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Turtle Boy
- M. Evan Wolkenstein
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781474981385
- Published: 06-08-2020
Twelve-year-old Will likes two things: turtles and the local nature reserve. Everything else is a nightmare, because Will has a facial difference that has earned him an unfortunate nickname. But when Will's Bar Mitzvah community service project introduces him to RJ, a boy who is confined to a...
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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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Across the Risen Sea
- Bren MacDibble
- Old Barn Books
- ISBN13: 9781910646670
- Published: 06-08-2020
From the multi award-winning Australian author of 'How to Bee' and 'The Dog Runner', another original and heartfelt middle-grade fiction adventure, exploring themes of loyalty, resilience, courage and the environment. <p...
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The Island That Didn't Exist
- Joe Wilson
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192775092
- Published: 06-08-2020
When twelve-year-old Rixon's great-uncle leaves him an island in his will, Rixon can't quite believe it. Things get even more confusing when the mysterious island can only be located on a very ancient map, and only then by using a big magnifying glass. Does the island actually exist? And if so...
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The Children of Swallow Fell
- Julia Green
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192771582
- Published: 06-08-2020
The world's in trouble. When war comes to the heart of the Italian city where Isabella lives with her family, everything changes. She makes the long journey with her dad to a safer place - the old house where he grew up in the north of England. Isabella must adapt to a completely different lif...
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After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside
- Tom Palmer, Violet Tobacco
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781781129487
- Published: 06-08-2020
"The best children's fiction book I've yet read about the Holocaust" - Tim Robertson, CEO Anne Frank Trust Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the...
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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...
