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The Beasts Beneath Our Feet
- 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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Protecting the Planet: Emperor of the Ice
- 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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All Four Quarters of the Moon
- 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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The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die
- Peter Lantos
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9780702323089
- Published: 05-01-2023
A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hu...
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21% Monster: Ice Giant
- P.J. Canning
- Usborne
- ISBN13: 9781474984423
- Published: 05-01-2023
Genetically-modified teens try to bring down the organisation that made them, in this second action-packed installment in the 21% Monster series.'The girl put her hands on her hips, cocked her head and answered: "My name is Aurora Maria Ash-Valero and I'm here to kick your butt!"'<...
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The Crooked Oak Mysteries (4) - The Terror of Hilltop House
- Dan Smith, Chris King
- Barrington Stoke
- ISBN13: 9781800901308
- Published: 05-01-2023
A ground-breaking experiment at a new research farm quickly grows out of control in this modern take on Day of the Triffids from master of creepy sci-fi Dan Smith. When Pete, Krish and Nancy read a story in the local paper about weird gunk being found in a field where sheep have gone mi...
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Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular
- Polly Owen, Gwen Millward
- Wide Eyed Editions
- ISBN13: 9780711275959
- Published: 05-01-2023
Learn the funny and fascinating story of Charles Darwin and the groundbreaking discoveries that resulted from his love of the humble worm in this hilarious, illustrated children's book.Charles Darwin is widely known for his Origin of Species book, yet Darwin had another great love,...
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Glowrushes
- Roberto Piumini, Leah Janeczko
- Pushkin Children's Books
- ISBN13: 9781782693819
- Published: 01-12-2022
Madurer is the son of a great lord, with untold wealth, but he is also the victim of a mysterious disease that means he cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air. He is confined to three windowless rooms inside a palace, but his doting father summons a famous artist to cover the walls of the...
