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  • Compton Valance: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe

    Compton Valance: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe

    • Matt Brown
    • Usborne Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781409567776
    • Published: 01-06-2014

    When Compton Valance and his best friend Bryan Nylon discover the world's first TIME MACHINE (aka a mouldy, thirteen-week-old-cheese-and-pickled-egg sandwich), they become the most powerful boys in the universe. But how will Compton and Bryan decide to use their incredible new time-travelling...

  • A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil, Book 2)

    A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil, Book 2)

    • Soman Chainani
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007502813
    • Published: 08-05-2014

    It's all happy ever after at the School for Good and Evil... or is it? The second title in the bestselling fantasy adventure series - perfect for those who prefer their fairy tales with a twist. After saving themselves and their fellow students from a life pitched again...

  • The Sword of Kuromori

    The Sword of Kuromori

    • Jason Rohan
    • Egmont UK Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781405270601
    • Published: 08-05-2014

    The Matrix meets Percy Jackson in this exciting series packed with monsters, magic and mayhem, set in modern day Japan. Kenny Blackwood arrives in Tokyo to spend the summer with his father and is stunned to discover a destiny he had never dreamed of when he finds himself in the middle o...

  • The Night Raid

    The Night Raid

    • Caroline Lawrence
    • Barrington Stoke Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781781123669
    • Published: 07-05-2014

    A powerful novel inspired by Virgil's tale of the ill-fated night raid of Euryalus and Nisus, from Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence. The Trojan War is over. The survivors must find new land on which to settle, and there is war. Euryalus and Nisus, two teenage warriors among Aeneas's Tr...

  • The Bubble Wrap Boy

    The Bubble Wrap Boy

    • Phil Earle
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780141346298
    • Published: 01-05-2014

    The new book from the award-winning Phil Earle, author of Heroic and Being Billy.'Have finished BUBBLE-WRAP BOY. If happy tears/snot smeared across face were legal currency, @philearle would be rich. So warm, and so funny' - Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers.All...

  • Charlie Merrick's Misfits in Fouls, Friends, and Football

    Charlie Merrick's Misfits in Fouls, Friends, and Football

    • Dave Cousins
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192736598
    • Published: 01-05-2014

    'I play for North Star Galaxy and this is the story of our first season. I don't know how it's going to end - but I hope it will be at the World Cup Finals this summer! I'm going to tell you everything that happens - the truth - however painful that might be.'Charlie loves football. He watches...

  • Ogres Don't Dance

    Ogres Don't Dance

    • Kirsty McKay, Chris Judge
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781849397155
    • Published: 01-05-2014

    Ogden is a gnarly, man-eating ogre . . . with the dream of becoming a dancer. But no one will dance with him - not when they think they're going to be his next meal! Then Ogden meets Willow, a gutsy girl who lives in a tree house in the woods. She makes a deal with him: if he'll stop eating hu...

  • The Ruby Airship

    The Ruby Airship

    • Sharon Gosling
    • Curious Fox
    • ISBN13: 9781782020721
    • Published: 10-04-2014

    In this action-packed sequel to The Diamond Thief, trapeze-artist Remy has left the circus and her life as a jewel thief behind, but doubts that young detective Thaddeus Rec will ever truly trust her. Torn between her new life and her old, her mind is made up when Yannick, a fellow circus-perf...