This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Jacqueline Wilson
The Worst Thing About My Sister
The Worst Thing About My Sister
Jacqueline Wilson
Best-selling Jacqueline Wilson understands perfectly how the needle sharp jealousy of sisters is matched only by the strength of their...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Best Friends
Best Friends
Jacqueline Wilson
This is a real heart warming story that will trigger many thoughts in a young child’s mind – both sadness...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2005
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The Longest Whale Song
The Longest Whale Song
Jacqueline Wilson
Best-selling Jacqueline Wilson captures a welter of emotions in this heart-rending story of how Ella copes when her mother is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Dare Game
The Dare Game
Jacqueline Wilson
 Tracy Beaker is back! Still living with Cam, her wonderful foster mother, Tracy’s behaviour has not improved! Skipping school, she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2006
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Girls in Tears
Girls in Tears
Jacqueline Wilson
Yet again Jacqueline Wilson captures the childhood issues of growing up, both emotional and physical.  Her characters and the friendships...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2005
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Hetty Feather
Hetty Feather
Jacqueline Wilson
Best-selling author Jacqueline Wilson shows that her story-telling touch is just as sure when she turns to history as it...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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This month's 'featured books'
Simon and Alex Scarrow
Day of the Predator (Time Riders Book 2)
Day of the Predator (Time Riders Book 2)
Alex Scarrow
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Lovers of time travelling adventure will be mesmerised by this second title...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Gladiator 2 : Street Fighter
Gladiator 2 : Street Fighter
Simon Scarrow
A second thrilling adventure for young Marcus, now perfecting his gladiatorial skills with further training in the palace of Julius...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The Eternal War (Time Riders Book 4)
The Eternal War (Time Riders Book 4)
Alex Scarrow
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/07/2011
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Gates of Rome (Time Riders Book 5)
Gates of Rome (Time Riders Book 5)
Alex Scarrow
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Time Riders (Book 1)
Time Riders (Book 1)
Alex Scarrow
Galaxy Children's Book Award shortlist 2010. This is a thrilling action adventure which hurtles across time and place at breakneck speed....
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Doomsday Code (Time Riders Book 3)
The Doomsday Code (Time Riders Book 3)
Alex Scarrow
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 This spectacular time travel series from the pen of Alex Scarrow just gets...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
One Cool Cat
One Cool Cat
Susannah Corbett
Meet One Cool Cat. He’s got it all: the swagger, the looks, the coolness, so what else could he possibly need?...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Katy's Wild Foal (Katy's Ponies)
Katy's Wild Foal (Katy's Ponies)
Victoria Eveleigh
How Katy discovers a newborn Exmoor foal on her birthday and persuades her family that she can look after it...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Gregor and the Marks of Secret
Gregor and the Marks of Secret
Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Marks of Secret by Suzanne Collins - the author of the blockbusting Hunger Games – is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Goat Goes to Playgroup
Goat Goes to Playgroup
Julia Donaldson
Playgroup has begun. Time to have some fun. A comforting story for any child starting at, or already attending, a playgroup. Perfect...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2012
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Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Clare Beaton
Classic bedtime rhymes for small children, including favourites like ‘I See the Moon’, ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ and ‘Brahms’ Lullaby’. Soothing poems have...
Format: Board book - Released: 01/01/2012
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Pendragon Legacy: Sword of Light
Pendragon Legacy: Sword of Light
Katherine Roberts
A cracking page-turning adventure that brings a new twist on Arthurian legend.  The future of Camelot is in the hands...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2012
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This month's 'featured books'
Ebooks
David
David
Mary Hoffman
Art, politics and romance are brilliantly explored in this enthalling story of how a young man’s face became one of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Mortal Chaos
Mortal Chaos
Matt Dickinson
'The Butterfly Effect' - otherwise known as the scientific theory that a single occurrence, no matter how small, can change...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Olympic Poems - 100% Unofficial!
Olympic Poems - 100% Unofficial!
Brian Moses, Roger Stevens
All the excitement of the big games – and smaller ones too – is captured in this anthology of poems...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
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The Poodle Problem
The Poodle Problem
Anna Wilson
Welcome to the Pooch Parlour: where pampered pet salon meets canine detective agency! First in the Pooch Parlour series.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
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Mice
Mice
Gordon Reece
Sixteen-year-old Shelley tells this dark and gripping story. Bullied so badly at school that she has to leave and surviving...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Carrie's War
Carrie's War
Nina Bawden
Chosen by Jacqueline Wilson, February 2012 Guest Editor: "This is a very touching utterly convincing book about three wartime evacuees billeted...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 28/10/1993
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This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
Nature Mage
Nature Mage
Duncan Pile
This is an exciting new fantasy series that fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Septimus Heap will absolutely love...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2011
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Socks Are Not Enough
Socks Are Not Enough
Mark Lowery
A piece of Passion from the Publisher: We at Scholastic Children’s Books are very proud to be publishing Socks Are Not...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Someone Else's Life
Someone Else's Life
Katie Dale
A totally gripping roller-coaster of a story about family secrets, relationships and deceit.  It's Jodi Picoult for teens and a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The Other Life
The Other Life
Susanne Winnacker
Beautifully formed and gut-wrenchingly gripping, this is essential reading.  Here at Lovereading we're glad to see the back of too...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
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