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The Girl Who Rode the Wind
- Stacy Gregg
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780008124304
- Published: 30-07-2015
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day. When Lola's grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her family's history of heartbreak and adven...
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Katy
- Jacqueline Wilson
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141353968
- Published: 30-07-2015
Katy's life changes in dramatic and unexpected ways after a serious accident.Inspired by the much-loved classic, What Katy Did, bestselling children's favourite Jacqueline Wilson creates an irresistible modern version for the twenty-first-century. Fans of Hetty Feather and Tracy Beaker will fa...
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Stormbreaker
- Horowitz Anthony
- Walker Books
- ISBN13: 9781406364842
- Published: 20-07-2015
In the first book in the number-one best-selling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, 14-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every sch...
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My Brother Is a Superhero: Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
- David Solomons
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780857634795
- Published: 02-07-2015
Luke is a comic-mad eleven-year old who shares a treehouse with his geeky older brother, Zack. Luke' s only mistake is to go for a wee right at the wrong time. While he's gone, an alien gives his undeserving, never-read-a-comic-in-his-life brother superpowers and then tells him to save the uni...
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The Cake the Wolf and the Witch
- Maudie Smith
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781444015607
- Published: 02-07-2015
Max doesn't believe in happy endings. He doesn't even like stories. So when he finds himself whisked away in a giant cake to The Land of Ever After, Max is NOT impressed. But the people of Ever After are in trouble, and they need Max's help. Will Max agree to go on a da...
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Woolly Mammoth
- Mick Manning, Brita Granstrom
- Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781847806642
- Published: 02-07-2015
Have you ever wondered what life was like for the Woolly Mammoth? It was very hard! These kings of the elephant race faced the harsh Ice Age climate and the threat of natural predators - none more terrifying than Man and his merciless spear.Includes an illustrated fact strip giving...
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Black Beauty: Faber Children's Classics
- Anna Sewell
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571323388
- Published: 30-06-2015
What more could I want? Why, liberty!Black Beauty is born in a beautiful meadow and cared for by gentle humans. But life takes him far from home, from the stable of a gentleman, to gruelling work as a cab horse in the city. Where will Black Beauty's journey lead him next? And is there anyone h...
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- E.L. Konigsburg, E.L. Konigsburg
- Pushkin Children's Books
- ISBN13: 9781782690719
- Published: 04-06-2015
New York City girl Claudia, a mere month shy of being a twelve-year-old, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She knows that she could never pull off the classic spur-of-the-moment departure without a destination (inevitably involving having to eat outside with t...
