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  • Circus Maximus: Race to the Death

    Circus Maximus: Race to the Death

    • Annelise Gray
    • Head of Zeus
    • ISBN13: 9781800240582
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and one girl dreams of glory. Ben Hur meets National Velvet in the ultimate 9-12 adventure story by debut children's author, Annelise Gray. Twelv...

  • Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City

    Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City

    • Rob Biddulph
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781529040524
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    Superstar, author and illustrator Rob Biddulph dazzles in Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City, the first title in an adventure series for boys and girls of 8+. Fizzing with magic, danger, friendship and art, this exciting, funny, middle-grade debut is from the bestselling creative genius beh...

  • Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book

    Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book

    • Ana Sampson
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781529058994
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book is a beautiful gift hardback collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. It covers everything from the depths of space to the very centre of the earth - there are poems about the solar system, planet earth, oceans and r...

  • Freeze

    Freeze

    • Chris Priestley
    • Barrington Stoke Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781781129838
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    Award-winning master of scary stories Chris Priestley returns with a spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales to chill you to the bone ... When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some brilliant ideas. Rising floodwaters unc...

  • Blossom

    Blossom

    • Laura Dockrill, Sara Ogilvie
    • Barrington Stoke Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781800900233
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    Blossom has grown up surrounded by the beautiful plants and flowers from her family's market stall. The stall was started by her grandparents, Tutu and Pops, and passed on to Blossom's parents after their death. It's a magical place where customers come to find flowers for all occasions: from...

  • The Puffin Portal

    The Puffin Portal

    • Vashti Hardy, Natalie Smillie
    • Barrington Stoke Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781781129814
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    Grace's family are wardens of the incredible Griffin Map, using its teleport technology to fight crime across Moreland. Right now it's all systems go at Griffin HQ, where Grace, her mum and her brother have their hands full answering a huge number of calls for help. They could really do with a...

  • Tripwrecked! Tempest Terror

    Tripwrecked! Tempest Terror

    • Ross Montgomery, Mark Beech
    • Barrington Stoke Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781781129616
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    Only a sensible, level head can save the day when disaster strikes on a school trip in this hilariously slapstick introduction to Shakespeare's The Tempest. Frank and his drama club are off on a dream school trip to perform The Tempest at a festival. But it turns into a nightmare when t...

  • Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

    Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

    • Philip Reeve
    • David Fickling Books
    • ISBN13: 9781788452373
    • Published: 02-09-2021

    It was always at sundown they were seen. In that twilight hour, when the walls between the worlds grew thin, strange things might slip through the cracks. Sometimes then, so the stories went, enchanted islands would appear in the empty ocean to the west of Wildsea.  When Utterly Dark wa...