Books - Children

• Sam Angus
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781447263036
• Published: 02-06-2016

'We're going to a fine place,' Idie told Homer to console him, 'with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.' Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey old England to a place where hummingbirds hover and monkeys clamber...

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• Hilary McKay
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444925432
• Published: 02-06-2016

The third book in the heartwarming series about Binny and her family. Binny Cornwallis has lost something. Something that wasn't really hers in the first place. With her best enemy Gareth and her beloved dog Max she turns detective to track it down, but the Cornwallis family are anythin...

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• Jennifer Bell, Karl James Mountford
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552572507
• Published: 02-06-2016

Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems... Dive head first into the world of Lundinor in this magical adventure story for anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their life.When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb...

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• Sophie Cleverly
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007589227
• Published: 02-06-2016

Scarlet and Ivy return to creepy Rookwood School for a third mystery adventure! Perfect for fans of MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE. With their evil headmaster, Mr Bartholomew, safely out of the picture and kindly Mrs Knight in charge, it looks like life at Rookwood School is looking up....

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• 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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