Books - Children

• Chris Riddell
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780230759800
• Published: 12-09-2013

Chris Riddell's Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse is the beautifully illustrated winner of the Costa Children's Book Award.Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Lord Goth believes that children should be heard and not see...

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• Rick Riordan
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141346809
• Published: 04-07-2013

Coming soon to Disney+! Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero.I was just a normal kid, I went to school (got expelled a lot, but that wasn't my fault), played sports and hung out with my best friend. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now, I...

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• Janet Hoggarth
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192745484
• Published: 06-06-2013

I love Emily to bits but she can be annoying sometimes. When she signed me up for the school play I could have killed her. If she wasn't already dead that is . . . Gaby knows Emily is gone and that she will never see her again. Then Emily appears one day as Gaby's very own Guardian Angel and l...

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• Katherine Rundell
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571280599
• Published: 07-03-2013

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fic...

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• Fleur Hitchcock
• Nosy Crow Ltd
• ISBN13: 9780857631503
• Published: 07-02-2013

All this time Scarlett's thought her dad was a thief, but years after his death a strange man turns up at the door and hands her a box, \"on her father's instructions\". Inside is a baffling series of clues that leads Scarlett and her friend, Ellie, on a wild, scary, often funny journey of dis...

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• R J Palacio
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552565974
• Published: 03-01-2013

Now an Oscar nominated film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay.'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cre...

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• Marcus Sedgwick, Pete Williamson
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444004861
• Published: 01-11-2012

Saving the world isn't going very well for Elf Girl and Raven Boy. They've left Fright Forest and crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains, where they find a sign telling them to Turn Back. They really shouldn't have ignored it! It's not the strange wailing noises they he...

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• Elizabeth Laird
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780330530392
• Published: 08-10-2012

The British Army is circling the stronghold of the King of Abyssinia. Its mission is to rescue the British Envoy, held prisoner. Watching with terror and awe is the king's young son, Alamayu. He knows that his father is as brave as a lion, but the fighting is cruel and efficient. By the time i...

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