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Small Change for Stuart
Small Change for Stuart
Lissa Evans
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal and the 2012 Branford Boase Award Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award.  The Carnegie Medal Judges said: A refreshing and plausibly magical novel which joyfully celebrates cleverness and a delight in words. Both the main...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Carnegie/Greenaway | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Freaks
Freaks
Kieran Larwood
April 2012 Debut of the Month and Winner of The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2011. This well-written and action-packed debut is even being considered...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Dear Dylan
Dear Dylan
Siobhan Curham
April 2012 Book of the Month. Winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2010. This was a self-publishing YA phenomenon in 2010 and winner of the above award beating the likes of Julia Donaldson and Bali Rai.  Then it was bought by Egmont...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2012
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Twilight Robbery
Twilight Robbery
Frances Hardinge
March 2012 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Award winning Frances Hardinge’s first novel Fly By Night starred Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent. Now they are back for a thrilling new adventure in the city...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Young Inferno
The Young Inferno
John Agard
Age 9+. Winner of The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education's Poetry Award for 2009 and nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Brilliantly original, John Agard’s poetic reworking of Dante’s Inferno for a young, modern audience is a thrilling journey of...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Poetry
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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What the Ladybird Heard (Board Book)
What the Ladybird Heard (Board Book)
Julia Donaldson
Winner of the Scottish Book Award 2010 (0-7 years category). Best-selling author and illustrator Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks have teamed up for another brilliant picture book. Right in the farmyard among all the noisy animals with their MOOs! and QUACKS!...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Ways To Live Forever
Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award. Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008. Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008. Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year. Sympathetic, touching,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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One Dog and His Boy
One Dog and His Boy
Eva Ibbotson
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. Award winning Eva Ibbotson’s poignant and beautiful last book celebrates a boy’s passion for a dog. All Hal has ever wanted is a dog but his parents refuse...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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A Hen in the Wardrobe
A Hen in the Wardrobe
Wendy Meddour
Witty and warm-hearted, this is a delightful family story spiced with adventure. Everything is distinctly not normal in Ramzi’s house. While mum’s away studying Domes of the East for her architecture course, dad starts waking in the night to do...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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A Monster Calls
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 Penalty
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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Tamar
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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Book Awards | Bookshelf Essentials | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Long Lankin
Long Lankin
Lindsey Barraclough
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2012. A chilling, beautiful novel inspired by a haunting folk song about murder, witchcraft and revenge.  Intensely atmospheric and truly compelling, this is a stunning debut. The Branford Boase judges said: "An extremely atmospheric tale and...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Blood Red Road
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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Sky Hawk
Sky Hawk
Gill Lewis
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2012. Rich in atmosphere and full of heart, Sky Hawk is an intense and touching story of how protecting a rare bird forges a deep and special friendship between two children. The osprey is Iona’s...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/12/2011
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Just Henry (TV Tie In Edition)
Just Henry (TV Tie In Edition)
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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2011
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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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The Highway Rat
The Highway Rat
Julia Donaldson
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Best-selling author/ illustrator combination Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have teamed up for another great adventure. Many of the creatures that appear in The Gruffalo feature in this rollicking adventure...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Noah Barleywater Runs Away
Noah Barleywater Runs Away
John Boyne
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 When 9 year old Noah runs away from his family, initially we don’t know why, but he finds himself in a strange, other...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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My Name is Mina
My Name is Mina
David Almond
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal. The Judges said: A wonderful celebration of words, language and creativity which completely nails the voice of Mina, its central character, and demonstrates a true stream of consciousness. Mina has much to teach us all...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards | Carnegie/Greenaway
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The Unforgotten Coat
The Unforgotten Coat
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. A gem of a story by award-winning Frank Cottrell Boyce, this is sure to make readers laugh and cry and to go away changed when they have finished it. Looking back on an...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Cats Ahoy!
Cats Ahoy!
Peter Bently
Winner of the 6 and under category, Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. A swashbuckling tale of pirate plunder, derring do and a huge haul of haddock! "These two books are master classes in how to write and how to draw funny," said...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2011
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Too Much Trouble
Too Much Trouble
Tom Avery
Winner of the 2010 Frances Lincoln / Seven Stories Diverse Voices Children's Book Award. Click here to read author and teacher Tom Avery's Q&A with one of the judges, Geraldine Brennan. This prize-winning story will grab readers’ attention from...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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Momentum
Momentum
Saci Lloyd
One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Momentum is an action-packed thriller with a warm heart but a disturbing message of what can happen in a broken society. The setting is a disintegrating London in...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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No!
No!
Marta Altes
Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize 2012 - a national competition aimed at discovering new and unknown works:  a truly democratic book prize decided exclusively by the public. To find out how to vote, click here.      A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2011
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The Fearsome Beastie
The Fearsome Beastie
Giles Paley-Phillips
April 2012 Book of the Month.  Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize 2012. This is a terrific little picture book that parents are likely to be more worried about for the fear factor than any toddler.  There's a great storyline written...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2011
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Small Change for Stuart
Small Change for Stuart
Lissa Evans
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.  The Judges said: A refreshing and plausibly magical novel which joyfully celebrates cleverness and a delight in words. Both the main characters and the cameo parts are extremely vivid and humorous, and the mystery and...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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One Dog and His Boy
One Dog and His Boy
Eva Ibbotson
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Award winning Eva Ibbotson’s poignant and beautiful last book celebrates a boy’s passion for a dog. All Hal has ever wanted...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Shadow Wave
Shadow Wave
Robert Muchamore
After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the corrupt governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission, especially as...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls
Siobhan Dowd, 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 | Undercover Reads
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2011
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