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Rex the Rhinoceros Beetle
- M.G. Leonard, illus Duncan Beedie
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407194189
- Published: 04-06-2020
From MG Leonard, the award-winning author of Beetle Boy and Duncan Beedie, the bestselling illustrator of The Bear Who Stared comes this standout picture book about a little beetle with a big heart! Deep in the rainforest, rhinoceros beetles Buster and Rex are sharing stories. Buster has so ma...
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A Kind of Spark
- Elle McNicoll
- Knights Of Media
- ISBN13: 9781913311056
- Published: 04-06-2020
A KIND OF SPARK tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story of these 'witches', just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town...
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The Promise Witch (The Wild Magic Trilogy, Book Three)
- Celine Kiernan, Jessica Courtney-Tickle
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406373936
- Published: 04-06-2020
In the third book in The Wild Magic Trilogy, Witches Borough is dying, and no one knows how to save it. Into this scorched landscape, storms a raggedy witch named Magda, trailing ashes in her wake. She wants Mup. She wants Mup to fulfil a promise. And woe betide any who stand in her way.
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Flyntlock Bones: The Sceptre of the Pharaohs
- Derek Keilty, illus Mark Elvins
- Scallywag Press
- ISBN13: 9781912650408
- Published: 04-06-2020
Meet Captain John Hamish Watkins and his pirate crew: Briggs the quartermaster, Fishbreath the cook, Master Hudson the ship's Bosun, the riggers Drudger, Snitch and Dedweard - oh and last but not least Red, the girl rigger who becomes Flynn's friend and ally on board this unruly ship! Flynn's...
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The Smeds and the Smoos
- Julia Donaldson, illus Axel Scheffler
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407196657
- Published: 04-06-2020
Soar into space with this glorious love story of alien folk, from the number one bestselling author and illustrator of The Gruffalo and Stick Man. 'By a loobular lake on a far-off planet There lived a young Smed, and her name was Janet. Not far away, on a humplety hill, There lived a young Sm...
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Jesse Owens
- Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Anna Katharina Jansen
- Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780711245822
- Published: 02-06-2020
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Jesse Owens, the great track and field star.The youngest of ten children, Jesse grew up working in the cotton fields of Alabama. Discovered by his high s...
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The Happy Lion Roars
- Louise Fatio, Roger Duvoisin
- Scallywag Press
- ISBN13: 9781912650415
- Published: 01-06-2020
When a beautiful lioness comes to town with a visiting circus, the Happy Lion pays her a visit and it is love at first sight! The Happy Lion finds a way to release her and hide her in his enclosure. When she is discovered he won't let anyone separate them, and his friend Francois convinces the...
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Wonderscape
- Jennifer Bell
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406391725
- Published: 01-06-2020
Gaming and time travel collide in this exhilarating middle-grade adventure, from bestselling author Jennifer Bell. 'The Game is on. Travel with wonder.' When Arthur, Ren and Cecily investigate a mysterious explosion on their way to school, they find themselves trapped aboard The Princi...
