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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Julia Eccleshare & Quentin Blake
Fall down the rabbit hole, take flight into Neverland, or follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City; we all remember what it was like to disappear into the imaginary worlds of the most magical and fantastic type of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2009
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Julia Eccleshare & Quentin Blake
Fall down the rabbit hole, take flight into Neverland, or follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City; we all remember what it was like to disappear into the imaginary worlds of the most magical and fantastic type of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2009
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A Bit Lost
Chris Haughton
A Lovereading4kids 'Great read you may have missed 2011' selection. A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. Winner of the top children's book award in Ireland in 2011 - the Bisto Award. Babies and Toddlers +. When Little Owl falls out of...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2011
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Chris Haughton
A Lovereading4kids 'Great read you may have missed 2011' selection. A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. Winner of the top children's book award in Ireland in 2011 - the Bisto Award. Babies and Toddlers +. When Little Owl falls out of...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2011
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A Boy Called M.O.U.S.E.
Penny Dolan
An evocative and thrilling tale, set in a richly colourful Dickensian world, featuring a small boy, Mouse, whose parents are lost at sea, and whose life is threatened by the claims of his money-grabbing and debt-ridden Uncle and he is...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2010
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Penny Dolan
An evocative and thrilling tale, set in a richly colourful Dickensian world, featuring a small boy, Mouse, whose parents are lost at sea, and whose life is threatened by the claims of his money-grabbing and debt-ridden Uncle and he is...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2010
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A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope
Michael Foreman
This is a wonderful celebration of optimism and a thoughtful and touching book about the importance of growth, green shoots and new life in a war torn world. Growing up amidst rubble a small boy tends a green shoot which...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Michael Foreman
This is a wonderful celebration of optimism and a thoughtful and touching book about the importance of growth, green shoots and new life in a war torn world. Growing up amidst rubble a small boy tends a green shoot which...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2009
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A Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH. Best-selling Roddy Doyle has written a wonderful, funny and warm-hearted family story about the dying of a granny which weaves together the lives of four generations and a little bit of ghostly mystery too. Mary’s relationship...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Roddy Doyle
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH. Best-selling Roddy Doyle has written a wonderful, funny and warm-hearted family story about the dying of a granny which weaves together the lives of four generations and a little bit of ghostly mystery too. Mary’s relationship...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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A Home for Mr Tipps
Tom Percival
A touching story about a special friendship between a boy and the cat he finds. Mr Tipps is a frightened stray cat. He is timid and lonely until, one day he finds a lovely bowl of milk put out for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Tom Percival
A touching story about a special friendship between a boy and the cat he finds. Mr Tipps is a frightened stray cat. He is timid and lonely until, one day he finds a lovely bowl of milk put out for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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A Horrid Factbook: Dinosaurs (Horrid Henry)
Francesca Simon
Horrid Henry is MAD about dinosaurs – although not always for very good reasons! Enjoy sharing his enthusiasm for the Tyranosaurus Rex or Velociraptor and the rest. Stuffed full of facts, this is a must have for all Horrid Henry...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/11/2011
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Francesca Simon
Horrid Henry is MAD about dinosaurs – although not always for very good reasons! Enjoy sharing his enthusiasm for the Tyranosaurus Rex or Velociraptor and the rest. Stuffed full of facts, this is a must have for all Horrid Henry...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/11/2011
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A Horse for Angel
Sarah Lean
February 2013 Book of the Month When lonely Nell is sent to stay with her relatives on a farm she takes with her an extra suitcase packed with a secret. Even before she has unpacked it, the suitcase is stolen...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month | Pony Mad
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2013
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Sarah Lean
February 2013 Book of the Month When lonely Nell is sent to stay with her relatives on a farm she takes with her an extra suitcase packed with a secret. Even before she has unpacked it, the suitcase is stolen...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2013
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A Midsummer Tights Dream
Louise Rennison
July 2012 Book of the Month. Best-selling Louise Rennison is as howlingly funny as ever as she sticks with a drama theme in this hilarious follow-up to Withering Tights. Tallulah Casey is back for a second summer at Dother...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Louise Rennison
July 2012 Book of the Month. Best-selling Louise Rennison is as howlingly funny as ever as she sticks with a drama theme in this hilarious follow-up to Withering Tights. Tallulah Casey is back for a second summer at Dother...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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A Million Angels
Kate Maryon
