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The Goldfish Boy
- Lisa Thompson
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407170992
- Published: 05-01-2017
A story about finding friendship when you're lonely - and hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is th...
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Alice Jones: The Ghost Light
- Sarah Rubin
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781910002872
- Published: 05-01-2017
Old refurbished theatre, the Beryl, is re-opening. Days before opening night, the ghost light - left on at night to appease the ghosts of actors - is extinguished. Alice digs into the Beryl's past, sleuthing in a network of dark backstage corridors and cobwebby storage rooms. Gradually, she st...
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The White Tower
- Cathryn Constable
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781909489103
- Published: 05-01-2017
When Livy's accepted at Temple College, a school for the very brightest, no one is more surprised than her, though she has always felt different. Recently, Livy's been drawn to the roof, where, among its towering stone angels, she has the strangest desire to fly. But her behaviour is noticed b...
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Mark of the Plague (A Blackthorn Key adventure)
- Kevin Sands
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141360669
- Published: 05-01-2017
BOILS, BLOOD AND A BURNING FEVER - THE BLACK DEATH HAS RETURNED TO LONDON . . .As the dreaded sickness spreads through the city, striking down rich and poor alike, an unknown man arrives with a miracle cure. But when an assassin threatens the life of the city's new saviour, young a...
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What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible
- Ross Welford
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780008156350
- Published: 29-12-2016
From the author of the unforgettable bestseller TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER comes another surprising, beautiful and funny novel about a child who, by disappearing, will write herself into your heart forever... Turning invisible at will: it's one way of curing your acne. But far more...
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas
- Matt Haig, Chris Mould
- Canongate Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781782118572
- Published: 03-11-2016
JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MAGICIf magic has a beginning, can it also have an end?When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask - Father Christmas.But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has more than impossible wishes to worry about. U...
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Maybe a Fox
- Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt, Robert Farkas
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406372892
- Published: 03-11-2016
Worlds collide spectacularly when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub ... and what happens when one sister d...
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The Midnight Gang
- David Walliams, Tony Ross
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780008164614
- Published: 03-11-2016
Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for... the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning... When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by...
