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The Ship of Doom
- M.A. Bennett
- Welbeck Publishing Group
- ISBN13: 9781801300049
- Published: 03-03-2022
Greenwich, London, 15th February 1894. Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt's butterfly club sounds deathly boring. But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, is not at all as Luna expects. The Butterfly Club is a society with an unusual se...
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The Week at World's End
- Emma Carroll
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571332830
- Published: 03-03-2022
1962, London during the Cuban Missile CrisisWhat would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end?Ray, aware of his parents' building worry, decides to take matters into his own hands. He builds a shelter in the woods behind his house in the hope that he never has to use i...
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Furthermoor
- Darren Simpson
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781474976701
- Published: 03-03-2022
The real world is a hostile place for 12-year-old Bren, his schooldays stalked by vicious bully, Shaun, and his family life fractured at home. Ever since his sister Evie died in an accident, Bren's only safe space is Furthermoor, an imagined world of mechanised trees and clockwork animals, whe...
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The Raven Riddle
- Vashti Hardy, illus Natalie Smillie
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781800900486
- Published: 03-03-2022
Grace's family are wardens of the Griffin map, using its teleport technology to fight crime across Moreland. And now there's someone new on the team: Tom Eely, who has been training hard to become a warden. Grace and Tom reckon they're ready to tackle a mission together, but they're disappoin...
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The Heart Scarab
- Saviour Pirotta, Jo Lindley
- Maverick Arts Publishing
- ISBN13: 9781848868144
- Published: 28-02-2022
Renni and Mahu are brothers, but they are complete opposites. When Mahu hatches a plot to rob the tomb of a long-dead general in the Valley of the Kings, Renni is swept into the crime to help his family. But taking the general's heart scarab sets a much greater chain of events into motion, whi...
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Goddess: 50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief (British Museum)
- Dr Janina Ramirez, illus Sarah Walsh
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781788009959
- Published: 24-02-2022
Tales of powerful female figures have been told since the beginning of time and this collection, Goddess: 50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief (British Museum), brings together 50 stories from around the world. There are loving creators, wise leaders, f...
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Song of the River
- Gill Lewis, Zanna Goldhawk
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781800900615
- Published: 24-02-2022
Times are tough for Cari and her mum. A violent storm has flooded the valley where they live, destroying their home and cafe business. Things seem bleak - but hope appears in the form of a plan to reintroduce beavers into the area, as the changes that these amazing animals make to the w...
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Carnival of the Lost
- Kieran Larwood, Sam Usher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571364503
- Published: 17-02-2022
A wonderfully murky, carnivalesque world of intrigue, unexpected friendships and mysteries solved. Sheba the wolf girl joins an unusual troupe of performers that includes Pyewacket, a witch's imp; Gigantus the giant and Sister Moon, a knife thrower. For the first time in her life she feels sh...
