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Judith Kerr
June 2013 Book of the Month All fans of the creator of classics such as When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and The Tiger Who Came to Tea will be delighted by this rich autobiography told in Judith Kerr’s own words...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Philip Ardagh
June 2013 Book of the Month The Grunts, a family of doubtful charm to whom extraordinary and mostly disgusting things happen, are back for a fabulous new adventure. Everything that is revolting is crammed into this hilarious new story as...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Elen Caldecott
June 2013 Book of the Month A warm, funny adventure about sticking up for your friends from this hugely popular author and as usual all told with Elen Caldecott's trademark wit.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Lauren Child
June 2013 Book of the Month The second book in the Ruby series which follows the adventures of Ruby, a genius code-breaker, daring detective and gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. Ruby and her slick...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Lucinda Hare
June 2013 Book of the Month Spread your wings and hang on tightly as mighty Stormcracker takes you on a roller-coaster ride across the Old Wall and into the frozen north where you can slide down the ice flumes to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2012
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Ali Sparkes
This is a action packed,science fiction story about a boy with super-powers. With a streak of the supernatural running through it, which will greatly appeal to this award-winning novelist's existing fans and new readers alike. This is a prequel to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Michaela Clarke
June 2013 Debut of the Month An exciting adventure story about a circus boy and his tiger, Emira. When Emira is stolen, Sharat is desperate to find her and embarks on a dangerous quest to get her back. The novel will...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Judith Kerr
This unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing Germany before the Second World War, is now available in a special hardback edition to celebrate the 90th birthday of its author Judith Kerr, with a reproduction of the original illustrated cover.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/06/2013
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Anthony Horowitz
This is a new paperback issue of the first book in the bestselling fantasy series The Power of Five by Anthony Horowitz. A sinister and incredibly atmospheric story of the supernatural; first of five in the Power of Five series....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2013
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Garth Nix, Sean Williams
There’s a new fantastical adventure for twins Jack and Jaide, both of whom have special troubletwister powers. Having seen off the Evil once, they now look set for another round of adventures as a new threat is posed when the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2012
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Soman Chaniani
A dark, enchanting fairytale, complete with two extraordinary heroines on a wild and dangerous adventure - perfect for girls who prefer their fairytales with a twist.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Christopher William Hill
Macabre and gruesome and wickedly funny, this is dark story of one boy’s determined quest to destroy those who have hurt him and his family. When Osbert wins a coveted place at the prestigious Institute he uncovers every kind of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Cathy Cassidy
Horse-mad Coco is the youngest of the sisters in the family. Different from all the others, she is a tomboy at heart and passionate about saving the endangered species of the world. Coco’s main passion is for riding and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Julia Green
A heartwarming story about a girl and her love for a puppy, a perfect choice for animal lovers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with black and white drawings. One puppy with the wild in his eyes. One girl longing to care for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2013
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Janet Hoggarth
Both funny and sad, Gaby's Angel is a touching story about friendship and loss between two girls - Gaby and Emily, one of whom appears to return as a Guardian Angel and helps Gaby to realise that she can survive...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2013
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Guy Bass
Created by a mad professor Stitch Head is no ordinary boy and his life is very far from ordinary! In this new madcap adventure, Stitch Head finds himself in a tricky spot as he tries to rescue Arabella from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2013
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J. L. Smith
For fans of Wimpy Kid comes a side-splittingly funny new series following mischievous gang The Abominators and their unlikely sidekick, posh boy Cecil Trumpington-Potts. A small number of our readers were lucky...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/01/2013
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Eleanor Hawken
A chilling page-turner for all those who like a school story with a difference. A school with a dark past provides a troubled environment for new girl Frankie...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Kimberly Newton Fusco
A debut of enormous charm about a lonely orphan named Bee who escapes a travelling carnival in the company of a small, equally lonely dog. She and the dog are taken in by two women and to Bee these women...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Ali Sparkes
A page-turning mystery-adventure with a pleasingly old-fashioned feel as two children, frozen by cryonic suspension by their father in 1956, are miraculously brought back to life by two other children in 2009. There are loads of clues to follow and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Andrea Pinnington, Caz Buckingham
A highly original collection of nature-based activities to inspire a love of the outdoors from an early age. Get Out! is bursting with life and will keep children amused for hours as they solve, colour, draw, find and guess their...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2013
