Books - Families

• Jay Asher
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509840762
• Published: 20-10-2016

Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon - it's an idyllic place for a girl to grow up, except that every year they have to pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And...

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• Moira Young
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509832583
• Published: 20-10-2016

Davy David, an orphan, lives by his wits in the dead-end town of Brownvale. When a stray dog called George turns Davy's life upside down just days before Christmas, he sets in motion a chain of events which forces them to flee. A mischievous wind blows the two of them to a boarded-up museum on...

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• Megan Shepherd, Levi Pinfold
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406367584
• Published: 13-10-2016

An exceptional and moving novel about the power of the imagination, illustrated by the winner of the Kate Greenaway medal.An exceptional and moving novel about the power of stories and the imagination from the publisher of A Monster Calls. December 1941. Britain is at war. Emmaline...

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• Alex T Smith
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444926491
• Published: 06-10-2016

Claude and Sir Bobblysock think they've caught a burglar coming down the chimney on Christmas Eve. They clap on the handcuffs and turn on the lights. Oh no! It isn't a burglar - it's none other than Santa Claus! Now the key for the handcuffs is lost and it's up to our two heros to deliver all...

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• Carnovsky, Rachel Williams
• Wide Eyed Editions
• ISBN13: 9781847808868
• Published: 06-10-2016

Explore ten of the world's most diverse environments and reveal their hidden secrets with a magic coloured lens that illuminates each page in a kaleidoscope of colour. Discover the dark and mysterious creatures of the night, whose super-sensory powers allow them to live and survive in the shad...

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• Philip Reeve
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192744784
• Published: 06-10-2016

There was nothing, and then there was a train. A train with two passengers: a petty thief from a dead-end town, and an android girl who could be more human than the rest of us. Join Zen and Nova as they find out what really lies beyond the end of the universe . . .Take a ride in Philip Reeve's...

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• Lisa Selin Davis
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471406195
• Published: 06-10-2016

I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don't know ...In the aftermath of her older sister's death, sixteen-year-old Carrie is taken under the wings of her sister's friends, and finds herself forsaking the science nerds of her former life and slipping into a daze of cheap beer a...

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• Ryan Graudin
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781780622057
• Published: 06-10-2016

The thrilling conclusion to Ryan Graudin's Carnegie Medal 2017 nominated alternative history and fantasy epic, WOLF BY WOLF. In 1950s Germany, the war may be over, but the fight has just begun . . .There would be blood. Blood for blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it. <b...

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