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Brock
- Anthony McGowan, Staffan Gnosspelius
- Barrington Stoke Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781781122082
- Published: 01-06-2013
A bleakly poetic tale about one boy's determination to save a badger cub from the destructive hands of a local gang. When Nicky finds Jezbo and his gang digging up a badger set, there's not a lot he can do to save them. But one badger cub has escaped - can Nicky save it? Another stunning and m...
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Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam
- Tracey Corderoy, Steven Lenton
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780857631466
- Published: 02-05-2013
Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two hapless robber dogs who decide on career change after one bungled burglary too many - proving that crime doesn't pay, but cupcakes certainly do!
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The Hit
- Melvin Burgess
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781908435330
- Published: 04-04-2013
A new drug is out. Everyone is talking about it. Death. Take it, and you have one amazing week to live. It's the ultimate high. At the ultimate price. Adam is tempted. Life is rubbish; his girlfriend's over him, his brother's gone. So what's he got to lose? Everything as it turns out. It's up...
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Rooftoppers
- Katherine Rundell
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571280599
- Published: 07-03-2013
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fic...
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Gangsta Granny
- David Walliams, Tony Ross
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780007371464
- Published: 28-02-2013
Another hilarious and moving novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David's previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben...
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The Diamond Thief
- Sharon Gosling
- Curious Fox
- ISBN13: 9781782020134
- Published: 14-02-2013
No one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old Remy Brunel. But Remy also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world's most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plo...
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Dear Scarlett
- Fleur Hitchcock
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780857631503
- Published: 07-02-2013
All this time Scarlett's thought her dad was a thief, but years after his death a strange man turns up at the door and hands her a box, \"on her father's instructions\". Inside is a baffling series of clues that leads Scarlett and her friend, Ellie, on a wild, scary, often funny journey of dis...
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Wonder
- R J Palacio
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780552565974
- Published: 03-01-2013
Now an Oscar nominated film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay.'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cre...
