Where the River Takes Us by Lesley Parr (FJ PAR)

It’s 1974 and Jason, age thirteen, is worried. His older brother
Richie is doing his best, but ever since their parents died,
money is a real struggle and Richie keeps on getting into
trouble. One thing that helps distract Jason is the urban
legend about a beast in the Welsh valleys. It is a wildcat that
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Jason's friends learn of a reward for proof of The Beast's
existence, they convince Jason this is the answer to his and
Richie's money problems. Richie can get himself out of
trouble and the brothers can stay together.

Influential by Sage Amara (FJ AMA)

Almond Brown has no friends in real life ... but 3.5
million followers online. She was put in the spotlight
when she was just a perfectly filtered bump: her mum
has been documenting their family through social media
since before she was born. And they all enjoy the rewards
that come from that level of influence. Only, it's not the
life Almond would have chosen for herself, and being on a
platform all the time has made her anxious and insecure.
When the darkest side of the internet begins to haunt her,
Almond feels like she's going to lose everything. If only she
could see that she has a real-life, too, full of friends and
family who love her, and that it could save her.

Ausländer by Paul Dowswell (FJ DOW)

When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in
Warsaw. With his blond hair, blue eyes, and acceptably
proportioned head, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler-
Jugend poster - and someone important will surely want to
adopt him. Professor Kaltenbach is very pleased to welcome
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such a fine Aryan specimen to his household. But Peter is

forming his own ideas about what he is seeing and being
told. He doesn't want to be a Nazi, and so he is going to
take the most dangerous risk a boy could possibly choose
to take in Berlin in 1942.

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander (FJ ALE)

Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its
whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has
heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, where he
lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, a girl
named Ama, swimming, and the fireside tales of his
grandfather. When a sudden death occurs during a festival
Cripps between rival villages,Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What
happens next will send him on a frightening journey across
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dreams may be the key to his freedom...
 Can You Get Rainbows in Space? by Dr Sheila Kanani
(535 KAN)
Why are carrots orange? Is the sky really blue? Who invented
the lightbulb? And what is ultraviolet light? Answers are here
with other science facts about colour. We'll talk about light
(the most important thing) and waves (not the kind you see
Book Blast at the beach - though you will learn why the sea looks blue!).
You'll find out how some animals are able to glow in the
dark and how others change their colours to hide. Keep
reading to discover why leaves change colour in the
autumn, why your veins look blue but your blood is red.
And you'll learn exactly how to make a rainbow - in space.

Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker (784.5 COC)

When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds
a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask
him some awkward questions: Are clothes important?
Why are there so many pairs of broken glasses up here?
From a Gold Star shirt to a pack of Wrigley's Extra, his
teenage songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke
Book, this is the evidence of Jarvis's life, Pulp, pop
culture, the good times and the mistakes, revealing his
creative process: writing and musicianship, performance
and ambition, style and stagecraft

Poverty in a Rising Africa by Kathleen Beegle (339.4 BEE)

Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa
should have brought substantial improvements in well-being.
But whether they did, remains unclear given the poor quality
of the data, the nature of the growth process - especially the
role of natural resources - the conflicts that affect parts of
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the region, and the high population growth. The book

documents the data challenges and reviews the evidence
on poverty from monetary and nonmonetary perspectives
and focuses on dimensions of inequality.

Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery

by Andrew Nairne & Eliza Spindel Britt (738.092)
Lucie Rie (1902–1995) is one of the finest modern
potters of the 20th century. Born and trained in
Vienna, her successful early career came to a halt in
1938 when forced to leave Austria to escape
September persecution of Jewish people. In London, Rie established
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2019 a new workshop and over five decades created highly
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individual bowls, vases and tableware which continue to
amaze and inspire today.
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Exhibition at Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge.