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Title |
The water horse |
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Author |
Gregson, Julia |
Publisher |
Orion |
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This compelling saga draws on the true story of a young
Welsh woman who ran away to nurse in the Crimea
alongside Florence Nightingale. |
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Title |
I, Coriander |
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Author |
Gardner, Sally |
Publisher |
Orion Children's |
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This is the story of Coriander, daughter of a silk
merchant in 1650s London. Her happy childhood ends when
her mother dies & her father goes away, leaving
Coriander with her stepmother. She is shut away in a
chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world
from which her mother came, where time has no meaning.
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Title |
Toad away |
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Author |
Gleitzman, Morris |
Publisher |
Puffin |
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Limpy is fed up seeing his relatives run over and when
he hears of a place in the Amazon jungle where human and
toad live together in harmony, he resolves to find this
place for himself and to take his cousin Goliath with
him. But when they get there they discover it is not
Utopia after all. |
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Title |
Siberia |
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Author |
Halam, Ann |
Publisher |
Orion Children's |
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Sloe must grow up alone in snowbound wastes in a time of
fear and desperation. But her childhood memories of her
beautiful Mama and the tiny Lindquists, magical living
creatures, give a fairytale element, a bright dream for
her to cling to, in this moving fantasy story
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Title |
Thora |
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Author |
Johnson, Gillian |
Publisher |
Hodder Children's |
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It's time for Thora - half-mermaid, half-human, to leave
the sea and join the rest of us on dry land. She's ten
now and the Sea Shrew's prophecy says that her days in
the deep are done. Taking her pet peacock, Cosmo, Thora
does her best to settle down in the seaside town of
Grimli. But trouble is brewing. |
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Title |
Come clean |
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Author |
Paddock, Terri |
Publisher |
HarperCollins |
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At its heart, 'Come Clean' is about a girl's inability
to deal with her grief and her family's ignorance of her
pain. Justine is trying to cope with the desperate
loneliness she feels now her twin brother no longer
lives at home. After experimenting with alcohol she is
sent to a rehabilitation centre by her parents.
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Title |
Captain Underpants and the invasion of the incredible
naughty cafeteria ladies from outer space:the third epic
novel |
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Author |
Pilkey, Dav |
Publisher |
Hippo |
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Captain Underpants defeated the diabolical Dr Nappy. He
terminated the terrible talking toilets - but has he
finally met his match in a battle with the Giant
Man-Eating Dandelion of Doom? |
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Title |
The scarecrow and his servant |
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Author |
Pullman, Philip |
Publisher |
Doubleday |
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The Scarecrow is a courteous but pea-brained fellow with
grand ideas. He meets a boy, Jack, who becomes his
faithful servant. As the valiant Scarecrow plunges them
into terrifying dangers - pirates and treasure islands,
brigands and broken hearts - it's up to Jack time after
time to save the day. |
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Title |
The whisper |
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Author |
Rai, Bali |
Publisher |
Corgi |
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The Crew didn't think things could ever get that bad
again. They were seriously wrong. The police have
launched Operation Clean-up and dealers are regularly
being pulled off the street and into the police station.
Someone's got to be grassing them up, and soon Nanny and
the Crew are getting blamed. |
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Title |
How I live now |
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Author |
Rosoff, Meg |
Publisher |
Puffin |
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Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer
with cousins she has never met. It seems like the
perfect summer. Falling in love is just the start of it
but their lives are about to explode. War breaks out and
lands on their doorstep. Daisy's life is changed forever
- and the world is too. |
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Title |
Century |
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Author |
Singleton, Sarah |
Publisher |
Simon & Schuster |
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'Century' is an atmospheric and haunting novel about an
immortal family living in a twilight world. Sarah
Singleton is the author of several short stories. This
is her first novel for children. |
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Title |
Jammy dodgers on the run |
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Author |
Sivers, Bowering |
Publisher |
Macmillan Children's |
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Set in the helter-skelter world of Victorian London,
this story features a cast of exaggerated caricature
figures and some classic screwball comedy episodes.
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Title |
The next big thing |
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Author |
Waite, Judy |
Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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Discovered singing in a garage, Elliot is the next big
thing. Before he knows it, he's been scooped up, signed
up and tied up by a major record company, and he now has
the world at his feet. Everyone now wants a piece of the
Elliot brand; trouble is, Elliot is not sure he really
wants to be a brand. |
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Title |
The sea |
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Author |
Banville, John |
Publisher |
Picador |
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When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he
spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a
recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. From the
Booker-shortlisted author of 'Shroud' and 'The Book of
Evidence'. |
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Title |
Barry Trotter and the shameless parodies |
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Author |
Gerber, Michael |
Publisher |
Gollancz |
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Brought together for the first time in one bumper
volume, here are Michael Gerber's hilarious parodies.
