Recommended Children's eBooks

Tiger Wars
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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Four Children and It
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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If You Find Me
Emily Murdoch
May 2013 Debut of the Month   Debut author Emily Murdoch tells a deeply moving spell binding story of a young girl’s courage and survival in a darkly observed contemporary America.  Carey’s childhood is hard; she lives in the woods with...
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Space Blasters
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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Hazel
Julie Hearn
When Hazel witnesses suffragette Emily Davison stepping out in front of the king's horse she could never have imagined the impact this event would have on her own life. But this single incident would change Hazel's destiny forever. A reissue of...
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The Meaning of Life
Joanna Nadin
Laugh out loud funny from the first page, The Meaning of Life, will be devoured by teenagers and adults in equal measure just as the Diaries of Adrian Mole hit the spot for a different generation. A spot-on teenage voice...
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The Abominables
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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Young Knights of the Round Table
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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The Sacrifice
Charlie Higson
April 2013 Book of the Month  There aren't many authors who are able to conjure up fear and terror in the way Charlie Higson does so brilliantly in his series The Enemy of which The Sacrifice is the fourth. ...
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The Butterfly Clues
Kate Ellison
Debut author Kate Ellison creates tension from the outset in a taut and sure-footed (Lo for short) tells her own story as she finds herself increasingly ensnared in a quest for the truth after she is almost hit by a...
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After Tomorrow
Gillian Cross
Award winning Gillian Cross takes a brilliant ‘what if’ as the premise for this gripping and thought-provoking adventure. The British economy has collapsed. Civil disobedience sets family against family as raids for the scarce food leads to violent attacks. After...
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Dawn Wind
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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Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
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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The Victory Dogs
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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All Fall Down
Sally Nicholls
A brilliant evocation of the utter devastation caused by The Black Death in 1349 which combines a  remarkable optimism about human nature and morality in the midst of an epidemic on an exceptional scale. Isabel’s world collapses around her as...
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The Dark
Lemony Snicket
April 2013 Book of the Month  Possibly destined to be THE TOP PICTURE BOOK of 2013.  Bestselling Lemony Snicket gives an original, delightful and empowering take on the familiar theme of being scared of the dark. Laszlo is afraid of...
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By Any Other Name
Laura Jarratt
April 2013 Debut of the Month A stunning, heart-stopping novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Skin Deep. Holly is a new girl at a new school in a new home with a new life and identity. The only...
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Department 19: Battle Lines
Will Hill
April 2013 Book of the Month  Book 3 from the talent behind the bestselling hardback YA debut of 2011. Dracula is on the verge of coming into his full power. Department 19 is on the back foot. Department 19 faces...
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The Last Wild
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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The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
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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Under Wildwood
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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ZOM-B City
Darren Shan
March 2013 Book of the Month   Best-selling Darren Shan, master of the dark story, spins another horrific thriller set after the zombie apocalypse. In the world of the dead, a terrifying battle is taking place over who will control the streets...
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Zom-B
Darren Shan
March 2013 Book of the Month  The first book in the explosive new zombie series from the master of horror, now in paperback. The exciting new series from the master of teen horror. Zom-B is a radical new series about a...
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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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Lilliput
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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Smuggler's Kiss
Marie-Louise Jensen
A pacy adventure with a gutsy heroine at its heart brings danger – and romance- to life in a vividly imagined past. Isabelle plans to end her life. Stepping into the sea seems like an easy way out but when...
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Waiting for Gonzo
Dave Cousins
March 2013 eBook of the Month  Packed with action, heart and humour, Waiting for Gonzo takes you for a white-knuckle ride on the Wheel of Destiny as it careers out of control down the Hillside of Inevitability. The question...
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Atticus Claw Settles a Score
Jennifer Gray
Reformed cat burglar Atticus Claw is back with a hilarious new adventure which shows off his remarkable prowess in many fields. The world of cats is as full of good and bad guys as any other – as no one...
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The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent's Shadow
Rick Riordan
Best-selling Rick Riordan brings his thrilling Kane Chronicles trilogy to a dramatic close in this high octane story which fuses magic and mythology in a new world where the rules are very different. Twins Carter and Sadie, descendants of the...
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Flip
Martyn Bedford
Waking up as someone he’s never even met is the strangest experience of Flip’s life. Suddenly he’s Philip – or Flip – and nothing and no-one is familiar any more; the house, his ‘mother’, even his own face have all...
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