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• Eva Ibbotson
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780330397155
• Published: 02-05-2008

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon disc...

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• Rick Riordan
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141321264
• Published: 01-05-2008

The Titan's Curse: the third book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. The third book in the most exciting commercial fantasy adventure series since Artemis Fowl. Now in paperback with a thrilling new cover look. It's the last Friday before the winter holidays but Percy Jackso...

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• De Fombelle Timothee, Place Francois
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406313154
• Published: 07-04-2008

Toby Lolness is just one and a half millimetres tall, and he's the most wanted person in his world, the great oak Tree. When Toby's father makes a ground-breaking discovery, tapping into the very heart of the Tree's energy, he also realises that exploiting it could do permanent damage to their...

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• Cornelia Funke
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781905294657
• Published: 07-04-2008

An adventure is what Igraine wishes for most in the world - and on her twelfth birthday she finds one! Everyone at Castle Pimpernel is looking forward to Igraine's birthday. But when her magical present goes wrong and her parents turn themselves into pigs, it's up to Igraine to put things righ...

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• Betty G. Birney, Jason Chapman
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571236145
• Published: 03-04-2008

Join Humphrey the hamster for his third adventure - and this one is going to be packed with trouble! When all sorts of problems crop up in the classroom, from Pay-Attention-Art's marks going down, to Golden-Miranda finding herself in big trouble, Humphrey must step in to lend a helping paw. Us...

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• Ms. Shannon Hale
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9780747589235
• Published: 03-03-2008

When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is furious. So furious he locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she can take her maid, Dashti. Petulant and spoilt...

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• Dean Lorey
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007257195
• Published: 03-03-2008

Hogwarts meets Men in Black in a thrilling comic adventure about a very gifted boy who joins a monster fighting academy. Charlie Benjamin is not like other children - when he sleeps he has terrible nightmares, and when he wakes it is to find his room has been wrecked. Then one day he wa...

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• Terry Deary, Martin Brown
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9781407103051
• Published: 01-03-2008

From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were tu...

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