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Four Eids and a Funeral
- Faridah Abike-Iyimide, Adiba Jaigirdar
- Usborne
- ISBN13: 9781805312970
- Published: 06-06-2024
Let's get one thing straight: this is a love story.Said Hossain hates Tiwa Olatunji. And Tiwa would happily never see Said again in her life. Growing up, the two were inseparable, but they have barely spoken since the incident many Eids ago and both of them would like to keep it that way...
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The Tall Man
- Mary Cathleen Brown
- Everything with Words
- ISBN13: 9781911427391
- Published: 06-06-2024
The village is alive with rumours about the Tall Man and Tom lives in his house. Tom hears a boy in the cellar offering a 'special' acorn to a rat, Captain Rat, whom he begs to find the key to his leg-iron. The cellar is empty but Tom knows that the boy is real and he's convinced that he is...
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The 10pm Question
- Kate De Goldi
- Old Barn Books
- ISBN13: 9781910646946
- Published: 06-06-2024
Winner, Book of the Year in both Young Adult and General Fiction categories in the author's native New Zealand. A warm, surprising, witty and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy...
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Wild East
- Ashley Hickson-Lovence
- Penguin Random House Children's
- ISBN13: 9780241645444
- Published: 23-05-2024
Nominated for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing and longlisted for the 2025 Branford Boase Award. Pen in one hand, on my wrist, a ticking clockI've got to make this work, just need a little luck...When 14-year-old Ronny's life is struck by tragedy, his mum deci...
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Bird Boy
- Catherine Bruton
- Nosy Crow
- ISBN13: 9781839946493
- Published: 09-05-2024
From the multi-award-winning author of No Ballet Shoes in Syria, comes a story of migration, conservation, healing and hope as a grieving boy forms an unbreakable bond with an injured bird. After the tragic death of his mother, eleven year old Will is sent to temporarily stay with his u...
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The Wrong Shoes
- Tom Percival
- Simon & Schuster
- ISBN13: 9781398527126
- Published: 09-05-2024
A beautiful and urgent exploration of the experience of child poverty from Tom Percival, creator of the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series, for fans of Boy at the Back of the Class. There's a bunch of kids in there and suddenly they're all looking at me like someone who can act...
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Too Nice
- Sally Nicholls, Amy Blackwell
- Barrington Stoke
- ISBN13: 9781800903265
- Published: 09-05-2024
Abby struggles with feelings of anxiety about school during a period of family upheaval in this sensitive and touching story from Sally Nicholls. Abby is used to it being just her and her dad at home, but now her dad's new girlfriend Jen is moving in and everything is c...
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Angel of Grasmere: From Dunkirk to the Fells
- Tom Palmer, illus Tom Clohosy Cole
- Barrington Stoke
- ISBN13: 9781800902169
- Published: 09-05-2024
Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer. July 1940 - as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retre...
