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1398248169 
Paperback 
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Raintree
Resource type: Physical
Note: Emma gets a bigger bike and can't wait to ride it, but when she falls off she's too scared to try it any more. When her best friend, Izzie, comes over for a bike ride, Emma uses her old bike. Emma needs to practise on her new big bike and gain confidence to ride again - even if it is scary.
024141749X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Ema Vaskova is the twelfth child in her family, born on the twelfth day, of the twelfth month, at the very moment Prague's Astronomical Clock strikes twelve. Right from the start, it is clear that Ema is not an ordinary child.
1782508325 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Floris Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Sam the dog helps his best friend to find happiness in this uplifting story about learning to live in the moment. Bursting with positivity and curious dog energy, this heartfelt book encourages all of us to be a little less sad and a little more dog!
1788956044 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Little Tiger Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Growing up, Astrid's big sister Cecilie was her whole world. But when Cecilie's anxiety threatens to swallow her whole, their dynamic shifts. Now Astrid must be the big sister and put her own life on hold to be by Cecilie's side. With Astrid's days becoming increasingly consumed by Cecilie's mental health and her guilt at not being able to help her sister more.
1474999271 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Alex Neptune is struggling to get to grips with his new oceanic powers - so the last thing he needs is Haven Bay being attacked by pirates in a ship made of rubbish. The marauders are hunting for the missing egg of the elusive water dragon - and Alex is determined to reach it first to stop them stealing its power.
1398248177 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Raintree
Resource type: Physical
Note: Emma enters a writing contest. She loves writing and is confident that she will win. But when that doesn't happen, will Emma want to keep writing? Emma is deaf and often uses sign language to communicate, and this early chapter book includes additional information about sign language perfect for young readers.
1444971778 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: A young boy and his older sister have left home to play a game. To win, she tells him, they must travel across endless lands together and make it to the finish line. Children they meet along the way imagine what might be waiting for them across the border: A spotted dog? Ice cream! Or maybe a new school. But the journey is difficult, and the monsters are more real than they imagined.And when it no longer feels like a game, the two children must still find a way to forge ahead, and reach the other side.
1526632225 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Hop into celebrations with the Bunny Adventures! We're going to a birthday party! Come and join the fun! Get ready to celebrate, and join the fun as four bunnies set off on an exciting lift-the-flap birthday adventure. With party hats, red balloons, birthday cake and lots of presents to find hidden under the flaps, it's an action-packed treasure hunt.
0241596114 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Billy and his friends know that Waterfall Woods is out of bounds; strange things are rumoured to have happened there and no one in their village has ventured past its walls for decades. But when they discover a secret way in, Billy and his best friends, Anna, Jimmy and Andy, can't resist the temptation to explore!
1804542849 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Zephyr
Resource type: Physical
Note: Tilly Redbrow lives, breathes and dreams horses. The only thing missing from life with her adoptive family is a pony of her own. But on the day Tilly helps rescue a terrified horse from the roadside, her dreams begin to come true. She quickly forms a special bond with Magic Spirit, the beautiful grey horse that is now being cared for at Silver Shoe Farm.
1474999239 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: For as long as Alex Neptune can remember, the ocean has been trying to kill him. So he's not too happy when a bunch of sea creatures drag him to the abandoned aquarium on the hill, where an imprisoned water dragon needs his help. But how can he say no to a magical myth?
1913311341 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Knights Of
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Women's World Cup is coming to California and with the U.S. playing China in the final, Mia Tang is feeling like her two identities are coming together. Less exciting is the fact that her P.E. teacher want her to go out and play football too.
0008506140 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Pigeon is extremely busy doing important things. Rushing here, rushing there. He has no time to stop, and he definitely doesn't have time to get lost. Luckily Mouse is on hand to help. Mouse is not busy. Mouse is not busy at all. Mouse has all the time in the world to admire and appreciate the world around him.
1839941758 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Ben loves flowers and Ben loves butterflies, so when his friends Worm and Ladybird suggest he makes his garden prettier by growing his own butterfly garden, he soon sets to work. Join Ben as he watches the flowers grow then discovers butterflies growing too, with four flaps to lift to see what's happening underground and an impressive pop-up surprise.
1915026237 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Chicken House
Resource type: Physical
Note: Scruffity is born into the harsh, grey world of a puppy farm, taken from his Mama. What he yearns for most is Family. Just as his chances of adoption grow dangerously thin, Scruffity is set free by a boy as unwanted and lonely as he is. Outside, Scruffity learns all about The Way of Dog - to dig, howl and, most of all, to love.
1445174480 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Resource type: Physical
Note: This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). 'Put it in the Bin!' features a little girl, Anna, who is very good at telling others to put their rubbish in the bin. But can she remember to do the same?
1913311384 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Knights Of
Resource type: Physical
Note: Maya's pet rabbit Pooey is missing! She needs to find her quick, before anyone notices, and she's got some very special help from Mind... but when things start to go wrong, can Maya and her Mind work together to save the day?
1398510920 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
Resource type: Physical
Note: Nora's mum has good days and bad days, but the bad days are getting worse. It's been just the two of them for always, and they don't need anyone else. When the rainbow-shimmering ghost animals Nora used to see when she was small start to reappear, she's convinced that they hold all the answers. Along with new friend Kwame, Nora follows a glittering ghostly fox, hare, raven and otter on the adventure of a lifetime, helping her to find the strength she needs to help her family.
1915244455 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Lantana Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: With disarming frankness, a young boy gives his perspective on several things the grown-ups running the country could do differently. His recommendations are both playful and profound. How much happier would we be if all the adults went to nursery once a month to remind themselves how to play?
071128301X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Happy Yak
Resource type: Physical
Note: Meet Steve, a rather - hot - cross bunny and his more positive pal, Nugget, a cute chick. Steve has failed to make any chocolate eggs for the Easter egg hunt. What is he going to do? Egged on by Nugget he decides to make an egg his own way. Not only is Steve's attempt egg-normous but it hatches a dragon!