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Journey to the River Sea
- Eva Ibbotson
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780330397155
- Published: 02-05-2008
It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon disc...
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The Book of a Thousand Days
- Ms. Shannon Hale
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9780747589235
- Published: 03-03-2008
When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is furious. So furious he locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she can take her maid, Dashti. Petulant and spoilt...
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Charlie's Monsters (Nightmare Academy, Book 1)
- Dean Lorey
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780007257195
- Published: 03-03-2008
Hogwarts meets Men in Black in a thrilling comic adventure about a very gifted boy who joins a monster fighting academy. Charlie Benjamin is not like other children - when he sleeps he has terrible nightmares, and when he wakes it is to find his room has been wrecked. Then one day he wa...
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Horrible Histories Handbooks: Villains
- Terry Deary, Martin Brown
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407103051
- Published: 01-03-2008
From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were tu...
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The Morning Gift
- Eva Ibbotson
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780330444996
- Published: 05-10-2007
Ruth lives in the beautiful city of Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. But her world is about to change forever. When Hitler's forces invade Ruth's family flees to London, but she is unable to get a passport. Quin, a young professor and friend of t...
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Peter Pan in Scarlet
- Geraldine McCaughrean, David Wyatt
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192726216
- Published: 04-10-2007
Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of war paint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help, and so it is time to do the unthinkable and fly to Neverland again. But back in...
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Stop the Train
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192718815
- Published: 04-10-2007
It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma and they and their fellow settlers prepare for steady business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad company, the boss swears that his trains will nev...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9780230529151
- Published: 07-09-2007
On Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has already had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is...
