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  • Brave New Girl

    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...

  • Battle Fatigue

    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...

  • The Windvale Sprites

    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...

  • The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

    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...

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    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...

  • Naked

    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...

  • The Hidden Kingdom

    The Hidden Kingdom

    • Ian Beck
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192755636
    • Published: 06-10-2011

    A pampered prince who has to give up everything he has ever known. A warrior-like girl who has promised to carry out her duty at any cost. An obedient young servant with a mission to complete and an icy chill in his heart. As ancient demons rise around them and conspire to destroy their world,...

  • Winter Wishes

    Winter Wishes

    • Various Authors
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781847152015
    • Published: 03-10-2011

    A gorgeous book of winter tales, perfect for bedtime reading. A penguin chick looks forward to his first Penguin Parade, with a little help from Santa; a seal pup shares his dream of singing with a new friend, and a rescue-centre puppy hopes to find a home in time for Christmas... A perfect Ch...