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  • The Key to Finding Jack

    The Key to Finding Jack

    • Ewa Jozefkowicz
    • Head of Zeus
    • ISBN13: 9781789543568
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    Flick's big brother, Jack, goes missing in Peru and she is desperate to find him. But can she solve the greatest mystery of all: who Jack really is?  A heartwarming, third novel from Waterstones Prize shortlisted author, Ewa Jozefkowicz, about the unbreakable bond between siblings. Twel...

  • The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice

    The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice

    • A.F. Harrold, Mini Grey
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781526618016
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    A riotous celebration of words and a modern take on cautionary tales - featuring advice on parrots, gravy, mathematics, castles (bouncy), spiders, vegetables (various), breakfast, cakes, and removing ducks from soup.Advice comes in many shapes.Poems come in many...

  • Tamarind & the Star of Ishta

    Tamarind & the Star of Ishta

    • Jasbinder Bilan
    • Chicken House Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781913322175
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    Tamarind never knew her Indian mum, Chinty, who died soon after she was born. So when she arrives at her ancestral home, a huge mansion in the Himalayas surrounded by luxuriant gardens, she's full of questions for her extended family. But instead of answers, she finds an ominous silence - and...

  • Victoria Stitch: Bad and Glittering

    Victoria Stitch: Bad and Glittering

    • Harriet Muncaster
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192773579
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    'The crystal keeper gazed around him at the shards of impure crystal, glittering furiously on the floor, and shivered with a terrible sense of foreboding.' Twins, Victoria Stitch and Celestine, are denied their royal birth-right. Celestine accepts the decision with good grace, but Victoria Sti...

  • Butterfly Brain

    Butterfly Brain

    • Laura Dockrill, Gwen Millward
    • Templar Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781848128682
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    If Roald Dahl had written A Monster Calls . . . A very special picture book from two rising stars. Everyone is always shouting at Gus to stop leaning back in his chair - but does he care? No way! Then sure enough, the chair falls, he cracks his head and has to spend all...

  • Girl from the Sea

    Girl from the Sea

    • Margaret Wild, Jane Tanner
    • Murdoch Books
    • ISBN13: 9781911631767
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    'Who lives in that cottage by the sea? I wish. I wish. I wish it was me.'  A lyrical masterpiece by Margaret Wild and Jane Tanner.

  • Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit

    Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit

    • Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192766144
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    Welcome to another brilliantly quirky adventure story from creative powerhouse Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Bumbleford has been hit by a series of biscuit thefts. All the clues lead straight to the only roly-poly flying pony in town, and Max's best friend, KEVIN! Max and Kevin are forced t...

  • School's Cancelled

    School's Cancelled

    • Serena Patel, Emma McCann
    • Usborne Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781474959537
    • Published: 03-09-2020

    Anisha can't wait to show off her volcano project at the science fair...and maybe win the prize trip to the national space centre. But when the volcano explodes and floods the school, Anisha is disqualified. It's so unfair, because it wasn't her fault! Can Anisha, her best friend Milo, a pet r...