Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Winner of the 0-5 Nestle Bronze Award 2007. Dexter Bexley has to come up with all kinds of bright ideas to stop the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2007
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Blood Red Snow White
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. The true story of master storyteller Arthur Ransome provides the background for this large scale and absorbing story. As a young man, Ransome was a journalist and, some thought, a spy, in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Mr Pusskins
Sam Lloyd
With a larger-than-life character at the centre of this stunning picture book it comes as no surprise that it is the winner of the ‘Early Years – Pre-school Award’.  There is fun and excitement on every page as...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/06/2006
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Augustus And His Smile
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. An absolutely delightful picture book for parent and child to share from a very talented new author and illustrator who is also the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/04/2006
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How Do You Feel?
Mandy Stanley
A brilliant way to talk with your toddler about feelings, from being excited and sad to being happy and scared.  Simple but very effective bright, bold illustrations and the deserving winner of the ‘Early Years – Baby Book Award’.
Format: Board Book - Released: 07/04/2006
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Shadow Forest
Matt Haig
Winner of the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year 2009 and category winner of ‘the book I couldn’t put down’.   A dramatic adventure story set in an enchanted magical world. Samuel Blink’s life changes forever when a giant log...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2007
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2008
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Anila's Journey
Mary Finn
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. A stunning debut novel, Anila’s Journey captures a girl with an amazing talent for drawing who is swept up in an epic journey up the Ganges where she hopes she may find...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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The Bower Bird
Ann Kelley
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. What the Judges said - "The world of life and death, beauty and truth seen through the eyes of a 12 year old girl. A rare and beautiful book of lasting quality...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
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When A Monster Is Born
Sean Taylor
Multiple Award Winning picture book. In this great book for storytime comes a very silly, funny and lovable monster. The story follows all the possibilities for interesting adventures when a monster is born with some extremely colourful illustrations.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Just In Case
Meg Rosoff
Winner of the Carnegie Award 2007 and the Costa Children's book award. Shortlisted for the Book Trust Teenage Prize 2007.A razor-sharp portrait of a teenage boy and his relationship with his image, his inner life and fate itself.  Shortlisted for the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2006
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Set In Stone
Linda Newbery
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2006.  Set at the end of the 19th century, Linda Newbery has cleverly carved out an incredible mystery that’s full of clever twists and entwined with drama, all manner of emotions and mind-blowingly...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2006
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Connor's Eco Den
Pippa Goodhart
Written as fiction but chock full with fact, this is a brilliant mix that will ensure kids learn a lot about the environment, about greenhouse gases and about the world but in a very entertaining way and all because Connor'sfamily...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2005
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Style Sisters
Liz Elwes
Shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex 'New Writers' Award. Please don’t read too much into the pink and glittery cover! This book is well written, sharply funny somewhere between Carrie Fisher and Sophie Kinsella. I really enjoyed it and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/03/2006
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The Outlaw Varjak Paw
S F Said
Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2007 and winner of Blue Peter Prize 2007 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down.' Varjak Paw is a cat with attitude – as well as knowing each of the Seven...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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My Swordhand is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. Hugh (12) - I loved it! I loved it even more than I loved The Book of Dead Days (another of Marcus Sedgwick’s thrilling novels). Normally I don’t like horror books but this...
Format: Hardback - Released: 26/07/2006
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Turbulence
Jan Mark
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. What the judges said: This is a story of family life, rendered more chaotic than ever by the arrival of a self-obsessed stranger. Mark demonstrates her unerring ability to unpick the strands of everyday living...
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/11/2005
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Grk and the Pelotti Gang
Joshua Doder
Short listed for the Blue Peter Book Awards - Book I couldn't put down. The exciting and energetic second instalment in this popular series. Tim finds himself chasing the most dangerous criminals in Brazil – the notorious Pelotti brothers....
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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Framed
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.   What the judges said: Cottrell Boyce’s second children’s novel is original, charming and funny. It is a poignant and pacey adventure with a tightly structured plot full of humour, wisdom and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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Flyaway
Lucy Christopher
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 Tender and touching, this is a delicate story about facing up to difficulties and finding a way through. When Isla’s father develops a serious heart condition he can no longer take her to see...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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The Great Hamster Massacre
Katie Davies
Winner of the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 An entertaining behind-the-scenes look at family life in all its intricacies as it revolves around pet ownership and the drama that surrounds it. Nine year old Anna tells how she and her younger brother...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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From Where I Stand
Tabitha Suzuma
Winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2008. There are no punches pulled in this exciting psychological thriller. After witnessing the death of his mother, Raven’s life is a mess despite help from foster carers and the rest. When a friend suggests...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide
Mara Bergman
Winner of the Pre-School Award, Early Year Awards 2009   Through the terrific rhyming text and bold illustrations Oliver discovers that, though small, he is indeed mighty as he lives through his fears in this glorious, rollicking work of imagination. A picture...
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/07/2009
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Troubadour
Mary Hoffman
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 - the winner will be announced in early January.  There’s romance, intrigue, religion and bloodshed all tightly interwoven in this historical thriller. Rather than marrying the old nobleman her father has...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2009
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Planet In Peril
Anita Ganeri
Winner of Blue Peter Book Award 2009 'best book with facts' category. From climate change to carbon footprints, this is a horribly hilarious guide to the environmental issues children are most concerned about, with oodles of funny and practical tips on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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Chick
Ed Vere
Winner of the Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A stylishly simple pop-up takes a tiny chick from the moment it pecks its way out of its shell to its first night sleeping safely under Mum’s wing. Little fingers will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear
Andy Stanton
Chosen by Michael Rosen. Winner of The Blue Peter book award 2009 'most funny book with pictures' category - Mr Gum is off on his fifth best-selling adventure. And it is as zany and ridiculous as any that have gone before....
