Books - Children

• Guy Bass, Pete Williamson
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781847153777
• Published: 03-06-2013

Re-join Stitch Head, a mad professor's forgotten creation, as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime... When Arabella lands up in the orphanage, Stitch Head leaves Grotteskew and its creatures behind and sets out on a daring rescue. But a far more gruesome...

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• Katherine Rundell
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571280599
• Published: 07-03-2013

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fic...

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• Fleur Hitchcock
• Nosy Crow Ltd
• ISBN13: 9780857631503
• Published: 07-02-2013

All this time Scarlett's thought her dad was a thief, but years after his death a strange man turns up at the door and hands her a box, \"on her father's instructions\". Inside is a baffling series of clues that leads Scarlett and her friend, Ellie, on a wild, scary, often funny journey of dis...

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• R J Palacio
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552565974
• Published: 03-01-2013

Now an Oscar nominated film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay.'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cre...

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• Marcus Sedgwick, Pete Williamson
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444004861
• Published: 01-11-2012

Saving the world isn't going very well for Elf Girl and Raven Boy. They've left Fright Forest and crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains, where they find a sign telling them to Turn Back. They really shouldn't have ignored it! It's not the strange wailing noises they he...

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• Elizabeth Laird
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780330530392
• Published: 08-10-2012

The British Army is circling the stronghold of the King of Abyssinia. Its mission is to rescue the British Envoy, held prisoner. Watching with terror and awe is the king's young son, Alamayu. He knows that his father is as brave as a lion, but the fighting is cruel and efficient. By the time i...

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• Rebecca Stead
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781849395076
• Published: 04-10-2012

This title is the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Georges (the s is silent) has a lot going on. He's having trouble with some boys at school, his dad lost his job and so his mum has started working all the time - and they have to sell...

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• James Bowen
• Hodder & Stoughton
• ISBN13: 9781444737110
• Published: 13-09-2012

  From the author of A Christmas Gift from Bob, the original bestseller and heartwarming story of the life-saving friendship between a man and his streetwise cat'[Bob] has entranced London like no feline since the days of Dick Whittington.' (Evening Standard)'A h...

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