Books - Families

• Anne Cassidy
• Barrington Stoke Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781781125113
• Published: 05-05-2016

George dreams of an easy life, a little record business, enough money to get by. But it's hard when he has Lennie to look after too. Lennie's not quite right, he's got a way of getting into scrapes, and he doesn't know his own strength. For now, their best option is to hole up with Billy and h...

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• Laura James, Eglantine Ceulemans
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781408866368
• Published: 05-05-2016

Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart sailor suit. There's just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water!Captain Pug is the first book in a glorious new illustrated series about roly-poly Pug and his human, Lady Miranda. It was shortlisted...

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• Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910002742
• Published: 05-05-2016

The magical bestseller: a classic story to read again and again. Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017. Winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year 2017. Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Beautiful, thrilling and magica...

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• Clara Vulliamy
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780008132491
• Published: 05-05-2016

Meet Dorothy Constance Mae Louise, or Dot as she prefers to be called!  Dot loves super-sour apple sherberts, running fast and puzzles - especially if they're fiendishly tricky. And with the help of trusty sidekick, Beans and TOP DOG, McClusky, she is always ready to sniff out a mystery. So wh...

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• Elizabeth Murray
• Alma Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781846883927
• Published: 01-05-2016

Liv Bloom's life is even more complicated than that of your average fourteen-year-old: her father walked out on the family when she was young, her mother is in a recovery centre for alcoholics, and her older sister is struggling to step into Mum's shoes. The only person she can turn to is her...

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• Martin Stewart
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141362038
• Published: 28-04-2016

Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. But then everything changes. One night his father is possessed by a dark spirit, and Wull hears that a cure lurks deep within the great sea-beast...

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• Isabel Minhos Martins, Yara Kono
• Thames & Hudson Ltd
• ISBN13: 9780500650776
• Published: 25-04-2016

Some children fight sleep with all their might. And we can see why - it is so exciting to be awake! But nobody can live without sleep, which is why we've created this bedtime ABC, a book with the power to have everyone nodding off long before the alphabet ends. It never fails. Some people begi...

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• Claudia Martin
• QED Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781784934538
• Published: 21-04-2016

Few things have such a profound effect on our everyday lives as the weather. Weather conditions decide whether we go out or stay in, and even what we need to wear, but for enquiring young minds, there are far more exciting things going on in our atmosphere than an occasional shower of rain. Li...

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