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Dead Yard: Seeds of Doom
- P. J. Killburn, illus Markia Jenai
- Little Tiger
- ISBN13: 9781788957649
- Published: 04-09-2025
Budding film-maker Jermaine is at his great-great uncle's Dead Yard, a service for the deceased that lasts the entire night. There's music, tons of people and lots of food, so when Jermaine spots a plate of patties - his favourite snack - he digs in immediately. But upon taking a bite h...
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Sad Girl Hours
- Anna Zoe Quirke
- Little Tiger Press
- ISBN13: 9781788956949
- Published: 04-09-2025
Saffron struggles with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and is dreading autumn and winter. She took time off in her first year at university and can't afford to do the same this year if she's going to achieve her dream of being an astrophysicist. She's managed to keep it a secret from her fri...
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Uncle Zeedie (The Blood Texts, book 2)
- Colm Field
- Fox & Ink Books
- ISBN13: 9781916747753
- Published: 04-09-2025
Uncle Zeedie is weird, but at least he's rich and his house is amazing. That's what George and Lacey tell themselves when they arrive at his isolated mansion in the Welsh woods. Only something here is worse than weird. Uncle Zeedie seems unhinged, serving them rotten fo...
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Dragon Cat
- Pie Corbett, Tom Morgan-Jones
- Otter-Barry Books
- ISBN13: 9781915659675
- Published: 04-09-2025
Look out for a lobster on the phone; watch Owl, silent ghost-flyer; glimpse a sprinting hot-dog. Check your pants for snakes, play football indoors and then... go looking for dragons. But make sure you keep your eye on Dragon Cat! You'll find surprises and adventures, riddles and word g...
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Role Model
- Elle McNicoll
- Knights Of
- ISBN13: 9781915820075
- Published: 04-09-2025
From the award-winning author of A Kind of Spark comes a new heartfelt and timely novel for middle-grade and teen readers. Aeriel Sharpe doesn't want to be anyone's role model. But, when her mother is elected to be the most important politician in the country (yes, that one), she is thr...
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Jack the Fairy: The Week the Bad Fairies Escaped
- Tom McLaughlin
- Oxford Children's
- ISBN13: 9780192787200
- Published: 04-09-2025
Jack isn't exactly the most perfect member of the magical world. He might even have broken one or two rules . . . like taking his wand to school, and letting his best friend, Charlie, know that he's a fairy. Oh, and he did accidentally magic Charlie through an interdimensional portal to a sini...
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Clive Penguin Learns to Fly, Sort of
- Huw Lewis Jones, illus Ben Sanders
- Little Tiger
- ISBN13: 9781838918347
- Published: 04-09-2025
Who's ever heard of a flying penguin? Clive Penguin is back, and, affronted by the narrator's praise for 'majestic' swooping seagulls, is determined to take to the sky himself. He's going to fly! Who says penguins can't do it? A funny, deadpan tale of reaching for your dreams and ignoring nay...
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Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings: Six Bone-Chilling Mysteries to Investigate If You Dare!
- Susan Martineau, Vicky Barker
- b small
- ISBN13: 9781916851207
- Published: 04-09-2025
Do ghosts really exist? Perhaps you think you've seen one! Next time you're reading under the covers, past your bedtime, just ask yourself . . . (well, maybe don't actually!) . . . what was that?! From the award-winning team behind Real-life Mysteries, these terrifying...