This is the third novel from Kate Maryon - a sparkling new voice for tween girls. Jemima has a wonderfully close relationship with her dad so when he's posted off to Afghanistan how will she cope and who will look...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2011
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Kate Maryon
This is the third novel from Kate Maryon - a sparkling new voice for tween girls. Jemima has a wonderfully close relationship with her dad so when he's posted off to Afghanistan how will she cope and who will look...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2011
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A Misfitz Mystery: Two Tigers on a String
Josh Lacey
Humour and pace are the hallmarks of Josh Lacey’s writing (Grk series and Bearkeeper) and this new series (this is the second title) makes this an absolute must read for 9+ year olds. The Misfitz are four children who share...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Josh Lacey
Humour and pace are the hallmarks of Josh Lacey’s writing (Grk series and Bearkeeper) and this new series (this is the second title) makes this an absolute must read for 9+ year olds. The Misfitz are four children who share...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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A Picture History Of Great Discoveries
Clarke Hutton
A welcome return of a classic title which shows how the world was viewed by a different generation in the years following World War Two. Clarke Hutton’s lithographs take the reader on a journey of exploration through the new worlds...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Clarke Hutton
A welcome return of a classic title which shows how the world was viewed by a different generation in the years following World War Two. Clarke Hutton’s lithographs take the reader on a journey of exploration through the new worlds...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/06/2008
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A Ravelled Flag
Julia Jones
The story of 14 year old Donny and his new found friends that began in The Salt-Stained Book continues in this gripping sequel. Donny's long lost great Aunt has arrived from China on a boat and rescued him and his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/11/2011
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Julia Jones
The story of 14 year old Donny and his new found friends that began in The Salt-Stained Book continues in this gripping sequel. Donny's long lost great Aunt has arrived from China on a boat and rescued him and his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/11/2011
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A Roman Rescue (Charlie and Bandit Adventures)
Kelly Gerrard
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. New time travel series in appealing, witty, graphic novel format. Charlie follows his dog Bandit when he accidentally falls into a sinkhole transporting them to Ancient Rome. Searching for his dog...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2011
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Kelly Gerrard
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. New time travel series in appealing, witty, graphic novel format. Charlie follows his dog Bandit when he accidentally falls into a sinkhole transporting them to Ancient Rome. Searching for his dog...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2011
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A Tale Dark and Grimm
Adam Gidwitz
All those who love to be scared will relish the dark humour of these blood-curdling tales. Everyone knows the story of Hansel and Gretel, a tragic tale of children and witches and a great big cauldron. This is a witty...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Adam Gidwitz
All those who love to be scared will relish the dark humour of these blood-curdling tales. Everyone knows the story of Hansel and Gretel, a tragic tale of children and witches and a great big cauldron. This is a witty...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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A Tangle of Magicks
Stephanie Burgis
Unruly Kat Stephenson, the delightful heroine of A Most Improper Magick is back for a second feisty adventure. The family are now in Bath where Elissa, Kat’s far more proper sister, is all set to be married. But Kat has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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Stephanie Burgis
Unruly Kat Stephenson, the delightful heroine of A Most Improper Magick is back for a second feisty adventure. The family are now in Bath where Elissa, Kat’s far more proper sister, is all set to be married. But Kat has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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A Whole New World (Magic Farm)
Ashley Birch
Step into a topsy turvy world of magical fun, where anything can happen! This is a whole new world. Hannah and Oliver have just moved to Golden Valley Farm. One day they make an amazing discovery: when they spin the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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Ashley Birch
Step into a topsy turvy world of magical fun, where anything can happen! This is a whole new world. Hannah and Oliver have just moved to Golden Valley Farm. One day they make an amazing discovery: when they spin the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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A Witch in Love
Ruth Warburton
July 2012 Book of the Month. Packed with romance and tinged with magic, Anna’s story captures new complications in her life as she manages being a witch with being in love! Having moved from London to Wicker House, Anna is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Ruth Warburton
July 2012 Book of the Month. Packed with romance and tinged with magic, Anna’s story captures new complications in her life as she manages being a witch with being in love! Having moved from London to Wicker House, Anna is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Abandon
Meg Cabot
The first book in the brand-new dark and dangerously seductive trilogy from bestselling teen author Meg Cabot. It's dark paranormal romance at its best and combined with Meg's brilliant storytelling powers we think she's hit the jackpot. She paints a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Meg Cabot
The first book in the brand-new dark and dangerously seductive trilogy from bestselling teen author Meg Cabot. It's dark paranormal romance at its best and combined with Meg's brilliant storytelling powers we think she's hit the jackpot. She paints a...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Again!