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2008
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Solace of the Road
Siobhan Dowd
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 - the winner will be announced in early January.  Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 Beautifully written and achingly moving, Solace of the Road is the poignant and desperate story...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/02/2009
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The Great Paper Caper
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. Touching and funny, this is also a visually sophisticated picture book which lightly carries an important message about the use – and misuse - of resources. All is not well in the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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The Pencil
Allan Ahlberg
Winner of the Younger Children category - Red House Book Award 2009. This book is an hilarious and unmissable treat! One day there is just a lonely pencil…It begins to draw – a boy, a dog, a cat and then...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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The Bog Baby
Jeanne Willis
A tender story with a big message. Two sisters playing by the pond find a magical tiny being complete with wings. It’s a bog baby and the two girls decide to take the best care of it that they can....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Snakehead: An Alex Rider novel
Anthony Horowitz
Undercover in a poisonous world, teen spy Alex Rider is back for another adrenalin rush adventure that will have all addicts of high-octane action and adventure clamouring for it. Guaranteed to enthral. Why not also check out the audio...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/04/2008
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Note Of Madness
Tabitha Suzuma
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said:It reads as if it must have happened to the author; a book that will expand horizons and counter narrowmindednessFlynn is one of the top pianists at the Royal College...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/02/2007
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Scoop!
Cathy Tinknell
Shortlisted for the Greenaway Award 2007. For every budding writer and reporter this is the perfect book.  It’s a picture book with a really original feel and a chief who never gives up on trying to get that scoop. (3-7)...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Just Like Tomorrow
Faiza Guene
 Shortlisted for the Marsh Award 2006. While set in Paris and focusing on Moroccan immigrants every teenager will relate instantly to all that Doria is experiencing and feeling. With shades of a young Bridget Jones she is determined to not...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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Mimus
Lilli Thal
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award 2006. Mimus is a medieval epic adventure that will as Karen Cushman, celebrated author said, ‘chill your blood, tickle your funny bone and warm your heart’.  You will be transported...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2005
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Stoneheart
Charlie Fletcher
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Based on a brilliant idea of a parallel London.  The author has a pitch-perfect  way with dialogue, a real subtlety of depth of character and the reader...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/10/2006
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Night, Night, Baby
Marie Birkinshaw
Shortlisted for the Early Years – Baby Book Award. This interactive flap book with some entertaining surprises will delight little ones and parents too, particularly when they’re struggling to get their little one to sleep.  Perfect for sharing at bedtime.
Format: Board Book - Released: 30/03/2006
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Orange Pear Apple Bear
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Shortlisted for the Greenaway Award 2007. One can only be in awe of the talent of this delightful author and illustrator....
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2006
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Peek-a-boo!
Annie Kubler
Shortlisted for the Early Years – Baby Book Award, this is a must for the nursery.  The many well-loved nursery games, both traditional and modern, which fill the pages will delight toddlers and their parents time and time again.
Format: Board Book - Released: 30/11/2005
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Sleepy Baby
Fiona, Mackinnon, Catherine Watt
A perfect touch-and-feel book for parents and their babies and young children to share. Shortlisted for the Early Years – Baby Book Award.
Format: Board Book - Released: 31/03/2006
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Look At You!
Kathy Henderson
Shortlisted for the Early Years – Baby Book Award, this delightful little book looks at the early stages of a baby’s changing body, from early actions and sensations like a tickle and a sneeze to the first crawl or clap...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/08/2006
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Clackety-Clacks: Bee
Luana Rinaldo
A noisy book for busy babies!  This is a lovely little book in a fun format.  The story and bold illustrations will keep very young children captivated as they follow Bee on his travels meeting lots of other animals.
Format: Board Book - Released: 17/02/2006
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Mouse Noses on Toast
Daren King
Shortlisted for the Nestle Children's Award 2006 in the 6-8 category. When you are a mouse hearing that mouse noses on toast is being served at a local restaurant can be quite disturbing. Perhaps it’s a joke or...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2006
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Russell the Sheep
Rob Scotton
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: A book that makes friends! Its limited colour palette works very well, particularly in its use of white. It also gives a great sense of texture – the sheeps’ fleeces...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2005
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Little Red
Lynn Roberts
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: By setting it in a new period (18th century America), the illustrator refreshes a story everyone knows, and employs all sorts of amusing touches, and a highly distinctive...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2005
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Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: A satisfying, quality production with a wealth of detail, which cleverly employs a variety of artistic styles and media to make it appear like the work of more than one...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2005
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Mirrormask
Neil Gaiman
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: A sophisticated and challenging graphic novel which employs striking images, collage and film stills to work with an extensive text for older readers. It has an edgy, fragmented...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2005
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The Flowing Queen
Kai Meyer
Winner of Marsh Award 2006. This is a wondrous and magical novel, the first in a trilogy, set in Venice but amongst mermaids in the canals, stone lions, phantoms in the sky and Egyptian mummies led...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke
Sian Pattenden
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Full of dark humour, eccentric metaphors and satirical touches. A marvel’ This is a hair-raising story of the truly terrible Agatha Bilke, a girl who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/04/2006
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The Book of Everything
Guus Kuijer
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award 2006. A magical story about the power of a child’s imagination to free him from the tyranny of a brutalizing father. Thomas’s father imposes a reign of terror on his...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2006
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The Diamond of Drury Lane (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. Winner of Nestle Children's Award 2006 Cat Royal, the feisty little orphan-girl brought up in a theatre, is a brilliant narrator of this terrific action-packed adventure. There’s intrigue, politics,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2008
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Five Little Ducks
Jason Chapman, Jemima Lumley, Francesca Stich
Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   Complete with cleverly cut pages, all with rounded corners so that even the smallest toddler can handle this board book, it tells the story very simply of a duck who starts...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
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The Tail of the Whale
Ellie Patterson, Christine Pym
Shortlisted for the Pre-School Award, Early Year Awards 2009   An absolutely delightful debut from a brilliant new talent in the form of Christine Pym.  Dive into this exquisitely decorative picture book of a bright underwater world, rich with colour and full...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/10/2008
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Blood Ties
Sophie Mckenzie
Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2009. Terrifically paced, this thriller links two teenagers who must work fast to unravel the past and discover the dangerous secret that unites them. Theo and Rachel have a lot at stake...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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The Door Of No Return
Sarah Mussi
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is one of the most through-provoking and complete debut novels published recently and fully deserves to be on the shortlist of the Branford Boase award for debut novels. It’s got just about...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/04/2007
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Anna Hibiscus
Atinuke
