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Emerald Secret
- Susan Moore
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780857638267
- Published: 12-01-2017
**As recommended on Simon Mayo's Books of the Year**Nat is perched on the prow of the Junko as it glides up the Thames one cold, drizzly night. London is to be her home for the next year, and it looks to be a strange and uninviting place after the bright lights and fast pace of Hong Kong. Litt...
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The Bone Sparrow
- Zana Fraillon
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781510101555
- Published: 12-01-2017
Winner of the CILIP Amnesty Honour 2017.Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017.Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire...
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The Shield of Kuromori
- Jason Rohan
- Egmont UK Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781405270618
- Published: 12-01-2017
The Matrix meets Percy Jackson in this exciting series packed with monsters, magic and mayhem, set in modern day Japan. Science meets myth when ogres armed with high-tech weaponry steal a huge telescope as part of an insane plan to cast the world into permanent darkness. With global catastrop...
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Also an Octopus
- Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Benji Davies
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406373387
- Published: 05-01-2017
Every story starts with nothing, so ... why not an octopus who wants to fly in a spaceship? A delightfully meta picture book that will set imaginations soaring.From Benji Davies, the illustrator of The Storm Whale and Grandad's Island, comes a metafictive story about ... how to bui...
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The Goldfish Boy
- Lisa Thompson
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407170992
- Published: 05-01-2017
A story about finding friendship when you're lonely - and hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is th...
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Alice Jones: The Ghost Light
- Sarah Rubin
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781910002872
- Published: 05-01-2017
Old refurbished theatre, the Beryl, is re-opening. Days before opening night, the ghost light - left on at night to appease the ghosts of actors - is extinguished. Alice digs into the Beryl's past, sleuthing in a network of dark backstage corridors and cobwebby storage rooms. Gradually, she st...
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Wing Jones
- Katherine Webber, Luke Lucas
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406369090
- Published: 05-01-2017
Debut novel about a mixed-race family hit by tragedy in 90s Atlanta from a talented young writer.For fans of David Levithan, Jandy Nelson and Rainbow Rowell: a sweeping story about love and family from an exceptional new voice in YA. With a grandmother from China and another from G...
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Me and Mister P
- Maria Farrer, Daniel Rieley
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192744210
- Published: 05-01-2017
There are times when only a polar bear will do . . . \"All I want is a normal family but no, I've ended up with the brother from Weirdsville. Liam is so embarrassing, but Mum and Dad can't see that and give him all the attention. Leaving me with zero! Zilch! A big fat NOTHING! And I'm not real...
