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A scary dream leaves Rosa worried, can she figure out what her dreams mean and face her fears? When Rosa has a dream that turns scary when she finds two eyes staring back at her from the dark. She’s worried about what it might mean as she talks to family, friends and teachers about it. Each night she dreams of a different adventure, but will she be brave enough to find out what those two staring eyes belong to. With lovely bright illustrations from Robin Sowden-Garcia, Rosa and the Peculiar Dream by Rosanne Jacks is a story that ... View Full Review
A sweet and cheerful illustrated 31 page children's book about purposefully trying to let go of your worries so that they don't hold you back. Pengwee the penguin wants to bake Ruby a birthday cake, but worries it won't be good enough, so doesn't get started on baking it, which is actually worse than trying and failing. The two friends go to visit Grandma Spice to ask for her help. She tells them that holding onto worries is like holding on to a smelly fish. It just gets smellier/ the worry just gets worse. The secret is to send the worry ... View Full Review
Like a modern take on The Breakfast Club, a group of students are brought together for an experiment and everything changes. Gathered in Room 359 of the underfunded Times Square Mariah Wilson Public School, eight students in detention are put into one last thirty day experiment in order to prove that they can change. Characters from different parts of school life: the boys who hacked the grading system, or made a viral game, to the girls who posted scathing reviews of her classmates online and influenced school policy without permission. Over their time in ‘Solitaria’ the students bond in ... View Full Review
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This is a unique 17 page illustrated children's book. Pablo the polar bear likes to wear pants! No-one else wears pants and all the other animals tell him that polar bears don't wear pants. They can't understand him. He doesn't care. And just continues to wear pants. A strange thing happens. Eventually everyone else decides to try wearing pants themselves! But Pablo is already onto his next new phase. He is wearing a monocle!
This story is humorous and entertaining. Each page has a wonderfully simple, yet effective illustration and the words are written in ... View Full Review
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A colourful picture book about kindness, resilience and friendship. Simmie is a spider with nine legs. He’s great at weaving things but the other spiders leave him out and all he wants is to make friends. Trying to be helpful and make friends with a family at a local park doesn’t initially go well, with the family yelling at him to go away. Upset but undeterred, Simmie continues to be his helpful self, creating things that will help the family until they realise what he was doing. This is an interesting story about ... View Full Review
Billed as a “critical and creative thinking book for every kind of mind”, Phil Weiss’ Think Like the D-Squad begins with an engaging “Not-so Typical Author’s Note” in which Weiss shares personal detail on how his premature sons, “two kids who weren’t supposed to survive”, grew up into “two young men who figured out how to think their way through a world that wasn’t designed for them”, and background on how he, diagnosed as autistic later in life, was written off in school despite playing ... View Full Review
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Return to Crouch end, an unusual corner of London for a magical story about believing in yourself and standing up to bullies. Peter is a 10 year-old boy who has a talent for writing and loves to run tirelessly around the park. However he is quiet and bullied at school, with his headteacher saying he needs to “learn to deal with this on his own”. While meeting his unusual neighbour Merlin, Peter is given a curious stone with special powers that could help him with his problems. The Tale Of The Boy ... View Full Review
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Melding history, mystery and magic, Alfie’s Gift opens with a direct address that invites readers to try to recognise themselves in the novel’s principle characters, with its Prologue posing an engaging thematic question (“Are you safe?”), both of which showcase how Alistair Rainey works to draw readers into his multi-dimensional story of finding courage. Alfie’s journey to bravery comes in the context of him being born premature, which resulted in his parents shielding him from “any hint of a dangerous situation”. Happily, though, even ... View Full Review
A gentle story with calming illustrations that turns the game of making pictures in the clouds into an encouragement to see the magic in the world around you. Ida is a daydreamer and loves to think up ideas, when Mr Lightning Strikes tasks her to put her daydreaming to good use and suggest ideas for the New Year party, Ida doesn’t disappoint. She suggests stopping time just long enough to create magical pictures in the sky that will have everyone on earth look up and marvel. The ambitious plan pays off and through the soft and calmly colourful ... View Full Review
A battle between good and evil takes place over the city zoo. Can four siblings help to save it from certain doom? Every four years there is a magic battle between good and evil. An ancient contest that gives the winners power to control the naughty kids and mischievous animals, which could be used to cause trouble around the world. This year that contest takes place at the City Zoo and the good witches, lead by Luna, and Bobby the wise Orangutan, decide it’s time to bring siblings Ania, Eada, George, and Conall in to help. The siblings ... View Full Review
A swashbuckling and confidence building adventure that pulls us into a world of sky pirates and on a treasure hunt. Chris and the Sky Pirates introduces us to Chris, a boy with cerebral palsy who is bullied at school for the way he walks. While trying to evade his bullies on the way home, he stumbles through a door that, in a Narnia-like fashion, transports him to a tavern filled with pirates. Still trying to hide lands him on a ship that sets sail to take part in The Great Hunt, Given the option to keep hiding or integrate with ... View Full Review
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Rose has a skill for getting into trouble, but when that skill leads her to a strange art forgery spotted on a school trip and a mystery tied to her grandmother, she’s compelled to keep investigating regardless of the danger. With her best friend Sally, they work to uncover theft and betrayals as they try to clear Rose’s grandmother’s name, but will the search for clues put their friendship at risk too?
This is a twisty, fast-paced mystery with short, easy to read chapters for independent readers. The writing ... View Full Review
