Books - Children

• Jacob Grey
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007578528
• Published: 26-03-2015

In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five... Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps of food and only communicatin...

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• Ian Beck
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552567763
• Published: 26-03-2015

On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to inves...

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• Isabel Thomas, Pete Williamson, Greg Foot
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780198306771
• Published: 26-03-2015

Charles Darwin is one of the most important figures of modern science, but he was also a seasick sailor and a stinky schoolboy! Find out about his misadventures as well as his theories in this funny biography.TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for p...

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• Sheila Grau, Joe Sutphin
• Abrams
• ISBN13: 9781419713705
• Published: 17-03-2015

Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions is the premier supplier of minions to Evil Overlords throughout the Greater Porvian Continent. Twelve-year-old Runt Higgins has grown up as Dr. Critchlore's ward, a werewolf who couldn't keep up with the other pups. Now Runt's determined to make it into the...

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• Sarah Lean
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007512263
• Published: 12-03-2015

Some friendships are meant to be... A story about family, friendship and belonging, from bestselling author, Sarah Lean. Hope lives with her artist mum in the Pyrenees. It's always been just the two of them... until Frank - a free-spirited traveller - arrives with his donkey, Harry.  Ho...

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• Heidi Schulz
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910002216
• Published: 05-03-2015

It's not easy being the daughter of Captain Hook. Twelve-year-old Jocelyn dreams of following in his footsteps - but her grandfather sends her to finishing school instead. When her father meets his unfortunate end, Jocelyn sails to Neverland to avenge his death. But she hadn't bargained on tic...

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• Ted Sanders
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471403590
• Published: 05-03-2015

A boy, a girl, an ancient puzzle, and a House of Answers, Artefacts, Miseries and Mysteries.From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus - literally a sign with his name on it - everything in his normal little life changes. An encounter with the House of Answers, a magically hi...

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• Jane Elson
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444916768
• Published: 05-03-2015

'If Finn Maison shouts jump you jump or you are dead.'Twelve-year-old Willem has Aspergers Syndrome and two main aims in life: to fly and to make at least two friends of his own age. But all the other boys from the Beckham Estate do is make him jump off things. First his desk - and...

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