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2008. Original and understated, this charming depiction of modern-day family life in west Africa is the debut from a fresh, new storytelling voice. Pacy and engaging Anna Hibiscus is perfect for the newly independent...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2007
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Gatty's Tale
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. A gripping historical adventure that is dramatic, touching and compelling. Servant girl Gatty has an unusually beautiful voice which leads her to being swept up in a Crusade to the Holy Land. Her courage...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Apache
Tanya Landman
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. An inspiring story of survival against a background of bloodshed. The fourteen year old Apache girl who narrates the story tells of her fight for her land, her tribe - and her life! The...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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Ruby Red
Linzi Glass
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. A touching love story set against the turbulence and danger of a world divided by apartheid. Brought up to stand against everything that divides the society in which she lives, Ruby finds herself unexpected...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Shadow Forest
Matt Haig
Be warned! Don’t go for a walk in the shadow forest lest you might not return. Poor Samuel Blink must go into the dreaded woods to somehow find his sister and bring her back alive somehow. With fast-flowing action and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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Finding Violet Park
Jenny Valentine
Highly commended in Branford Boase 2008 Award. Told with a delightfully light touch, this thoughtful and introspective novel for teens tells how hearing the story of Violet Park, leads Lucas on a moving and thought provoking mission that helps him...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Dogger
Shirley Hughes
Winner of the Greenaway of Greenaways in 2007 and Greenaway winner in 1977. Filled with humour and Shirley Hughes' deft touch, this is a book for young readers to tackle by themselves, as well as a delight to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/11/1993
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Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times
L Brittney
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is an incredibly original novel full of high drama and adventure, which is likely to transcend both the teenage and adult markets. This really does have everything as it is a very...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2007
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The Burying Beetle
Ann Kelley
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Twelve year old Gussie tells the story of her life with an engaging freshness and enthusiasm. Recently moved from London to Cornwall, Gussie captures the details of her new life – the ramshackle...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2006
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Barkbelly
Cat Weatherill
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Brought up by loving human parents, Barkbelly is a little wooden boy who goes on the run after a tragic accident. The world he encounters is full of the unexpected including...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/04/2006
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Century
Sarah Singleton
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Century is a haunting story with a wonderfully gothic feel. Mercy and her sister Charity live in huge house full of dusty corners. Outside it is always winter and the two girls never...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2005
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Home
Nicola Davies
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Set in a far off future, Home is a powerful science fiction story which asks readers to take a fresh look at Earth and to consider what belonging somewhere means and why it...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2005
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Crocodiles are the Best Animals of All
Sean Taylor
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. This is a real romp of a read with bright humorous illustrations accompanying a rich, rhyming text that children will enjoy reading alone and with their parents, time and time again.  Crocodile demonstrates...
Format: Hardback - Released: 09/04/2009
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Bang Bang You're Dead
Narinder Dhami
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009. It seems like just another day at school, then Mia's world turns upside down. School is being evacuated. Rumour has it there's a gunman in the building. And Mia has a horrible feeling she knows...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
Philip Ardagh
Winner of the 7 - 14 yr old category of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2009.   You cannot fail to find the town of Grubtown and its inhabitants hysterically funny.  What goes on defies belief but if you've read books by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Without Looking Back
Tabitha Suzuma
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.  A beautifully written and thought-provoking novel on the effects on a family involved in a custody battle.  When Louis and his sister are removed unexpectedly from school for a holiday in England by their father...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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The Haunted House
Kazuno Kohara
Shortlisted for Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   Dare you enter the Haunted House? In a big old house at the edge of town there's a spooky surprise in store . . . But who's afraid of a few ghosts? Certainly...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/10/2008
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The Stuff of Nightmares
Malorie Blackman
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.   Fast-paced and terrifying The Stuff of Nightmares is about the demons lurking in ones past that come back to haunt. The reader is taken on a chilling journey as we follow schoolboy Kyle,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Penguin
Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008 and was also the winner of the 0-5 Nestle Silver Award 2007. We loved the emotional interaction between Ben and Penguin in this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2007
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Little Mouse's Big Book Of Fears
Emily Gravett
Winner of the of the 2008 Kate Greenaway Medal. This award winning author illustrator continues to create some of the most innovative and imaginative illustrated children's books. Through nursery rhyme stories follow Little Mouse as he confronts his...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2007
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I'm Not Cute!
Jonathan Allen
Baby Owl doesn't want to be cute, he wants to be a hunting machine.  When his mum agrees that he isn't cute he gets upset and insists "I AM!"  She solves the problem by telling Baby Owl that he can...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2006
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Desperate Measures
Laura Summers
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 A compelling and heart-warming adventure featuring teenage twins Vicky and Rhianna. These twins couldn't be more different, but their foster parents can’t cope and it looks as if they and their younger brother will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/01/2010
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The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 By turns exhilarating and terrifying this is an unforgettable story of defiance and courage starring an irrepressible heroine who can fly. Piper McCloud can fly but that makes friends and family afraid of her. She...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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The Toymaker
Jeremy De Quidt
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award Mysterious, sinister and haunting, the world of toys who can be made ‘real’ is perfectly captured in this stunning debut novel. Embracing magic and malevolence, it tells...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Mr Pusskins Best in Show
Sam Lloyd
Winner of the 6 and under category in the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2009.   Pusskins is a larger-than-life character and it comes as no surprise that it has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funniest book prize!! There is fun and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Miaow Said The Cow
Emma Dodd
Shortlisted for the Pre-school Award, Early Year Awards 2009   One morning, the farm animals wake up to find something strange is going on.  Sheep are barking, ducks are neighing - no one knows quite what they're saying! Find out why in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
Format: Hardback - Released: 00/00/0000
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WOW Said the Owl
Tim Hopgood
Shortlisted for the Best Pre-School Award, Early Year Awards 2009   Owl decides to wake up during the day and sleep at night.  A very odd thing for an owl to do.  But he discovers the world of colour and he’s in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/06/2009
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If I were you
Babette Cole
Shortlisted for the Pre-School Award, Early Year Awards 2009   This book is completely wacky but kids, both girls and boys, and parents too, will delight in Babette Cole’s humorous illustrations and Richard Hamilton’s lively text. Daisy and her father swap their...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
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That's not my frog
Fiona Watt
Shortlisted for Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   Irresistible to inquisitive fingers, the strokeable features within each book in the ‘That’s not my...’ series help an owner to know more about an animal.  In That’s Not My Frog, the frog’s...
