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  • Overheard in a Tower Block: Poems

    Overheard in a Tower Block: Poems

    • Joseph Coelho, Kate Milner
    • Otter-Barry Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781910959589
    • Published: 06-07-2017

    Gazing at the stars from five storeys up,smelling the bins from five storeys below.Overheard arguments,overheard laughter. A disappearing father and a Mermaid-Queen mother; statues that sing for flesh and blood; bullies who kick you under the table; perfect red trainer...

  • The Ethan I Was Before

    The Ethan I Was Before

    • Ali Standish
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781408342923
    • Published: 29-06-2017

    My dare. My friend. My fault.Uplifting and unpredictable, this poignant debut middle-grade novel is a classic in the making. Perfect for fans of Wonder and A Boy Called Hope. Ethan had been many things. He was always ready for adventure and always willing to accept a dare, e...

  • The World of Norm: Must End Soon: Book 12

    The World of Norm: Must End Soon: Book 12

    • Jonathan Meres
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781408346037
    • Published: 29-06-2017

    The twelfth - AND FINAL - hilarious title in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud series, The World of Norm. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.Norm knew it was going to be one of those days when he woke up and found himself about to pee in his mum's wardrobe...<br...

  • My Evil Twin Is a Supervillain: By the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize

    My Evil Twin Is a Supervillain: By the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize

    • David Solomons, Rob Biddulph
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9780857639561
    • Published: 29-06-2017

    When Luke is confronted with Stellar, his superpowered twin from another dimension, he is highly suspicious. No one travels through time and space without a plan, and that plan is usually EVIL. So what does Stellar want? And why is he so UNBELIEVABLY IRRITATING? From his superhero hair to his...

  • All The Things That Could Go Wrong

    All The Things That Could Go Wrong

    • Stewart Foster
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471145421
    • Published: 29-06-2017

    'A moving, humane, funny portrait of two very different boys discovering what connects us all' Kiran Milwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars'It's amazing! Such a bold idea to have a character like Dan... you pulled it off brilliantly.' Ross Welford, author of Time Travellin...

  • War Horse

    War Horse

    • Michael Morpurgo
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9781405226660
    • Published: 29-06-2017

    Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel...   In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from...

  • The Last Duchess

    The Last Duchess

    • Laura Powell, Sarah Gibb
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781509808908
    • Published: 15-06-2017

    Meet heroic maid Pattern in The Last Duchess, the first Silver Service Mystery from Laura Powell, illustrated by Sarah Gibb. Pattern is only thirteen, but is already rising through the ranks at Mrs Minchin's Academy of Domestic Servitude and seems destined for a life below stairs....

  • The Smoking Hourglass  (The Uncommoners, Book 2)

    The Smoking Hourglass (The Uncommoners, Book 2)

    • Jennifer Bell, Karl James Mountford
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780552572903
    • Published: 15-06-2017

    Following Ivy Sparrow's discoveries in The Crooked Sixpence, the adventures continue in the second instalment of The Uncommoners trilogy, The Smoking Hourglass.As soon as Ivy and her brother Seb set foot back in the mysterious underground city of Lundinor, they know that something...