Books - Children

• Barbara Mitchelhill
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781783448333
• Published: 06-06-2019

Daisy's hero is Florence Nightingale, and she hopes to one day become a nurse just like her. But as a girl growing up in the East End of London in 1912, it seems like all her future holds is dropping out of school to work a tough job in a factory for very little money. Then Daisy meets the suf...

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• Julia Green
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192771568
• Published: 06-06-2019

Bonnie is scavenging on a beach when she finds a battered old row boat. And under the boat, a bare-footed boy-cold, hungry, and in need of help. The authorities have already been troubling Bonnie and Granda for breaking rules, but how can she leave this boy when he has no-one? Bonnie does her...

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• Abi Elphinstone
• Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781471173660
• Published: 30-05-2019

***Pre-order Abi's latest adventures, EVERDARK and THE CRACKLEDAWN DRAGON, coming in 2021!***Magic, adventure, and a whole new world is waiting to be discovered! The perfect series for adventurers aged 9+ and fans of Michelle Harrison, Piers Torday and Jamie Littler. The Unmapped C...

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• Clive Gifford, Paul Daviz
• Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781786038890
• Published: 23-05-2019

You know that man has walked on the Moon, but do you know the story of how he got there? With the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing on 20th July 2019, this book celebrates the Space Race rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. Readers will learn about the neck-and-neck race between the...

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• Jake Banfield
• Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781786034083
• Published: 16-05-2019

This book that takes the reader from knowing zero about magic to being able to do a whole show for their family and friends. Along the way they will learn some cool tricks to show their friends in school, find out how to do a PR stunt, film their own tricks, develop their unique magician perso...

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• Sarah Graley, Stef Purenins
• Scholastic US
• ISBN13: 9781338174519
• Published: 14-05-2019

Winner of the \"Most Epic Adventure\" Kids' Comics Award 2020. From comics rising star Sarah Graley, a fresh and funny middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl who must save a virtual world... and her own! Izzy has an incredible secret -- she can enter the world of her new video game! She m...

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• David Baddiel, Steven Lenton
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780008200565
• Published: 02-05-2019

Strictest head naughtiest boy = chaos. Bracket Wood is about to be visited by the school inspectors. But there's one big problem: Ryan Ward. The maestro of practical jokes, Ryan has played so many tricks that in the end the Head Teacher just walks out. And then t...

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• Judith Eagle, illus Kim Geyer
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571346301
• Published: 02-05-2019

Clara has lived a life of solitude, home schooled under her mean uncle's strict regime . . . until now! The day that Uncle abandons Clara, leaving her with nothing but a wedge of 'guilt money' and a half empty, crumbling manor house, she is determined to do things her way for a change. And whe...

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