Books - Children

• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• Onjali Q. Rauf, Pippa Curnick
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781510105010
• Published: 12-07-2018

A World Book Day 2020 AuthorWINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019 WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2019Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child's perspective on the refugee...

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• Miranda Hart, Kate Hindley
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444941845
• Published: 12-07-2018

This is a story guaranteed to make you laugh and cry: the first children's book from award-winning, bestselling author and comedian Miranda Hart. Chloe Long has lost her smile. She's looked everywhere for it. (Under her pillow. Under her bed. Under her nose. Obviously.) She's tri...

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• Julie Hunt
• Allen & Unwin
• ISBN13: 9781760634780
• Published: 12-07-2018

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF SONG FOR A SCARLET RUNNEROn his deathbed, Ellie's pop reveals a secret - a magical button-box. It's a musical instrument from the Gleam country - a land far from Spit Farm and the mountains, with talking goats, sweet grass and corn that grows so high you have t...

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• Andrew Lane
• Templar Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781848126633
• Published: 12-07-2018

Young Bond and James Bond meet Alex Rider and Cherub in this brilliantly written, fast-paced spy action thriller. All credibly delivered from somebody who knows all about counter-intelligence...Kieron and his friend Sam are shocked to see a man kidnapped in a Newcastle shopping centre right in...

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