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The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die
- Peter Lantos
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9780702323089
- Published: 05-01-2023
A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hu...
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21% Monster: Ice Giant
- P.J. Canning
- Usborne
- ISBN13: 9781474984423
- Published: 05-01-2023
Genetically-modified teens try to bring down the organisation that made them, in this second action-packed installment in the 21% Monster series.'The girl put her hands on her hips, cocked her head and answered: "My name is Aurora Maria Ash-Valero and I'm here to kick your butt!"'<...
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The Crooked Oak Mysteries (4) - The Terror of Hilltop House
- Dan Smith, Chris King
- Barrington Stoke
- ISBN13: 9781800901308
- Published: 05-01-2023
A ground-breaking experiment at a new research farm quickly grows out of control in this modern take on Day of the Triffids from master of creepy sci-fi Dan Smith. When Pete, Krish and Nancy read a story in the local paper about weird gunk being found in a field where sheep have gone mi...
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Glowrushes
- Roberto Piumini, Leah Janeczko
- Pushkin Children's Books
- ISBN13: 9781782693819
- Published: 01-12-2022
Madurer is the son of a great lord, with untold wealth, but he is also the victim of a mysterious disease that means he cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air. He is confined to three windowless rooms inside a palace, but his doting father summons a famous artist to cover the walls of the...
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Choose Love
- Nicola Davies, Petr Horacek, Onjali Rauf
- Graffeg Limited
- ISBN13: 9781802583779
- Published: 22-11-2022
In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies’s text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horáček to provide insight into the real-life experiences of refugees forced to leave their homes and previous lives behind to face an unknown future. Suffused with compassio...
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Fifty Things to Do With a Stick
- Richard Skrein
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9781911682561
- Published: 10-11-2022
A must-read for anyone with an adventurous spirit, a yen to whittle and chop, and a desire to get out into nature and play with sticks! These 50 achievable ideas for making and playing with sticks - all with beautiful step-by-step illustrations - make a great gift. The next title in Pav...
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Wolfbane
- Michelle Paver
- Head of Zeus
- ISBN13: 9781789542455
- Published: 10-11-2022
Grand finale to the prize-winning adventure series that's changed the lives of millions of readers. Breathtaking world-building on an epic scale. Pure escapism at its best. It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice. Fleeing...
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Snot, Sneezes, and Super-Spreaders: Everything You Need to Know About Viruses and How to Stop Them
- Marc ter Horst, Wendy Panders, Laura Watkinson, Dr Jennifer Gardy
- Greystone Books, Canada
- ISBN13: 9781771649735
- Published: 10-11-2022
Discover the extraordinary world of viruses, from their creation and transmission to what we can do to stop them, in this science-based resource for kids 8 to 12. If we didn't know it before, we certainly know it now: Viruses can be powerful-so powerful, in fact, that they can hold the world i...
