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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/11/2005
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/11/2005
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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...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards
Format: Board Book - Released: 01/12/2006
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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...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards
Format: Board Book - Released: 01/12/2006
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Troubadour
Mary Hoffman
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 There’s romance, intrigue, religion and bloodshed all tightly interwoven in this historical thriller. Rather than marrying the old nobleman her father has chosen for her, Elinor determines to run away with Bertran...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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Mary Hoffman
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 There’s romance, intrigue, religion and bloodshed all tightly interwoven in this historical thriller. Rather than marrying the old nobleman her father has chosen for her, Elinor determines to run away with Bertran...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2009
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2009
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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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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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2008
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2008
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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. ...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2007
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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. ...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2007
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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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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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There are Cats in This Book
Viviane Schwarz
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. It’s time to play with the cats in this – Tiny, Moonpie and André. All you have to do is turn the pages. PS There are fish in this book too. CILIP...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2008
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Viviane Schwarz
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. It’s time to play with the cats in this – Tiny, Moonpie and André. All you have to do is turn the pages. PS There are fish in this book too. CILIP...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2008
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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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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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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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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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The Young Inferno
John Agard
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 discovery....
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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John Agard
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 discovery....
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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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...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2006
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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...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2006
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The Witching Hour
Elizabeth Laird
Shortlisted for the Scottish Book Award 2010. Vivid and thrilling, The Witching Hour is a finely crafted historical novel, packed full of the important details which bring the past to life. At its heart is the story of strong spirited...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2010
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Elizabeth Laird
Shortlisted for the Scottish Book Award 2010. Vivid and thrilling, The Witching Hour is a finely crafted historical novel, packed full of the important details which bring the past to life. At its heart is the story of strong spirited...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2010
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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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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Helen Grant
Shortlisted for the CLIP Carnegie Medai 2010. 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 is only 10 years old,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Helen Grant
Shortlisted for the CLIP Carnegie Medai 2010. 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 is only 10 years old,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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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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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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The Unfinished Angel
Sharon Creech
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Prize-winning author Sharon Creech tells a magical story that's truly original, touching and funny of an unusual friendship between an unusual angel and Zola who find themselves sharing a tower high in the...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Sharon Creech
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Prize-winning author Sharon Creech tells a magical story that's truly original, touching and funny of an unusual friendship between an unusual angel and Zola who find themselves sharing a tower high in the...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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The Truth About Leo
David Yelland
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award 2010 Full of insight, this is a deeply moving story about how a child handles a parent with a serious problem. Leo’s life with his father is a mess but there is no way...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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David Yelland
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award 2010 Full of insight, this is a deeply moving story about how a child handles a parent with a serious problem. Leo’s life with his father is a mess but there is no way...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009
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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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys | Debuts of the Month
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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/1999
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/1999
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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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...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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The Thirteen 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...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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The Thirteen Secrets
Michelle Harrison
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. This is the brilliant concluding part of Harrison's '13' trilogy, it's a brilliantly crafted dark faerie story that appeals across a wide audience of children aged about 9+. She has cleverly...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Michelle Harrison
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. This is the brilliant concluding part of Harrison's '13' trilogy, it's a brilliantly crafted dark faerie story that appeals across a wide audience of children aged about 9+. She has cleverly...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/10/2008
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/10/2008
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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,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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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,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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