Contents – Issue 30

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  1. You Didn’t Notice
    Ruby
  2. Being Shy
    Adriana
  3. We Live in a World
    Ruby McKie
  4. Winter and Spring 
    Tapiwa Mpedzisi
  5. A Name from a Book
    Sophie Nock
  6. 13 Snake Street, Turtle Town
    Malena Vazquez Bianchini
  7. Where Did Safari Go?
    Gia Oubhie
  8. Why My School is Monster School
    Bess Titchener
  9. Our Great Detective
    Sharlene Clement
  10. Stars
    Bethan Ellis
  11. Winter
    Lily Hughes
  12. Waiting
    Grace Sudlow
  13. The Olive Tree
    Amelie Edmondson
  14. Black Tom
    Liliwen Joy
  15. The Worst Children in the World
    Chimaobim Ajukwa
  16. I Saw the Bigfoot!
    Phoebe Hackett
  17. Where Do I Long to Be?
    Bronwen Holmes
  18. Family
    Philippa L
  19. Four Seasons
    Emma F
  20. The Secret is Just One Whisper Away… 
    Maryam Ahmed
  21. The Oak and the Dandelion
    Ahon Ganguly
  22. Winter’s Embrace
    Ayden Sukri
  23. Signs of Spring
    Rosalie W
  24. The Day After I Died
    Amelie Edmondson
  25. “Global Warming isn’t Real!”
    Ada Whitfield
  26. Burning Gardens and Broken Waterfalls
    David Obasan
  27. I am Great Britain
    Amelie Edmondson
  28. Small Things
    Ahon Ganguly
  29. No Man’s Land
    Ada Whitfield
  30. Bunny, Bunny You Are Cute
    Roslie W
  31. The Image She Took
    Ishani Patel
  32. Reflections in Our Time
    Simran Kaur
  33. A Determined Dreamer
    Liliwen Joy
  34. Pocket Lint
    Sophie Nock
  35. Paper Towns
    Ruby

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