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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
- Annabel Pitcher
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781444001839
- Published: 01-03-2011
Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair and stops...
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The Odd Egg
- Emily Gravett
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780230750487
- Published: 04-02-2011
All the birds have eggs to hatch. All except Duck. When Duck is delighted to find an egg of his own to look after: it's the most beautiful egg in the whole world! But all the other birds think it's a very odd egg indeed - and everyone's in for a big surprise when it finally hatches. Wit...
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Exodus
- Julie Bertagna
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780330399081
- Published: 04-02-2011
It is 2099 - and the world is gradually drowning, as mighty Arctic ice floes melt, the seas rise, and land disappears forever beneath storm-tossed waves. For 15-year-old Mara, her family and community, huddled on the fast-disappearing island of Wing, the new century brings flight. Packed into...
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Treason
- Berlie Doherty
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781849391214
- Published: 03-02-2011
Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. As the King's favourite, Will gains many enemies in Court. His enemies convince the King that Will's father has committed treason and he is thrown into Newgate Prison. Will flees Hampton Court and goes into hiding in the back st...
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Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 1
- Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba
- Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
- ISBN13: 9781421539645
- Published: 20-01-2011
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Deat...
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The Kiss That Missed
- David Melling
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9780340999851
- Published: 06-01-2011
The king is in a hurry and blows his son a bedtime kiss... but it misses. The kiss flies out of the window and a brave knight is sent on a fairytale quest to bring it back.Since this classic picturebook was published over 10 years ago, it has sold over 300,000 copies and become a f...
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The Girl Savage
- Katherine Rundell
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571254316
- Published: 06-01-2011
Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions and hyenas are not...
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Crusade
- Linda Press Wulf
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781408804841
- Published: 04-01-2011
Robert: Left on the steps of a church as a baby, Robert was often hungry but never stole food like the other orphans in town. Introverted and extraordinarily intelligent, he knew all the Latin prayers and hymns by heart by the time he was five years old.Georgette: Her own mother died in childb...
