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  • Kaspar: Prince of Cats

    Kaspar: Prince of Cats

    • Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007267002
    • Published: 07-01-2010

    A heart-warming, colour-illustrated novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat, from the award-winning author of Born to Run and The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was...

  • Hunger

    Hunger

    • Michael Grant
    • Egmont UK Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781405251532
    • Published: 04-01-2010

    The clock is ticking for Sam Temple and the kids of Perdido Beach but it's not the big one-five that they face now; it's starvation that threatens the FAYZ. In an abandoned mine shaft a faceless animal lurks, pulling the strings, toying with human and mutant alike. And he's hungry - hungry in...

  • Big Bear, Little Brother

    Big Bear, Little Brother

    • Carl Norac, Kristin Oftedal
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781405051989
    • Published: 06-11-2009

    On the ice, the wind is blowing gently. Big Bear has stopped running. How wonderful it is to be still . . . to close his eyes . . . to dream! But the stillness is broken when Big Bear hears a cry and opens his eyes to see a child tumbling from the sky. Carl Norac's delicately woven tale of the...

  • A Necklace Of Raindrops

    A Necklace Of Raindrops

    • Joan Aiken, Jan Pienkowski
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780224083805
    • Published: 05-11-2009

    \"This is how it all began...\" From 'A Necklace of Raindrops' to 'The Patchwork Quilt', here are eight classic stories to treasure and enjoy. Beginning and ending with a birthday, this spell-binding collection conjures up a world filled with magic, where wishes can come true. A necklace of ra...

  • Jamie And Angus Forever

    Jamie And Angus Forever

    • Fine Anne, Dale Penny
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406314014
    • Published: 02-11-2009

  • The Great Death

    The Great Death

    • John Smelcer
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781842709191
    • Published: 08-10-2009

    The visitors from downriver had strange pale skin and blue eyes, but they left a deadly sickness of red spots and fever. Thirteen-year-old Millie and her younger sister Maura were the only survivors. As the first snowflakes fell the dogs were turning wild, and it was clear that the two girls m...

  • No such Thing as Dragons

    No such Thing as Dragons

    • Philip Reeve
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407114835
    • Published: 05-10-2009

    This is a dragon story with a brilliant twist from multi award-winning writer, Philip Reeve. Ansel's new master slays dragons for a living. He says he's hunted the monstrous worms all over Christendom and has the scars to prove it. But is Brock just a clever trickster in shining armour? Ansel...

  • The Graveyard Book

    The Graveyard Book

    • Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9780747594802
    • Published: 05-10-2009

    When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is al...