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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Dark Flood by Karon Alderman. Don’t you just love it when a random choice in the library turns out to be a...
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This week's Bookshelf Best is one which will stick with the reader a long time after closing the book. I know there have been many people...
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Mar 291 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is ' Blitz One Family’s War' by Martin Impey. This book is simply stunning! The grippingly detailed...
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Mar 231 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'The Middler' by Kirsty Applebaum. Maggie is a Middler. Living in Fennis Wick, protected by a boundary of...
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Mar 141 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Dragon Skin' by Karen Foxlee. Pip can’t quite believe her eyes when she finds a baby dragon at the...
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Mar 81 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Nell and the Cave Bear: The Journey Home' by Martin Brown. This is the sequel to the adorable Stone Age...
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Feb 281 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Skandar and the Skeleton Curse' by A.F. Steadman. The fourth book in the Skandar series reunites the...
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Feb 141 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Can You See Me?' by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott. Inspired by young coauthor Libby Scott's own...
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Feb 81 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Turtle Moon' by Hannah Gold. Having read all of Hannah Gold’s other books, I was delighted to find ‘Turtle...
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Feb 21 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Storm Child' by Ele Fountain. Maya Penrose loves her life: her surfing, her friends and their endless...
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Jan 261 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'The Wild Robot Protects' by Peter Brown. Safely back home with Brightbill on their beloved island, our...
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Jan 171 min read
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Escape From Pompeii
Welcome to our NEWLY UPDATED six-week fully resourced English planning based on Christina Balit’s ‘Escape From Pompeii’. Watch your...
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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This week's bookshelf best is 'The Voyage of the Sparrowhawk' by Natasha Farrant. Ben and Lottie - who are both desperate to escape the...
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Nov 9, 20241 min read
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The very next day after finishing ‘The Wild Robot’ I went out and found the sequel, ‘The Wild Robot Escapes’. The second book in the...
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Oct 26, 20241 min read
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Victorians Fully Resourced English Planning
When Ettie’s world gets turned upside down, she does everything she can to survive in Victorian London. Follow Ettie, and her brother...
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Oct 18, 20241 min read
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Discover the 'Bookshelf Best' with 'The Shark Caller' by Zillah Bethell. Join Blue Wing on a thrilling adventure of revenge and friendship.
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Oct 13, 20241 min read
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This week’s Bookshelf Best is The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.  I didn’t think it was possible to be completely taken by a lump of metal...
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Oct 6, 20241 min read
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It’s no wonder this stunningly illustrated book has just won the Klaus Flugge Prize. 'The Fossil Hunter' is easily our bookshelf best...
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Sep 26, 20241 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning based on an environmental novel
Times are tough for Cari and her mum. A violent storm has flooded the valley where they live, destroying their home and café...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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This week's Bookshelf Best is 'The Lost Whale' by Hannah Gold. When Rio’s mother knows she needs time and support to become well again,...
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Sep 19, 20241 min read
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