Books - Children

• Emma Carroll
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571327584
• Published: 01-06-2017

'We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.' February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, 12-year-old O...

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• Kim Slater
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509842193
• Published: 18-05-2017

Fourteen-year-old Calum Brooks has big dreams. One day he'll escape this boring life and write movies -proper ones, with massive budgets and A-list stars. For now, though, he's stuck coping alone while his dad works away, writing scripts in his head and trying to stay 'in' with his gang of mat...

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• Claire Fayers (Author)
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781447290629
• Published: 18-05-2017

Sail the magical seven seas in Journey to Dragon Island, a swashbuckling pirate adventure by Claire Fayers.Since accidentally joining the crew of pirate ship the Onion, the lives of twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne, her magician friend Peter and former-librarian Tom have been turned...

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• Jennifer Killick
• Firefly Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910080566
• Published: 15-05-2017

Alex Sparrow is a super-agent in training. He is also a human lie-detector. Working with Jess - who can communicate with animals - they must find out why their friends, and enemies, are all changing into polite and well behaved pupils. And exactly who is behind it all. This is a humorous tale...

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• Horatio Clare
• Firefly Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910080504
• Published: 15-05-2017

The ladybirdz arrive in Woodside Terrace, and Aubrey's Easter holidays get complicated. Ariadne the spider asks Aubrey to help. Something Must Be Done, but first Aubrey sucks the swallow stone which makes him small enough for daring flights on the back of Hirundo the Swallow and amazing advent...

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• Sheila O'Flanagan
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444927085
• Published: 04-05-2017

The gripping children's debut from the Sunday Times and Irish Times No. 1 bestselling author is a page-turning fantasy quest novel for fans of Cornelia Funke, Susan Cooper and Philip Pullman. 'I am proud to die for Carcassia,' said Kaia. 'All Runners have a special place in our world, i...

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• Pamela Butchart, Thomas Flintham
• Nosy Crow Ltd
• ISBN13: 9780857639066
• Published: 04-05-2017

Izzy and her friends are SO EXCITED about their school trip. They're going camping and there'll be marshmallows and no washing and everything. But then WEIRD things start happening! There are howling sounds at night, and some sausages have gone missing, and it's nearly a full moon... But it's...

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• Lorraine Gregory
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192745828
• Published: 04-05-2017

He's got a big heart . . . and a nose to match!Mold's a bit of a freak. His nose is as big as his body is puny and his mother abandoned him in a bin when he was a mere baby. Who else but the old healer, Aggy, would have taken him in and raised him as her own? But when Aggy is accused of poison...

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