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My Name Is Parvana
- Deborah Ellis
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192734044
- Published: 06-03-2014
She heard the woman's boots walk away down the hall. She stood and waited, listening hard to see if the boots would come back.When she was sure she was alone, the girl finally spoke.'Yes,' she whispered. 'My name is Parvana.'Fifteen-year-old Parvana has built a new life with her family, and it...
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My Funny Family's Got Talent
- Chris Higgins, Lee Wildish
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9781444918403
- Published: 06-03-2014
Mum's 30th birthday is coming up and after such a hectic year for the Butterfields, Mattie wants to make it extra-special. Aided by best friend Lucinda, Mattie decides a talent show to showcase the Butterfields' unique skills will be the best birthday surprise for Mum. With a host of un...
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Trouble
- Non Pratt
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406347692
- Published: 06-03-2014
A boy. A girl. A bump. Trouble. A smart, touching and funny contemporary young adult book from an extraordinary new talentHannah's smart and funny ... she's also fifteen and pregnant. Aaron is new at school and doesn't want to attract attention. So why does he offer to be the prete...
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A Tale Dark and Grimm
- Adam Gidwitz
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781783440870
- Published: 06-03-2014
Look out for the Netflix animated series! Reader: beware. Warlocks with dark spells, hunters with deadly aim, and bakers with ovens retrofitted for cooking children lurk within these pages. But if you dare, turn the page and learn the true story of Hansel and Gretel - the story behind...
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The Finisher
- David Baldacci
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9781447263005
- Published: 04-03-2014
In The Finisher, bestselling author David Baldacci's first young adult adventure, a young girl is faced with an enormous mystery that could change her world completely. Welcome to Wormwood: a place where curiosity is discouraged and no one has ever left. Until one girl, Vega Jane...
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Half Bad
- Sally Green
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141350868
- Published: 03-03-2014
Meet Nathan Byrn . . .He's half White Witch, half Black Witch.His mother was a healer, his father is a killer.He's been kept in a cage since he was fourteen.But if White Witches are good and Black Witches are evil, what happens if you are both?'A...
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Marooned in Manhattan
- Sheila Agnew
- O'Brien Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781847175588
- Published: 03-03-2014
New York City. Evie Brooks had seen it on the TV, but suddenly finds herself leaving her home in Dublin and moving to Manhattan to her American uncle Scott, after the death of her mother. Never owned a pet more substantial than a goldfish, Evie is intrigued by Scott's NYC veterinary pra...
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Grasshopper Jungle
- Andrew Smith
- Egmont UK Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781405273411
- Published: 27-02-2014
\"A cool/passionate, gay/straight, male/female, absurd/real, funny/moving, past/present, breezy/profound masterpiece of a book.\" (Michael Grant, bestselling author of the GONE series). If you're a fan of John Green, Michael Grant, Stephen King or Sally Green's Half Bad, get your pincers stuck...
