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Finding Home: Amazing Places Animals Live
Mike Unwin, Jenni Desmond (illustrator)

Olivetti
by Allie Millington

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë

Akata Witch
by Nnedi Okorafor

No. 5 Bubblegum Street
Mikołaj Pa, Gosia Herba (illustrator), translated by Scotia Gilroy

The Lord of the Rings
by J R R Tolkien