Books - Children

• Iszi Lawrence
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781801990967
• Published: 05-01-2023

A riveting pirate tale set in the eighteenth century during the golden age of piracy in the Caribbean, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll and Jacqueline Wilson. It's 1718: pirate ships sail the oceans and brutal slave masters control the plantations. Eleven-year-old Abigail Buckler lives...

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• Catherine Jacob, illus Rachael Saunders
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781788954488
• Published: 05-01-2023

Welcome to Puppy Club!   Join Jaya, Willow, Daniel, Elsa, Arlo and Harper as they all navigate the ups and downs of life with a brand-new puppy!Elsa loves her gorgeous puppy Coco but her family's two cats aren't so welcoming. They chase the terrified pup all over the house! And to...

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• Dhonielle Clayton
• Templar Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781800785472
• Published: 05-01-2023

The NEW YORK TIMES bestseller!  Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds for Marvellers from around the world. Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy but she finds friendship in fellow misfits Brigit, a gir...

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• Abi Elphinstone, illus Geraldine Rodriguez
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780241473320
• Published: 05-01-2023

Number 14 Darlington Road, looks like a perfectly ordinary townhouse - at first glance, anyway, but magic is good at hiding . . . when it's waiting for the right person to discover it . . .Martha Pennydrop is ten, and desperate to grow up. But growing up is a tricky business. It me...

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• Rachel Delahaye, illus George Ermos
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781788955706
• Published: 05-01-2023

When Brutalia's ever-suspicious Queen is forewarned of a new enemy - a nearby island called Bonrock - Mort is worried. As a pacifist, he's a firm believer that strangers are just friends they haven't met yet. Then he and his best friend and fellow pacifist Weed are sent to the island to invest...

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• James Carter, Alisa Kosareva
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781838915049
• Published: 05-01-2023

Beneath our feetway deep and downare beasts asleepin the cold, dark ground. Dig down through the layers of the Earth and travel back in time. Meet the trilobites that scuttled and crawled; the munching, crunching dinosaurs; and a herd of roaming woolly mammoths. This r...

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• Nicola Davies, Catherine Rayner
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406397086
• Published: 05-01-2023

It's April in Antarctica and, in places so remote that they can only be seen by satellites, lines of Emperor Penguins appear in search of the perfect ice for raising their chicks. A wise old Empress has returned to the ice at Halley Bay year after year; with the help of her mate, she works to...

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• Shirley Marr
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781803704326
• Published: 05-01-2023

Everything so far, if Peijing had to sum it up, was a string of small awkward experiences that she hoped would end soon.The night of the Mid-Autumn festival, making mooncakes with Ah-Ma, was the last time Peijing remembers her life being the same. Now facing a new home, a new school and a new...

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