Books - Children

• Rick Riordan
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141321264
• Published: 01-05-2008

The Titan's Curse: the third book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. The third book in the most exciting commercial fantasy adventure series since Artemis Fowl. Now in paperback with a thrilling new cover look. It's the last Friday before the winter holidays but Percy Jackso...

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• Ted Hughes
• Faber Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9780571215027
• Published: 06-03-2008

This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in Under the North Star and What is the Truth? and ending with Season Songs, which Hughes...

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• Dean Lorey
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007257195
• Published: 03-03-2008

Hogwarts meets Men in Black in a thrilling comic adventure about a very gifted boy who joins a monster fighting academy. Charlie Benjamin is not like other children - when he sleeps he has terrible nightmares, and when he wakes it is to find his room has been wrecked. Then one day he wa...

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• Terry Deary, Martin Brown
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9781407103051
• Published: 01-03-2008

From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were tu...

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• Geraldine McCaughrean, David Wyatt
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192726216
• Published: 04-10-2007

Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of war paint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help, and so it is time to do the unthinkable and fly to Neverland again. But back in...

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• Geraldine McCaughrean
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192718815
• Published: 04-10-2007

It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma and they and their fellow settlers prepare for steady business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad company, the boss swears that his trains will nev...

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• Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141322711
• Published: 06-09-2007

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a much-loved story by Roald Dahl, full of snozzberries, rainbow drops, luminous lollies and hair toffee! Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to fi...

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• Derek Landy
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007241620
• Published: 03-09-2007

Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course).  Oh yeah. And dead.   Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's... well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on t...

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