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The Hit
- Melvin Burgess
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781908435330
- Published: 04-04-2013
A new drug is out. Everyone is talking about it. Death. Take it, and you have one amazing week to live. It's the ultimate high. At the ultimate price. Adam is tempted. Life is rubbish; his girlfriend's over him, his brother's gone. So what's he got to lose? Everything as it turns out. It's up...
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Rooftoppers
- Katherine Rundell
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571280599
- Published: 07-03-2013
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fic...
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Gangsta Granny
- David Walliams, Tony Ross
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780007371464
- Published: 28-02-2013
Another hilarious and moving novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David's previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben...
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Maggot Moon
- Sally Gardner, Julian Crouch (Artist/Theatre Producer)
- Hot Key Books
- ISBN13: 9781471400445
- Published: 03-01-2013
A starkly original and heartbreaking tale of friendship and rebellionWinner of the Carnegie Medal and a 2012 Costa Award winner. Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, MAGGOT MOON is the stunning new novel from award-winning a...
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Anthem for Jackson Dawes
- Celia Bryce
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781408827116
- Published: 03-01-2013
Megan Bright and Jackson Dawes are two teenagers who first meet each other on the hospital ward where they are both being treated for cancer. Megan is scared and worried about her illness, but Jackson seems to be an old hand, having been on the ward for ages. And everybody loves Jackson! He is...
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The Fault in Our Stars
- John Green
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141345659
- Published: 03-01-2013
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Wate...
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The Declaration
- Gemma Malley
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781408836880
- Published: 08-11-2012
Sixteen-year-old Anna should not have been born. It is the year 2140 and people can live for ever. No one wants another mouth to feed, so she lives in a Surplus Hall, where unwanted children go to learn valuable lessons . . . at least she wasn't put down at birth.One day, a new inm...
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Breathe
- Sarah Crossan
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781408827192
- Published: 11-10-2012
'Mad Max for the eco-generation' - Love Reading 4 Kids. 'The all-action plot and the hinted-at romantic triangle will keep the reader's interest to the end' - Irish Examiner. When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will live inside the Pod...
