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  • 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 . . ....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Kitty Slade: Divine Freaks: Book 1

    Kitty Slade: Divine Freaks: Book 1

    • Fiona Dunbar
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781408309285
    • Published: 05-05-2011

    \"Hey, I'm Kitty Slade. Just your average, normal girl, doing, you know, normal stuff. Got a brother (annoying), a sister (quite annoying) and a grandma (she's awesome). Oh yeah, and one more thing. I can see dead people.\"When a ghost turns up in her biology classroom, only...

  • The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1)

    The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1)

    • Rick Riordan
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780141325507
    • Published: 05-05-2011

    The Red Pyramid: the first book in Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles.Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world...'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM . . .'CARTER AND SADIE KANE'S dad i...

  • Gone

    Gone

    • Michael Grant
    • Egmont UK Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781405242356
    • Published: 01-10-2010

    Suddenly there are no adults, no answers. What would you do? In the blink of an eye, the world changes. The adults vanish without a trace, and those left must do all they can to survive. But everyone's idea of survival is different. Some look after themselves, some look after others, and some...

  • Whisper My Name

    Whisper My Name

    • Jane Eagland
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9780330511391
    • Published: 06-08-2010

    Since she was twelve, Meriel Garland has lived with her grandfather in London, exiled from her beloved India following the death of her mother. Now sixteen, Meriel chafes against the strict regime of tests and study that her grandfather imposes on her. Escaping, she discovers a world outside h...

  • The Graveyard Book

    The Graveyard Book

    • Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9780747594802
    • Published: 05-10-2009

    When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is al...