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A Girl Called Owl
- Amy Wilson
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9781509832460
- Published: 26-01-2017
A glittering story of frost and friendship, with writing full of magic and heart, the Branford Boase-longlisted A Girl Called Owl is a stunning debut about family and the beauty of the natural world.It's bad enough having a mum dippy enough to name you Owl, but when you've got a da...
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Lyttle Lies: The Pudding Problem
- Joe Berger
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781471146244
- Published: 12-01-2017
To Sam Lyttle, the truth is like an elephant. It's heavy, worrying and wrinkly. And when it's sitting in your way, you can't go under it or over it. But you CAN skirt round it...So Sam does, every now and then, tell the odd porky-pie, much to the annoyance of his family. But is there mor...
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Emerald Secret
- Susan Moore
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780857638267
- Published: 12-01-2017
**As recommended on Simon Mayo's Books of the Year**Nat is perched on the prow of the Junko as it glides up the Thames one cold, drizzly night. London is to be her home for the next year, and it looks to be a strange and uninviting place after the bright lights and fast pace of Hong Kong. Litt...
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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...
