Books of the Month - May

Pull Out All the Stops!
Geraldine Mccaughrean
With a huge and original cast and a never ending supply of witty and original incident, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story from an award-winning writer. Cissy escapes from the boredom of life in her home town and especially the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2010
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Puss Jekyll Cat Hyde
Joyce Dunbar
Cat lovers everywhere will relish this beauty of a book. Jill Barton’s glorious large scale illustrations capture the different moods of this changeable feline star. Good cat or bad cat?  Joyce Dunbar’s lyrical and rhythmic text beautifully describes the many...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Best-selling illustrator Quentin Blake brings fresh appeal to Charles Dickens’s classic Christmas story in this lovely edition. He captures the essence of the miserable Ebenezer Scrooge who would like to live without kindness, charity, love and especially Christmas which he...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 15/09/2011
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Quentin Blake's Amazing Animal Stories
John Yeoman
Wonderful animal tales from around the world are vividly brought to life in these entertaining stories which are gloriously brought to life in Quentin Blake’s illustrations. There are magical monkeys, a daring tortoise, a tricksy locust who outsmarts a coyote...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Quentin Blake's Magical Tales
John Yeoman, Quentin Blake
Beautifully told, the fourteen folk stories in this collection are taken from around the world giving a slice of different kinds of magic from different times. In all there are elements of enchantment, transformation and trickery as the kind and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 18/10/2010
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Race the Wind
Lauren St.John
April 2013 Book of the Month  A thrilling new horse adventure story from award-winning Lauren St John. In this sequel to The One Dollar Horse, Casey Blue is now the proud and race-winning owner of Storm, the horse she saved from...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Rapture
Lauren Kate
July 2012 Book of the Month. Bestselling Lauren Kate has captured imaginations with her Angel world filled with romance and heartbreak, particularly for lovestruck Daniel and Luce.  Both students at Sword & Cross school, from the first moment Luce sees Daniel...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/06/2012
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Reached
Ally Condie
December 2012 Book of the Month    The best-selling Matched trilogy takes off in a dangerous and shattering new direction as Cassia’s revolt and her determination to fight for what matters to her most comes to a head. Now the signs...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/2012
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Rebecca's Rules
Anna Carey
This book is amusing from the first page and hilariously identifies with a girl’s first steps into the teenage world of boys, friendships, school and musical productions.  Anna Carey’s easy style will resonate with any young girl for whom friendships...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/09/2012
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Rebel Heart
Moira Young
Danger. Betrayal. Destiny. Passion - all fans of The Hunger Games will love prize-winning Moira Young’s sequel to Blood Red Road, last year's prestigious Costa Book Award winner. Set in a world in which all the normal rules have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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Reckless
Cornelia Funke
Best-selling author Cornelia Funke, whose Inkheart was a world-wide phenomenon, has created a wonderful new imaginary world peopled with a gigantic cast of original and outlandish characters. Searching for his missing father, Jacob Reckless steps through the mirror into a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/09/2010
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Reckless
Cornelia Funke
Best-selling author Cornelia Funke, whose Inkheart was a world-wide phenomenon, has created a wonderful new imaginary world peopled with a gigantic cast of original and outlandish characters. Searching for his missing father, Jacob Reckless steps through the mirror into a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Reckless
Cornelia Funke
Best-selling author Cornelia Funke, whose Inkheart was a world-wide phenomenon, has created a wonderful new imaginary world peopled with a gigantic cast of original and outlandish characters. Searching for his missing father, Jacob Reckless steps through the mirror into a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2013
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Return to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Luke Challenger Book 2)
Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore
Daredevil teen hero Luke Challenger is in deep trouble.  Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is revisited in this thrilling new action-adventure novel, the fantastic sequel to Return to The Lost World.  Evil villains, pirates, sea monsters and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2011
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Return to the Lost World (Luke Challenger Book 1)
Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore
A roller coaster adventure that will grab readers from the dramatic dare devil opening and hold them gripped throughout. Luke is only fourteen but he has an adult sized thirst for invention and exploration. Something about his reputation proceeds him...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2010
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Revolution
Jennifer Donnelly
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Prize-winning Jennifer Donnelly’s spell-binding tale spans two contrasting worlds separated by two hundred years but linked by a teenager’s thrilling quest to save a young prince. To get over the tragic...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
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Ribblestrop Forever!
Andy Mulligan
September 2012 Book of the Month. The school where hilarious things happen, is back.  Not surprisingly, there are some pretty hair-raising adventures as a result and the setting provides an unusual vision of school and the activities that go on...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2012
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Rockoholic
C.J. Skuse
Just how far will Jody’s obsession with rock star Jackson Gatlin take her? She’ll stop at nothing to reach him so, when she finds herself backstage at his concert, she kidnaps him so that she can have him all to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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Roobarb and Custard: When Custard was Grounded
Grange Calveley
Young children will love the chaos that ensues not just between the forever joking Roobarb, the green dog and the wacky pink cat, Custard but with the rest of their gang too.  Whether or not your kids have met the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Room on the Broom Sound Book
Julia Donaldson
September 2012 Book of the Month. The witch and her cat are a delightful duo and their cheerful story is given terrific additionality by the wonderful sounds that accompany them in this edition. Listen to the cat purr, the wand...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 13/09/2012
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Ruby Nettleship and the Ice Lolly Adventure
Thomas Docherty
This is a magical adventure in which a drab landscape is transformed into a place of beauty and delight. Ruby’s playground is rundown; nothing works except for one swing for which there is always a long queue. One day, Ruby...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2010
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Ruby Redfort : Look into My Eyes
Lauren Child
Ruby Redfort, the super-awesome new creation from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child!  Ruby Redfort: she's a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/2011
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Ruby, Blue and Blanket
Jane Hissey
March 2013 Book of the Month Best-selling Jane Hissey creates a joyful story of imaginative play as three delightful, soft toy friends dress up as a number of different characters. Blanket the horse decides to be a unicorn, Blue the rabbit...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/02/2013
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Sam Silver, Undercover Pirate 1 : Skeleton Island
Jan Burchett, Sara Vogler, Leo Hartas
June 2012 Book of the Month. This is the first in a fantastic new series that we guarantee will get even the most reluctant reader reading! It combines everything that boys and girls aged 7+ will love including time-travelling, treasure hunting...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Scaredy Squirrel at Night
Melanie Watt
Bestselling Scaredy Squirrel is back for a delightful new night time adventure which will convince all readers of the benefits of sleep. Scaredy Squirrel never sleeps at night because of all the things like ghosts and dragons and fairies that...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 29/07/2009
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Scaredy Squirrel At The Beach
Melanie Watt
Scaredy Squirrel is back for a new adventure. This time, he tries to avoid a beach holiday. He knows the beach will be full of all sorts of undesirable things from packs of pirates to mobs of lobsters. But, when...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Scat
Carl Hiaasen
Totally topical, Scat is a brilliant fast-moving eco-aware thriller set in the swamps of Florida. Nick and Marta get sucked into the world of corrupt oil prospectors and fanatical eco-activists when Mrs Starch, a formidably horrible teacher at Truman School,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Sea Wolf
David Miller
This gripping adventure on the high seas pulls no punches about the dangers of international piracy in a story of three children’s terrifying experience when they get caught up in it. Searching for the Moon Pearl, Hannah, Ned and Jik...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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