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  • Five Minutes Peace

    Five Minutes Peace

    • Murphy Jill
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781844285396
    • Published: 05-06-2006

    This is a modern picture-book classic - there's never a dull moment with the Large family! One morning Mrs Large, needing some peace and quiet away from her boisterous children, decides to take refuge in the bathroom. She fills herself a foamy bubble-bath and takes in a tray of her favourite b...

  • Love Lessons

    Love Lessons

    • Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780552553520
    • Published: 01-06-2006

    Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading teenage magazines, they know they're very different to 'normal' girls - but when Dad has a st...

  • The Dog In The Diamond Collar

    The Dog In The Diamond Collar

    • Rebecca Lisle
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781842703663
    • Published: 01-06-2006

    When a rich little boy disappears from his luxurious home, his parent and neighbours are frantic with worry. But three local children get special help from his dog, and follow a series of unexpected clues to find him in a most unlikely spot!

  • The Shapeshifter 1 Finding the Fox

    The Shapeshifter 1 Finding the Fox

    • Ali Sparkes
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192754653
    • Published: 04-05-2006

    Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy ...until something extraordinary happens one day. Whilst frightened for his life, he inexplicably changes into a fox! Before long, both a government agent and an ambitious young journalist are on his tail. The agent tells him that he is one of several childre...

  • Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)

    Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)

    • Rick Riordan
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780141319131
    • Published: 04-05-2006

    The Lightning Thief: the First book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. The first bestselling book in Rick Riordan's phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series. Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, goin...

  • Ingo

    Ingo

    • Helen Dunmore
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007204885
    • Published: 02-05-2006

    A spellbinding magical adventure. Master storyteller Helen Dunmore writes the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, and their discovery of INGO, a powerful and exciting world under the sea. You'll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she...

  • Traction Man Is Here

    Traction Man Is Here

    • Mini Grey
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780099451099
    • Published: 06-04-2006

    With an action outfit for every occasion, Traction Man patrols the house. Whether he is saving toys (in latex space suit and Perspex helmet, teamed with Rocket Boots); searching the sink for the lost wreck of the sieve (in sub-aqua suit, fluorescent flippers and infra-red mask) or rescuing dam...

  • Power Of Five Bk 2: Evil Star

    Power Of Five Bk 2: Evil Star

    • Horowitz Anthony
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781844286201
    • Published: 03-04-2006

    After his experiences at Raven's Gate, fourteen-year-old Matt Freeman thinks his days of battling evil are over. But soon he is pulled into another horrifying adventure when he discovers a second gate exists. Matt and his friend Richard travel to Peru and, assisted by a secret organization kno...