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Name: Maria Faithorn
27 March 2026;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken! is a wonderful story full of learning opportunities. Join Grandpa and his two grandchildren as they explore Grandpa's garden on a sunny day, meeting a variety of chicken breeds and Marvin the rooster, who thinks he's the boss! The st...

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Name: Anna Cartwright
26 March 2026;

Genre: STEM

SuperQuesters: The Case of the Stolen Sun is aimed at 4 to 6-year-olds. It follows the story of three friends who must follow a quest, solving puzzles along the way, to bring the Sun back to Questland. Lots of STEM skills are involved, and the story and illustrations ar...

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Name: Jennifer CADDICK
26 March 2026;

Genre: Fantasy

The fourth book in this mesmerising, magical series, Amari and the Metalwork Menace is just as fantastic and fantastical as the previous three books. I am a huge fan of the Amari series and the supernatural world-building that author BB Alston excels at. Amari has stepp...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
25 March 2026;

Genre: Personal Growth

Bored and seeking thrills, Rory creates a game for his gang to play. Called 'Dead Straight Line', the idea is that you have to make your way home from a given point with no deviations, even if this means trespassing or facing danger. When new group member, Yell, plays, things go badly wrong, l...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
25 March 2026;

Genre: Fantasy

There are new revelations aplenty in All the Cursed Creatures, the third book in this fast-paced supernatural detective series. Sage and Oren have fallen out after Sage discovers that everyone knew about her hybrid status, but her. Casting Oren as chief villain and eag...

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Name: Sam
25 March 2026;

Genre: Funny Stories

The Way the Cookie Crumbles is the second highly amusing, heartwarming book in the Café Chaos series. Written by popular children's author Catherine Wilkins, this fab book cannot fail to appeal to young readers...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
25 March 2026;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Sim, Jeopardy and Nelson are on holiday in Rome with Sim's mother, Callidora, and Jeopardy's father, Emmett, and they are loving every minute. Then they meet Soraya, whose brother is the world-famous illusionist, Kinetic. When Kinetic vanishes while performing a trick (which is being broadcast...

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Name: Donna Burkert
24 March 2026;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Will Shakespeare Mysteries: The Stinky Stolen Toenails is as hilarious as the title suggests. We follow young William Shakespeare on his quest to prove himself as the 'Greatest-Person-Who-Solves-Crimes'. He and his best friend Tybalt get up to much mayhem whilst they try to un...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
23 March 2026;

Genre: Funny Stories

Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles is the second in the fun, fast and family-orientated lively middle grade stories, featuring Hope Crumble and her chaotic café-owning family. As usual, the daily dramas of keeping the Crumble Café afloat (and dealing with the unusu...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
20 March 2026;

Genre: STEM

Perfect for igniting ideas and creating curious children, The Book Will Make You a Scientist is packed with accessible experiments, inspired by the work of 25 scientists from the past and present, from different cultures and locations across the world. Starting with adv...

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