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  • Night Walker

    Night Walker

    • Ali Sparkes
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192749970
    • Published: 04-04-2019

    Spin has always dwelled in the darkness. He was happy to lurk alone, until Elena, Matt and Tima came to disrupt his night-time world. Elena, Matt, and Tima are Night Speakers. They wake up at the same time, every night, and since the beginning of these wake-up calls they have all had the power...

  • Fabio The World's Greatest Flamingo Detective: Mystery on the Ostrich Express

    Fabio The World's Greatest Flamingo Detective: Mystery on the Ostrich Express

    • Laura James, Emily Fox
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781408889343
    • Published: 04-04-2019

    In a small town on the banks of Lake Laloozee lives the world's greatest flamingo detective. His name is Fabio. He's not tall or strong, but slight and pink. And he's very, very clever.It's the height of summer and Fabio and his associate Gilbert are taking a relaxing holiday journ...

  • Becoming Jo

    Becoming Jo

    • Sophie McKenzie
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407188157
    • Published: 04-04-2019

    Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy: four sisters whose stories are forever imprinted in our hearts. But what if their stories had different endings? Reimagined by bestselling author Sophie McKenzie and told through the eyes of everybody's favourite sister, Becoming Jo perfectly captures the magic, exuberan...

  • Don't Hug the Pug!

    Don't Hug the Pug!

    • Robin Jacobs, Matt Hodson
    • Cicada Books Limited
    • ISBN13: 9781908714657
    • Published: 04-04-2019

    Long-listed for the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2020.A great book to read aloud, children will love joining in with 'Don't hug the pug!' and be highly amused by the rather smelly outcome! -- Book ActivistA sweet story with an unexpected twist at the end. -- Parent's In To...

  • The Beasts of Grimheart

    The Beasts of Grimheart

    • Kieran Larwood, David Wyatt
    • Faber & Faber
    • ISBN13: 9780571328451
    • Published: 04-04-2019

    From the winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award, the third instalment of Podkin's epic battle against the Gorm.The bard looks up at the three figures. They have black hooded cloaks and long robes. From the holes in their masks, three pairs of eyes watch him: cold, calm, emotionless. 'Y...

  • British Museum: So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Egypt

    British Museum: So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Egypt

    • Chae Strathie, Marisa Morea
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781788004497
    • Published: 04-04-2019

    Shortlisted for the Teach Primary Book Awards 2019!  Related teaching resource pack available on the Nosy Crow website.  Part of Nosy Crow's list of publishing in collaboration with the British Museum and developed in consultation with one of the world's leading Egyptologists. This hila...

  • The Middler

    The Middler

    • Kirsty Applebaum
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781788003452
    • Published: 28-03-2019

    "I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had."   Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and spec...

  • The Letter, the Witch and the Ring - The House With a Clock in Its Walls 3

    The Letter, the Witch and the Ring - The House With a Clock in Its Walls 3

    • John Bellairs
    • Templar Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781848127944
    • Published: 21-03-2019

    The third book in the series following on from the American classic The House With a Clock in Its Walls, now a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black and Kyle MacLachlanRose Rita wishes she could go to camp like her best friend, L...