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BIRCHBARK HOUSE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Erdrich, Louise
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16436 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 2 - ages 8 - 11 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
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The seasons come and go and every spring Omakayas and her family build themselves a new birchbark house, and leave it in the autumn. The year the white men come is one of heartbreak and omakayas is forced to grow up quickly.

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BORROWERS AFLOAT, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Norton, Mary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16140 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 3
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 3.50
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 2 - ages 8 - 11 years
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When their brief refuge in a gamekeeper's cottage is interrupted, the Borrowers are forced to take flight. But Arrietty is looking forward to the future whatever the danger.

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BREAD & SUGAR

\pause{1500}Author: O'Neill, Joan
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16463 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 4
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 2 - ages 8 - 11 years
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Book 2 in the 'Daisy Chain Trilogy'. Sequel to 'Daisy Chain War'. In 1948 John Doyle is settling into life at his grandparents' Dublin boarding house, but he desperately misses his father who is missing in action!

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COUNTING ON MY FINGERS

\pause{1500}Author: Gilbert, Frances
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16263 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 1
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.25
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 1 - up to 7 years
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Fun maths poems and rhymes.

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EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

\pause{1500}Author: Blundy, Anna
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6373 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 6.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Radio & TV Journalism
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Biography & Autobiography - General
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Anna Blundy received a telephone call in November 1989 to say that her father, foreign correspondent David Blundy, had been shot whilst reporting the war in El Salvador. In 1997 Anna, also a journalist, went to El Salvador to try to discover the truth of his death. She recalls her experiences in this moving portrait of a country and a man.

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HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Smith, Dodie
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6086 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 4.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Animals
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Cruella de Vil is delighted with the fifteen Dalmation puppies, and imagines them as a wonderful fur coat. Only Pongo and Missis can rescue the puppies when Cruella steals them!

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HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Smith, Dodie
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16289 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 4.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Animals
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Cruella de Vil is delighted with the fifteen Dalmation puppies, and imagines them as a wonderful fur coat. Only Pongo and Missis can rescue the puppies when Cruella steals them!

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KATE CATERINA

\pause{1500}Author: Riviere, William
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5983 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 13.50
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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After marrying an Italian medical student in the 1930's, Kate Fenton finds herself living in Tuscany during World War II. With her brother and brother-in-law in opposing armies and her husband imprisoned , her loyalties are divided.

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MINARET

\pause{1500}Author: Aboulela, Leila
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7546 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
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\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Najwa, an educated, upper class, westernised Sudanese woman finds herself in political exile in London, working as a cleaner. Her Muslim faith gives her solace, as well as a common bond with Tamer, as love begins to blossom.

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PIRATES!

\pause{1500}Author: Rees, Celia
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16495 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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When 16-year-old Nancy's brother plans to marry her off to a wealthy, evil man she runs away to join a pirate ship. Along with the runaway slave Minerva, she faces a series of adventures which portray the life of a pirate in the 18th Century.

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