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  • How To Be More Hedgehog

    How To Be More Hedgehog

    • Anne-Marie Conway
    • UCLan Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781912979813
    • Published: 01-09-2022

    Lily has a stammer. The signal between her brain and her mouth is all messed up - and it's getting worse. When a video of her practicing her class presentation is uploaded onto YouTube - head thrust forward, eyelids fluttering, lips stretched wide - Lily's nightmare begins. Cyberbullying, kids...

  • Circus Maximus: Rivals On the Track: An Ancient Roman Adventure

    Circus Maximus: Rivals On the Track: An Ancient Roman Adventure

    • Annelise Gray
    • Bloomsbury
    • ISBN13: 9781800240612
    • Published: 01-09-2022

    Dido is the only girl ever to have raced to victory at the Circus Maximus, Rome's greatest sporting arena.  Now she and her beloved horse, Porcellus, are in hiding, and Emperor Caligula has put a price on their heads.  Can she outwit the emperor and his bounty hunters?  And will a shocking fam...

  • The Light Thieves

    The Light Thieves

    • Helena Duggan
    • Usborne Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781474991094
    • Published: 31-08-2022

    Clever, quirky and hugely imaginative, discover the eagerly anticipated new eco-adventure series from the bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect. Who would you trust to save the world...a boy or a billionaire?The earth has shifted on its axis and a mysterious dark mark has appeare...

  • The Zebra's Great Escape

    The Zebra's Great Escape

    • Katherine Rundell, illus Sara Ogilvie
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781408885758
    • Published: 31-08-2022

    Mink doesn't believe in rules. She loves running wild and free. So, when a zebra appears in the square where she lives and she finds out that his parents have been captured by the evil Mr Spit, she knows that it's up to her to help. So begins a grand adventure to rescue a whole menagerie of an...

  • And Everything Will Be Glad to See You

    And Everything Will Be Glad to See You

    • Ella Risbridger, illus Anna Shepeta
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781788009218
    • Published: 31-08-2022

    A forceful, passionate and uplifting collection of poems by women and girls that is guaranteed to inspire, delight and empower.  From well-loved poets, including Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, Lucille Clifton and Christina Rossetti, to newer voices such as Amanda Gorman, Yrsa-Daley Ward and Ada Lim...

  • The Dragon's Promise: the Sunday Times bestselling magical sequel to Six Crimson Cranes

    The Dragon's Promise: the Sunday Times bestselling magical sequel to Six Crimson Cranes

    • Elizabeth Lim
    • Hodder & Stoughton
    • ISBN13: 9781529356786
    • Published: 30-08-2022

    'A dazzling fairytale' Stephanie Garber, on Six Crimson Cranes.  A dragon's kingdom. A star-crossed love. And a cursed pearl with the power to mend the world, or break it....Shiori's quest continues in the soaring Sunday Times bestselling sequel to the New York Times bestselling yo...

  • Outside Chance (Don't Doubt the Rainbow 2)

    Outside Chance (Don't Doubt the Rainbow 2)

    • Anthony Kessel
    • Crown House Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781785835889
    • Published: 19-08-2022

    The second book in the Don’t Doubt the Rainbow series, Outside Chance is a fast-paced YA thriller in which teen detective Edie Marble is tasked with solving four very different but equally puzzling mysteries. It's been three months since 13-year-old Edie solved the case of h...

  • What Makes Me Do The Things I Do?: A picture book for talking about behaviour and emotions with children

    What Makes Me Do The Things I Do?: A picture book for talking about behaviour and emotions with children

    • Molly Potter, illus Sarah Jennings
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781472973986
    • Published: 18-08-2022

    From the best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today?, this thoughtful picture book teaches children how to find new ways of expressing themselves.'Why am I losing my temper?' 'Why am I being grumpy?' This important book prompts children to think about certain behaviours and why they happ...