Format: - Released: 27/03/2008
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Baby's very first outdoors book

Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A car goes brrm brrm, a bird goes tweet tweet, rain goes pitter patter and a plane goes zoom; these are just some of the sounds for baby to relate to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2009
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The Grump
Sarah Garson
Shortlisted for the Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A delightful picture book full of humour about a very scary monster who is padding around the house at night.  As a little toddler follows the monster’s every move and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Genesis
Bernard Beckett
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 This will intrigue and fascinate you from the start. Set in a futuristic utopian society Anax is taking an exam which will decide if she can enter the elite ‘Academy’ and her subject is Adam...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Highway Robbery
Kate Thompson
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. With the thundering of hooves never far away, Kate Thompson weaves an attractive yarn as told by a cheeky but brave street boy whose fortunes change after he’s left holding the horse...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Her Mother's Face
Roddy Doyle
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. The first picture book from award winner Roddy Doyle is a heart-warming and gently reassuring tale about moving on and growing up.  The writing is quite sublime and the luscious illustrations by Freya Blackwood compliment...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Rowan The Strange
Julie Hearn
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 A powerful and compelling story of life in a mental asylum at the start of the Second World War.  Rowan may be strange but he's not dangerous so when he is sent behind...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Snow Goose
Paul Gallico
Radio 4 Open Book listeners recently crowned The Snow Goose 'The book most deserved to be re-read' - the novel by Paul Gallico. It will be dramatised on Radio 4 in 2010   Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Breathtaking...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2007
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The Odd Egg
Emily Gravett
Winner of the 2009 Best Illustrated Book Awards Witty, stylish and surprising, The Odd Egg is a jewel of a book. All the birds have laid an egg – except for duck. How smug the chicken, the flamingo, the owl and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2009
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100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet
Anna Claybourne
This fascinating ultimate survival handbook will teach you how to survive the world's most dangerous situations ranging from plane crashes and avalanches to jelly fish stings and snake bites. It even gives a top tip on how best to survive each of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2008
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Fleabag
Helen Stephens
How a lonely and unloved little dog proves his worth and so becomes a proper pet is a touching story. Scruffy and shaggy, the little dog is all alone in world – except for the fleas that never leave him....
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Abela
Berlie Doherty
An eye-opening book, Abela is the touching and profound story of two girls who apparently have nothing in common. The two girls tell their own stories. Abela, growing up in Tanzania, is surrounded by suffering. Her father has already died...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Archaeology Detectives
Simon Adams
A wonderful search back in time, from the ice-age to Titanic, across the globe, this book uncovers some of the greatest archaeological mysteries explaining how they were found and excavated. Fact boxes, reproductions of how some of the sites may...
Format: Loose-leaf - Released: 01/05/2008
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Reavers' Ransom
Emily Diamand
THIS EDITION IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AS THE TITLE OF THE BOOK HAS BEEN CHANGED TO FLOOD CHILD.  Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award.    Winner of The Times Children’s Fiction Competition, this original post-apocalyptic fantasy is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2008
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A Perfect Ten
Chris Higgins
Winner of the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.  Chris Higgins’ writing rivals the likes of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson.  She’s an author truly in tune with the teen psyche.  This is her fourth novel and she gets better and better with each...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/10/2008
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire
Derek Landy
Winner of the Irish Book Award. Danger, daring and dead bodies lie at the heart of this thrilling detective story. Skulduggery Pleasant, the DI whose name lives up to his looks, is back for a second set of hideous adventures. Now...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Exposure
Mal Peet
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2009. A dramatic, topical novel inspired by Shakespeare's Othello which will appeal to both boys and girls with its themes of football and celebrity culture.  Award winning Mal Peet’s Exposure is the third...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2008
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Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Winner of the 0-5 Nestle Bronze Award 2007. Dexter Bexley has to come up with all kinds of bright ideas to stop the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Foul Play
Tom Palmer
Football mad boys and girls will devour this all-action adventure novel, virtually in a sitting. Hopefully, even the most reluctant reader, just like the author himself was at school, will devour it too. It’s part of Puffin’s ‘Football Detective’ series...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Varmints
Helen Ward
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. The most overlooked threat in the world today is the loss of peace and tranquility. Can someone find the time and space to stop, think and plant the seeds of change before it’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2007
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Lost! The Hundred mile an hour Dog
Jeremy Strong
Already the heroine of many hilarious stories Streaker, so named for her exceptional speed, gives another hilarious dog’s-eye view of the strange world of humans. When Streaker sees some pies unguarded in the back of a pie van, she is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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The Ding Dong Bag
Jess Stockham
Shortlisted for the Nasen and TES Children's Book Award 2007. Have you ever wanted to collect sounds? Well two boys set about doing exactly that in this hilarious, silly and often noisy book. Impressively illustrated and ideal for reading aloud!
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2006
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Dan And Diesel
Charlotte Hudson
Shortlisted for the Nasen TES Book Award. This is a wonderful tale of love, friendship and independence between a little boy, Dan and his dog Diesel. Emotions are tested to their limit when Diesel is dogknapped but it all ends...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2006
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Tucking In!
Jess Stockham
Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award 2007 and A deserved winner of the Booktrust ‘Early Years’ Award 2007.  This title is one of a series of lift-the-flap books designed specially for babies and toddlers to enjoy the world...
