Books - Children

• Dhonielle Clayton
• Templar Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781800785472
• Published: 05-01-2023

The NEW YORK TIMES bestseller!  Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds for Marvellers from around the world. Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy but she finds friendship in fellow misfits Brigit, a gir...

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• Abi Elphinstone, illus Geraldine Rodriguez
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780241473320
• Published: 05-01-2023

Number 14 Darlington Road, looks like a perfectly ordinary townhouse - at first glance, anyway, but magic is good at hiding . . . when it's waiting for the right person to discover it . . .Martha Pennydrop is ten, and desperate to grow up. But growing up is a tricky business. It me...

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• Rachel Delahaye, illus George Ermos
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781788955706
• Published: 05-01-2023

When Brutalia's ever-suspicious Queen is forewarned of a new enemy - a nearby island called Bonrock - Mort is worried. As a pacifist, he's a firm believer that strangers are just friends they haven't met yet. Then he and his best friend and fellow pacifist Weed are sent to the island to invest...

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• Shirley Marr
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781803704326
• Published: 05-01-2023

Everything so far, if Peijing had to sum it up, was a string of small awkward experiences that she hoped would end soon.The night of the Mid-Autumn festival, making mooncakes with Ah-Ma, was the last time Peijing remembers her life being the same. Now facing a new home, a new school and a new...

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• Peter Lantos
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9780702323089
• Published: 05-01-2023

A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hu...

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• P.J. Canning
• Usborne
• ISBN13: 9781474984423
• Published: 05-01-2023

Genetically-modified teens try to bring down the organisation that made them, in this second action-packed installment in the 21% Monster series.'The girl put her hands on her hips, cocked her head and answered: "My name is Aurora Maria Ash-Valero and I'm here to kick your butt!"'<...

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• Dan Smith, Chris King
• Barrington Stoke
• ISBN13: 9781800901308
• Published: 05-01-2023

A ground-breaking experiment at a new research farm quickly grows out of control in this modern take on Day of the Triffids from master of creepy sci-fi Dan Smith. When Pete, Krish and Nancy read a story in the local paper about weird gunk being found in a field where sheep have gone mi...

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• Roberto Piumini, Leah Janeczko
• Pushkin Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781782693819
• Published: 01-12-2022

Madurer is the son of a great lord, with untold wealth, but he is also the victim of a mysterious disease that means he cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air. He is confined to three windowless rooms inside a palace, but his doting father summons a famous artist to cover the walls of the...

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