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• Catherine Wilkins, illus Katie Abey
• Nosy Crow
• ISBN13: 9780857630957
• Published: 06-09-2012

When Jessica's best friend goes off with new-girl Amelia, Jessica is hurt but determined not to take it lying down. She has a plan, and a secret weapon - her felt-tips. The pen is mightier than the sword, after all, and having a sense of humour wins Jessica far more friends than she loses....

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• Garen Ewing
• Egmont UK Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781405263856
• Published: 03-09-2012

Winner of the Young People's Comic Award at the 2013 British Comic Awards The most gripping new comic book series since Tintin. Follow our hero, Julius Chancer, as he embarks on a hazardous quest for the rainbow orchid - a mythical flower last mentioned by the an...

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• Guy Bass, Pete Williamson
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781847152527
• Published: 01-09-2012

Re-join Stitch Head, a mad professor's forgotten creation, as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime... The ghost of a villainous ne'er-do-well is haunting the corridors of Castle Grotteskew, gunning for Stitch Head's heart ... and soul. Certain that his he...

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• Philip Pullman
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9781849921039
• Published: 30-08-2012

Benny, Thunderbolt, Bridie, Sharky and the Peretti twins are a mixed bunch of vagabonds and urchins who come together to form the New Cut Gang in two comic tales of stolen silver and skulduggery. Fake coins are turning up all over Lambeth and the finger of suspicion is pointing at Thunderbolt'...

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• Michelle Paver
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141339269
• Published: 28-08-2012

'If an Outsider wields the blade, the House of Koronos burns...'Hylas is only a boy but he knows three things:The Gods exist.Magic is real.Somebody wants him dead.Hunted and alone, Hylas is desperate to find his missing sister. His quest takes him across the hostile mountains and treacherous s...

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• Alan James Brown, Barbara Vagnozzi
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781408818442
• Published: 02-08-2012

Never lie on a lion or creep up behind a sheep. Why? Because all sorts of things can happen, as we soon find out in this lively read-aloud text for the very young.Children get covered in mud, outrun by horses and kept on their toes by cows. There is heaps of animal fun to be had in this charmi...

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• Mini Grey
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9781862308152
• Published: 05-07-2012

Traction Man and Scrubbing Brush are at the beach! Traction Man even has his special Squid-Proof Scuba Suit, perfect for exploring the secret crevices of the Rockpool. But there are adventures in store for our intrepid hero as he faces the thrills of Operation Picnic, the tribulation of being...

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• Anne Fine
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780857530639
• Published: 05-07-2012

Bliss! A lovely, quiet, nothing-to-do and nothing-on-the-calendar Sunday...Well, that's until bossy Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force - is on the phone insisting that Harry and his family come down to help her a local event she's promised to organise: the Great Toadpool Show. It means swinging...

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