Books - Children

• John Malam
• Welbeck Publishing Group
• ISBN13: 9781783120215
• Published: 13-02-2014

The First World War was the world's first 'total war'. Although large-scale wars like the Napoleonic wars had ranged across many territories, the scale of the First World War was unprecedented. It was also the first war between modern, industrialised nations and mechanised warfare saw new and...

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• Jane Elson
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444916751
• Published: 06-02-2014

AS SEEN ON BBC's THE GREAT BRITISH MENU.***Winner of Peters Book of the Year 2015 and the Leeds Book Award.***Grace's fun-loving Mum has found a lump. Her north London world of sleepovers, tap dancing and playing the clarinet fall apart when she is sent to live wi...

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• Guy Bass
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781847153883
• Published: 03-02-2014

The Legend of Frog is the first book in a brand new three-part series by award-winning and best-selling author, Guy Bass (Stitch Head and Stitch Head: The Pirate's Eye). A mash-up of fairy tale, fantasy and science fiction with a hearty helping of humour, The Legend of Frog is sure to introduc...

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• Pamela Butchart, illus Thomas Flintham
• Nosy Crow Ltd
• ISBN13: 9780857632371
• Published: 09-01-2014

One day Izzy and her friends are surprised to find that their teacher, Miss Jones, is actually being nice to them. This is the woman who was caught secretly smiling when Maisie Miller fell off her chair. There can only be one conclusion: she's been taken over by aliens, and now she wants to ma...

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• Tom Avery
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781849397827
• Published: 02-01-2014

My name is Kaia.I'm frozen because of what happened.I'm trapped because of what I saw.Can someone help me to grow again?Kaia is frozen when her brother dies, but can an unexpected friend help her to grow again?

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• Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406352481
• Published: 02-01-2014

The multiple award-winning, bestselling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen tell an extraordinary tale about a little girl who cocoons her cold, grey town in joy and warmth ... and brightly coloured yarn!From the award-winning team behind Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, and illustrated by...

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• A. G. Howard
• Abrams
• ISBN13: 9781419710476
• Published: 01-01-2014

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now all she has to do is graduate high school. That would be easie...

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• Kate DiCamillo, K. G. Campbell
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406345186
• Published: 03-10-2013

Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in this genre-breaking novel by a master storyteller. Now a Newbery Medal WINNER!It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw it coming - the vacu...

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