White Chin
Marilyn Edwards
A terrific animal adventure that really pulls at the heart strings but is ultimately uplifting and shows how animals can and do provide wonderful love and support to people if they’re allowed to.  Thrown out of the car by his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2010
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A Most Improper Magick
Stephanie Burgis
The first in the ‘Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson’, a funny, feisty 12 year old heroine that readers will really identify with.  A Most Improper Magick mixes Regency England (a la Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer) with a more contemporary...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2010
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Dark Life
Kat Falls
This is a debut novel that won’t disappoint.  Set in a world where the rising oceans have taken over continents and there are humans living on the small tracts of land that remain whilst others have moved under the sea...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Cub's First Winter
Rebecca Elliott
Within this snuggly bedtime story there is an excellent introduction to looking at nature. It is Cub’s first winter and he wants to learn everything he can about it. Mum gives him lyrical answers to his many questions as she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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Stolen
Lucy Christopher
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2010 Julia Eccleshare, our editorial expert and chairman of the Branford Boase Award judges says: ‘Stolen is a wonderfully accomplished first novel. Sure-footed and without a word wasted Lucy has created a fantastic sense of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Crossing Over
Anna Kendall
Huge in scope, this is a gripping and unusual adventure and romance packed full of larger than life characters and astonishing exploits. Forced to use his gift of ‘crossing over’ into the world of the dead so that he can...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
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By Midnight A Ravenwood Mystery
Mia James
Welcome to a stunning debut and a rollercoaster emotional ride of anger, mystery, fear and romance.  This is a spooky, London-based debut Young Adult novel that cleverly intertwines Highgate cemetery, still haunted from sightings of vampires back in the 1960s...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/07/2010
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The Mistress of the Storm
Melanie Welsh
This is a debut tale of dark magic and intrigue that changes Verity’s life forever when a mysterious stranger she sees in the local library gives her an ancient red book and she reads it. Secrets begin to stir in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Fallen
Lauren Kate
Falling in love is a wonderful feeling and when Luce falls headlong for Daniel as she arrives in the strange environment of her new reform school she feels its full impact. But who exactly is Daniel and why does she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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The Loon in the Moon
Chae Strathie
An inventive space fantasy tells how the Loon powers the lights on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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The Moonstone Legacy
Diana De Gunzburg, Tony Wild
Beginning where Wilkie Collins’ classic left off, it’s hard to believe The Moonstone Legacy is a debut  for the quality of the writing is exceptional and has a real timeless quality about it.  The story itself is a terrific mix...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/05/2010
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Takeshita Demons
Cristy Burne
Winner of the inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award 2009 A thrilling contemporary adventure wittily shot through with the powerful fantasy stories of the old demons from the Japanese past. Miku knows about the demons from growing up in Japan...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and in tears the next as the author explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Life, Interrupted
Damian Kelleher
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 Sorrow and happiness course through this book of huge emotions, which gives lots of room for optimism despite dealing with tragedy. Fourteen-year-old Luke is used to coping with things, especially his accident-prone younger brother...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2009
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The Sky is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson
This is a debut novel that once read will never be forgotten.  It's a vibrant, deeply romantic novel that will bring tears to your eyes but it will also bring laughter through the tears!  It's also funny, sexy and deeply meaningful. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Francisco X. Stork
Totally unsentimental this is nonetheless an exceptionally moving story that is full of insight and written with a rare tenderness. Two boys in desperate situations come together one summer in St Anthony’s Home. Pancho’s one ambition is track down and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2010
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Sisters Red
Jackson Pearce
The violence of the werewolf is everywhere in this powerful story of two sisters’ fight to stop the death of other girls. Scarlett and Rosie are only young when they are savagely attacked by a werewolf, an encounter that leaves...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Kisses for Lula
Samantha Mackintosh
A hilarious, hectic, full-on diary saga as Tallulah Bird, aka Lula, faces up to turning sixteen in just five days without ever having been kissed! And it is not for lack of trying. Lula seems to be jinxed. At least,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Numbers
Rachel Ward
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 A tough, teenage novel about being different. Jem’s life has been hard from the beginning and it is not made any easier by her dangerous secret; every time she looks into a person’s eyes,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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