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The Deep
- Helen Dunmore
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780007204922
- Published: 05-05-2008
The third spellbinding story about Sapphy and Conor's adventures in the powerful and dangerous underwater world of Ingo. A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood -...
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Journey to the River Sea
- Eva Ibbotson
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780330397155
- Published: 02-05-2008
It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon disc...
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Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse (Book 3)
- Rick Riordan
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141321264
- Published: 01-05-2008
The Titan's Curse: the third book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. The third book in the most exciting commercial fantasy adventure series since Artemis Fowl. Now in paperback with a thrilling new cover look. It's the last Friday before the winter holidays but Percy Jackso...
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Charlie's Monsters (Nightmare Academy, Book 1)
- Dean Lorey
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780007257195
- Published: 03-03-2008
Hogwarts meets Men in Black in a thrilling comic adventure about a very gifted boy who joins a monster fighting academy. Charlie Benjamin is not like other children - when he sleeps he has terrible nightmares, and when he wakes it is to find his room has been wrecked. Then one day he wa...
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Horrible Histories Handbooks: Villains
- Terry Deary, Martin Brown
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407103051
- Published: 01-03-2008
From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were tu...
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Peter Pan in Scarlet
- Geraldine McCaughrean, David Wyatt
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192726216
- Published: 04-10-2007
Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of war paint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help, and so it is time to do the unthinkable and fly to Neverland again. But back in...
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Stop the Train
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192718815
- Published: 04-10-2007
It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma and they and their fellow settlers prepare for steady business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad company, the boss swears that his trains will nev...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141322711
- Published: 06-09-2007
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a much-loved story by Roald Dahl, full of snozzberries, rainbow drops, luminous lollies and hair toffee! Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to fi...
