|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though?
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|isbn=1788000269
|title=The Dragon in the Library
|author=Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=It is the start of the summer holidays and Kit has plans. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outside. Her friends, Josh and Alita, on the other hand, want to go to the library. Kit hates reading and can't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded to go with the others to the local library. Once there the children meet the librarian and Kit makes an incredible discovery; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incredibly, Kit is a wizard too and she and her friends have an important task. They must save the library…and save the world!
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1789016320
|title=Tadcaster and the Bullies
|author=Richard Rutherford
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=image:B01N0OZQOD
|title=Nickerbacher
|author=Terry John Barto
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008265836
|title=Rory Branagan Detective
|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0192758748
|title=Horace & Harriet Take on the Town
|author=Clare Elsom
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Saulles_Bee
|title=Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens
|author=Tony De Saulles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Young Mel's friend has left and the beehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Davidson_Night
|title=Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood
|author=Joshua Davidson
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion.
Joshua Davidson has written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to the character but this marks a new launch and a new series. This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to get children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes everything better.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Seuss_Read
|title=I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
|author=Dr Seuss
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=''The more that you read,''<br>
''The more things you will know.''<br>
''The more that you learn,''<br>
''The more places you'll go.''
This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of reading.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Neal_Words
|title=Words and Your Heart
|author=Kate Jane Neal
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to other people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Tavares_Red
|title=Red and Lulu
|author=Matt Tavares
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple of cardinals and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the tree thy leaves are so unchanging. But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it…
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Dickens_Search
|title=Search and Find A Christmas Carol
|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott
|rating=3.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Recently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a fictional story. They've started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, and one that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the rich content of Dickens, even at his most populist, survive this quirky variation?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Seuss_Eggs
|title=Scrambled Eggs Super
|author=Dr Seuss
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Best'' capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is scrambled eggs. You might think that's quite an easy dish, one with which it's a little hard to showcase one's prowess, but not so. For Peter T. Hooper, what makes his scrambled eggs so super is the choice of the egg itself, and he will go out of his way to procure the best of the best from whatever nest.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Seuss_Yertle
|title=Yertle The Turtle and Other Stories
|author=Dr Seuss
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=The three stories in this book, ''Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz'' and ''The Big Brag'' are classic Dr Seuss. They fit together well because they all have a moral or learning from them, be it treat those beneath you well, or don't try to compare yourself to others.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Smith_Penguin
|title=Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure
|author=Alex T Smith
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Mr Penguin is a brand new ''Professional Adventurer''. He has a dashing hat, a large magnifying glass and an important-looking office in his igloo to prove it. All he needs now is an adventure to go on. Just as he is beginning to despair of ever being asked to solve a mystery Boudicca Bones from the museum phones and asks for help. Can he and his trusty sidekick, Colin (the spider with expertise in martial arts!) find her missing treasure? Will the adventure become too dangerous for them? And will Mr Penguin ever have time to eat his fish finger sandwich packed lunch?
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|isbn=1609809335
|title=The Lizard by Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)
|author=Author
|rating=2
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1788000269
|title=The Dragon in the Library
|author=Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=It is the start of the summer holidays and Kit has plans. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outside. Her friends, Josh and Alita, on the other hand, want to go to the library. Kit hates reading and can't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded to go with the others to the local library. Once there the children meet the librarian and Kit makes an incredible discovery; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incredibly, Kit is a wizard too and she and her friends have an important task. They must save the library…and save the world!
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|isbn=image:B01N0OZQOD
|title=Nickerbacher
|author=Terry John Barto
