Books of the Month - May

Hidden Among Us
Katy Moran
March 2013 Book of the Month   A sophisticated and complex novel told in different voices, this interweaves a contemporary family story with a haunting story of another world – the place where the elven folk live. As a newly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2013
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Heroes of Olympus : The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan
This is the second title in this number one, bestselling spin-off series from Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan. This crazy messed up world of gods and monsters is Percy Jackson's reality, which pretty much sucks for him. Only...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2011
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Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes
May 2012 Book of the Month. Best-selling illustrator Shirley Hughes writes beautifully in this gripping story set during World War Two. Living in Italy during the occupation by the Germans, Paolo and his sister Constanza long to do something for the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Henry's House: Egyptians
Philip Ardagh
Go back in time with Henry, his dog Mothball and his friend Jaggers. Together the three of them find out all they can about how the Egyptians lived.  They meet the Pharaoh, learn about the Egyptian gods and goddesses and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
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Henderson's Boys 3: Secret Army
Robert Muchamore
Another thrilling adventure for the hidden boys recruited into Henderson’s secret army. It is 1941; Britain is at war and the government needs the biggest network of underground agents it can muster. Training kids who can outsmart adults when they...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Henderson's Boys 2: Eagle Day
Robert Muchamore
Bestselling Robert Muchamore continues his series about the young runaway kids and now agents who, recruited as spies, help to win World War Two. Translating messages from the German top brass about Eagle Day, the date on which they intend...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
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Heist Society
Ally Carter
Kat's got a deadline - two weeks to pull off the biggest heist in history... From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gallagher Girls series.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Havoc
Chris Wooding
Havoc is the second gripping and clever adventure about some real children trapped in a comic book world. If you’ve not read the first book, Malice, we suggest you start with that, as the nail-biting cliff-hanger ending is worth...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010
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Hav3n
Tom Easton
A fast-paced story with a chilling edge Hav3n is an adventure set in a terrifying but credible future. When Hav3n, the deadliest virus the world has even known, is unleashed everyone except Josh, his sister Martha and seventy eight other...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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Haunted
Susan Cooper, Joseph Delaney, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin
Eleven brand new and brilliantly spooky ghost stories from the chilling pens of some top children’s writers. Whether it is cold hands dragging you down, a ghostly face in the mirror trying to pull you in too or the spirit...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Harry and Hopper
Margaret Wild
Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Harry and his dog Hopper have done everything together ever since Hopper was a jumpy little puppy. But one day the unthinkable happens and Hopper will never be there again. But Harry is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Hacking Timbuktu
Stephen Davies
This is an excellent, fast-paced adventure fusing past and present in a swift moving plot which tells how a sixteen year old contemporary hacker gets involved in the story of a daring gold robbery from an ancient temple in Timbuktu....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Guess Who Says Moo? My Little Book of Riddles
Leonie Shearing
This perfect introduction to farm animals combines some absolutely charming illustrations with the ever-popular flip-the-flaps, creating a fun guessing game for the very young. Farm and farm animal words are introduced in a really fun way.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 20/07/2010
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Gruff the Grump
Steve Smallman
Kindness works like a magic charm on the grumpy old Gruff, a growly, grizzly grump of a bear. When Gruff the Grump unexpectedly does something kind and rescues a rabbit stuck in a tree, the rabbit repays him by bringing...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 09/08/2009
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Grk and the Phoney Macaroni
Joshua Doder
March 2012 Book of the Month. Grk and his erstwhile master Tim have been all over the world in their previous 7 adventures and in this one they visit Italy.  Before long however, Grk has been kidnapped and Tim is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Gregor and the Marks of Secret
Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Marks of Secret by Suzanne Collins - the author of the blockbusting Hunger Games – is the story of a perilous fantasy adventure for young Gregor and his talkative little sister Boots, in their bid to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Green
Mark Sperring
This is a brilliantly witty, familiar and well-observed depiction of sibling relationships. Clive is a boy who absolutely loves green. In fact, so much so that he wears no other colour but his sister is always laughing and teasing him...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Goldseekers
Jane Johnson
This is wonderfully rich magical fiction for both boys and girls with a terrific mix of Moonfleet meets Treasure Island meets the Arabian Nights.  In 17th century Cornwall, Jude's mother was called a witch and he is someone with a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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Goblins
Philip Reeve
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012. Fans of Mortal Engines will devour Philip Reeves’s richly detailed goblin extravaganza. The dank and dark towers and stairways of Clovenstone Keep are packed full of dirty, smelly, squabbling goblins. As a breed,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Goat Goes to Playgroup
Julia Donaldson
Playgroup has begun. Time to have some fun. A comforting story for any child starting at, or already attending, a playgroup. Perfect for reading aloud, even the youngest toddler will enjoy Goat's antics. 
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2012
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Gladiator: Street Fighter
Simon Scarrow
February 2013 Book of the Month  A second thrilling adventure for young Marcus, now perfecting his gladiatorial skills with further training in the palace of Julius Caesar himself. Marcus’s fighting skills have gained him the role of body guard of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Gladiator: Fight for Freedom
Simon Scarrow
Action and high paced drama fuel this gripping adventure set in the heart of Ancient Rome. Full of danger, courage, death and hope, young Gladiator, Marcus Cornelius Primus’s story fiercely describes how he knuckles down to the gruelling training programme...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Gladiator 2 : Street Fighter
Simon Scarrow
A second thrilling adventure for young Marcus, now perfecting his gladiatorial skills with further training in the palace of Julius Caesar himself. Marcus’s fighting skills have gained him the role of body guard of the Emperor’s niece Portia. And still...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Girl Meets Cake
Susie Day
A darkly comic romance about love, friendship, lies and gingerbread men! Heidi's mad online life collides hysterically with her real one in a laugh-out-loud, über-cool teen novel.  Georgia Nicolson fans will adore this hilarious headlong teen-blog.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Ghosting Home
Julia Jones
July 2012 Book of the Month. This thrilling conclusion to the Strong Winds trilogy is an action-packed adventure set in and around the east coast of England and the North Sea in which 14 year old Donny, the protagonist in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2012
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Ghost Knight
Cornelia Funke
November 2012 Book of the Month  A thrilling ghost story set in a boarding school situated right in the heart of Salisbury Cathedral. Eleven year old Jon Whitcroft doesn’t want to be packed off to boarding school and is sure...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Gates of Rome (Time Riders Book 5)
Alex Scarrow
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Gallows at Twilight (Witchfinder series)
William Hussey
Horror stalks this scary second adventure for Jake who must now lead the war against the Demon Father, newly escaped from hell. Jake’s previous success in closing the demon door shows his prowess but has he the courage to go back into...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Gaia Warriors
Nicola Davies
This is a book about climate change like no other - a collaboration between the inventor of Gaia Theory and an award-winning non-fiction writer for children - that explains the science and answers the commonly-asked questions about global warming. The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/11/2009
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Freefall: Tunnels book 3
Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
More spine-tingling and menacing adventure from the authors of Tunnels and Deeper will once again take you way beneath the earth, in a subterranean world that’s almost too frightening to imagine and yet it will pull you into the story...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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