Format: Board Book - Released: 01/12/2006
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The Worst Children's Jobs In History
Tony Robinson
Television presenter of all things historical and archaeological, Tony Robinson, takes you on a guided tour through all the lousiest places for a kid to work.  With profiles of real kids in rotten jobs, this book will tell you things...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2006
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A Little Guide To Wild Flowers
Charlotte Voake
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Award 2007 'Best Book With Facts.' This is an unusual and lovely book from an award winning author and we're so pleased to see it on the shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Award '...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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The Bad Spy's Guide
Pete Johnson
This book definitely gets into the category of 'books you can't put down' and has therefore rightly been chosen as one of the Blue Peter Book Award 'Books I couldn't put down' 2007.  It's a thriller but it's also full...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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Ivan The Terrible
Anne Fine
Winner of the 6-8 Nestle Silver Award 2007. As with all Anne Fine novels for whatever age, this one would be good for anyone of 6 or 7 upwards, you get great writing coupled with a great storyline. When Boris...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2008
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My Swordhand Is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Book Trust Teenage book award 2007 and shortlisted for the 2007 Carnegie Award and our favourite to win the award. Highly readable yet thought-provoking, mysterious yet chilling, and so perfectly paced that it is totally unputdownable. The quality of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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The Medici Seal
Theresa Breslin
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. An epic adventure, full of intrigue, murder, revenge and betrayal, set in Leonardo da Vinci's Italy. Gloriously rich and authentic it provides a wonderful glimpse into the world of da Vinci through a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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Bridge To The Stars
Henning Mankell
Known better for his crime writing for adults, this is an incredibly moving story about the life of a teenager in Sweden.  Beautifully written with some stunning characters brought vividly to light and some...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2005
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Emperor Of Absurdia
Chris Riddell
Shortlisted for the Nestle Children's Award 2006 and now deservedly shortlisted for the incredibly prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal 2007.  Sumptuous illustrations tempt readers into the delightfully absurd world in which dinner is served before lunch and skyfish settle on umbrella...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/08/2006
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Fly By Night
Frances Hardinge
12+ years. Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2006. Fly By Night is a wholly original fantasy peopled with a cast of unusual characters whose adventures unravel at a breathtaking pace. Mosca runs away from home with a manic goose...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2005
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Wolves
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 2006. What the judges said: A real page-turner of a book. The style is spare, but at the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2006
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Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
Winner of the Carnegie of Carnegies in 2007 and Carnegie winner in 1995. Part one of Philip Pullman’s magnificent trilogy. His ‘Dark Materials’, is the story of Lyra, a young girl with an exceptional destiny. Brought up in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/10/1998
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Jinnie Ghost
Berlie Doherty
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: It employs sumptuous colour, and layers of exquisite decorative detail to really draw you into the story. You can feel the presence of the ghost; there is a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2006
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The Great Dog Bottom Swap
Peter Bently & Mei Matsuoka
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize 2009   A rollicking canine caper, that’s quite frankly barking mad but is sure to appeal to the quirkier side of human nature. Little kids will find it hysterical whilst some parents will try...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Box of Tricks
Katie Cleminson
Winner of Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A truly magical debut from author/illustrator Katie Cleminson.  When Eva is given a box of tricks for her birthday she becomes a master magician. Conjuring up the best animal musicians, party...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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The Pencil
Allan Ahlberg
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. This book is an hilarious and unmissable treat! One day there is just a lonely pencil…It begins to draw – a boy, a dog, a cat and then a house and streets for them to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Harris Finds his Feet
Catherine Rayner
Winner of the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Touching and inspiring, this is a beautiful story of a youngster finding his feet and being encouraged to forge his own way in the world by his remarkable Grandfather. Harris is a very...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2009
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Penguin
Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. This title was the winner of the 0-5 Nestle Silver Award 2007. We loved the emotional interaction between Ben and Penguin in this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2008
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Silly Billy
Anthony Browne
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Greenway. A reassuring story about dealing with all kinds of worries. Billy can't stop worrying until his grandma gives him a set of worry dolls. Billy tells the dolls his worries and, at last, he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2007
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Lost Happy Endings
Carol Ann Duffy
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Greenway. A wonderfully lyrical story about the search for the happy endings that are needed to make the perfect story. Beautiful illustrations bring the story to life.
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2006
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Monkey And Me
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. She launched onto the children’s book scene only a short while ago but has already made a considerable name for herself with children...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2008
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Catcall
Linda Newbery
Winner of the 9-11 Nestle Silver Award 2007. This is a gripping and beautifully told atmospheric novel full of psychological tension and fast-paced action. It’s Linda Newbery, who is also the winner of the Costa Book Award with Set...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Ottoline And The Yellow Cat
Chris Riddell
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Greenway. A glorious adventure fantasy told in words and loads of Chris Riddell’s fabulous pictures, this tells how Ottoline, who loves solving puzzles, and her friend Mr Munro, a cat with a distinct personality and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2007
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I Love My Mummy
Sebastien Braun
The perfect book for mum and child to read together.
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/01/2006
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Dad's Bug Bear
Peter Dixon
Shortlisted for the ‘Early Years – Best New Illustrator Award’ and what wonderful illustrations they are and complemented brilliantly by the hilarious storyline of dad, who hates animals and a child who loves them and persuades him to go to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2006
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If Big Can... I Can
Beth Shoshan and Petra Brown
0-5 years. Short listed for the Early Years - Best New Illustrator award. This is a charming tale of friendship and rivalry that will have huge appeal to children.  A book that will inspire confidence in even the most...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2006
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Small Mouse Big City
Simon Prescott
Shortlisted for the Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009 Perfectly capturing the atmosphere and excitement of the city with dramatic perspectives and shifting cityscapes, this stylish and contemporary twist on Aesop’s classic fable when country mouse goes off on...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Toot Toot Beep Beep
Emma Garcia
Shortlisted for the Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   This is definitely one for little boys.  Featuring every car, van, bus and lorry honking and tooting and beeping their way through their exciting day until they too go to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Sylvia and Bird
Catherine Rayner
Shortlisted for the Pre-school Award, Early Year Awards 2009   Sylvia is the only dragon in the whole world, and she is very lonely... until one day, she meets Bird. Tiny and chirpy, so different from the huge dragon, Bird somehow changes...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2009
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Baby Loves: Tiger
Claire Dowe
Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   One of a delightful range of board books in which an animal, in this instance a tiger, shows his love for other animals. Complete with peekaboo flaps that reveal the animals...
