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The Search For Wondla
- £10.99by Tony DiTerlizzi ISBN 9781847389664, Simon & Schuster |
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| Evening came and two beings were left standing. Eva nine above ground for the first time trying to escape from an extractor fan and a dangerous hunter... |
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Dead of Winter
- £10.99by Chris Priestley ISBN 9781408800133, Bloomsbury |
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| I remember from my own childhood that the lead up to Christmas would be a time for sitting around the fire and telling ghost stories. The nights are g... |
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Madame Pamplemousse and the Enchanted Sweet Shop
- £7.99by Rupert Kingfisher ISBN 9781408805053, Bloomsbury |
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Out Of Shadows
- £6.99by Jason Wallace ISBN 9781849390484, Andersen Press |
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| This impressive debut novel won the Costa Children's Book Award (Jan 2011) though it's appeal is to older teens. When Robert is uprooted from his home... |
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0.4
- £6.99by Mike Lancaster ISBN 9781405253048, Egmont |
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| This is a thrilling new addition to the dystopian future genre. Kyle has left a record on audio tape of a cataclysmic event which, if true, means that... |
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My Name is Mina
- £12.99by David Almond ISBN 9780340997253, Hodder |
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Noah Barleywater Runs Away
- £10.99by John Boyne ISBN 9780385618953, David Fickling |
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| In this spellbinding story-within-a-story Noah decides to run away from home rather than confront an impending change in his family and stumbles into ... |
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Beautiful Oops
- £8.99by Barney Satzberg ISBN 9780761157281, Workman |
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| A tear in the page is a crocodile's smile, a bent corner makes a portly penguin, a spill of purple paint produces puppies, ducks and even elephants. T... |
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Dead Man's Cove
- £9.99by Lauren St John ISBN 9781444000207, Orion |
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Ottoline At Sea
- £8.99by Chris Riddell ISBN 9781405050593, Macmillan |
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| Its finally here! The third in the wonderful Ottoline series by the fantastically talented Chris Riddell has arrived. This time Mr Munroe mysteriously... |
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She's so Dead To Us
- £6.99by Kieran Scott ISBN 9780857070449, Simon & Schuster |
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| Ally Ryan used to be a rich girl living the perfect all-American life. Now she's poor, and back in the town she thought she'd never see again. Her old... |
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Candor
- £6.99by Pam Bachorz ISBN 9781405250276, Egmont |
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| Candor is a perfect little town, But like all perfect little things it hides a secret. Oscar Banks knows this secret. It is his secret too! Everyday a... |
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The Radleys
- £9.99by Matt Hiag ISBN 9781406330281, Walker |
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| The Radley family are attempting to settle down into a normal respectable life at 17 Orchard Lane, Bishopthorpe. But try as they might, the school run... |
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The Enemy
- £6.99by Charlie Higson ISBN 9780141325019, Puffin |
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| This is a brand new series from the creator of the excellent 'Young Bond' series set in a dystopian future where everyone over the age of 14 has eithe... |
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WHITE CROW
- £9.99by Marcus Sedgwick ISBN 9781842551875, Orion |
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| Three narratives interweave in this atmospheric, paranormal thriller linking two centuries with the same obsessive desire. In an isolated coastal vill... |
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The Cardturner
- £12.99by Louis Sacher ISBN 9781408808504, Bloomsbury |
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| Alton Richards doesn't want to spend the summer turning cards for his rich, old, and blind Uncle Lester, but his money-hungry parents leave him little... |
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The Unfinished Angel
- £5.99by Sharon Creech ISBN 9781849390835, Andersen Press |
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| An angel has been watching over the inhabitants of a Swiss village for generations unsure of its' purpose other than the usual arrivals and departures... |
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The Princess Who Had No Kingdom
- £5.99by Ursula Jones Illustrator Sarah Gibb ISBN 9781846167997, Orchard |
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Candleman
- £5.99by Glenn Dakin ISBN 9781405246767, Egmont |
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| Add the following ingredients: 1 orphan, 1 mysterious benefactor, 1 sinister butler, 1 twins (possible deaf and dumb). 1 part man/part crustacean, sev... |
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The Willoughbys
- £5.99by Lois Lowry ISBN 9781907152405, Boxer Books |
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| Mr and Mrs Willoughby rival even Roald Dahl's worst villains for beastliness, and the Willoughby children (bossy Tim the eldest, twins Barneby A and B... |
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Nearly Departed
- £5.99by Rook Hastings ISBN 9780007258109, Harper Collins |
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| The Breakfast Club with ghosts! Featuring a jock, a nerd, a geek, an outcast, and a beauty queen this is a great book which hints at the supernatural ... |
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Beswitched
- £5.99by Kate Saunders ISBN 9781407108971, Scholastic |
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| Flora Fox is furious when her parents send her away to a horrible new school. But her problems really begin when she falls asleep and wakes up to find... |
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Fighting Ruben Wolfe
- £5.99by Markus Zuzak ISBN 9781862309579, Random House |
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| By the author of 'The Book Thief' comes this truly fantastic tale of two young brothers trying to make ends meet through trying times. Dads unemployed... |
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Solace of the Road
- £6.99by Siobhan Dowd ISBN 9781849920056, David Fickling |
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| 14 year old Holly is tired of being a 'looked after' child, fostered more times than she can remember by well-meaning mogits, (miserable old gits), as... |
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Season of Secrets
- £5.99by Sally Nicholls ISBN 9781407105147, Scholastic |
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| Its not very often that a book moves you to tears while confirming everything that is great about life at the same time. It’s a strange feeling having... |
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The Brides Farewell
- £10.99by Meg Rosoff ISBN 9780141383934, Penguin |
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| Pell is a free spirit, clever with horses and unwilling to accept a future dictated by convention. Leaving home on the eve of her wedding day, her lif... |
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The Big Yawn
- £10.99by Monika Spang Illustrator Sonja Bougaeva ISBN 9781877467189, Gecko Press |
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| As everyone in the whole wide world knows a yawn is contagious! So, what would happen if a tiger was to yawn in a zoo? This is the deep philosophical ... |
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The Santa Trap
- £10.99by Jonathan Emmett Illustrator Poly Bernatene ISBN 9781405091008, Macmillan |
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RUNNING WILD
- £12.99by Michael Morpurgo ISBN 9780007267019, HarperCollins |
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| Will is riding high on the back of Oona, a magnificent Indonesian beach elephant, unaware of the impending disaster heading his way. When Oona charges... |
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Ghost Hunter
- £10.99by Michelle Paver ISBN 9781842551752, Orion |
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Madame Pamplemousse & The Time-Travelling Café
- £6.99by Rupert Kingfisher ISBN 9781408800546, Bloomsbury |
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| In this second helping of Madeleine's culinary adventures she is on a dangerous mission to find the only ingredients which can save Paris from the evi... |
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SCAT
- £9.99by Carl Hiassen ISBN 9781842557747, Orion |
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| When Nick and Marta’s unpopular biology teacher disappears on a field trip they’re determined to find out why, but it’s not easy with an angry teenage... |
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The Wonderful O
- £9.99by James Thurber Illustrator Marc Simont ISBN 9781590173091, New York Review |
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| Never has there been a book as eloquent and glorious as The Wonderful O, wherein two pirates arrive at a peculiarly named island and ransack the place... |
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THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT
- £8.99by Kate di Camillo ISBN 9781406324471, Walker |
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| When Peter pays for a fortune-teller to discover if his long-lost sister is still alive, wheat follows is an engaging series of magical events that wi... |
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