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September's Recommended Reads

Our librarians have picked out some more cracking reads to keep both pupils and parents entertained.

Age 3+
Spaghetti With The Yeti by Adam & Charlotte Guillain

George is off on an adventure - to find the yeti and to feed it spaghetti! George travels along a little mountain path and meets all kinds of creatures on his way - there's Betty, Hetty and Netty - before he even gets to see the yeti! George's story is told in a jaunty text matched by vigorous illustrations.

Age 5-7
The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers

Debut author Drew Daywalt and international bestseller Oliver Jeffers team up to create a colourful solution to a crayon-based crisis in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.

Age 8-10
Demon Dentist by David Walliams

Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find... a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow.
Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it...?

Age 11-13
Middle School: How I survived Bullies, Broccoli and Snake Hill by James Patterson

Fourth in the hit series from the world's top selling author.  Rafe is geared up for fun at summer camp.  Oops - did someone say summer school camp?

Age 14-16
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher

Killing. Guilt.  Getting away with it.  Zoe shares her secret tale of lies and murder with a killer on Death Row in this shocking and unique young adult novel.

Adult
Bridget Jones - Mad About The Boy by Helen Fielding
With her hotly anticipated third instalment, Fielding introduces us to a whole new enticing phase of Bridget's life set in contemporary London, including the nightmare of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous email cc, total lack of twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.