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The White Giraffe Series: The Last Leopard: Book 3
- Lauren St John, David Dean
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781842555347
- Published: 01-08-2008
Martine is looking forward to the holidays and riding Jemmy, her white giraffe, until an accident sends her and Ben on a journey to the Matobo Hills wilderness in Zimbabwe. It is a lawless land, where nothing is as it seems. When they uncover a plot in which the fate of a magnificent leopard a...
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Daughter of the Sea
- Berlie Doherty
- Andersen Press
- ISBN13: 9781842707791
- Published: 05-06-2008
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal...
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The Name of This Book is Secret
- Pseudonymous Bosch
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780746090923
- Published: 30-05-2008
Quirky, original and hugely entertaining, this is a debut novel of fantastical proportions from a talented new voice in children's fiction.When intrepid investigators Cass and Max-Ernest set out to discover the history of the mysterious Symphony of Smells, they become embroiled in a dastardly...
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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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Collected Poems for Children
- Ted Hughes
- Faber Children's Books
- ISBN13: 9780571215027
- Published: 06-03-2008
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in Under the North Star and What is the Truth? and ending with Season Songs, which Hughes...
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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...
