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Baby's very first outdoors book
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...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2009
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What You Need to Know Now: The World in Facts, Stats and Graphics
What You Need to Know Now: The World in Facts, Stats and Graphics

Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Best Book with Facts. Stuffed full of completely up-to-date statistics, graphics and facts, this is a bumper information book about what is going on in our planet and why. Masses of information about...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Fascinating Facts
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Meteorite Strike
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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | Debuts of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/01/2010
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Usborne Lift the Flap Picture Atlas
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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Book Awards | Fascinating Facts
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/02/2008
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The Doomsday Code (Time Riders Book 3)
The Doomsday Code (Time Riders Book 3)
Alex Scarrow
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 This spectacular time travel series from the pen of Alex Scarrow just gets better and better.  The first two were brilliant; this is the third and it's even better.  All-action adventure time travel...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Everybody Jam
Everybody Jam
Ali Lewis
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.  Shortlisted for the North East Teenage Book Award and for the Coventry Inspiration Awards in the Simply The Book (age 14+) category. Longlisted for the Southern Schools Book Award. The Carnegie judges said: A hugely engaging and enjoyable...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Book Awards | Carnegie/Greenaway | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Frozen In Time
Frozen In Time
Ali Sparkes
Book of the Year in the 2010 Blue Peter Award and winner of the '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,...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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The Pencil
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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Beast
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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/06/2006
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We Are All Born Free
We Are All Born Free
Amnesty International
Winner: Special Award, English Association 4-11 Award An arrestingly original way of informing children of their human rights, We Are All Born Free depicts each of the 30 Articles of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in wonderful illustrations by thirty best...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 09/10/2008
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Small Island
Small Island
Andrea Levy
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. A novel about racism, prejudice and injustice in the post war years in London as Jamaicans, escaping economic hardship, move to the Mother Country.  Told from four characters’...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/09/2009
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The Pasta Detectives
The Pasta Detectives
Andreas Steinhofel
Shortlisted for the 2011 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. This is a funny and original mystery starring two unlikely boy detectives, the mildly autistic Rico and the brainy but anxiety-ridden Oscar.  The story of The Pasta Detectives explores the...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Ribblestrop
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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Return to Ribblestrop
Return to Ribblestrop
Andrew Mulligan
Winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. The judging panel was chaired by Lovereading4kids Editor in Chief Julia Eccleshare who is also the Guardian Children's Books editor. She said of the winner: “The judges considered energetically and argued...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Trash
Trash
Andy Mulligan
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 Headlong and heart-stopping, this is an adventure you just can’t put down. When Raphael and Gardo find a bag among the piles of steaming rubbish which they spend all day everyday sorting...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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You're A Bad Man, Mr Gum!
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...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2006
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Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear
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....
Featured in: 7+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2008
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What's for Dinner Mr Gum?
What's for Dinner Mr Gum?
Andy Stanton
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Best-selling Mr Gum is back for a sixth hilarious adventure. Mr Gum’s tastes have always been revolting but this time he surpasses himself with a passionate indulgence of rancid kebabs dripping with dirty grey...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree
Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree
Andy Stanton
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Most Fun Story with Pictures* Hilarious, delightful and utterly, utterly absurd, prize-winning Andy Stanton’s truly revolting hero Mr Gum and the extraordinary town of Lamonic Bibber where he lives are back in...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010
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Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout
Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout
Andy Stanton
One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Prize-winning Andy Stanton’s disgusting Mr Gum has gone missing in this new zany and hilarious adventure set in that most unusual of places, Lamonic Bibber. Mr Gum hates...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
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Leon and the Place Between
Leon and the Place Between
Angela Mcallister
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. When Leon goes to the magic show, he is the only one who believes. His brothers and sisters are in for a big surprise however: this is no ordinary show and Abdul Kazam...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Planet In Peril
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...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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The Burying Beetle
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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2006
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The Bower Bird
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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
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100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet
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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Fascinating Facts
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2008
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Guantanamo Boy
Guantanamo Boy
Anna Perera
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher
One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Heartbreaking and funny in equal measure, 10-year-old Jamie's direct and wide-eyed account of the emotional chaos he and his family live through following the death of his sister...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2011
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Audio CD read by David Tennant
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Audio CD read by David Tennant
Annabel Pitcher
Audio CD read by David Tennant. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year Award 2011 You'll be utterly mesmerised by the voice of a 10 year old boy whose family have quite frankly gone AWOL since one of his twin...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards
Format: Audiobook On Cd - Released: 10/03/2011
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal and the 2012 Branford Boase Award. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. The Carnegie Judges said: With a great central character, a sophisticated plot and an ending that is both credible...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards | Carnegie/Greenaway | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Singing It
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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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