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Name: Beverley Somerset
21 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Bo Delafort is a mudlarker. She lives in London with her mother and her older brother Harry, who has just left home to fight in the First World War. When she meets the orphan Billy River on the banks of the Thames they instantly form a bond. Then Bo finds a fabulous jewel in the mud of the riv...

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Name: Donna Burkert
20 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

When Melanda Notwitch meets Mitch the Witch and is encouraged to 'Join the Witches', things start to change. Up until now, Melanda has led a miserable life with her three aunts where she can never do anything right. To make matters worse, Melanda loves to write stories but wha...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Eddie doesn't feel she belongs in her school. Eating wheelie bins can make you stand out. So she gets sent to a school in another realm, where everyone is a monster of some sort and the motto is 'Be the worst'. Finally, Eddie can make friends, except the very existence of the school is in jeop...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
14 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

With graduation looming and the prospect of leaving home provoking both fear and excitement, school president and all round Grade A student Grace Barbour decides a day of skipping school is just the tonic she and her friends need. The only problems being the schism between her...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
13 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

I really enjoyed reading Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. You might rightly expect this book to be extremely sad but the author has crafted the main character, Sydney Wells, as a pragmatic young person coming to terms with terminal illness, only for an unexpected emergency...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
13 March 2025;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

The Mubbles live on the Isle of Smile, alongside the Wibbles of Wobble Mountain and the one-eyed Drib Drabs. The island is bright, colourful and joyous, full of sunshine and song, Everybody has a job to do, which keeps life running smoothly. Then, one day, something strange appears from behind...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
13 March 2025;

Genre: Poetry

Having received one of A F Harrold's postcard poems, I know that children love his short poems! Indeed, despite the fact that we enjoyed plenty of poetry in class, many were fascinated by the idea that something so short was a poem as well as being charmed by the novelty of getting something h...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Mice, Camera, Action is the fantastic new book in the AdventureMice Series. This sixth book will excite all early chapter book readers as, like the previous five, every page is packed with adventure, colour and cheeky characters. Reader...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Award-winning author Swapna Haddow has done it again. This is another incredible story which has you hooked from the very first chapter. The lovable characters that we have grown to love return in this beautifully illustrated early chapter book. Bad Panda: For Sale has...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Muffin, Tiny and the rest of the trainee rescue puffins on the Island of Egg are all taking part in a special festival called Puffin Power. Tiny's team has gained a new member, a little yellow chick called Flotsam, who has appeared and is determined to join in the fun. However...

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