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Wendy Meddour
Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2013 and one of Julia Eccleshare’s Stand-out Children’s Book of the Year 2012 Witty and warm-hearted, this is a delightful family story spiced with adventure. Everything is distinctly not normal in Ramzi’s house....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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R. J. Palacio
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Award Best Fiction for 5-12s 2013 and Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013 January 2013 Debut of the Month Frank, powerful, warm and often heart-breaking, Wonder is a book you'll read in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2013
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Ali Sparkes
Book 3 in the superb Unleashed series about a group of children with supernatural powers.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Sue Graves, Kim Blundell
When Sir Kevin graduates from Knight School, he is very keen to find a job where he can do lots of brave and knightly deeds. One day, he spots an advertisement in the newspaper inviting knights to apply for the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2012
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Victoria Eveleigh
Here at Lovereading4kids we're very excited to see Joe and the Hidden Horseshoe, the first in a new series from Victoria Eveleigh whose Katy's Ponies trilogy continues to be a huge hit with pony fans. We're excited, not just because...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Terry Deary
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8 Best-known for his Horrible Histories, Terry Deary has an exceptional ability to bring the past to life. Here, in two short stories with a sporting theme set in the Second World War, he tells...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2013
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Jeremy Strong
Interest age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ Best-selling Jeremy Strong tells a dramatic story of a monkey on the loose. When Chuckle Bob escapes from the pet shop, he has no idea just how difficult it is to live on his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2013
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Joanna Nadin
Laugh-out-loud with the delightful and aptly named Penny Dreadful! Every child who has felt that awful things just unexpectedly happen around them will love Penny and catastrophes that she just can’t help! And none of them are her fault,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2013
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J. L. Smith
The second book in this hilarious new series following mischievous gang The Abominators and their unlikely sidekick, posh boy Cecil Trumpington-Potts. We asked a few lucky readers to review the first in the Abominators series - click here to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Anne Fine
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 7 Award-winning Anne Fine takes a subtle look at what bravery really is in this touching story about a boy who has only one ambition in life: to join the Army. Tom struggles with learning...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2013
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Rachel Renee Russell
The Dork Diaries series is all about friendship, fun and embracing your inner you. Aimed at the 9+reader this 6th instalment tackles tween issues all in a light-hearted way. Written in diary style with illustrations throughout The Dork Diaries have...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Janis Mackay
A pacy, time-travelling adventure from the award-winning author Janis Mackay (Magnus Fin series). Agatha Black has somehow time-travelled from 1812 to 2012 and Saul and his friends need to find a way to return her home. Filled with funny...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/02/2013
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Darren Shan
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8 A tale full of wonder from the master story-telling Darren Shan! Hagurosan is sent by his mother to take an offering of cake to the spirits of the shrine. Feeling peckish on his way...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2013
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Rachel Billington
Winner of the 2013 Leeds Book Awards 9-11 age category This is an accomplished and perceptive story of a feisty, yet angry and bewildered girl as she deals with the pain of her dad's downfall when he goes to prison. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Garth Nix, Sean Williams
Two best-selling authors have teamed up to create this highly inventive, fast-paced new series. When twins Jack and Jaide receive a strange letter from Grandma X, a Grandma they have never heard of, they have little idea that they are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2011
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Garth Nix, Sean Williams
The Mystery is the third title in this widely accesssible, action packed adventure series, Troubletwisters. With fantasy and magic and high-octane action this will appeal to fans of Percy Jackson and Harry Potter. It works well as a stand-alone...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2013
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Alex Woolf
Written in a wonderfully eloquent style, this is a ghost story full of scares and psychic phenomena. Aldo Moon is a foundling with a mysterious past and emerging psychic abilities. Together with his assistants, Lily Morelle, a science-mad practical girl and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2013
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Scott Bedford
Made by Dad combines the rough-edged, handmade ethos of a Boy Scout manual or The Dangerous Book for Boys together with the sly sense of humour that children love. It's amazing what you can do with markers, cardboard, glue, a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2013
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Betty G. Birney
Humphrey, everyone’s favourite hamster, has loads of fun puzzles and riddles for all of his friends. Enjoy a summer of fun away from the classroom with Humphrey to lend a hand!
