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  • Revenge of the Zeds

    Revenge of the Zeds

    • Stewart Ross
    • Curious Fox
    • ISBN13: 9781782020875
    • Published: 25-09-2014

    The Soterion has been opened, but does it mean salvation or devastation? A horrific mutation in human DNA has resulted in a world where no one lives beyond nineteen. Cyrus and the noble Constants have opened the Soterion vault containing the Long Dead's secrets of science, art and possibly eve...

  • First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts

    First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts

    • Lari Don
    • Floris Books
    • ISBN13: 9781782501374
    • Published: 18-09-2014

    Winner of a Scottish Children's Book Award.When Yann the injured centaur clip clops into Helen's life she decides to help him even though she's not exactly a vet. But that's just the beginning ... Helen's first aid kit comes in very handy when she meets Yann's friends -- a gang of fabled beast...

  • Egg & Spoon

    Egg & Spoon

    • Gregory Maguire
    • Candlewick Press,U.S.
    • ISBN13: 9780763672201
    • Published: 09-09-2014

  • The Promise

    The Promise

    • Nicola Davies, Laura Carlin
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406355598
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    A picture book of great beauty and hope about the power we have to transform our world.On a mean street in a mean city, a thief tries to snatch an old woman's bag. But she finds she can't have it without promising something in return - to \"plant them all\". When it turns out the b...

  • The Lone City 1: The Jewel

    The Lone City 1: The Jewel

    • Amy Ewing
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406347494
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    A shocking and compelling new YA series from debut author, Amy Ewing; The Handmaid's Tale meets The Other Boleyn Girl in a world where beauty and brutality collide.Violet Lasting is no longer a human being. Tomorrow she becomes Lot 197, auctioned to the highest royal bidder in the...

  • Witchworld

    Witchworld

    • Emma Fischel, Chris Riddell
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9780857634177
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    The witches of Witchworld have no need for old-fashioned wands or broomsticks, not when they have shiny Spellsticks and super-whizzy Skyriders instead. And no one has a cauldron anymore, just a cupboard full of Potions2Go. Flo Skritchett lives with her mother, the editor-in-chief of celebrity...

  • The 100 Society

    The 100 Society

    • Carla Spradbery
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444920086
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    For sixth-form student Grace Becker, The 100 Society is more than just a game; it's an obsession. Having convinced her five friends at Clifton Academy to see it through to the end, Grace will stop at nothing to carry out the rules of the game: tagging 100 locations around the city. With each s...

  • Oliver and the Seawigs

    Oliver and the Seawigs

    • Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192734884
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    A lively, gorgeously illustrated story from Dynamic Duo, Reeve and McIntyre!Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid, and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes off in search of his missing parents. But before he can put his rescue plan into action there...