Books - Families

• Helen Dennis, Bonnie Kate Wolf
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444920437
• Published: 14-01-2016

What if a teenage boy washed up on the banks of the River Thames, soaked to the skin and unable to explain who he is?What if the only clue to the boy's identity is a sketch he made of a strange symbol?Who would help him? Who would hunt him? Who is River Boy?...

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• Julian Gough, Jim Field
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444929317
• Published: 14-01-2016

Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear who discover that things are always better when they're shared with a friend. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books. 'A perfect animal double-act.' (The Times, Book of the W...

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• Sita Brahmachari, Louise Wright
• Barrington Stoke Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781781125236
• Published: 08-01-2016

Hudson is a skilled reader of books, but not so much with people. Mum's new bloke Louis is keen to help, and in turn Hudson passes on what he learns to future sibling Zed (for zygote). This all comes in useful at granddad's funeral as Hudson deals with grief, his dad's feelings of guilt and hi...

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• Mary Hooper
• Barrington Stoke Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781781125168
• Published: 08-01-2016

Gina knows that Victorian London is no place for an orphaned girl - there are those that would literally steal the hair off her head. And so Gina finds work with Thread and Spider as 'George', selling burial outfits stripped off rich corpses. The work is dangerous and illegal, but it is better...

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• Gareth P. Jones
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781847156648
• Published: 07-01-2016

Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.) The Steampunk Pirates get a taste of their own medicine when the Leaky Battery is raided by a sea monster that's greedy for gold. But when the rusty robots race to get their treasure back, they sail straight int...

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• Ella Denton, Jamie Littler
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192739407
• Published: 07-01-2016

All is peaceful and calm in outer space, until a band of space pirates steals the moon! Will Intergalactic Ed and his faithful space cat, Sputnik, find a way to release it? Or will they end up walking the Space Plank? Join Ed and Sputnik in an engaging picture storybook about space, rockets an...

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• Joseph Delaney
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9781782954057
• Published: 07-01-2016

The first book in the exhilarating new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.Welcome to Arena 13. Here warriors fight. Death is never far away . . .Leif has one ambition: to become the best fighter in the notori...

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• Daisy Hirst, Daisy Hirst
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406365528
• Published: 07-01-2016

A poetic and original picture book about the value of friendship from a remarkable new author.\"Arresting, resonant and witty\" The TimesA beautifully bold and fresh new picture book, this hopeful and endearing story about moving house, making new friends and playing im...

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