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Wyrdwood
Name: Kimberley Lawson
15 October 2025;Genre: Horror
Wyrdwood. "One step, two step, branches black; three step, four step, branches crack . . ." Coming home from boarding school to Merryweather-by-the-sea for Christmas, Kiki Harper notices some alarming differences in her quaint home town. Her best friend, Stefan, has for...
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Family
Name: Jo Thomas
15 October 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Another wonderful Peek-through Nature book by Patricia Hegarty and Britta Teckentrup! Family is cleverly written and provides snippets of education about different animals and their ways to keep their babies safe. This is a beautifully illustrated rhyming book showing differen...
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Ice Dancer
Name: Sue Wilsher
14 October 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Dina and her brothers are leaving the hills of Wales behind and are heading to Sheffield to stay with their aunt, JJ. However, hurt and frustrated by the frosty reception JJ gives them, Dina takes her great-grandmother's skates and heads for the local rink. Although she is passionate about ska...
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The Book of Stolen Dreams: The Final Battle
Name: Linda Brown
14 October 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Author David Farr once again delivers a thrilling and unforgettable story in this finale to The Book of Stolen Dreams series. It is the wonderful blend of fantasy, political intrigue, and emotional depth that makes this trilogy standout in middle-grade literat...
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Giggling Ghosts
Name: Sue Wilsher
13 October 2025;Genre: Early Skills
In a busy town, when it's quiet after dark, there is a house full of ghosts who are ready to scare! Sneaking and spinning, gliding and booooing are all great fun, but their favourite thing to do is giggle. Perfect for sharing, Giggling Ghosts offers a fun, interactive story time...
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How to Find a Yeti
Name: Linda Canning
13 October 2025;Genre: Adventure
I read How to Find a Yeti to my three year old daughter, plus a class of Reception children. My three-year-old loved joining in and found it interesting; she enjoyed looking for the yeti and demanded that I read it again. The simple narrative makes it an enjoyable bedtime stor...
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Bizzy Bear Whizzy Wheels: Train
Name: Lucy Hopkins
13 October 2025;Genre: Early Skills
Bizzy Bear Whizzy Wheels: Train is a lovely story filled with lots of different animals. The front cover has moveable train wheels - moveable parts are always a winner with young children. It's also a good opportunity to help them to develop their fine motor skills as they spi...
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Saving Snowflake: Volume 4
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
13 October 2025;Genre: Animals
Saving Snowflake is the fourth title in the series about Ava's life on Whistledown Farm with her parents, aunt, uncle, cousin, and their friends The Whistlers. It is now a few months after the end of Meeting Meg and December is just beginning. The new season brings with...
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Meeting Meg: Volume 3
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
13 October 2025;Genre: Animals
Meeting Meg is the third title in the series of Whistledown Farm Adventures and begins seven months after the ending of the second book. Ava and her parents are now living in the cottage at the edge of the farm and Ava and her friends, The Whistlers, are enjoying their last su...
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Cringe Club: Volume 1 - The start of a hilarious new series
Name: Emma Nelson
13 October 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Cringe Club by Emily Jane Clark is a fabulously hilarious book, written from the perspective of Kennedy King. Forced to move school by her mother - AKA The Mother - the story unfolds in a series of messages (this is an ingenious way to engage reluctant readers...
