a tooth collection mission. The sisters are having a sleepover at Grandma and Grandad's, when a call comes in about a baby tooth that needs collecting and...
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The Colour of the Sky
Name: Amanda Shipton
05 September 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Most of us marvel at the different colours that the sky turns throughout the day and the seasons. We wonder how it is possible, and why. Most children want to touch everything that they can see and the sky, with its beautiful colours, is no different. This story depicts this longing along with...
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Kitty and the Missing Pumpkins
Name: Amanda Shipton
04 September 2024;Genre: Adventure
Show me a child who does not dream of being a super hero or at least of having super powers... Kitty is a fantastic character who likes to use her super powers to solve mysteries. This autumnal story is filled with delightful animal characters and a puzzle which needs to be solved before the f...
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Songlight
Name: Eileen Armstrong
04 September 2024;Genre: Dystopian
Novels which use the future to explore the present are not a new invention but in Songlight, Buffini puts her own unique spin on the post-apocalyptic dystopian story, sitting comfortably alongside greats such as Wyndham, Orwell, Le Guin and Atwood. The...
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How to Build a Rocket
Name: Jane Rew
04 September 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
From the bright, stylish cover and end papers to the informative content within, this is an attractive hardback. Playful illustrations, combining clarity and realism with humorous captions, add extra appeal. Author Fran is a scientist, but clearly a great team is behind...
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Sisters of the Moon
Name: Eileen Armstrong
03 September 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Exactly one year after her mum's death and the night before she goes back to school, Suzy Button makes three wishes in the light of the supermoon in her garden at midnight, desperate for things to change, but not at all believing that they can or will. What Suzy definitely hadn'’t bargained fo...
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Be Normal!
Name: Cathy
03 September 2024;Genre: Friends and family
I loved meeting Geoff the less than ordinary dog in Ged Adamson's Be Normal!, a wonderful story about friendship and difference, all wrapped up in a heartwarming story about a new dog who isn't quite what his young owner expected. When Theo gets a new dog, he's thrilled...
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Circus Maximus, Return of the Champion
Name: Jacqueline Harris
02 September 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
In Circus Maximus: Return of the Champion, Dido is back in her fourth and final adventure in this action-packed historical series. Dido is living in North Africa, training horses and keeping her head down. A slave boy from Rome, Damon, is thrown into her path, with their dei...