Emily Gravett
Prize-winning Emily Gravett has hit the jackpot again with a brilliant and original picture book that will delight adults as much as children. Everyone knows that the best bedtime stories can be read again and again and again... But sometimes,...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
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Emily Gravett
Prize-winning Emily Gravett has hit the jackpot again with a brilliant and original picture book that will delight adults as much as children. Everyone knows that the best bedtime stories can be read again and again and again... But sometimes,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
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Agatha Parrot and the Floating Head as Typed Out Neatly by Kjartan Poskitt
Kjartan Poskitt
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Old Street School seems to live up to its title in this hilarious new series about Agatha Parrot and her very unusual school friends. There is something interesting and different about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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Kjartan Poskitt
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Old Street School seems to live up to its title in this hilarious new series about Agatha Parrot and her very unusual school friends. There is something interesting and different about...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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Agent 21
Chris Ryan
SAS hero Chris Ryan sets a cracking pace for this story of school boy Zak Darke’s recruitment by a government agency. After his parents die from mysterious food poisoning in Nigeria, Zak knows someone is watching him. But who? When...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Chris Ryan
SAS hero Chris Ryan sets a cracking pace for this story of school boy Zak Darke’s recruitment by a government agency. After his parents die from mysterious food poisoning in Nigeria, Zak knows someone is watching him. But who? When...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Airhead: Being Nikki
Meg Cabot
Step right into the celebrity life of teenage supermodel Nikki. Apparently the golden girl of the catwalk Nikki looks like an absolute airhead but that’s just the surface. Underneath there’s nerdy Emmerson Watts who somehow got trapped in the wrong...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2009
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Meg Cabot
Step right into the celebrity life of teenage supermodel Nikki. Apparently the golden girl of the catwalk Nikki looks like an absolute airhead but that’s just the surface. Underneath there’s nerdy Emmerson Watts who somehow got trapped in the wrong...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2009
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Airhead: Runaway
Meg Cabot
From the author of the hugely successful Princess Diaries, this trilogy for 11+ year olds featuring two girls, one of whom finds herself inside the body of the other and doing things she could never imagine doing. Now Em,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Meg Cabot
From the author of the hugely successful Princess Diaries, this trilogy for 11+ year olds featuring two girls, one of whom finds herself inside the body of the other and doing things she could never imagine doing. Now Em,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Airman
Eoin Colfer
A fabulous blood racing story that blends adventure, fantasy, history and science fiction and then dusts it with humour: Conor’s destiny is to fly but no one knew that all too soon he’d be flying for real – to save...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Eoin Colfer
A fabulous blood racing story that blends adventure, fantasy, history and science fiction and then dusts it with humour: Conor’s destiny is to fly but no one knew that all too soon he’d be flying for real – to save...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Alex Rider : Scorpia Rising (9)
Anthony Horowitz
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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Anthony Horowitz
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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Alien Schoolboy's Z-A Guide to Earthlings
Ros Asquith
November 2012 Book of the Month & Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, this hilarious series goes from strength to strength. In this forth title, The Aliens exploration of earthlings’ speech reveals the foibles of the English language - capturing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Ros Asquith
November 2012 Book of the Month & Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, this hilarious series goes from strength to strength. In this forth title, The Aliens exploration of earthlings’ speech reveals the foibles of the English language - capturing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Alien Storm
A.G. Taylor
A gripping science-fiction adventure pits a group of kids with super powers against a mysterious Russian billionaire. Infected by an extraordinary virus from a meteor storm, Sarah, Robert and the younger children in their charge are now at risk from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2010
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A.G. Taylor
A gripping science-fiction adventure pits a group of kids with super powers against a mysterious Russian billionaire. Infected by an extraordinary virus from a meteor storm, Sarah, Robert and the younger children in their charge are now at risk from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2010
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Aliens in Underpants Save the World
Claire Freedman
The bestselling Aliens decked out in the finest underpants, are back for a new set of adventures. This time it’s nothing less than saving the universe – and all with the help of underpants! Easy to read aloud, this ebullient...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2009
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Claire Freedman
The bestselling Aliens decked out in the finest underpants, are back for a new set of adventures. This time it’s nothing less than saving the universe – and all with the help of underpants! Easy to read aloud, this ebullient...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2009
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Aliens Love Panta Claus
Claire Freedman
The best-selling, underpants-loving aliens are back for another crazy adventure. This time it is a seasonal one as they throw themselves into the Christmas spirit in their trademark way. Dashing around, they distribute cheer – and underpants – so one...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2010
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Claire Freedman
The best-selling, underpants-loving aliens are back for another crazy adventure. This time it is a seasonal one as they throw themselves into the Christmas spirit in their trademark way. Dashing around, they distribute cheer – and underpants – so one...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2010
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