Books - Families

• Matthew Baker
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471404528
• Published: 02-04-2015

Three boys, two grandpas, a tree, a map and some hidden treasure... Let the adventure begin.Eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes knows he's weird. He plays the violin far too well to be cool, he collects square roots and prime numbers and, weirdest of all, he talks to a tree who he believes is his b...

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• David Almond, Polly Dunbar
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406354409
• Published: 02-04-2015

Join a father and daughter as they find their wings together and take to the skies in this funny, tender tale from the master of contemporary storytelling.A warm and wonderfully wacky tale told with heart and hope by the Carnegie award winning author David Almond. Lizzie and Dad li...

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• Jonny Duddle, Jonny Duddle
• Templar Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781848772410
• Published: 01-04-2015

While the Jolley-Rogers are enjoying a day at the beach, little sister Nugget toddles into a cave. When she doesn't come out again, Mum goes in to find her. And, when Mum doesn't return, Dad follows. Jim Lad is suspicious and sends Bones the dog to Dull-on-Sea to find Matilda before he too ven...

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• Lance Rubin
• Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781471124235
• Published: 26-03-2015

The first of two books, Denton Little's Deathdate is an utterly gripping read - with a killer plot twist, hilarious characters, and a truly memorable voice.Imminent death has never been so funny! Denton Little's Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our own - except that ev...

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• Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steven Lenton
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781405054676
• Published: 26-03-2015

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• Jacob Grey
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007578528
• Published: 26-03-2015

In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five... Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps of food and only communicatin...

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• Ian Beck
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552567763
• Published: 26-03-2015

On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to inves...

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• Zoe Clarke, Emma Schmid, Greg Foot
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780198306535
• Published: 26-03-2015

Big Weather explains some of the world's most extreme weather in a simple, accessible way.TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this comp...

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