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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Five Little Ducks
Jason Chapman, Jemima Lumley, Francesca Stich
Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award, Early Years 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...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
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Jason Chapman, Jemima Lumley, Francesca Stich
Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award, Early Years 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...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
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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....
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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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....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Flip
Martyn Bedford
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. Waking up as someone he’s never even met is the strangest experience of Flip’s life. Suddenly he’s Philip – or Flip – and nothing and no-one is familiar any more; the house, his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Martyn Bedford
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. Waking up as someone he’s never even met is the strangest experience of Flip’s life. Suddenly he’s Philip – or Flip – and nothing and no-one is familiar any more; the house, his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Flood Child
Emily Diamand
Winner of The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2008. Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award. This title was first published as Reaver's Ransom but has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2008
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Emily Diamand
Winner of The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2008. Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award. This title was first published as Reaver's Ransom but has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2008
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2005
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2005
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Flyaway
Lucy Christopher
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010 and Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010. Tender and touching, this is a delicate story about facing up to difficulties...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Lucy Christopher
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010 and Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010. Tender and touching, this is a delicate story about facing up to difficulties...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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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. A choice of Guest Editors Philip Ardargh...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2006
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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. A choice of Guest Editors Philip Ardargh...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2006
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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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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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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Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Winner of the Best of the Orange Best 2010, selected by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. A powerful story of suffering and the power of love. When a young holocaust survivor is found in the woods by a Greek archaeologist his life is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Anne Michaels
Winner of the Best of the Orange Best 2010, selected by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. A powerful story of suffering and the power of love. When a young holocaust survivor is found in the woods by a Greek archaeologist his life is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Generation Dead
Daniel Waters
A deeply compelling, sparklingly original supernatural romance about discrimination, prejudice, the power of love and of life and death. A brilliant debut and yet the quality of the writing, both sharp and quirky and the original plot line makes it...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Daniel Waters
A deeply compelling, sparklingly original supernatural romance about discrimination, prejudice, the power of love and of life and death. A brilliant debut and yet the quality of the writing, both sharp and quirky and the original plot line makes it...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Audio Books | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2007
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2007
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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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O Henry
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award 2009.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2008
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Grass
Cathy Macphail
Winner of the Scottish Book Award 2010 (Older Readers category). Tension mounts and there is no escape in this gripping thriller about gang violence. Leo and his best friend Sean have been brought up knowing how to avoid danger from...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | Ebooks | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
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Cathy Macphail
Winner of the Scottish Book Award 2010 (Older Readers category). Tension mounts and there is no escape in this gripping thriller about gang violence. Leo and his best friend Sean have been brought up knowing how to avoid danger from...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | Ebooks | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
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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....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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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....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 14 March 2007. Nigeria in the 1960s and the birth...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2007
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 14 March 2007. Nigeria in the 1960s and the birth...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2007
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Halo
Zizou Corder
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010. This is well written with excellent characterisation, particularly of the main protagonist in the story, a girl called Halo. There is plenty of excitement, action and adventure in the story together with lots...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Zizou Corder
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010. This is well written with excellent characterisation, particularly of the main protagonist in the story, a girl called Halo. There is plenty of excitement, action and adventure in the story together with lots...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2009
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2009
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Harry and Hopper
Margaret Wild
Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Harry and his dog Hopper have done everything together ever since Hopper was a jumpy little puppy. But one day the unthinkable happens and Hopper will never be there again. But Harry is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Margaret Wild
Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Harry and his dog Hopper have done everything together ever since Hopper was a jumpy little puppy. But one day the unthinkable happens and Hopper will never be there again. But Harry is...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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