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The Lost Witch
- Melvin Burgess
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781783446902
- Published: 02-08-2018
Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea and tell her she is different: she has the rare powers of a witch. They warn her she is being hunted. Her parents think she is hallucinating and needs help. All Bea wants to do is...
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National Trust: How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear
- Dr Jess French, Angela Keoghan
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781788002578
- Published: 02-08-2018
Learn how you can save endangered animals and make the world a better place, too!From beetles and butterflies, to puffins and polar bears, animals and habitats all over the world need our protection. In this beautifully illustrated book, children (and adults!) can learn about thirteen differen...
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Secrets of a Sun King
- Emma Carroll
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571328499
- Published: 02-08-2018
Enter a world of Egyptian pharaohs and ancient curses from the Queen of Historical Fiction.London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt . . .A cursed package . . .The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent...
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Freedom
- Catherine Johnson
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407185484
- Published: 02-08-2018
Winner of the Little Rebels Children's Book Award 2019! An action-packed and pacey story about a boy's experience of slavery in Britain. Nathaniel doesn't want to move to England with his master's family, leaving behind his mother and sister on the Jamaican plantation. But then he remembers w...
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Long Way Down: 'A masterpiece.' Angie Thomas
- Jason Reynolds, Chris Priestley
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571335121
- Published: 02-08-2018
SHORTLISTED for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, WINNER of the UKLA. 'A masterpiece from beginning to end.' Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give. AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by...
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Sea Witch
- Sarah Henning
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780008300845
- Published: 31-07-2018
The fairy tale you thought you knew... The story of the Sea Witch, the villainess from Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale The Little Mermaid, told from the viewpoint of the Sea Witch when she was a twelve-year-old girl... Evie has been wracke...
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The Survival Game
- Nicky Singer
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781444944525
- Published: 26-07-2018
'A wonderful, surprisingly delicate story about a teenager making her way home to Scotland in a world remade by climate change (aimed at YA readers but, like all good children's books, good for adults too)' Lucy Mangan, i Weekend In a world full of checkpoints and controls, can love and...
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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air)
- Holly Black
- Hot Key Books
- ISBN13: 9781471407277
- Published: 26-07-2018
First in the bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. The sequels - The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing - won the Goodreads YA Best Fantasy in 2019 and 2020. Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. "Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divin...
