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  • The Colour of the Sun

    The Colour of the Sun

    • David Almond
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444919554
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    This is a moving, funny and inspirational novel from the bestselling author of Skellig. *Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Book Awards.*\"The day is long, the world is wide, you're young and free.\"One hot summer morning, Davie steps boldly out of his front door. The world...

  • Cannonball Coralie and the Lion

    Cannonball Coralie and the Lion

    • Grace Easton
    • Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781786030313
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    Coralie longs to join the circus - but the Man in the Big Hat says her tricks just aren't good enough. With the help of her new friend, Lion, Coralie realises she's perfect just the way she is. A heart-warming story about the friendship between a girl and a lion, this fun, quirky picture book...

  • In Your Light

    In Your Light

    • Annalie Grainger
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471122941
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    From the author of Captive comes a tense, gripping story of secrets, sisterhood and running awayAre you still a sister, if one of you is missing? Sixteen-year-old Lil's heart was broken when her sister Mella disappeared. There's been no trace or sighting of her since sh...

  • How to Write a Love Story

    How to Write a Love Story

    • Katy Cannon
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781847159212
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    Tilly Frost has grown up reading her grandmother's bestselling romance novels - so when the one and only Beatrix Frost is taken ill, Tilly finishes writing her latest work. Then Tilly agrees to start the next book. But what is her gran hiding from her? And how can Tilly write a heart-pounding...

  • The House with Chicken Legs

    The House with Chicken Legs

    • Sophie Anderson, Melissa Castrillon, Elisa Paganelli
    • Usborne Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781474940665
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    Marinka dreams of a normal life, but her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning. For Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her hou...

  • Space Tortoise

    Space Tortoise

    • Ross Montgomery (author), David Litchfield
    • Faber & Faber
    • ISBN13: 9780571331055
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    A beautiful, moving and heartwarming tale about bravery, kindness and welcoming strangers, from the team behind The Building Boy.Once, in an old rusty bin in an old rusty playground in an old empty park . . . . . . there lived a little tortoise.But Tortoise is lonely. He's never seen any other...

  • Ella on the Outside

    Ella on the Outside

    • Cath Howe
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781788000338
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    Ella is the new girl at school. She doesn't know anyone and she doesn't have any friends.And she has a terrible secret.Ella can't believe her luck when Lydia, the most popular girl in school, decides to be her new best friend - but what does Lydia really want? And what does it all have to do w...

  • How to Bee

    How to Bee

    • Bren MacDibble
    • Old Barn Books
    • ISBN13: 9781910646441
    • Published: 03-05-2018

    Set in a future Australia in a time when there are no bees and children are employed to scramble through the fruit trees with feather wands, much like the pear farmers of Hanyuan in China are forced to do today. Peony wants to be a bee, a hand pollinator: she's light, she's fast, and even thou...