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Not the End of the World
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192754325
- Published: 31-03-2005
Everyone knows the story of the Flood, the men God chose to survive, the animals that went in two by two. But what about the others that sailed on the Ark - the women and the children? This adventure story asks what it was really like when the heavens opened and the world drowned - and what mi...
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Jimmy Coates: Killer
- Joe Craig
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780007196852
- Published: 31-03-2005
An eleven-year-old boy discovers he has strange powers, and a future that holds mystery, adventure - and death! Bending his knees, Jimmy let go of the windowsill and slowly tipped backwards. Surely this is impossible, he thought, even as he could feel himself doing it. He pushed out wit...
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Century
- Sarah Singleton
- Simon & Schuster
- ISBN13: 9781416901358
- Published: 07-03-2005
Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. They live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely - their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then one day, Mercy is woken to find a snowdrop on her p...
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The Shamer's Daughter
- Lene Kaaberbol
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9780340894293
- Published: 17-02-2005
Who dares look into her eyes? The Shamer is feared and resented for her power to unmask the soul's darkest secrets and crimes. Dina has inherited this gift from her mother, but to her it feels more like a curse. Dina's mother has just begun to teach her how to use her power whe...
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Eragon: Book One
- Christopher Paolini
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780552552097
- Published: 06-01-2005
The first book in The Inheritance Series When poor farm boy Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it's a lucky discovery. Perhaps, he will be able to buy his family food for the winter. But, when a baby dragon hatches out of the stone, Eragon realises h...
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The Penguin Who Wanted to Find out
- Jill Tomlinson, Paul Howard
- Egmont UK Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781405210850
- Published: 06-12-2004
A heart-warming classic full of animal antics by Jill Tomlinson. Otto is a penguin chick, that much he knows, but other than this he has a lot to learn. Life at the bottom of the world is a curious thing and life can change at a moment's notice. The next blizzard, the next meal and the threat...
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The Hodgeheg
- Dick King-Smith
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141317229
- Published: 25-11-2004
The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith is a much-loved classic! Now part of the collectible Puffin Modern Classics series. Max, the hedgehogwho becomes a hodgeheg,who becomes a hero! Max's family dreams of reaching the Park. But no one has ever found a safe way of crossing t...
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Clockwork
- Philip Pullman
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780440866381
- Published: 04-11-2004
Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them ...A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a deadly mechanical knight in armour - and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil ... Wind up these characters, fit them into a...
