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Code Name Verity
- Elizabeth Wein
- Egmont UK Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781405258210
- Published: 06-02-2012
This is an award-winning and bestselling tale of friendship and courage. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. When a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail ou...
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Punctuation..?
- User Design, Illustration and Typesetting
- User Design, Illustration and Typesetting
- ISBN13: 9780957071223
- Published: 07-12-2011
This book explains the functions and correct uses of 21 of the most used punctuation marks like the apostrophe, brackets, semicolon, dashes, and also some you may not know about like guillemets, forward slash, or the interpunct. The book is humorous, fully illustrated using real life scenarios...
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Brave New Girl
- Catherine Johnson
- Frances Lincoln Ebooks
- ISBN13: 9781781010525
- Published: 14-11-2011
\"I can make things happen - good things - I know it!\" Seren is so full of brilliant ideas - it's just that she always seems to put her foot in it! First there was the dance routine where she fell off the stage. And now her plan to get her sister Sasha noticed by gorgeous Luke Beckford looks...
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Battle Fatigue
- Mark Kurlansky
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781408826911
- Published: 07-11-2011
Growing up in the years following World War II, Joel Bloom always played soldiers with his friends. But by the time he's eighteen, the Vietnam War is in full swing, and it's not as simple as the war games he played when he was a child. Old enough to be drafted, Joel loves his country, but he k...
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The Windvale Sprites
- Mackenzie Crook
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571240715
- Published: 03-11-2011
When a storm sweeps through the country, Asa wakes up the next day to find that his town is almost unrecognisable - trees have fallen down, roofs have collapsed and debris lies everywhere. But amongst the debris in his back garden Asa makes an astounding discovery - the body of a small winged...
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The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
- Eric Carle
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141340012
- Published: 06-10-2011
\"I am an artist...\" begins Eric Carle's vibrant tribute to the creative life. And just like an imaginative child, this is one artist who paints the world as he sees it-a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox, a black polar bear (!) and a wonderful polka-dotted donkey. Filled with s...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Sir Michael Morpurgo, Emma Chichester Clark
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406315110
- Published: 06-10-2011
A spell-binding modern retelling of a classic children's tale by master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, with glorious illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark.In the town of Hamelin, the rich and greedy live like kings and queens while the poor and sick scavenge rubbish tips for scraps...
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Naked
- Kevin Brooks
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141326115
- Published: 06-10-2011
London, 1976: a summer of chaos, punk, love . . . and the boy they called Billy the Kid.It was the summer of so many things. Heat and violence, love and hate, heaven and hell. It was the time I met William Bonney - the boy from Belfast known as Billy the Kid. I've kept...