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Title |
Agent orange:a Spy High novel |
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Author |
Butcher, A.J. |
Publisher |
Atom |
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When Rebecca Deveraux's father - the lord and master of
Spy High - sends her friend for mind-wiping, Bex
realizes her dad may be becoming just what his
institution was created to counter: a raging
megalomaniac. Worse, Bex has discovered plans that
suggest her dear old dad is building a vast mechanoid
army. |
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Title |
Angel Blue |
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Author |
Butcher, A.J. |
Publisher |
Atom |
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A 'Spy High' novel, packed with action, excitement,
gadgets and hormonal frenzies and featuring a secret and
altogether evil organisation operating within the FBI.
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Title |
Calista Green |
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Author |
Butcher, A.J. |
Publisher |
Atom |
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This stand-alone 'Spy High' novel has action,
excitement, gadgets and hormonal frenzies and features a
dramatic showdown in the skies above Hong Kong.
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Title |
Edward Red |
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Author |
Butcher, A.J. |
Publisher |
Atom |
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Eddie Nelligan is a graduate from the Deveraux College,
a highly secret school for teenage spies. He's just been
assigned his first solo mission - finding the
perpetrators of a devastating missile assault on the
sky-bridge linking Britain to continental Europe.
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Title |
Jake Black |
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Author |
Butcher, A.J. |
Publisher |
Atom |
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A stand-alone 'Spy High' novel, 'Jake Black' is packed
with action, excitement, gadgets, hormonal frenzies, and
a bunch of pyscho apocalyptic terrorists determined to
destroy the world. |
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Title |
Benjamin White |
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Author |
Butcher, A.J. |
Publisher |
Atom |
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Benjamin Stanton, Jr is a graduate of the Deveraux
College, the highly secret school for teenage spies. Why
Spy High's old enemy, President Vlad Tepesch of
Wallachia, steals an alien device from a Deveraux Moon
Colony, Ben's mission is pretty straightforward: get it
back. |
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Title |
The soul stealer |
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Author |
Butcher, A.J. |
Publisher |
Atom |
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They've busted techno-terrorists, outwitted crazed
scientists and taken on nightmare genetic freaks, but
Bond Team have never faced anything like this before.
The Spy High final exams are two gruelling weeks of
simulated espionage missions. Bond Team will be deprived
of sleep, food and water. |
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Title |
Drowned Wednesday |
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Author |
Nix, Garth |
Publisher |
HarperCollins |
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Arthur Penhaligon finds himself on an adventure that
will put him against pirates, storms, explosions and a
vast beast that eats everything it encounters. Will our
unwitting hero be able to find the third part of the
Will and claim the Third Key? |
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Title |
Double Fudge |
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Author |
Blume, Judy |
Publisher |
Macmillan Children's |
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'Double Fudge' takes a peep into the life of
five-year-old Fudge and the rest of the Hatcher family
who have to put up with his embarrassing new obsession.
He has discovered money and it's up to his brother Peter
to sort out the mess. |
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Title |
The boy in the striped pyjamas:a fable |
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Author |
Boyne, John |
Publisher |
David Fickling |
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A story of innocence existing within the most terrible
evil, this is the fictional tale of two young boys
caught up in events beyond their control. |
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Title |
Girls in pants |
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Author |
Brashares, Ann |
Publisher |
Corgi |
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It's summer and Bee, Tibby, Carmen and Lena face their
last summer together before university. |
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Title |
The second summer of the sisterhood |
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Author |
Brashares, Ann |
Publisher |
Corgi |
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Lena's in love - but will it end in a broken heart?
Bridget's about to face up to some painful truths about
her late mother. Carmen's hoping destiny will play her
cards right and Tibby's going to film school. The
'Travelling Pants' and the sisterhood that wears them
are back for their second summer. |
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Title |
Raven's gate |
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Author |
Horowitz, Anthony |
Publisher |
Walker |
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When Matt is sent to rural Yorkshire on a young
offender's rehabilitation programme he finds himself
caught up in a terrifying secret. This is the first in a
series about four boys and one girl who come together to
prevent the end of the world.. |
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Title |
Boy soldier |
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Author |
McNab, Andy |
Publisher |
Corgi Childrens |
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Danny Watts's grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor - an
SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his
regiment for money. At least, that's what
seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of
becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows
something the army doesn't seem to know. |
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Title |
Payback |
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Author |
McNab, Andy |
Publisher |
Doubleday |
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On the run again after their cover is blown, Danny and
his grandfather - and ex-SAS explosives expert - return
to London in order to confront their ruthless enemy in
MI6, Fincham. But a teenage suicide bomber has brought
death and destruction to the city, and it is up to Danny
to put a stop to any more attacks.
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Title |
The time witches |
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Author |
Molloy, Michael |
Publisher |
Chicken House |
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The second book in a trilogy that began with 'The Witch
Trade', this novel sees the evil Wolfbane and his
mother, Lucia Cheeseman, travel back in time in order to
prevent their downfall. |
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Title |
The Wild West witches |
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Author |
Molloy, Michael |
Publisher |
Chicken House |
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In this final part of Abby and Spike's adventure that
started in 'The Witch Trade' and continued in 'The Time
Witches', our young heroes and their friends travel back
in time to the Wild West. |
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