Format: Board book - Released: 06/04/2009
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Before I Die (Audio CD)
Jenny Downham
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is a haunting yet truly amazing title but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to die what would you want to...
Format: Cd-audio - Released: 03/09/2009
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Gift Of The Magi
O Henry
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. Lovereading review to follow soon...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2008
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Little Boat
Thomas Docherty
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Wonderfully detailed yet simple illustrations coupled with minimal text make this an absolutely fantastic picture book to enjoy with even the youngest toddler.  Later this year, this title will be joined by an...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2008
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Leaving Poppy
Kate Cann
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. A very sophisticated horror story that involves a young girls struggle against the demons lurking within the attic that appear to be controlling her sister. This chilling and nightmarish tale will have you hiding...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2006
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The Penalty
Mal Peet
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully written and the author’s passion...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2006
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Girl Missing
Sophie Mckenzie
Joint winner of the Richard and Judy 12+ "Fluent" category. Winner of this year’s Red House Book Award for Older Readers (chosen by children) this is a gripping thriller, inspired by the real-life case of a toddler who went missing in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2006
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The Road Of Bones
Anne Fine
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize 2007. Yuri knows no freedom of thought. In his country, everything must be kept hidden – even from the neighbours. When Yuri makes one loose comment, he finds his life turned upside down as he is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Melrose and Croc: Together At Christmas
Emma Chichester-clark
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'Most Fun Story with Pictures.'Happiness at Christmas when Melrose meets Croc. Previously, both have been lonely but, coming together, they create a wonderfully festive atmosphere and so celebrate Christmas with seasonal joy. Beautiful illustrations...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2006
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A Darkling Plain
Philip Reeve
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2006. By Hugh (10) - It is a brilliant mix of action, suspense and emotion.  I love how you can really understand the character's feelings. Hester isn't just Hester, but a sad...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/03/2006
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Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things
Guy Bass
Winner of the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. Dinkin Dings is afraid of everything - not just scary things, like being stuck in a lift with a hungry jaguar, but pretty much totally everything (apart from the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Miaow Said The Cow
Emma Dodd
Shortlisted for the Pre-school Award, Early Year Awards 2009   One morning, the farm animals wake up to find something strange is going on.  Sheep are barking, ducks are neighing - no one knows quite what they're saying! Find out why in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2009
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Gideon The Cutpurse
Linda Buckley-archer
Highly commended in the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: ‘an incredibly fertile and convincing picture of the 18th century’Peter and Kate are whizzed back to the eighteenth century by an anti-gravity machine. Suddenly, they are in the midst...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2007
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Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Julia Donaldson
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'Most Fun Story with Pictures.' Another gem from the prize-winning creators of The Gruffalo. There are lots of reading jokes in this book within a book, within a book: pirates and robbers settle...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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Peter the Penguin Pioneer
Daren King
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. Hugely inventive and charmingly funny with laugh-out-loud zany humour and wonderful illustrations throughout that will make you giggle and complement the text, this will be enjoyed equally by parents reading...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Spells
Emily Gravett
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. A stunning new picture book from Emily Gravett, full of witchcraft, wizardry and magic. We meet a frog trying his utmost to turn himself into a handsome prince from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Why Is Snot Green?
Glenn Murphy
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Award 2007 'Best Book With Facts.' Both kids and adults will derive an enormous amount of fun out of this book which has been shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 'Best Book with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2007
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Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve
Winner of the 9-11 Nestle Bronze Award 2007. Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. Prize-winning author Philip Reeve gives a brilliant new take on the legend of King Arthur. Myrddin rides with Arthur spinning tales for and about...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2007
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Crusade
Elizabeth Laird
Two boys, Adam and Salim, come face to face when they find themselves on opposing sides in a Holy war. Adam is part of a Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the infidels; Salim finds himself at the heart of Saladin’s...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2007
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Why Eating Bogeys Is Good For You
Mitchell Symons
Winner of the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. Why can’t you tickle yourself? What is the best way to cure hiccups? Why do buses travel in threes?  Loads of questions with some highly entertaining answers fill this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Tail-end Charlie
Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father's hair-raising tales about life as an RAF airgunner during the Second World War. Now, years later, he has carefully recreated...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Usborne Lift the Flap Picture Atlas
Alex Frith, Kate Leake
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. An original, innovative and interactive atlas full of flaps to lift, revealing beautiful buildings, exotic animals and fabulous sights.  Divided into the separate continents, each double page is crammed with...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Purple Class and the Half-eaten Sweater
Sean Taylor
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize 2009 Four completely crazy, off the wall crazy, stories about the funniest class ever.  Crammed full of zany and exuberant characters and the mishaps and mayhem that ensue. But spare a thought for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/08/2009
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The Galloping Ghost
Hilda Offen
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize 2009 Another brilliantly funny story from an incredibly funny author. Josh is not impressed when he has to write a poem for homework so he decides to ‘borrow’ one from a book. His...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/08/2008
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Ottoline Goes To School
Chris Riddell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2009 A wonderful quirky mystery adventure that follows the story of Miss Ottoline Brown, the inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, her hairy and helpful friend, Mr Munroe, first introduced...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2008
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You're A Bad Man, Mr Gum!
