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How to Launch a Tech Start-Up: Robotics, Gaming and Other Tech Jobs
Name: Jane Rew
12 July 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
This slim paperback is bursting with interesting facts, presented in easy-to-read clear typeface (some emboldened, allowing readers to skim and scan with ease), pleasing blocks of colour delineating different chunks of text, and cartoon illustrations (some with speech bubbles), which make unfa...
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Roman Boy
Name: Hayley Summerfield
11 July 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
Roman Boy is the brilliant new book by Tony Bradman. This story is full of thrilling historical action and adventure. Lucius is a 15-year-old Roman boy who wants to feel like he belongs. His mother has recently been widowed and then remarried, and Lucius does not really feel...
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Wigglesbottom Primary: The Pirate Cat
Name: Jane Rew
11 July 2024;Genre: School Stories
It's no wonder children love these books: they are so funny, so imaginative, so 'just right'. They may well know an Irfan or Sunita, a Joel Jack or Miss Riley... after all, aren't there similar characters in every school... the ones who see the unbelievable and come up with cr...
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Us in the Before and After
Name: Tanja Jennings
11 July 2024;Genre: Bereavement
From the start of Us in the Before and After, there is a tangible sense that the protagonists of this story have secrets to tell and that the author is playing with the reader through the device of an unreliable narrator. Reminiscent of a famous movie in places, the title of w...
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Bertha and Blink: Rumble in the Jungle
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
10 July 2024;Genre: Adventure
Bertha and Blink: Rumble in the Jungle is the first book in an exciting new series and both myself, and my 8-year-old daughter really enjoyed reading it. We meet Bertha the bear who is an inspiring inventor but has moved far away to live in solitude after a disagreement...
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A History of my Weird
Name: Jacqueline Harris
10 July 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Mo finds starting at secondary school very difficult. Her friends from primary school no longer want to talk to her and she finds the whole situation at school difficult to navigate. Then she meets Carys, who prefers to be called Onyx and is also a bit different. They strike up a friendship, b...
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Worry Boots
Name: Lucy Hopkins
10 July 2024;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
A lovely book for any child starting school or moving to a new school or class, or who is struggling with a particular worry. Connie is starting school but finds plenty of excuses or reasons why she shouldn't carry on with her journey and should go back home instead! Worry Boot...
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This book will self destruct
Name: Maria Faithorn
10 July 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
This Book Will Self-Destruct is a vibrant, engaging graphic novel which will be a huge hit with independent readers. The illustrations throughout the book use only the bold colours of black, red and white, which are a huge hook and draw the reader into the sto...
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The Invisible Story
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 July 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
In a library filled with famous tales and beautiful pictures, a little story watches quietly as they argue over who is the most read, the most popular and best loved. Overlooked by readers visiting the library, it feels invisible and ghostly. However, one day, a young girl finds the book, a...
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Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten
Name: Laura Richards
09 July 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Luigi is a "big, hairy spider" looking for a new home. He finds a house and a cosy spot underneath the sofa where it's nice and dark. But then the woman who owns the house - Betty- picks up Luigi from where he is sleeping, and exclaims that she's always wanted a pet kitten! She treats Luigi li...
