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The Train to Impossible Places
- P. G. Bell, Flavia Sorrentino
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781474957410
- Published: 07-02-2019
When Suzy hears a strange noise in the middle of the night, she creeps downstairs to find a train roaring through her house. But this is no ordinary train. This is the magical delivery express for the Union of Impossible Places. Whisked on board by a troll-boy, Suzy's world is turned upside do...
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The Everyday Journeys of Ordinary Things: From Phones to Food and From Paper to Poo... The Ways the World Works
- Libby Deutsch, Valpuri Kerttula
- The Ivy Press
- ISBN13: 9781782406358
- Published: 07-02-2019
Young children are full of questions about how the world works; the processes and machinations behind the scenes. Why does a light come on when you flick a switch? How can cheese from the supermarket have come out of a cow? What happens when you send a text? Where does your poo go when you flu...
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Against All Gods
- Maz Evans
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781911077008
- Published: 07-02-2019
The fourth and final book in the hilarious bestselling WHO LET THE GODS OUT series; perfect for fans of David Solomons!'I totally fell in love with Elliot and the gods, and I think you're all going to love them too.' ROBIN STEVENS on book 1 'One of the funniest new voices in children's literat...
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When we were Warriors
- Emma Carroll
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571350407
- Published: 07-02-2019
A body washed up on the beach...Evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets...An animal rescue service...Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling n...
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The Closest Thing to Flying
- Gill Lewis
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192749482
- Published: 07-02-2019
Present day: Semira doesn't know where to call home. She and her mother came to England when she was four years old, brought across the desert and the sea by a man who has complete control. Always moving on, always afraid of being caught, she longs for freedom.1891: Hen knows exactly where to...
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The Deadly Dinner Lady (Rory Branagan (Detective), Book 4)
- Andrew Clover, Ralph Lazar
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780008265922
- Published: 07-02-2019
Meet RORY BRANAGAN - he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not ACTUALLY. But he IS the best detective in town. Fourth in the hilarious illustrated comedy-crime book series for kids, RORY BRANAGAN (DETECTIVE). Hello. I am Rory Branagan. I am DEFINITELY a detective.</...
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The Star-spun Web
- Sinead O'Hart
- Little Tiger Press Group
- ISBN13: 9781788950220
- Published: 07-02-2019
With her passion for scientific experimentation and her pet tarantula Violet, Tess de Sousa is no ordinary orphan. When a stranger shows up at Ackerbee's Home for Lost and Foundlings, claiming to be a distant relative come to adopt her, Tess hopes to find some answers to her mysterious origins...
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Asha & the Spirit Bird
- Jasbinder Bilan
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781911490197
- Published: 07-02-2019
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2019Winner of the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2017Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2020Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2019Chosen as one of the Guardian's Best Books of 2019 'This book is such a light-filled,...
