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My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright

May 1, 2009 /in Non Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…secret diary, itself a precious gift from Miss Joan up at the Big House, records the daily events, hopes and fears of Flossie Albright, nine years old at the outset…

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It’s a Secret!

September 1, 2009 /in Fiction 5-8 Infant/Junior

…Elaine and her cat Malcolm. What happens cannot be set down here because, of course, it is a secret, but what can be pointed to is the relaxed, unpretentious way…

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Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor

March 22, 2022 /in Fiction 5-8 Infant/Junior

…inventions. These range from an electric, sock-sorting octopus, to the X Lox which can crack any door code. But most impressive of all is her latest top-secret invention ‘The Switcheroo’,…

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The Secret of Splint Hall

March 10, 2022 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary World War II, dragons

…things but still scarred by the brutality of what they’d lived through, represented here by a constant fear of unexploded bombs; for another, the secret of Splint Hall is much…

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Flember: The Secret Book

September 1, 2019 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…consequences. Think the sorcerer’s apprentice, and, worse still, think Dr. Frankenstein. Dev, from the very best intentions, and with the help of a long lost secret book, harnesses Flember to…

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The Secret Fire

September 5, 2015 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

‘Jump!’ There’s a super-dramatic opening to The Secret Fire: Sacha, cocky, French, reckless to an extraordinary degree, voluntarily jumps from the top of a five storey building for a bet….

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Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep

March 5, 2016 /in Picture Book Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant

A lullaby without the music is this soporific offering wherein a small bear is gently lulled to sleep by his family members. His Mummy tells him there is ‘no secret…

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Adelaide’s Secret World

March 5, 2017 /in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior

…her pictures are an exquisite mix of colour and movement, each spread filled with drama and emotion and there is so much for readers to discover in Adelaide’s secret world,…

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The Secret of the Night Train

May 1, 2018 /in Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle

…train could it be? Sylvie Bishop is fast making her name as a creator of lively, quirky adventures and The Secret of the Night Train will only help to confirm…

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The Secret Explorers and the Comet Collusion

January 1, 2021 /in Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle

The Secret Explorers are a team of young adventurers that every child would love to join. After exciting encounters with dinosaurs and with Egyption tombs, this episode sees two of…

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The Secret Runners of New York

November 1, 2019 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…share a secret, passed down through the Collins family; for just a couple of years, when they are between 17 and 19, they have the means to access an ancient…

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The Secret Dog

September 5, 2015 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…and nurse her back to health. He calls the puppy Reggae, after his mother’s favourite kind of music, and finds a way to look after her in secret. He hatches…

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The Wonder Garden

November 5, 2015 /in Non Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle

…into five exciting ‘wonder gardens’. These ‘gardens’ are the Amazon Rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef, the Chihuahuan Desert, the Black Forest and the Himalayas. The plants, flowers, animals, birds and…

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The Wall and the Wild

November 19, 2021 /in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior

Young Ana grows a garden, a perfect, tidy garden, the complete opposite of the adjacent wild into which she throws her excess seeds. Between the wild and her bourgeoning garden…

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An Elephant in the Garden

September 1, 2010 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

Morpurgo creates an incident packed story about the bombing of Dresden in 1944, using a favourite theme of an animal’s involvement in a war. This time it is Marlene, the…

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Dragonkeeper: Garden of the Purple Dragon

July 18, 2007 /in Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle

Readers who enjoyed Wilkinson’s earlier novel, Dragonkeeper, will no doubt be happy to return to the familiar setting, characters and themes of her sequel. Once again, we are taken back…

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Young Gardener

May 3, 2007 /in Non Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle

…in the garden?’, ‘What’s happening to the plants?’, ‘What can I do in the garden?’ and ‘Make it!’ (something you can – er – make). Logical, plausible and utterly neat;…

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My First Book of Garden Birds

September 1, 2006 /in Non Fiction 5-8 Infant/Junior

A delightful first introduction to common birds and how to identify them. Artwork is used here rather than photography. At first glance it would be easy to dismiss the soft…

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