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Who's Afraid of the Light
- Anna McGregor
- Scribe Publications
- ISBN13: 9781914484353
- Published: 13-07-2023
Fergus lives down in the deepest, darkest sea and is scared of just one thing ... the light! From award-winning creator Anna McGregor (author of Anemone is Not the Enemy) comes this hilarious tale of the deepest of sea creatures. Seamlessly combining humor, na...
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The Reluctant Vampire Queen Bites Back (The Reluctant Vampire Queen 2)
- Jo Simmons
- Hot Key Books
- ISBN13: 9781471411830
- Published: 13-07-2023
The perfect lighthearted summer read for 11 - 14 year olds.... Meet Mo Merrydrew - independent young woman, Mini Battenberg fan, president of the debating society - and reluctant vampire queen ...Mo Merrydrew, fifteen-year-old Vampire Queen of Great Britain, has found a way to have...
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Sala, Mountain Warrior
- Wakanyi Hoffman, Onyinye Iwu
- Otter-Barry Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781915659064
- Published: 13-07-2023
There's a school trip to climb the mountain near Sala's home and she's excited - but nervous too, because she's the only girl to take the challenge.... But Grandmother shows the way, inspiring Sala with her mountain lore, her special beads and her storytelling. Can Sala climb to the top of t...
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The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
- Jon Klassen
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781529509571
- Published: 11-07-2023
Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when s...
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Wolves in Helicopters
- Sarah Tagholm, Paddy Donnelly
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781839131479
- Published: 06-07-2023
Can Hop find a way to escape the wolves in her nightmares, even if they chase her in helicopters? Mummy thinks so... Every night, Hop has nightmares filled with, scary, hungry-eyed wolves. She knows they only exist in her dreams but they still seem very real. Her mummy comforts her and ha...
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Friends and Traitors
- Helen Peters, David Dean
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781788004640
- Published: 06-07-2023
Some secrets are just too dangerous to know... A gripping World War II story about how two girls foil an aristocratic plot to bring down the government and hand the country to the Nazis... When Sidney Dashworth's school is evacuated to a huge stately home in the countryside, she thinks...
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Sing If You Can't Dance
- Alexia Casale
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571373802
- Published: 06-07-2023
An entirely original and much needed authentic perspective from a teenager coming to terms with her disability as she's coming of age. Ven has her future all planned out. Her dance group is going places and so is she . . . Then she collapses. On stage. In hospital, Ven discovers that s...
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Carnival of the Spider: BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
- Kieran Larwood, Sam Usher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571364541
- Published: 06-07-2023
There were three men and two women . . . One had half a face. One had iron legs. The others all had one or both arms missing. There were pincers and claws and guns instead. And you could hear them ticking. Ticking all the time.When Sheba the wolfgirl learns that her old friend Sist...
