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  • Trouble

    Trouble

    • Non Pratt
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406347692
    • Published: 06-03-2014

    A boy. A girl. A bump. Trouble. A smart, touching and funny contemporary young adult book from an extraordinary new talentHannah's smart and funny ... she's also fifteen and pregnant. Aaron is new at school and doesn't want to attract attention. So why does he offer to be the prete...

  • A Tale Dark and Grimm

    A Tale Dark and Grimm

    • Adam Gidwitz
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781783440870
    • Published: 06-03-2014

    Look out for the Netflix animated series! Reader: beware. Warlocks with dark spells, hunters with deadly aim, and bakers with ovens retrofitted for cooking children lurk within these pages.  But if you dare, turn the page and learn the true story of Hansel and Gretel - the story behind...

  • The Finisher

    The Finisher

    • David Baldacci
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781447263005
    • Published: 04-03-2014

    In The Finisher, bestselling author David Baldacci's first young adult adventure, a young girl is faced with an enormous mystery that could change her world completely. Welcome to Wormwood: a place where curiosity is discouraged and no one has ever left. Until one girl, Vega Jane...

  • Half Bad

    Half Bad

    • Sally Green
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780141350868
    • Published: 03-03-2014

    Meet Nathan Byrn . . .He's half White Witch, half Black Witch.His mother was a healer, his father is a killer.He's been kept in a cage since he was fourteen.But if White Witches are good and Black Witches are evil, what happens if you are both?'A...

  • Marooned in Manhattan

    Marooned in Manhattan

    • Sheila Agnew
    • O'Brien Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781847175588
    • Published: 03-03-2014

    New York City. Evie Brooks had seen it on the TV, but suddenly finds herself leaving her home in Dublin and moving to Manhattan to her American uncle Scott, after the death of her mother. Never owned a pet more substantial than a goldfish, Evie is intrigued by Scott's NYC veterinary pra...

  • Grasshopper Jungle

    Grasshopper Jungle

    • Andrew Smith
    • Egmont UK Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781405273411
    • Published: 27-02-2014

    \"A cool/passionate, gay/straight, male/female, absurd/real, funny/moving, past/present, breezy/profound masterpiece of a book.\" (Michael Grant, bestselling author of the GONE series). If you're a fan of John Green, Michael Grant, Stephen King or Sally Green's Half Bad, get your pincers stuck...

  • Hero

    Hero

    • Sarah Lean
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007512249
    • Published: 27-02-2014

    A story about a little dog with the heart of a lion. From the bestselling author of a 'A Dog Called Homeless'. Leo dreams about being a hero. In his imagination he is a fearsome gladiator, but he wants to be a hero in real life. When the boys at school dare Leo to do something he...

  • Oksa Pollock: The Last Hope

    Oksa Pollock: The Last Hope

    • Anne Plichota (Author), Cendrine Wolf (Translator), Sue Rose (Translator)
    • Pushkin Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781782690351
    • Published: 27-02-2014

    A New Heroine. An Old Evil. An Unforgettable Adventure.A thrilling new supernatural adventure series. Fuses the excitement, action and extraordinary worlds of Harry Potter, I Am Number Four and Buffy the Vampire Slayer with an inspirational new teen heroine.Oksa Pollock is a normal thirteen-ye...