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Steve Cole
May 2013 Book of the Month A comic strip comes to life with the help of some magic ink... a hilarious adventure that could only have come from the madcap mind of Mr Steve Cole, bestselling author of Astrosaurs, Cows...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
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Tim Lott
June 2013 Book of the Month This cleverly constructed story is about 13 year old Strato who suddenly finds that he can become invisible. Recently moved to a new school where he stands out for knowing more about particle physics...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Jacqueline Wilson
May 2013 Book of the Month A funny, moving and heart-warming story of four children who discover a way to make wishes come true. Echoing the classic E Nesbit novel, Five Children and It, this new story from this...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
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Terry Jones
April 2013 Book of the Month The fantastically brilliant and amazingly adventurous Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones returns in this 30th anniversary edition with an exclusive foreword from Terry who is of course, most famous for his...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 21/03/2013
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Meaghan McIssac
An incredible, heart-breaking debut Urgle is a gripping, imaginative debut, with a world comparable to Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking trilogy. Heart-warming but completely gripping action-adventure for readers of 10+. In addition to our...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini
May 2013 Debut of the Month Hold onto your hats. Acclaimed film director, producer and screenwriter Chris Columbus has swapped the big screen for books with House of Secrets, the first book in a brand new trilogy, which he has...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 25/04/2013
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Veronica Cossanteli
May 2013 Debut of the Month A riotous debut novel in which all kinds of very unlikely things happen to likeable George when he takes on a job at Wormestall Farm. It’s a job with a difference - and it comes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2013
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Eva Ibbotson
Award-winning Eva Ibbotson’s charming fantasy about the rescue of an entertaining family group of Yeti and their transportation from the Himalayan Mountains to England in a frozen food lorry is touching, tender and very funny. It also carries a strong...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Dawn Casey
This stunning collection of stories from around the world, which celebrate the importance of the world we live in, is supported by inspiring hands-on activities to encourage all to protect and preserve our world as much as we are able....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2013
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Pippa Goodhart
This is a gripping story of a young girl's adventure following her mother's death, as she travels with her grandfather in pursuit of gold from Victorian England in 1898 to the gold rush in Klondike, north west Canada. Combining...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman
This is the second in a terrific adventure series from the pen of John Barrowman (of Torchwood fame) and his sister Carole. Bone Quill continues the story begun in Hollow Earth about twins Matt and Em Calder. They are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Philip Caveney
This action-packed adventure is perfect for all those who have imagined what space might be like. The launch party for a space adventure movie Space Blasters goes bizarrely wrong when Mr Lazarus, the mysterious man who has helped Kip and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Steve Backshall
Wildlife specialist Steve Backshall, presenter of the Award winning TV show Deadly, brings the threat tigers are under sharply into focus in this thrilling eco-adventure. Saker and Sinter are two teenagers on the run from the Clan, a brotherhood into...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
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Sable Hamilton
Welcome to Stardust Stables - the stunt horseriding school where only daredevil riders need apply!Alisa struggles to deal with her co-rider Sophie, who seems hell-bent on ruining everything for her. This is the second in the series which has already...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2013
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Mark Walden
Shortlisted for the 2013 Leeds Book Award - June 2012 Book of the Month. Rich in dazzlingly but sinister technology with Grendels, Drones and Hunters on the attack, this headlong adventure of how a group of kids fight against it...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Sarah Garland
Azzi and her parents are in danger. They have to leave their home and escape to another country on a frightening journey by car and boat. In the new country they must learn to speak a new language, find a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 18/06/2012
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Conrad Mason
'We're the Demon's Watch, son. Protectors of Port Fayt. Scourge of all sea scum. Don't tell me you've never heard of us?' Half-goblin boy Joseph Grubb lives in Fayt, a bustling trading port where elves, trolls, fairies and humans live...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Charlotte Haptie
Delilah Smart is just an ordinary child who wants to have a normal childhood, but her parents have other plans. They are determined that she wins the Worldwide Junior Extreme General Knowledge Competition and in order to achieve this Delilah...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Kaye Umansky
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ This wonderfully witchy story from best-selling author Kaye Umansky gives a new gloss to the story of Hansel and Gretel. This time, it is told by the witch herself.Having just won the Wickedest Witch Contest,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
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Mary Hooper
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ When Fudge, or Fiona to call her by her real name, buys a little box at a jumble sale for her dad’s birthday she has no idea what she is getting! But this is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
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Annie Dalton
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ The magical healing power of stories lies at the heart of this touching book. Mia feels trapped in the wrong story. She wants to leave the foster home and get back to her own...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
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William Osborne
