Books for Babies and Toddlers

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 What's the Opposite? What's the Opposite? Oliver Jeffers Award-winning Oliver Jeffers’s endearingly simple Hueys are always asking interesting questions to help them find out more. This time they want to know more about opposites. Some opposites are easy. Everyone knows that Down is the opposite of Up, that ... Download free opening extract
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 Slug Needs a Hug Slug Needs a Hug Jeanne Willis Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, April 2016  Best-selling Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross have created many fabulous picture books together. Here, the weedy and whiny little slug is just longing for a hug! How can he make his mum ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for Young Adults

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 Chasing the Stars Chasing the Stars Malorie Blackman May 2016 Book of the Month An innovative, ambitious page-turner in which the inimitable Malorie Blackman has entwined two of her great passions - Shakespeare's Othello and science fiction - to create a thrilling outer-space-set epic that tingles with romance, ... Download free opening extract
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 Whisper to Me Whisper to Me Nick Lake May 2016 Book of the Month  This electrifyingly smart story of a teen girl's struggle with a tormenting voice in her head is a masterwork of contemporary YA. There's a murderer on the loose in Cassie's New Jersey hometown, the so-called ... Download free opening extract
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 Unrivalled Unrivalled Alyson Noel May 2016 Book of the Month. Oozing with ambition, glamour and more ruthless Hollywood backstabbing than you can shake a designer stiletto at, this is the sassy first instalment of Alyson Noël’s Beautiful Idols series.Everyone in LA either is, or ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 3+ readers

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 The First Hippo on the Moon The First Hippo on the Moon David Walliams Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month May 2016 Best-selling  David Walliams and Tony Ross have teamed up for a great hippo space adventure. Sheila is a hippo with BIG ideas. Specifically, she is determined to be the first hippo on ... Download free opening extract
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 The Bear and the Piano The Bear and the Piano David Litchfield Shortlisted for the English Picture Book Award 2016 - Longlisted for the inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize, an important new illustration prize for children's books. Winner of the Illustrated category of The Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016. March 2016 Debut of the ... Download free opening extract
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 Supertato Veggies Assemble Supertato Veggies Assemble Sue Hendra May 2016 Book of the Month You won’t find a dafter or more entertaining picture book than this new outing for Supertato, the spud with super powers! It’s anarchy in the supermarket when the peas – evil to their core – ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 5+ readers

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 The Mouse Who Reached the Sky The Mouse Who Reached the Sky Petr Horacek May 2016 Book of the Month Little Mouse has spotted something red and shiny hanging from a branch, and decides it’s a marble. She can’t reach it by herself so fetches first Mole – who thinks it’s a balloon – ... Download free opening extract
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 Captain Pug Captain Pug Laura James Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month May 2016   A deliciously madcap doggy adventure for Pug, the pampered dog of the even more pampered Lady Miranda. When Lady Miranda determines that Pug will be the ship’s captain when they go ... Download free opening extract
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 The Secret Pirate The Secret Pirate Elli Woollard Lil might look like an ordinary schoolgirl, but under her jumper and vest she’s a pirate! When the thoroughly rotten Stinkbeard arrives Lil flies into battle against him, because Lil is a pirate who’ll do what is right, if it ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 7+ readers

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 Dotty Detective Dotty Detective Clara Vulliamy May 2016 Book of the Month  Dot’s story is told in a unique diary format of hilarious Tweet-style observations, selfie pics (artworked by Clara), under the duvet moments back at ‘HQ’ (Dot’s bedroom) and clues that Dot finds and sticks ... Download free opening extract
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 The Indian in the Cupboard The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks Lynne Reid Banks’s much-loved book has all the ingredients of a perfect children’s story. Nine-year old Omri is given two important gifts for his birthday: a plastic Indian figure from his friend Patrick and a metal cupboard from his brother.  ... Download free opening extract
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 My Brother is a Superhero My Brother is a Superhero David Solomons Children’s Book of the Year, The British Book Industry Awards 2016 - Overall winner of Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016 - Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2016. July 2015 Debut of the Month  Oh the anguish! Luke is a comic-reading ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 9+ readers

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 Hidden Oracle Hidden Oracle Rick Riordan May 2016 Book of the Month In the hands of Rick Riordan, aka ‘Storyteller of the Gods’, Greek myths provide the starting points for the very best contemporary adventures. Apollo is star of this new series, though he’s not very godlike: ... Download free opening extract
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 Haunters Haunters Thomas Taylor The dead and the living exist side by side in this thrilling time-travelling adventure. In David's recurrent dream, Eddie seems real and it seems like he's got something to tell David. That's scary enough but then David gets picked up ... Download free opening extract
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 The Tree That Sat Down The Tree That Sat Down Beverley Nichols Part of a magical series loved by readers for generations, Beverley Nichols’s gentle fantasy adventure will entrance and entertain today’s children just as it did their parents and grandparents. Judy and her granny live in an enchanted wood and run ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 11+ readers

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 The Girl of Ink & Stars The Girl of Ink & Stars Kiran Millwood-Hargrave ‘Here be dragons’ it says  on old maps, but Isabella finds creatures even more terrifying in the unchartered lands of Joya, the island that is her home. Joya is a place of limited horizons and hidden stories: the governor has ... Download free opening extract
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 House of Secrets House of Secrets Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini Hold onto your hats. Acclaimed film director, producer and screenwriter Chris Columbus has swapped the big screen for books with House of Secrets, the first book in a brand new trilogy, which he has co-written with Ned Vizzini of MTV’s ... Download free opening extract
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 Over the Line Over the Line Tom Palmer Interest Age 10+ Reading Age 8   Football never dies – even during the darkest days of the First World War. Tom Palmer tells the true story of the Footballers’ Battalion. Accused of cowardice because they are out playing football instead ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 13+ readers

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 Nightwanderers Nightwanderers C. J. Flood From the Branford Boase award-winning author of Infinite Sky comes this smartly-plotted page-turner about intense friendship and discovering unexpected strengths. Shy Rosie had “never had a true friend” until Titania - Ti - comes along. “Big-boned and fearless-looking”, Ti is everything ... Download free opening extract
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 Off the Page Off the Page Jodi Picoult, Samantha Van Leer May 2016 Book of the Month This companion novel to the bestselling Between the Lines also works wonderfully as a life-affirming standalone novel, and features a sprinkling of full-page colour illustrations that exude the feel-good nostalgic ambiance of traditional fairy ... Download free opening extract
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 Maladapted Maladapted Richard Kurti This second novel from the author of Monkey Wars is a thought-provoking thriller with all the adrenalin-boosting action of Alex Rider and high stakes dystopian drama of The Hunger Games. Cillian is a teen prodigy whose world is overturned when he survives a ... Download free opening extract