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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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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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Victoria Eveleigh
There are lots of things Joe would wish if he had the chance - that his family hadn't moved from the city to the country, that his mum hadn't bought two ponies no one could ride, and that one day...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Tim Lott
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 than the teacher and for being...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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Rachel Billington
Shorlisted for the 2013 Leeds Book Awards 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. Rachel Billington tenderly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2012
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/09/2012
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 16/11/2011
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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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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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A. F. Harrold
March 2013 Book of the Month Fizzlebert Stump’s Circus is back for a second riotous show during which everything can – and does – go terribly wrong. The new act features the very, very hairy Barboozul family which includes Wystan,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2013
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Penelope Bush
March 2013 Book of the Month Born a twin, Milly has never thought of herself as an individual entity; Lily, her bolder and more entertaining twin, has always been by her side. But after the Incident, everything in Milly’s life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/02/2013
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Helen Phillips
An exciting ecological mystery-adventure in a vividly imagined setting and told through the eyes of Mad(eline), an authentic, funny and engaging voice of a young girl. When sisters Mad and Roo receive a Very Strange and Incredibly Creepy Letter from their...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2013
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Cathy Cassidy
Best-selling Cathy Cassidy's third story of the Chocolate Box Girls is as irresistible, insightful and captivating as its predecessors. Summer has always longed to be a professional dancer but when she doesn't make the grade for the Royal Ballet School...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Frank Whitford
The interactive element of the book means that every time you turn a page there is a surprise or something new to see – and as a result, The Interactive Art Book can be returned to again and again over...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 15/10/2012
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Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
A celebration of the outdoors and all the fun things you can do in it in all kinds of unpropitious weather! There’s practical advice about how to build a shelter and make a fire so that you don’t get too...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, has chosen her favourite poems for children for , exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2013
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Nicola Davies
An exciting story which is also based on the truth about how elephants behave and the difficulties of elephants and humans sharing land. Wilen loves the elephants who live near to his home but, elephants are very big and very...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Nicola Davies
Fact and fiction are cleverly interwoven in this thoughtful story which balances up the needs of people and animals to share space safely. Pedro looses most of his right arm when a lion savages him one night. He broods on...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2013
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E. Nesbit
When the five children meet 'It' in the gravel pit their lives suddenly become a lot more interesting. This magical (but grumpy!) creature will grant them one wish per day, but as the children discover, you should always be very...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Sam Gayton
Inspired by Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput is an exhilarating adventure filled with cunning escape plans, evil clockmakers and very talkative parrots. Join Lily (at just 6 inches tall) as she travels over rooftops, down chimneys and into chocolate shops on a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Nick Garlick
March 2013 Book of the Month This delightful and original madcap adventure takes Daniel on his second visit to his Aunt Severe – or Great- Aunt Emily as she should be known. On his previous visit he saw both sides...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Sheila Rance
March 2013 eBook of the Month and Debut of the Month Debut author Sheila Rance has richly created a vivid and complex world in which a young girl must seek and find her true destiny. Maia and her grandfather the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/03/2013
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David Walliams
Category Winner of The Red House Children’s Book Award 2013 & Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012. Following in the footsteps of the great Roald Dahl, David Walliams has shown in his previous titles including Mr Stink...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2013
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Lauren Child
Best-selling Lauren Child’s super sleuthing Ruby Redfort is a fast-talking, fast- thinking 13 year olds girl whose sharp eye for the unexpected leads her on some fantastic adventures – especially after she is recruited as a secret agency…The wise cracks...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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K.A.S. Quinn
Completely gripping, this rollercoaster time travel adventure takes Katie, a contemporary New York teenager, back right into the heart of Queen Victoria’s reign. Landing unexpectedly in the Buckingham Palace bedroom of Alice, Queen Victoria’s younger daughter, Katie is swiftly caught...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2011
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Terry Deary
2013 is the twentieth anniversary of Horrible Histories.
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2013
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Pete Barrett
Tiny Tich is bored and bullied, but when his Dad gives him a game called Ideal’s Imaginator it transforms his life into a series of remarkable adventures. Tich finds himself transported through time and place to a land where a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2012
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Lauren Child
Adventure on the wide open ocean, and Ruby is all at sea...Can she crack the case of the Twinford pirates while evading the clutches of a vile sea monster as well as the evil Count von Viscount? Well, you wouldn't...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/09/2012
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Steve Backshall
Join DEADLY presenter Steve Backshall as he comes face to face with the world's deadliest animals, in a book packed with fascinating facts, killer statistics and stunning photographs. Combined with his own incredible experiences with creatures, large and small, Steve...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2013
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Pete Barrett
A rip-roaring read for 7+ readers with a definite nod to the ‘readalong’ parent with chapter headings such as Tomb it may Concern, Fly me to the Goons and Stake and Flips! Tich and his mates are a bunch of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2012
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Simon Mayo
After almost poisoning his whole class with arsenic gas, going on the run from a psychotic science teacher and nearly dying of radiation poisoning, life is getting back to normal for Itchingham Lofte - at least, as normal as it...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 28/02/2013
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Andrew Beasley
March 2013 Book of the Month An action-packed plot drives this exciting thriller set in the dark and dangerous streets of Victorian London. Ben Kingdom is just a small street urchin but, when he becomes the owner of a mysterious...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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Sharon Gosling
Combining elements of Jules Verne with the action-packed adventures of Indiana Jones; this debut novel from Sharon Gosling is a gripping read. Set in Victorian London, circus trapeze artiste Remy leads a double life as a jewel thief. However she...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/02/2013
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Philip Reeve
March 2013 Book of the Month Award winning Philip Reeve returns to Clovenstone Castle and his hilarious goblin world. Goblins Skarper and Henwyn are as bold and brave as ever....but when a new band of determined foes using giant armoured...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2013
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Derek Keilty
Amid a riot of unbridled and highly entertaining chaos, there lies an unexpected and entirely unpredictable adventure for this cowboy with a difference. Will is thinking of hanging up his cowboy hat and joining the elf side of his family...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Polly Shulman
September 2012 Debut of the Month. Full of wit and invention, this is a terrific story which imaginatively blends motifs from fairy stories into a present day adventure. When Elizabeth gets a job in the New York Circulating Material Library she...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2012
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