Shortlisted for the 2013 Leeds Book Award - May 2012 Debut of the Month. A gripping World War Two adventure which goes behind the scenes of the more familiar stories. When two children are recruited for a mission by...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Kaye Umansky
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ Snow White’s wickedest stepmother is one of the darkest characters in fiction and here she is shown in the very blackest light of all. In a savagely witty contemporary voice, the wicked stepmother tells...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
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Karen Mccombie
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ Brilliantly observed, this is a thoughtful story about truth and friendship. Tilly’s thrilled by her new friendship with Mia; she is chatty and funny and soon the two of them are Best Friends Forever –...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
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Anne-Marie Conway
Sunny Spain and two girls meet on holiday and strike up an instant friendship. But all is not as it seems for both their dads have mysteriously disappeared as they arrive on holiday. There's a dark secret at the heart...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2013
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Ellen Richardson
The stage is set, the crowds are gathering, and the microphones are on ... It's the Sunday Island Music Festival and Elly, Tash, and Sierra have formed a band and are entering a competition to perform onstage with the top-secret...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver
Henry ‘The Fonz’ Winkler adds a new title to his best-selling Hank Zipzer series. Hank does not want to spend his summer in Summer School. That’s no holiday! Instead, he wants to go to the Junior Explorer’s Program and it...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman
Hollow Earth is the first in a fantasy adventure series from bestselling brother and sister team, John and Carole E. Barrowman. Twins, Matt and Emily Calder, have extraordinary powers - they are Animare which means they can bring art to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Megan Rix
April 2013 Book of the Month London in the Blitz is not a place for dogs! With bombs dropping and building collapsing, nowhere is safe. But Bark and Howl, two puppies born on the London underground know little else. Lost...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Michelle Paver
Shortlisted for the 2013 Leeds Book Award - September 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. By the best-selling author of Wolf Brother, Gods and Warriors is this year's most hotly anticipated children's novel. The first book in a breathtaking adventure...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 28/08/2012
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Angie Sage
This wonderful series, of which this is the first, features the magic of Harry Potter and some similar imaginative characters of Artemis Fowl. 10 year olds will enjoy the world of the Heap family just as much as adults and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2006
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Eoin Colfer
April 2013 Book of the Month Best-selling Eoin Colfer whose Artemis Fowl series gave the fairy world a brilliant makeover will enthral his readers with this action packed and gadget rich new series. Riley is a Victorian orphan, Chevie Sevano...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 11/04/2013
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Angie Sage
Utterly spellbinding, fast-paced, laugh-out-loud funny and brilliantly plotted, this is the second in the Septimus Heap series, the fantastical adventure that is gripping the nation post Harry Potter. We asked a number of teenagers to review the first in the Septimus Heap series...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2007
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Piers Torday
April 2013 Debut of the Month Do not miss this magical and astounding debut: The Last Wild by Piers Torday (yes mums and dads, his Dad Paul wrote Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) - a wonderfully imaginative tale of magical...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 28/03/2013
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Elon Dann
April 2013 Debut of the Month Debut novel from a highly creative UK author with an ingenious imagination...like the prison-break movie The Shawshank Redemption for young readers. This is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Angie Sage
Packed with heart-stopping action and endless wit as well as brilliant characters, this novel continues the magical Septimus Heap series. The author opens up an array of dazzling and bewitching worlds that will get your imagination running wild and racing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2008
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John Boyne
Shortlisted for the Little Rebel Children's Book Award 2013. In an entertaining adventure that is also full of charm and whimsy, best-selling author John Boyne champions the right of children to be different. Barnaby Brocket’s parents want only thing – to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/03/2013
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Eoin Colfer
This is bestselling master storyteller Eoin Colfer, who set readers alight with his first title about Artemis Fowl, a young criminal mastermind who was more than a bit mixed up with the fairy world. Still working with the fairy world,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Ronald Welch
This Carnegie Medal-winning classic tale tells the story of Philip d'Aubigny, the knight crusader. From his first battle against the mighty Saladin's army to a victorious crusade alongside Richard the Lionheart ... it's a dangerous and thrilling life and one...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Rosemary Sutcliff
An exciting historical adventure about a boy who has to fend for himself after his father and brother are killed by Saxon warriors at the great battle of Aquae Sulis. Rosemary Sutcliff in one of the best-loved writers of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Mark Boyd
This practical introduction to all kinds of wildlife will give young readers a useful way in to looking more carefully at the world around them. Whether you live in the town or the country, there are opportunities to look at...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Out and About
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/03/2013
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Chris Stone
Hey Presto! is a book full to the rafters with simple magic tricks, a perfect pocket sized companion for a beginner as well as a wonderful gift book for those wishing to get into magic and are not sure how....
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Kate Pankhurst
Mariella Mystery is back for a second adventure when things begin to go very wrong indeed in the finals of the Bake or Break junior competition. In her files, Mariella records all the skullduggery of the competition and her quest...
Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Tracey Corderoy
Lemony Snicket fans will love the delightful Crumb children and the incredible inventions their father has created around them. With so much imagination around them, there’s never a dull moment in the Crumb household. And that’s especially true when they...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2013
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Barbara Mitchelhill
Victorian London provides a dramatic backdrop for this dramatic story about a much changed life for Sam, Eliza and Alfie Pargeter. The children have always lived a happy life in the country with their parents but, when their father takes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Kate Pankhurst
April 2013 Book of the Month Wittily told in words and pictures, Mariella Mystery, a totally amazing nine year detective, sets about following clues in an entertaining and action packed adventure. No mystery is too complex for Mariella...and this time,...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Colin Meloy
A sequel to the best-selling Wildwood, this sees its heroine Prue McKeel miserable back at home after her adventures in the magical Wildwood. Prue is always drawn back to Wildwood but the place is not what it once was…Dark forces...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 21/03/2013
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Angie Sage
Utterly spellbinding, fast-paced and brilliantly plotted, this is the fourth in the Septimus Heap series, the fantastical adventure that is gripping the nation. Septimus faces yet another fantastical quest to rescue friends trapped back in time. We asked a number of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Angie Sage
This wonderful series featuring a boy called Septimus Heap is perfect for boys in particular to get their teeth into. As in the Harry Potter titles we see Septimus a year older with each new book. This is the 6th...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Angie Sage
Richly imagined and brilliantly conveyed, the invented world of Septimus Heap is full of curiosity and surprises. As ever, Septimus’s romping adventures are hilarious and unlikely as he copes after having been stranded on a beautiful island with his pet...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Angie Sage
The seventh and final breathtaking instalment in the internationally bestselling series. In this spellbinding finale to an epic series, Septimus Heap must decide once and for all where his heart lies - with Magyk or with Alchemie and Physik. Prepare...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 11/04/2013
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Liz Pichon
This takes the form of Tom's battered homework diary - crammed with his doodles and stories. Exciting News! Mr Fullerman announces that class 5F are going on an 'Activity Break'! Which should be fun. As long as I don't ge...
Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Helen Peters
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Since the death of her mother, Hannah's family life has been a bit chaotic. Her father works all day on their dilapidated farm, and the four children are pretty much left...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Tony Bradman
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8 A case of mistaken identity means everything changes in this sweet story from Tony Bradman, with gorgeous illustrations by award-winning Ross Collins.
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/02/2013
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Rob Lloyd Jones
April 2013 Debut of the Month This is a fiendishly pacy mystery-adventure story for 9+ readers, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. Dripping with atmosphere and gothic gore, Wild Boy will appeal to fans of Sherlock Holmes, gothic...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Karen Mccombie
Rosie Roberts has a secret. So when she moves to a new school, she's desperate not to draw too much attention to herself. But things aren't so easy when your mum is the popular new teacher everyone is talking about. From...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/06/2012
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Geoff Rodkey
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 With all the adventure and humour of Percy Jackson and the swashbuckling thrills of treasure island, no boy or girl for that matter will fail to enjoy this, the first in a...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Michael Morpurgo
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+. How do see off the school bully? Sick of being picked on and called ‘chicken’ the narrator of this story thinks up a dare to show up Darren Bishop, the school bully. A farm...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2011
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Tony Bradman
Interest Age 9-12 Reading Age 7+. The boy wizard, learning his destiny in this exciting story, is none other than Merlin, the most powerful wizard in the history of England...and the man behind the success of the legendary King Arthur....
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/09/2012
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Antony Wootten
A fast-paced and ultimately heart-warming tale that will appeal to 8+ year olds, particularly boys and a lovely read for fathers and sons to share. It's the extraordinary story of a boy growing up and coming to terms with the...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Books for Boys | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2012
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Michael Morpurgo, Clare Morpurgo
Winner of the English Association 2013 Prize (Fiction 7-11) September 2012 MEGA Book of the Month.Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo’s touching story of a young girl’s exploration of the countryside provides a lyrical link for this rich and varied collection of poems...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2012
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Andy Stanton
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. Creator of the best-selling Mr Gum series, Andy Stanton delights again is this story of the importance of self-belief. 10 year old Matthew Buzzington badly needs some special powers when his family suddenly relocates to...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Books for Boys | Dyslexia-friendly | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/11/2011
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Cathryn Constable
Shortlisted for the National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year 2012 and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Exciting, atmospheric, romantic and stylish, The Wolf Princess marks a welcome return to the comfort of traditional storytelling. Steeped in history and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Julia Golding
April 2013 Book of the Month Best-selling Julia Golding tells a fast paced, time-travelling fantasy adventure based on the legends of King Arthur that cleverly provokes thought about contemporary life too. Stolen away by the Fey in infancy, Rick has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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