Books - Children

• Amy McCulloch
• Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781471169960
• Published: 09-08-2018

'A little bit GOLDEN COMPASS, a little bit HUNGER GAMES, and all adventure' - Amie Kaufman, NYT bestselling author of ILLUMINAEThe brand-new series from the author of the magical POTION DIARIES adventures! Lacey Chu has big dreams of working for the company behind the '...

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• Stephanie Burgis
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781408880777
• Published: 09-08-2018

Once upon a time, in a beautiful city famous for chocolate and protected by dragons, there was a girl so fearless that she dared to try to tell the greatest story of all: the truth.Silke has always been good at spinning the truth and storytelling. So good that since arriving as a p...

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• Katherine Woodfine, Karl James Mountford
• Farshore
• ISBN13: 9781405287043
• Published: 09-08-2018

The first in a brand new series by bestselling Sinclair's Mysteries author Katherine Woodfine.  ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN TO PARIS! It's 1911, and the young detectives of TAYLOR & ROSE are turning their talents to ESPIONAGE. On a case for the mysterious SECRET SERVICE BUREAU, the daring...

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• Rachel Rooney, Chris Riddell
• Otter-Barry Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910959879
• Published: 02-08-2018

"He's not scared of nothing.Nobody. Never. Nah.Which means that he is.Tough Kid. Not tough enough.I know - I once met his dad." They're all here...every kid in the class has their own poem. The pushy one, the shy one. The whizz kid and the daydreamer. The best fr...

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• Emma Carroll
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571328499
• Published: 02-08-2018

Enter a world of Egyptian pharaohs and ancient curses from the Queen of Historical Fiction.London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt . . .A cursed package . . .The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent...

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• Catherine Johnson
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9781407185484
• Published: 02-08-2018

Winner of the Little Rebels Children's Book Award 2019!  An action-packed and pacey story about a boy's experience of slavery in Britain. Nathaniel doesn't want to move to England with his master's family, leaving behind his mother and sister on the Jamaican plantation. But then he remembers w...

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• Christopher William Hill
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781408332931
• Published: 12-07-2018

A BLEAKLEY BROTHERS MYSTERY by OSBERT THE AVENGER author Christopher William Hill What's that you say? You're off to Bleakley Manor? On Michaelmas eve? But dear child, hasn't anyone told you the legend of Old Bramble Head, who rises once a year to claim another victim from the unfortuna...

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• Fleur Beale
• Allen & Unwin
• ISBN13: 9781760634773
• Published: 12-07-2018

Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leadin...

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