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Kicking Off: Dick, Kerr Girls
- Eve Ainsworth
- UCLan Publishing
- ISBN13: 9781912979202
- Published: 03-09-2020
The remarkable story of the Dick, Kerr Ladies is brought to young readers for the very first time by award winning and CILIP Carnegie nominated Eve Ainsworth.It's 1917, and Britain is at war. Shy teenager Hettie wants to help the war effort, and signs up to work in the local Dick, Kerr & C...
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Red Stars
- Denise Muir, Davide Morosinotto
- Pushkin Children's Books
- ISBN13: 9781782692577
- Published: 03-09-2020
THE COUNTRY IS UNDER ATTACK. Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. As the Nazi army crushes the defending forces and enemy planes appear overhead, they are hurriedly evacuated from their home. 'WHATEVER HAPPENS, STAY TOGETHER' T...
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The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems
- Joseph Coelho, Kate Milner
- Otter-Barry Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781913074784
- Published: 27-08-2020
Daphne is unbearably sad and adrift. She feels the painful loss of her father acutely and seeks solace both in the security of her local library and the escape her phone screen provides by blocking out the world around her. As Daphne tries to make sense of what has happened she recalls memorie...
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Cinderella Is Dead
- Kalynn Bayron
- Bloomsbury YA
- ISBN13: 9781526621979
- Published: 06-08-2020
It's 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she's tiny until the night she's sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance...
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Jefferson
- Jean-Claude Mourlevat
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781783449699
- Published: 06-08-2020
Winner of the PEN Translates AwardJean-Claude Mourlevat is the 2021 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial AwardWhen Jefferson the hedgehog goes to his hairdresser's, he's shocked to discover the barber lying dead on the floor. Falsely accused of murder, Jefferson must go on the run with his b...
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Small Town Hero
- Patrick Neate
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781783449675
- Published: 06-08-2020
Ever since his dad died in a shock accident, thirteen-year-old Gabe's world has been turned upside-down and back to front. Literally: Gabe has discovered the ability to tell stories which take him into the past, or imagine an impossible version of the present or future that seems as real as re...
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The Great Revolt
- Paul Dowswell
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781472968425
- Published: 06-08-2020
Thrilling historical adventure set during the English peasants' revolt of 1381, by Paul Dowswell, the author of Auslander, and Wolf Children. It's 1381 and the king, Richard II, has imposed a new tax on the people. In the village of Aylesford, Tilda and her ploughman father were already strugg...
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Every Little Piece of My Heart
- Non Pratt
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406366945
- Published: 06-08-2020
"Pratt's characters are rib-achingly funny, outrageous and entirely true to life." Metro "A writer to watch." The Guardian. UK YA Book Prize-shortlisted author When Sophie receives a parcel from her best friend, Freya, she expects it to contain the reason why Freya left town so sud...
