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  • The Pirate's Eye (Stitch Head 2)

    The Pirate's Eye (Stitch Head 2)

    • Guy Bass, Pete Williamson
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781847152282
    • Published: 02-04-2012

    Re-join Stitch Head, a mad professor's forgotten creation, as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime...  When Stitch Head sees his ice-blue eye for the very first time, he's convinced that it once belonged to the legendary pirate, Captain Flashpowder. Could it be...

  • Secrets of the Henna Girl

    Secrets of the Henna Girl

    • Sufiya Ahmed
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780141339801
    • Published: 01-03-2012

    Sufiya Ahmed has recently written for the bestselling non-fiction anthology IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BURQA. Read her debut YA novel now!Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . .  Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . ....

  • Itch

    Itch

    • Simon Mayo
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780857531308
    • Published: 01-03-2012

    'A great debut ...you'll be itching to read more.' Anthony Horowitz Meet Itch - an accidental, accident-prone hero. Science is his weapon. Elements are his gadgets. This is a hero with Geek-Power! Itchingham Lofte - known as Itch - is fourteen, and loves science - especially chemistry. He's al...

  • Hunger Games Movie Edition

    Hunger Games Movie Edition

    • Suzanne Collins
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407132075
    • Published: 08-02-2012

    Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set...

  • Code Name Verity

    Code Name Verity

    • Elizabeth Wein
    • Egmont UK Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781405258210
    • Published: 06-02-2012

    This is an award-winning and bestselling tale of friendship and courage. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. When a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail ou...

  • Punctuation..?

    Punctuation..?

    • User Design, Illustration and Typesetting
    • User Design, Illustration and Typesetting
    • ISBN13: 9780957071223
    • Published: 07-12-2011

    This book explains the functions and correct uses of 21 of the most used punctuation marks like the apostrophe, brackets, semicolon, dashes, and also some you may not know about like guillemets, forward slash, or the interpunct. The book is humorous, fully illustrated using real life scenarios...

  • Brave New Girl

    Brave New Girl

    • Catherine Johnson
    • Frances Lincoln Ebooks
    • ISBN13: 9781781010525
    • Published: 14-11-2011

    \"I can make things happen - good things - I know it!\" Seren is so full of brilliant ideas - it's just that she always seems to put her foot in it! First there was the dance routine where she fell off the stage. And now her plan to get her sister Sasha noticed by gorgeous Luke Beckford looks...

  • Battle Fatigue

    Battle Fatigue

    • Mark Kurlansky
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781408826911
    • Published: 07-11-2011

    Growing up in the years following World War II, Joel Bloom always played soldiers with his friends. But by the time he's eighteen, the Vietnam War is in full swing, and it's not as simple as the war games he played when he was a child. Old enough to be drafted, Joel loves his country, but he k...