Andy Stanton
Winner of the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'Most Fun Story with Pictures.' Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. Joint winner of the Richard and Judy "Developing" 7+ category. What the judges’ said: ‘an illogical, surreal romp...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2006
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Lost and Found
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards - Best Illustrated book to read aloud. Celebrating the value of friendship, this is an exquisitely illustrated...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2006
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Blood Fever
Charlie Higson
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards - Book I couldn't put down. Fans and non-fans of the grown up James Bond alike will be equally attracted to the young James Bond, now back to be the hero of a...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/01/2006
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The Great Paper Caper
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. Touching and funny, this is also a visually sophisticated picture book which lightly carries an important message about the use – and misuse - of resources. All is not well in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
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Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd
Winner of Carnegie Award 2009 and the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award 2009 and shortlisted for the . New and challenging book full of mystery and shadows from recently deceased author Siobhan Dowd. Both terrifying and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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The Way Back Home
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. This is an absolutely delightful book that is sure to capture the imagination of toddlers.  Jeffers’ illustrations are an absolute delight and together with the text tell an extraordinary and original story about...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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Frozen In Time
Ali Sparkes
Overall winnner of the 2010 Blue Peter Award 2010 and 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' category Award. A page-turning mystery-adventure with a pleasingly old-fashioned feel as two children, frozen by cryonic suspension by their father in 1956, are miraculously brought back...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Superhumans: Meteorite Strike
A.G. Taylor
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 An action-packed science fiction adventure unfolds at a cracking pace following the crashing of a plane after a meteor strike. Robert and Sarah survive the alien virus which strikes thousands of others but find...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/01/2010
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The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
Harriet Goodwin
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 is a quirky debut novel laced with humour and a dollop of magic.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld
Nominated for a prestigious Nebula Award - the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy - winner to be announced mid May 2010. This is an incredibly original and thought provoking novel. Think Europe 1914 - the war...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2009
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Flood Child
Emily Diamand
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award.    This title was first published as REAVERS’ RANSOM  but has now been retitled, more appropriately in our mind, FLOOD CHILD. Winner of The Times Children’s Fiction Competition, this original post-apocalyptic fantasy is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2008
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The Boy in the Dress
David Walliams
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. Touching, funny and full of insight, this tender story tells how Dennis decides that everyone does not have to be the same. Bravely, he decides to do something completely different. Taking a risk...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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The Toymaker
Jeremy De Quidt
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award Mysterious, sinister and haunting, the world of toys who can be made ‘real’ is perfectly captured in this stunning debut novel. Embracing magic and malevolence, it tells the story of how...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Eating Things on Sticks
Anne Fine
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. . Prize-winning Children’s Laureate Anne Fine is more entertaining than anyone else about families. Creating circumstances in which everything possible can go wrong, she delights her readers with bizarre situations that are hugely entertaining....
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter Award. The winner will be announced to coincide with World Book Day Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008, the Carnegie and the Leeds Book Award in 2009. Comic and cosmic, this is a roller coaster...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2009
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Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Comic and cosmic, this is a roller coaster adventure that takes Liam Digby up into space with a handful of other children and their parents. It’s an hilarious...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Ribblestrop
Andrew Mulligan
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. In this quirky and original debut there’s never a dull moment.  Even before the student’s turn up to the school, you can tell is no ordinary place. The building is semi-ruined (some dormitories...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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The Silver Blade
Sally Gardner
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the French Revolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The Red Necklace are moved on a stage in this equally vivid and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/04/2009
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Then
Morris Gleitzman
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 In Once, Morris Gleitzman created a brilliant and unusual way of telling the story of how two children survived in Nazi Germany. In the sequel Then, Felix and Zelda continue on their journey...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Bloodline
Katy Moran
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Go back in time to Dark Age Britain for this powerful story about loyalty and survival in another time. Abandoned by his father, Essa makes a new life for himself among...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2008
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Spud Goes Green
Giles Thaxton
Age 7+. Winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards. Best book with facts. A clever story which successfully wraps up a mass of information in a remarkably small space. Spud takes a tough New Year’s decision: he decides to go...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2006
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The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness
Winner of the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 - the judges acclaimed it as “a major achievement in the making” Shortlisted for the Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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The Young Inferno
John Agard
Winner of The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education's Poetry Award for 2009.   Brilliantly original, John Agard’s poetic reworking of Dante’s Inferno for a young, modern audience is a thrilling journey of discovery. Told in thirteen Cantos which follow the hero in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Framed
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down.' 9 - 12 years. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.  What the judges said: Cottrell Boyce’s second children’s novel is original, charming and funny. It is a poignant...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2006
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking to an orphanage in Warsaw. But...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Helen Grant
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.    This debut novel is a great page-turner with an endearing story that's full of rich detail and beautifully written.  It has a terrific sense of place.  Although the narrator...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Chris Riddell)
Neil Gaiman
Winner of the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Winner of Best Novel at the Hugo Awards 2009. 2009 winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life in the graveyard. When Baby...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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The 13 Treasures
Michelle Harrison
Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2009.   This is an enchanting and at times terrifying debut that's beautifully written. 13 year old Tanya and her mother have an uneasy relationship so for part of the summer she is despatched...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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Just Henry
Michelle Magorian
Winner of the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award - From the award winning author of Goodnight Mister Tom comes a new page turning tale. Warmhearted and full of period detail, Just Henry is a wonderful story of growing up...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2008
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Just In Case
Meg Rosoff
Winner of the Carnegie Award 2007 and Winner of the Costa Children's book award. A razor-sharp portrait of a teenage boy and his relationship with his image, his inner life and fate itself.  Shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie to be...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 07/06/2007
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Sophie And The Albino Camel
Stephen Davies
Winner of the Glen Dimplex Children's Book award 2006. Sophie is a wonderfully adventurous young girl who now lives with her father in a town in the Sahara desert.  Her love of camels and a chance meeting with a young boy...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Accidents Of Nature
Harriet Mcbryde Johnson
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Award 2008. A hard hitting but heartwarming story to change everyone's view of disability forever. Jean has cerebral palsy but her parents have always made her think that the goal was to be as 'normal' as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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Accidental Friends
Helena Pielichaty
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Award 2008. A touching tale that involves four young strangers getting accidentally involved with each other through a chance encounter. Together they embark upon their college education that will change their lives forever. Helen Pielichaty has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Toby Alone
Timothee De Fombelle
Winner of the 2009 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation. It is the second time translator Sarah Ardizzone has won the Award: she took it in 2005 for Eye of the Wolf by Daniel Pennac. She received it at...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2008
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Singing It
Anne Cottringer
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Award 2008. New place, new school and new friends to make - and all doubly if your parents called you 'Flower Power'. Luckily she has her songs to help her deal with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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From Where I Stand
Tabitha Suzuma
Winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2008. There are no punches pulled in this exciting psychological thriller. After witnessing the death of his mother, Raven’s life is a mess despite help from foster carers and the rest. When a friend suggests...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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Nation
Terry Pratchett
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 Hugely entertaining, this is a fully envisaged fantasy adventure, which makes serious points about the importance of the past from the master storyteller and author of the hugely popular Discworld series.  Survival! Mau’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2009
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Ginger Snaps
Cathy Cassidy
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.  Tender, touching and convincing, Ginger Snap charts the ups and downs of growing up. Shy, friendless Ginger has blossomed at secondary school. She’s best friends with Shannon and now, just going into Year 8, looks...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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The Carbon Diaries 2015
Saci Lloyd
Shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award. This is a novel written in diary form as Laura, a teenager chronicles her life and that of her family as it is in 2015.  It’s edgy, it’s appealing and it’s contemporary and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Between Two Seas
Marie-louise Jensen
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Marianne promises her dying mother that she’ll seek a better life and especially that she’ll try to find her father. Leaving Grimsby, Marianne sets off on a long and dangerous voyage...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Guantanamo Boy
Anna Perera
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2009.   Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An important and moving story of an ordinary teenage boy innocently caught up in a modern-day nightmare which exposes the shortcomings of contemporary justice."
