Books - Families

• Roddy Doyle
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9781407129334
• Published: 01-09-2011

The best-ever children's novel from the brilliant Roddy Doyle is a funny, sad story about four generations of a family. 12 year old Mary O'Hara's beloved, joke-cracking grandmother is near the end of her life. Letting go is hard - until a mysterious young woman appears at Mary's door. She is t...

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• Cottrell Boyce Frank
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406333855
• Published: 01-09-2011

This is a stunning magical story of a summer of friendship with darker undertones of refugees. Two refugee brothers from Mongolia are determined to fit in with their Liverpool schoolmates, but bring so much of Mongolia to Bootle that their new friend and guide, Julie, is hard-pressed to know t...

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• Susan Cooper, Joseph Delaney, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Matt Haig, Robin Jarvis, Derek Landy, Sam Llewellyn, Mal Peet, Philip Reeve
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781849393218
• Published: 01-09-2011

Derek Landy, Philip Reeve, Joseph Delaney, Susan Cooper, Eleanor Updale, Jamila Gavin, Mal Peet, Matt Haig, Berlie Doherty, Robin Jarvis and Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you eleven ghost stories: from a ghost walk around York; to a drowned boy, who's determined to find someone to...

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• Hayley Long
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780330523011
• Published: 05-08-2011

Just when things were starting to look up for Lottie her life's gone a bit pear-shaped, wonk-ways and downside up again. Her mum's all soppy over a bloke with a horrible shemo* daughter, her best pal Goose has disappeared in a cloud of nerd-gas and Lottie's in the midst of an existential crisi...

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• Alyson Noel
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780330530385
• Published: 05-08-2011

Having solved the matter of the Radiant Boy, Riley, Buttercup, and Bodhi are enjoying a little time-off. But then Riley encounters a young ghost named Rebecca. Despite Rebecca's sweet appearance, Riley soon learns she's not at all what she seems. As the daughter of a former plantation owner, R...

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• Polly Farquharson
• Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781847802590
• Published: 04-08-2011

Join in on a joyous walk to the park with this child's-eye photographic exploration extravaganza. Cleverly never showing the child narrator, the reader follows the narrator's green doodle line as she investigates a stick, a butterfly, a feather, a daisy chain and other features, as well as cro...

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• Atinuke, Lauren Tobia
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406318333
• Published: 04-08-2011

A beautiful, vibrant story, with rich colours and words that sing right off the page.This is the first picture book featuring Anna Hibiscus and she is very happy in it! So happy, in fact, that she can't quite decide what to do with herself!! So she turns to her grandparents, her aunties, her c...

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• John Fardell
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781849390156
• Published: 04-08-2011

When Louis gets eaten up by a Gulper, his big sister Sarah knows she has to act fast, and sets off in hot pursuit. But rescuing a boy from a Gulper's tummy isn't so simple - especially when other strange and scary creatures are looking for their dinner too. . .

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