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  • A Kid in My Class: Poems

    A Kid in My Class: Poems

    • Rachel Rooney, Chris Riddell
    • Otter-Barry Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781910959879
    • Published: 02-08-2018

    "He's not scared of nothing.Nobody. Never. Nah.Which means that he is.Tough Kid. Not tough enough.I know - I once met his dad." They're all here...every kid in the class has their own poem. The pushy one, the shy one. The whizz kid and the daydreamer. The best fr...

  • Bone Talk

    Bone Talk

    • Candy Gourlay
    • David Fickling Books
    • ISBN13: 9781788450171
    • Published: 02-08-2018

    Samkad lives in a tribe deep in the Philippine jungle at the end of the nineteenth century, and has never encountered anyone from outside his own tribe before. He's about to become a man, and while he's desperate to grow up, he's worried that this will take him away from his best friend, Littl...

  • National Trust: How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear

    National Trust: How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear

    • Dr Jess French, Angela Keoghan
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781788002578
    • Published: 02-08-2018

    Learn how you can save endangered animals and make the world a better place, too!From beetles and butterflies, to puffins and polar bears, animals and habitats all over the world need our protection. In this beautifully illustrated book, children (and adults!) can learn about thirteen differen...

  • Secrets of a Sun King

    Secrets of a Sun King

    • Emma Carroll
    • Faber & Faber
    • ISBN13: 9780571328499
    • Published: 02-08-2018

    Enter a world of Egyptian pharaohs and ancient curses from the Queen of Historical Fiction.London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt . . .A cursed package . . .The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent...

  • Freedom

    Freedom

    • Catherine Johnson
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407185484
    • Published: 02-08-2018

    Winner of the Little Rebels Children's Book Award 2019!  An action-packed and pacey story about a boy's experience of slavery in Britain. Nathaniel doesn't want to move to England with his master's family, leaving behind his mother and sister on the Jamaican plantation. But then he remembers w...

  • Bleakley Brothers Mystery: What Manor of Murder?

    Bleakley Brothers Mystery: What Manor of Murder?

    • Christopher William Hill
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781408332931
    • Published: 12-07-2018

    A BLEAKLEY BROTHERS MYSTERY by OSBERT THE AVENGER author Christopher William Hill What's that you say? You're off to Bleakley Manor? On Michaelmas eve? But dear child, hasn't anyone told you the legend of Old Bramble Head, who rises once a year to claim another victim from the unfortuna...

  • Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

    Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

    • Fleur Beale
    • Allen & Unwin
    • ISBN13: 9781760634773
    • Published: 12-07-2018

    Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leadin...

  • Flight

    Flight

    • Vanessa Harbour
    • Firefly Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781910080764
    • Published: 12-07-2018

    Austria 1945. After losing his family, Jakob shelters with Spanish Riding School groom Herr Engel at a remote country stables where they are hiding the precious Lipizzaner stallions the Nazis wants to steal. When a German officer comes looking for Jakob and finds the horses, Jakob and his guar...