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Carnival of the Hunted
- Kieran Larwood, illus Sam Usher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571364527
- Published: 07-07-2022
The first figure raises his crossbow, tilting his head to pinpoint the exact position of the thing in the bushes. It has stopped running now, and is muttering something. Some kind of prayer, a call for its mother, its father: anyone who might help it. Something sinister is going on in t...
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21% Monster
- P.J. Canning
- Usborne
- ISBN13: 9781474984416
- Published: 07-07-2022
Fun, fast-paced, high-octane action adventure, 21% Monster is a perfect page-turning new series for fans of Alex Rider, Percy Jackson and the MCU generation. When Darren Devlin is arrested for destroying his school with his bare hands, it's not just the police who are after him. Enter Marek Ma...
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The House of Shells
- Efua Traore
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781913696719
- Published: 07-07-2022
From the critically acclaimed author of Children of the Quicksands - shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize - comes a breathtaking magical adventure... Kuki refuses to believe in the curse of the Abiku. Her destiny is not to die young!Her biggest problem right now is moving hou...
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Dead Good Detectives (Dead Good Detectives)
- Jenny McLachlan, Chloe Dominique
- Farshore
- ISBN13: 9781405298155
- Published: 07-07-2022
A super funny and exciting pirate adventure for readers 8+ by the author of the bestselling Land of Roar series. Perfect for fans of BBC's Ghosts! Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week. Sid Jones loves hanging out in the graveyard with her best friend Zen - they...
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The Midnighters
- Hana Tooke
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780241417515
- Published: 23-06-2022
Find the courage to be extraordinary . . . Ema Vaskova has always felt different. In a family of famous scientists, there's not much room for superstition or omens - but they seem to follow Ema wherever she goes. It doesn't help that she appears to predict events before they happen, and has...
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The Secret of Ragnar's Gold
- Mark Dawson, Ben Mantle
- Welbeck Publishing Group
- ISBN13: 9781801300179
- Published: 23-06-2022
The second in a series of gripping adventure stories, perfect for fans of Enid Blyton. The friends can't believe their luck when they get the chance to stay in a castle for their Easter holidays. The castle is everything they had hoped for, with a moat and an ancient burial mound that gives...
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Escape to the River Sea
- Emma Carroll
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9781529062700
- Published: 09-06-2022
Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling new novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson's bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea. In 1946, Rosa Sweetman, a young Kindertransport gi...
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Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu
- Maisie Chan
- Bonnier Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781800781610
- Published: 09-06-2022
Keep trying, keep laughing, keep dancing! A heart-warming novel from the Blue Peter Book Award shortlisted author of Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths. 12-year-old Lizzie Chu lives in Glasgow with her grandad Wai Gong, and he's been acting a little strangely lately. He is becoming forgetful...
