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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...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2007
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The Dunderheads
Paul Fleischman
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Miss Breakbone is a fearsome teacher: she shouts, she confiscates, she makes kids cry. Until the Dunderheads – an unlikely band of kids, with extraordinary hidden talents, decide to teach Miss Breakbone a...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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The Knife of Never Letting Go: Book 1 in the Chaos Walking Trilogy
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2008
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The Ask and the Answer: Book 2 in the Chaos Walking Trilogy
Patrick Ness
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010. Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never Letting Go with equally hard hitting The Ask and the Answer. Trying to escape, Todd and Viola fall into the hands of Mayor...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Monsters of Men: Book 3 in the Chaos Walking Trilogy
Patrick Ness
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011. Shortlisted for the 25th Anniversary Arthur C Clarke Award in 2011 and Galaxy Children's Book Award shortlist 2010. This is a spine-tingling, page turning read. Heaped with well-deserved awards, the Chaos Walking Trilogy...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2010
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A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal and 2012 Kate Greenaway Medal. The Judges said: An exquisite piece of writing of great depth which has huge impact upon the reader, guiding them through some difficult emotional lessons. Well plotted and lyrically written...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Carnegie/Greenaway
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The Crowfield Curse
Pat Walsh
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2011. Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 An exciting adventure with some excellent magical powers at its heart. Life is hard for Will growing up in the chilly atmosphere of Crowfield Abbey. He’s hungry...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2006
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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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...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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The Great Paper Caper
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Touching and funny, this is also a visually sophisticated picture book which lightly carries an important message about the use – and misuse - of resources. CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal SHORTLIST 2010:...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
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The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2011 Award winning Oliver Jeffers’s latest book is wholly compelling for the importance of its message...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Stuck
Oliver Jeffers
Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that gets stuck, along with! a ladder, a pot of paint,...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Gift Of The Magi
O Henry
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award 2009.
Featured in: 7+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2008
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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...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2005
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2005
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Chris Riddell)
Neil Gaiman
11+. Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 2010, shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2010, winner of Best Novel at the Hugo Awards 2009 and of the prestigious Newbery Medal. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Dave McKean)
Neil Gaiman
Winner of the CLIP Carnegie Medal 2010. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life in the graveyard. When Baby Bod escapes a murderer intent on killing his whole family, he is taken in by the graveyard ghosts....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Crazy Hair
Neil Gaiman
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. A father and child discover the joys of his crazy hair in this brilliant picture book. Bonnie tries to tame her father's hair, but to no avail, as birds and beasts of every type jostle...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2009
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Now
Morris Gleitzman
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010. Morris Gleitzman's acclaimed story of friends Felix and Zelda in Nazi-occupied Poland has captured the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. In Now , he delivers the final chapter, bringing this most moving...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Blood Red Road
Moira Young
Winner of the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. The story's searing pace, its spare style, the excitement of its fabulously damaged world, its unforgettably vivid characters, its violent action and glorious love story make this a truly sensatonal YA debut novel. Much...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2012
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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...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks | Fascinating Facts
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Do Igloos Have Loos?
Mitchell Symons
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Best Book with Facts The place to go to find answers to out of the ordinary questions is none other than the author Mitchell Symons and his terrific series of books, of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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Jim
Mini Grey
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2011 With opening flaps and a final, magnificent picture which opens out completely, this is a wonderful illustrated version of a classic poem. Jim has everything he wants – delightfully tactile ‘slices of delicious...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Three By the Sea
Mini Grey
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 Prize-winning illustrator Mini Grey tells a tender and thought provoking fable about friendship. Cat, Dog and Mouse live happily together; while Cat does the housework, Dog tends the garden and Mouse does...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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Tail-end Charlie
Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2010. 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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/09/2009
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