Books - Children

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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...

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• Derek Landy
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007241620
• Published: 03-09-2007

Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course).  Oh yeah. And dead.   Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's... well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on t...

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• Anthony Horowitz, Martin Chatterton
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406308501
• Published: 04-06-2007

There's been a murder on a remote island ... but the Diamond Brothers are on the case! eBook available.When the Diamond Brothers receive an invitation to a school reunion on a remote Scottish island, things seem to be looking up. But Nick's got a bad feeling, and it's not indigestion. And when...

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• Matt Haig
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780370329369
• Published: 03-05-2007

Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever. He doesn't know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway...

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• Louis Sachar
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9780747589785
• Published: 05-03-2007

'Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?' 'Because dead ones squeal when you stick the fork in.' Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It is the rest of the kids in the class who think he is a fool. Then the Floyd Hicks Junior High School Talent Show is announce...

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