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When Life Gives You Mangoes
- Kereen Getten
- Pushkin Children's Books
- ISBN13: 9781782692645
- Published: 01-10-2020
Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives - at least, that's how it seems. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with her best friend Gaynah. There's only one problem: she can't rememb...
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The Wizard In My Shed: The Misadventures of Merdyn the Wild
- Simon Farnaby, Claire Powell
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781444957617
- Published: 01-10-2020
Merdyn the Wild is from the Dark Ages. He's the world's greatest Warlock (don't call him a wizard), banished to the 21st century for bad behaviour, and he's about to create a whole load of trouble for Rose, aged 12.Rose is a totally ordinary girl, on a mission to mend her broken fa...
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Wild City: Meet the animals who share our city spaces
- Ben Hoare, Lucy Rose
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780753446102
- Published: 01-10-2020
Take an unforgettable tour around the world to meet the creatures that share our city spaces - from bears to bats, penguins to opossums - and learn about how they have adapted and thrived in this gorgeously illustrated gift book written by award-winning natural history journalist Ben Hoare.<br...
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The International Yeti Collective: Shadowspring
- Paul Mason, Katy Riddell
- Little Tiger Press Group
- ISBN13: 9781788951814
- Published: 01-10-2020
Henry is the new boy at Halbrook Hall - a crumbling boarding school in the Scottish Highlands. He thinks the rumours of yeti lurking in the misty hills are nothing more than stories. Until one day he gets lost in the forest...As a young yeti, Tadpole loves living in Shadowspring. But now...
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The Time Traveller and the Tiger
- Tania Unsworth
- Head of Zeus
- ISBN13: 9781788541701
- Published: 01-10-2020
With echoes of Tom's Midnight Garden, Tania Unsworth writes about transcendent friendships and conservation in the animal kingdom. Elsie is not looking forward to the long summer holiday with her creaky, old Uncle John. But then the unimaginable happens as Time unravels and Elsie tumble...
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A Secret of Birds & Bone
- Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781911077947
- Published: 01-10-2020
In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia's mother carves beautiful mementoes from the bones of loved ones. But one day, she doesn't return home. Did her work lead her into danger? Sofia and her little brother Ermin are sent to the convent orphanage but soon escape, led by an enigmatic new f...
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Frost
- Holly Webb
- Little Tiger Press Group
- ISBN13: 9781788951241
- Published: 01-10-2020
The neighbours all complain about the foxes hanging around the flat where Cassie lives, close to the River Thames, but Cassie thinks they're beautiful. Her favourite is a small fox with a white tail-tip, who she names Frost. One night she catches sight of him out in the snow, looking cold and...
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The Hat Full of Secrets
- Karl Newson, Wazza Pink
- Little Tiger Press Group
- ISBN13: 9781788950763
- Published: 01-10-2020
Henry's got a secret ... a big one! And he doesn't know what to do with it. Grandpa suggests he should keep it under his hat - and he's got just the hat for the job. But when Henry puts it on he discovers that Grandpa has some secrets of his own! A lyrical and heart-warming stor...
