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<h1 style="line-height: 1.5;">Summer Reading Challenge 2025: Story Garden</h1>
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This year's Summer Reading Challenge starts on the 5th July. Explore the magical connection between storytelling and the natural world with this year&rsquo;s theme: Story Garden &ndash; Adventures in Nature and the Great Outdoors.
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Available for free in public libraries and online, the Summer Reading Challenge helps children stay engaged with reading during the summer holidays. Partcipants can discover new books, earn rewards, and enjoy nature-inspired events and actvities.
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Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profession, De Quincey describes his addiction, the consciousness altering properties of the drugs, its pleasures and its pains.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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