Books - Families

• Tom McLaughlin
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192758965
• Published: 05-10-2017

The latest hilarious caper from author Tom McLaughlin. Funny by name. Funny by nature. Ben has one important thing on his Christmas list, and it's the same thing every year. He wants his dad to be at home for Christmas. But his wish never comes true. And Ben's starting to get a bit sceptical a...

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• Neal Layton
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444928259
• Published: 05-10-2017

Clever and wonderfully original - a celebration of friendship, kindness and living life to the full with a gentle message about loss, to bring comfort to both children and parents. A reissue of this award-winning picture book by Neal Layton. Winner of the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Bron...

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• Garth Jennings, Sara Ogilvie
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780230769236
• Published: 05-10-2017

Way out in the West there's a town they call FearAnd only the roughest and toughest live here . . .When cheerful salesman, Bingo B Brown, rolls his wagon full of Wild West goodies into town, he's met with a stony silence. This is clearly no place for novelty bow ties and elas...

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• Lauren John, Catherine Hyde
• Head of Zeus
• ISBN13: 9781786695895
• Published: 05-10-2017

Lauren St John's stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal. Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena has only one dream: to cl...

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• Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, Giovanni Rigano
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444934007
• Published: 05-10-2017

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Eb...

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• Helen Bate
• Otter-Barry Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910959145
• Published: 05-10-2017

\"It was cold, it was wet, it was trembling and hairy. But then it awoke... Growling and SCARY!\" No one is expecting the Creature. It arrives, makes itself at home with the children and becomes part of the family, however hard they try to get rid of it! Until one day it makes...

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• Robert Muchamore
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444914627
• Published: 05-10-2017

Don't miss the last episode of international bestseller Robert Muchamore's ROCK WAR series! Jay, Summer and Dylan are fresh out of the biggest reality show there is. But they're about to discover what fame and fortune are really about. Jay's brother Theo is young, rich and famous...

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• Hilary McKay, Sarah Gibb
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781447292289
• Published: 05-10-2017

Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales is a classic fairy-tale collection to treasure. Featuring Hilary McKay's imaginative retellings of key favourites, this ten-story collection includes the much-loved tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, T...

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