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Scat
- Carl Hiaasen
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781444000597
- Published: 02-09-2010
From Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasen comes this New York Times bestseller in which an eccentric eco-avenger, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a wannabe Texas oilman, and an angry panther can't stop two kids on a mission to find their missing teacher!When Mrs Starch, the most feared biolog...
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Trash
- Andy Mulligan
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780385619011
- Published: 02-09-2010
Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope....
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The Amulet of Samarkand
- Jonathan Stroud
- Corgi Books
- ISBN13: 9780552562799
- Published: 02-09-2010
The Amulet of Samarkand is the first title in the New York Times bestselling Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud, author of Lockwood & Co. - a global No.1 show on Netflix.When a young magician's apprentice secretly summons an irascible 5,000 year old djinni to do his bidding,...
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Whisper My Name
- Jane Eagland
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780330511391
- Published: 06-08-2010
Since she was twelve, Meriel Garland has lived with her grandfather in London, exiled from her beloved India following the death of her mother. Now sixteen, Meriel chafes against the strict regime of tests and study that her grandfather imposes on her. Escaping, she discovers a world outside h...
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Hetty Feather
- Jacqueline Wilson
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780440868354
- Published: 05-08-2010
London, 1876. Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital cares for abandoned children - but Hetty must first live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school. Life in the countryside is sometimes hard, but with her fost...
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White Crow
- Marcus Sedgwick
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781842551875
- Published: 01-07-2010
It's summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold - taken from the buzz of London and her friends and what she thinks is the start of a promising romance. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold - it's a place that doesn't like to let you go, and she knows it inside out - the beach, the...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: 60th Anniversary Edition
- Harper Lee
- Cornerstone
- ISBN13: 9780099549482
- Published: 24-06-2010
___________________________________'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the ra...
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White Cat
- Holly Black
- Orion Publishing Co
- ISBN13: 9780575096707
- Published: 17-06-2010
Cassel is cursed. Cursed by the memory of the fourteen year old girl he murdered. Life at school is a constant trial. Life at home even worse. No-one at home is ever going to forget that Cassel is a killer. No-one at home is ever going to forget that he isn't a magic worker. Cassel's family ar...
