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The Shield of Kuromori
- Jason Rohan
- Egmont UK Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781405270618
- Published: 12-01-2017
The Matrix meets Percy Jackson in this exciting series packed with monsters, magic and mayhem, set in modern day Japan. Science meets myth when ogres armed with high-tech weaponry steal a huge telescope as part of an insane plan to cast the world into permanent darkness. With global catastrop...
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The Goldfish Boy
- Lisa Thompson
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407170992
- Published: 05-01-2017
A story about finding friendship when you're lonely - and hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is th...
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Alice Jones: The Ghost Light
- Sarah Rubin
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781910002872
- Published: 05-01-2017
Old refurbished theatre, the Beryl, is re-opening. Days before opening night, the ghost light - left on at night to appease the ghosts of actors - is extinguished. Alice digs into the Beryl's past, sleuthing in a network of dark backstage corridors and cobwebby storage rooms. Gradually, she st...
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Me and Mister P
- Maria Farrer, Daniel Rieley
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192744210
- Published: 05-01-2017
There are times when only a polar bear will do . . . \"All I want is a normal family but no, I've ended up with the brother from Weirdsville. Liam is so embarrassing, but Mum and Dad can't see that and give him all the attention. Leaving me with zero! Zilch! A big fat NOTHING! And I'm not real...
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The White Tower
- Cathryn Constable
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781909489103
- Published: 05-01-2017
When Livy's accepted at Temple College, a school for the very brightest, no one is more surprised than her, though she has always felt different. Recently, Livy's been drawn to the roof, where, among its towering stone angels, she has the strangest desire to fly. But her behaviour is noticed b...
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Mark of the Plague (A Blackthorn Key adventure)
- Kevin Sands
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141360669
- Published: 05-01-2017
BOILS, BLOOD AND A BURNING FEVER - THE BLACK DEATH HAS RETURNED TO LONDON . . .As the dreaded sickness spreads through the city, striking down rich and poor alike, an unknown man arrives with a miracle cure. But when an assassin threatens the life of the city's new saviour, young a...
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What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible
- Ross Welford
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780008156350
- Published: 29-12-2016
From the author of the unforgettable bestseller TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER comes another surprising, beautiful and funny novel about a child who, by disappearing, will write herself into your heart forever... Turning invisible at will: it's one way of curing your acne. But far more...
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas
- Matt Haig, Chris Mould
- Canongate Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781782118572
- Published: 03-11-2016
JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MAGICIf magic has a beginning, can it also have an end?When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask - Father Christmas.But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has more than impossible wishes to worry about. U...
