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Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head (Book One)
- Lauren Oliver, H C Chester
- Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN13: 9781444777185
- Published: 08-10-2015
The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken head. Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans Philippa, Sam, and Thomas have grown up hap...
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Little Stars
- Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780857533197
- Published: 08-10-2015
Hetty Feather has begun a new chapter in her life story. Escaping from Tanglefield's Travelling Circus with her dearest friend Diamond, Hetty is determined to find them positions as glamorous music hall artistes. Hetty and Diamond quickly become the Little Stars of Mrs Ruby's show, alongside m...
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The Crossover
- Kwame Alexander
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781783443673
- Published: 08-10-2015
'With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering.Cuz tonight I'm delivering'12-year-old Josh and his twin Jordan have basketball in their blood. They're kings of the court, star players for their school team. Their father used to...
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Daughters unto Devils
- Amy Lukavics
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781471145278
- Published: 08-10-2015
Sometimes I believe the baby will never stop crying.Sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner fears she is losing her mind. When her family move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, Amanda hopes she can leave her haunting memories behind: of her sickly Ma giving birth to a ter...
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Clare and her Captain
- Michael Morpurgo, Catherine Rayner
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781781124352
- Published: 06-10-2015
On holiday in the Devon countryside, Clare's summer is transformed by a new friendship with retired horse Captain and his reclusive owner. A must-have for every fan of Morpurgo's classic storytelling and Rayner's highly sought-after artwork, and a gift to treasure for young and old.
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The Reindeer Girl
- Holly Webb
- Little Tiger Press Group
- ISBN13: 9781847154460
- Published: 05-10-2015
From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a gorgeous wintery story of a very special friendship, just in time for Christmas.One Christmas, Lotta is visiting her great-grandmother in Norway. Soon, she finds herself drawn into a magical adventure - travelling by sledge, herding reindeer from the...
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Railhead: shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017
- Philip Reeve
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192742759
- Published: 01-10-2015
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017!\"Come with me, Zen Starling\", she had said. The girl in the red coat. But how did she know his name? The Great Network is a place of drones and androids, maintenance spiders and Station Angels. The place of the thousand gates, where sentient trai...
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
- John Boyne
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780857534521
- Published: 01-10-2015
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, f...
