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The Week at World's End
- Emma Carroll
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571364435
- Published: 02-09-2021
The hotly anticipated new standalone from the award-winning Emma Carroll. Britain, 1962. 'Who are you?' I asked. 'You don't know who I am? You mean, it's not been on the news?' The girl glanced from Ray to me and back again. 'It's better I don't tell you,' she said firmly. Nothing ever...
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The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre
- Clare Povey
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781474986489
- Published: 02-09-2021
The open door felt like an invitation, or a trap. Bastien wasn't sure which, but with no other choice, he stepped inside...and hoped he'd make it out again alive. Bastien Bonlivre is a boy with a big imagination, determined to finish the story his parents started, left to him in a red n...
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Circus Maximus: Race to the Death
- Annelise Gray
- Head of Zeus
- ISBN13: 9781800240582
- Published: 02-09-2021
Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and one girl dreams of glory. Ben Hur meets National Velvet in the ultimate 9-12 adventure story by debut children's author, Annelise Gray. Twelv...
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Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book
- Ana Sampson
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9781529058994
- Published: 02-09-2021
Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book is a beautiful gift hardback collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. It covers everything from the depths of space to the very centre of the earth - there are poems about the solar system, planet earth, oceans and r...
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Freeze
- Chris Priestley
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781781129838
- Published: 02-09-2021
Award-winning master of scary stories Chris Priestley returns with a spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales to chill you to the bone ... When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some brilliant ideas. Rising floodwaters unc...
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The Puffin Portal
- Vashti Hardy, Natalie Smillie
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781781129814
- Published: 02-09-2021
Grace's family are wardens of the incredible Griffin Map, using its teleport technology to fight crime across Moreland. Right now it's all systems go at Griffin HQ, where Grace, her mum and her brother have their hands full answering a huge number of calls for help. They could really do with a...
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Tripwrecked! Tempest Terror
- Ross Montgomery, Mark Beech
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781781129616
- Published: 02-09-2021
Only a sensible, level head can save the day when disaster strikes on a school trip in this hilariously slapstick introduction to Shakespeare's The Tempest. Frank and his drama club are off on a dream school trip to perform The Tempest at a festival. But it turns into a nightmare when t...
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Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
- Philip Reeve
- David Fickling Books
- ISBN13: 9781788452373
- Published: 02-09-2021
It was always at sundown they were seen. In that twilight hour, when the walls between the worlds grew thin, strange things might slip through the cracks. Sometimes then, so the stories went, enchanted islands would appear in the empty ocean to the west of Wildsea. When Utterly Dark wa...