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009
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What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious American National Book Award - Utterly gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage novel, set just after WW2, full of powerful and conflicting emotions, which captures the dramatic shift from child to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
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Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where a boy confronts a stranger who has come to take revenge on his dead father. Gripping from the start...
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/07/2009
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The Ant Colony
Jenny Valentine
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. An irresistible new novel from Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize with Finding Violet Park.  Written with a wonderful lightness of touch, the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking to an orphanage in Warsaw. But...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Ostrich Boys
Keith Gray
Shortlisted for the Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009, the Young Minds Book Prize 2009, the Carnegie Award 2009 and also shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award. A novel that so cleverly, almost miraculously you might say, blends...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Tamar
Mal Peet
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2006. What the judges said: This is an enthralling and multi-layered novel that traces the story of two men caught up in secret operations in World War Two. It looks at the negative...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2006
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Creature of the Night
Kate Thompson
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009 and shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award.   From multi-award winning author Kate Thompson comes another absorbing read, blazing an enthralling path between the stark realities of modern-day society and the fantasy for which...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Message in a Bottle
Valerie Zenatti
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.    A poignant story of love across a war torn divide. Moved to think about those on the 'other side' after a suicide attack outside her home, seventeen year old Tal sends...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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Broken Soup
Jenny Valentine
Shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award.  Rowan is sure that she didn’t drop the negative that a boy presses into her hands but when her friend Bee offers to print it, Rowan’s curiosity causes her to accept. Who was...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Beast
Ally Kennen
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Admired hugely its spare prose and confident storytelling’ Teenagers, particularly boys will empathise completely with the hero in Beast even though he may not be...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/06/2006
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How to Heal a Broken Wing
Bob Graham
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. A story of hope and compassion in a big city -- from Australian picture book master, Bob Graham.   What the Kate Greenaway Award judges said: 'A beautifully understated book which makes fantastic use of perspective...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Molly and the Night Monster
Christopher Wormell
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Night fears are calmed in this beautiful picture book capturing moments familiar to many parents and children. In the middle of the night, Molly hears something on the stairs. She imagines all the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Airman
Eoin Colfer
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009 and shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. 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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Tina's Web
Zei Alki
Shortlisted for the 2009 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.  If you read Junk by Malcolm Burgess, you were probably gripped by it but you didn’t necessarily enjoy it.  Tina’s Web, however, is different in many ways but similar too. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2007
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Letters From Alain
Enrique Perez Diaz
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.    This is a moving tale by a Cuban writer of a child coming to terms with the realities of life in Cuba – a unique society tht despite the world around...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/06/2008
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My Brother Johnny
Francesco D'adamo
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.     My Brother Johnny addresses the contemporary moral issues about the nature of war by means of a compelling and sensitive narrative. Written by an Italian whose parents were refugees from Croatia. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/10/2007
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Sympathetic, touching, and surprisingly funny, Ways To Live Forever is a fantastic debut from Sally Nicholls. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Black Rabbit Summer
Kevin Brooks
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Pete and his childhood friends meet up one last time, for ‘old time’s sake’. But old times are full of secrets, tensions, bitterness and unhappiness. And everyone sees it a bit differently. And not...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008 and Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008. The electrifying and unflinching young adult debut novel about the impossible choices of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2008
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When The Snow Fell
Henning Mankell
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.    A touching story of growing up and discovering what really matters. Joel makes three New Year’s resolutions: To see a naked lady, to toughen himself up so that he can live...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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The Savage
David Almond
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Visually stunning this is also a spellbinding read, as the story a young boy writes develops a life of its own and begins to play a powerful role on reality. Encouraged to write...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2008
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Before I Die
Jenny Downham
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is a haunting yet truly amazing read but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to die what would...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/04/2008
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The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd
Shortlisted for the Nasen and TES 'Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award' 2007. When Salim mysteriously disappears while on a ride on the London Eye everyone is frantic and even the police are baffled. Ted has his own theories,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2007
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A Swift Pure Cry
Siobhan Dowd
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2007. A superb first novel, beautifully written, deeply moving and full of heartbreak. When Shell Talent’s mother dies everything around her begins to fall to pieces. Tired of looking after her younger brother and sister...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2006
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The Knife That Killed Me
Anthony Mcgowan
February 2010 Guest Editor Robert Muchamore on The Knife that Killed Me. I’ve always answered every fan who e-mails me. Questions about me or my books are easy enough to answer (yes we’re working on a CHERUB film,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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