Books - Children

• Stewart Foster
• Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781471145407
• Published: 19-05-2016

Winner of the 9+ catergory of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and shortlisted for the Branford Boase AwardA poignant, heartwarming tale that teaches children the importance of treating people with kindness and empathy.Amir is mad. He's crazy. But the hospital woul...

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• Caroline Lawrence
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781510100237
• Published: 05-05-2016

The first in a brand new historical adventure series from million-copy-selling Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian. The year is AD 94. When the evil Emperor Domitian sends soldiers to seize his family's home in the middle of the night, t...

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• Kwame Alexander
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781783444656
• Published: 05-05-2016

Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you...Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Cross...

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• Ali Sparkes
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192746054
• Published: 05-05-2016

Dax Jones will not be tamed.The Children of Limitless Ability can do all sorts of amazing things. Terrifying things too. Some can move things with their minds. Some can make themselves vanish. Dax Jones can change his form; can hurtle through the sky at 200km an hour, or swim underwater for mi...

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• Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910002742
• Published: 05-05-2016

The magical bestseller: a classic story to read again and again. Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017. Winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year 2017. Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Beautiful, thrilling and magica...

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• M.M. Vaughan
• Alma Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781846883958
• Published: 21-04-2016

When Parker Banks moves with his family from London to New York, he struggles to adapt to his new school and environment. His scientist dad is constantly at work on a top-secret technological venture for a major corporation, when one day he is kidnapped. It is up to Parker, along with his deaf...

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• Dave Rudden
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141356600
• Published: 07-04-2016

The first book in a new series about an orphan boy who discovers he is part of a secret army that protects the world from a race of shadowy monsters.Grey placed his finger in the middle of the shadow.'What's this?' he asked.Denizen frowned. 'It's a shadow.''No, it...

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• Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steven Lenton
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780230771376
• Published: 07-04-2016

The Blythes are a big, warm, rambunctious family who live on a small farm and sometimes foster children. Now Prez has come to live with them. But, though he seems cheerful and helpful, he never says a word. Then one day Prez answers the door to someone claiming to be his relative. This...

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