Books - Children

• Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, Giovanni Rigano
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444934007
• Published: 05-10-2017

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Eb...

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• Gill Lewis
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192749253
• Published: 05-10-2017

Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest up there in the heather - an...

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• Sue Purkiss
• Alma Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781846884283
• Published: 28-09-2017

An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows no limits, and when one day he goes a step too far, Aunt Constance decides that she's had enough: from now on, his bachelor uncle can take care of him. Uncle Edmund i...

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• Phil Earle
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444013931
• Published: 21-09-2017

From the author of DEMOLITION DAD, the CBBC Book of the Month June 2017, comes the fourth and final hilarious Storey Street by Phil Earle, illustrated by Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted artist, Sara Ogilvie. Perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Liz Pichon and David Walliams.<br...

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• Kim Ventrella, Victoria Assanelli
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509828678
• Published: 21-09-2017

When Stanley Stanwright finds a bone poking out of the earth in his back garden, he is determined to take a picture of it and send it to the Young Discoverer's Competition, thinking it will help bring his dad back home. But the bone begins to grow, reaching up out of the ground until it turns...

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• John Agard, Satoshi Kitamura
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444932607
• Published: 21-09-2017

A wonderful new anthology of poems by winner of the Queens Medal and the Eleanor Farjeon Award, 2016 Do trianglesever get into a tangle when their sides meet their angles? A wonderful new children's poetry collection, from a celebrated, award-winning poet.From n...

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• Allie Esiri, Allie Esiri, Papio Press
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509860548
• Published: 07-09-2017

A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for Christmas - these poems are thoughtful, inspiri...

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• Scarlett Thomas
• Canongate Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781782117049
• Published: 07-09-2017

IF YOU HAD SECRET MAGICAL POWERS, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?After the Worldquake, Effie knows about magic - time in her grandfather's library has made sure of that. But there's still much she has to learn. About the Otherworld. And about the Diberi, a secret organisation with plans to destroy the ent...

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