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The Bubble Wrap Boy
- Phil Earle
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141346298
- Published: 01-05-2014
The new book from the award-winning Phil Earle, author of Heroic and Being Billy.'Have finished BUBBLE-WRAP BOY. If happy tears/snot smeared across face were legal currency, @philearle would be rich. So warm, and so funny' - Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers.All...
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Charlie Merrick's Misfits in Fouls, Friends, and Football
- Dave Cousins
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192736598
- Published: 01-05-2014
'I play for North Star Galaxy and this is the story of our first season. I don't know how it's going to end - but I hope it will be at the World Cup Finals this summer! I'm going to tell you everything that happens - the truth - however painful that might be.'Charlie loves football. He watches...
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Ogres Don't Dance
- Kirsty McKay, Chris Judge
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781849397155
- Published: 01-05-2014
Ogden is a gnarly, man-eating ogre . . . with the dream of becoming a dancer. But no one will dance with him - not when they think they're going to be his next meal! Then Ogden meets Willow, a gutsy girl who lives in a tree house in the woods. She makes a deal with him: if he'll stop eating hu...
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The Ruby Airship
- Sharon Gosling
- Curious Fox
- ISBN13: 9781782020721
- Published: 10-04-2014
In this action-packed sequel to The Diamond Thief, trapeze-artist Remy has left the circus and her life as a jewel thief behind, but doubts that young detective Thaddeus Rec will ever truly trust her. Torn between her new life and her old, her mind is made up when Yannick, a fellow circus-perf...
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Shadow of the Zeppelin
- Bernard Ashley
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781408327272
- Published: 03-04-2014
Across Europe, the horror of war is destroying lives and separating families. Yield or fight?When tragedy strikes Freddie's family, he and his soldier brother must go on the run, battling for their survival. Jump or burn?Without a parachute, that's the choice Ernst kn...
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Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom
- William Sutcliffe, David Tazzyman
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781471120237
- Published: 27-03-2014
Hannah's life is boring, boring, boring! But when Armitage Shank's Impossible Circus comes to town, Hannah's world is turned on its head. Meeting Billy Shank, his astonishing camel, Narcissus, and a host of other bizarrely brilliant members of the circus. But all is not as it seems; Armitage S...
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Varjak Paw
- SF Said, Dave McKean
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780552572293
- Published: 13-03-2014
Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten. He lives high up in an old house on a hill. He's never left home, but then his grandfather tells him about the Way - a secret martial art for cats. Now Varjak must use the Way to survive in a city full of dangerous dogs, cat gangs and, strangest of all...
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My Name Is Parvana
- Deborah Ellis
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192734044
- Published: 06-03-2014
She heard the woman's boots walk away down the hall. She stood and waited, listening hard to see if the boots would come back.When she was sure she was alone, the girl finally spoke.'Yes,' she whispered. 'My name is Parvana.'Fifteen-year-old Parvana has built a new life with her family, and it...
