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Stunt Double
- Tamsin Cooke
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192749826
- Published: 06-07-2017
An action-packed adventure story with an exciting film location setting. Finn is a free-running black belt, with a talent for acting-but when his big break arrives, it's not the role he was expecting at all.Recruited as a stunt double, he's pushed to his limits-scaling walls at high speed, jum...
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Overheard in a Tower Block: Poems
- Joseph Coelho, Kate Milner
- Otter-Barry Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781910959589
- Published: 06-07-2017
Gazing at the stars from five storeys up,smelling the bins from five storeys below.Overheard arguments,overheard laughter. A disappearing father and a Mermaid-Queen mother; statues that sing for flesh and blood; bullies who kick you under the table; perfect red trainer...
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War Horse
- Michael Morpurgo
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9781405226660
- Published: 29-06-2017
Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel... In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from...
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The Smoking Hourglass (The Uncommoners, Book 2)
- Jennifer Bell, Karl James Mountford
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780552572903
- Published: 15-06-2017
Following Ivy Sparrow's discoveries in The Crooked Sixpence, the adventures continue in the second instalment of The Uncommoners trilogy, The Smoking Hourglass.As soon as Ivy and her brother Seb set foot back in the mysterious underground city of Lundinor, they know that something...
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Being Miss Nobody
- Tamsin Winter
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781474927277
- Published: 01-06-2017
Rosalind hates her new secondary school. She's the weird girl who doesn't talk. The Mute-ant. And it's easy to pick on someone who can't fight back. So Rosalind starts a blog - Miss Nobody; a place to speak up, a place where she has a voice. But there's a problem...
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Tender Earth
- Sita Brahmachari
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9781509812509
- Published: 01-06-2017
Laila Levenson has always been the baby of the family, but now with her older siblings, Mira and Krish, leaving home just as she starts secondary school, everything feels like it's changing... can the reappearance of Nana Josie's Protest Book and the spirit it releases in Laila, her friends an...
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After The Fire
- Will Hill
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781474924153
- Published: 01-06-2017
Father John controls everything inside The Fence. And Father John likes rules. Especially about never talking to Outsiders. Because Father John knows the truth. He knows what is right, and what is wrong. He knows what is coming. But Moonbeam is starting to see the lies behind Father John's wor...
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Artichoke Hearts
- Sita Brahmachari
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9781509855360
- Published: 01-06-2017
Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari is an incredibly insightful, honest novel exploring the delicate balance, and often injustice, of life and death - but at its heart is a celebration of friendship, culture, and life.Twelve-year-o...
