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  • The Accidental Prime Minister

    The Accidental Prime Minister

    • Tom McLaughlin
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192737748
    • Published: 02-04-2015

    When Joe tells a local news reporter exactly what he would do if he were leader of the country, the video goes viral and Joe's speech becomes famous all over the world!Before long, people are calling for the current leader to resign and give someone else a go . . . and that's how an ordinary b...

  • Knight in Training: Dragons Can't Swim: Book 1

    Knight in Training: Dragons Can't Swim: Book 1

    • Vivian French, David Melling
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444922271
    • Published: 02-04-2015

    A funny, exciting series for younger readers, by the bestselling Vivian French and David Melling.Sam J. Butterbiggins' only ambition is to be a Very Noble Knight, but he has a problem - he's been packed off to the castle next door to stay with his aunt and uncle while his parents a...

  • Creature Teacher

    Creature Teacher

    • Sam Watkins, David O'Connell
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192742650
    • Published: 02-04-2015

    Jake's class finally has the best teacher in the whole world, Mr Hyde. He doesn't make them clean toilet bowls with toothbrushes and his lessons are always fun. There is just one teeny, tiny, HUGE problem. Mr Hyde transforms into a naughty, little creature whenever he becomes upset. The creatu...

  • The Jolley-Rogers and the Cave of Doom

    The Jolley-Rogers and the Cave of Doom

    • Jonny Duddle, Jonny Duddle
    • Templar Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781848772410
    • Published: 01-04-2015

    While the Jolley-Rogers are enjoying a day at the beach, little sister Nugget toddles into a cave. When she doesn't come out again, Mum goes in to find her. And, when Mum doesn't return, Dad follows. Jim Lad is suspicious and sends Bones the dog to Dull-on-Sea to find Matilda before he too ven...

  • The Astounding Broccoli Boy

    The Astounding Broccoli Boy

    • Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steven Lenton
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781405054676
    • Published: 26-03-2015

  • The Crow Talker (Ferals, Book 1)

    The Crow Talker (Ferals, Book 1)

    • Jacob Grey
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007578528
    • Published: 26-03-2015

    In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five... Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps of food and only communicatin...

  • The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile

    The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile

    • Ian Beck
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780552567763
    • Published: 26-03-2015

    On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to inves...

  • Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops inFact: Level 12: Big Weather

    Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops inFact: Level 12: Big Weather

    • Zoe Clarke, Emma Schmid, Greg Foot
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780198306535
    • Published: 26-03-2015

    Big Weather explains some of the world's most extreme weather in a simple, accessible way.TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this comp...