| COVER | AUTHOR | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | PUBLISHER | ISBN |
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Mary Finn |
Anila’s journey
[ Reviews ] |
Menace and mystery lie in wait for a young girl who sets out to test herself in the man's world of late 18th century India |
Walker Books |
9781406306590
£6.99
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Tanya Landman |
Apache
[ Reviews ] |
Siki is an orphan of the Black Mountain Apache. Her mother was killed by Mexicans three years ago and her father lost in an ambush the winter before that. When Siki witnesses the brutal murder of her little brother Tazhi, she vows to become an apache warrior and avenge her brother's death. |
Walker Books |
9781406303315
£6.99
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Rhiannon Lassiter |
Bad Blood
[ Reviews ] |
When Katherine, Catriona, John and Roley are forced to go on holiday to Fell Scar house, they know things will be grim. Inside the sinister house is a game, begun and abandoned years ago. At last it can be finished. The children don't know the rules and they quickly learn that in this game they are pawns not players. |
OUP |
9780192754738
£5.99
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Marie-Louise Jensen |
Between two seas
[ Reviews ] |
Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for her father, Lars Christensen - the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before. |
OUP |
9780192755308
£5.99
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Sophie Mckenzie |
Blood ties
[ Reviews ] |
Theo gives his bodyguard the slip once too often. Rachel receives a weird text from her father. So begins a highly dangerous search to unravel unanswered questions about their past. Theo and Rachel fear they are targets of an extremist group who will stop at nothing to silence them
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Simon & Schuster |
9781847382757
£6.99
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Cliff McNish |
Breathe
[ Reviews ] |
Jack has always had an affinity with the supernatural, people who lived long ago and whose spirits remain in this world. Following his father's death, he and his mother move to an isolated house. Instantly, Jack senses the presence of the previous owner. But he is soon aware of other spirits reaching out to claim him. A spine-chilling ghost story. |
Orion Children's |
9781842555590
£6.99
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Jenny Valentine |
Broken soup
[ Reviews ] |
When the good-looking boy with the American accent presses the dropped negative into Rowan's hand, she's sure it's all a big mistake. But next moment he's gone, lost in the crowd of bustling shoppers. Who was the boy? Why was he so insistent that the negative belonged to Rowan? |
HarperCollins Children's Books |
9780007229659
£5.99
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Elizabeth Laird |
Crusade
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When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to join the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He burns with determination to strike down the infidel enemy. |
Macmillan Children's |
9780330456999
£5.99
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Michael Coleman |
The Cure
[ Reviews ] |
Welcome to the world as we know it, but with one great distinction. It is a world where any faith is strictly forbidden. Raul and his sister live in a nurture house, cared for by the state. One day Raul finds he can no longer suppress his doubts about the regime that surrounds him. |
Orchard Books |
9781846163456
£5.99
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Susan Pfeffer |
The dead and the gone
[ Reviews ] |
At the moment the asteroid hits the moon, Alex Morales' young life changes. Forever. As freak weather engulfs the globe, New York is plunged into a nightmare from which many will never wake. With no food, no electricity, and no parents, Alex must keep himself and his sisters alive - whatever the cost. The same event as in Life as we knew it but a different location – not a sequel
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Marion Lloyd Books |
9781407106229
£6.99
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Gemma Malley |
The declaration
[ Reviews ] |
Set in a future where children are ‘surplus’ and life can be prolonged indefinitely, this follows Anna and Peter as they struggle to find a future for themselves. |
Bloomsbury |
9780747587743
£6.99
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Stephen Baxter |
The H-Bomb Girl
[ Reviews ] |
One for Doctor Who fans! A time travel story set in Liverpool at the time of the Cuba crisis and the Beatles
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Faber Children's Books |
9780571232802
£6.99
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Philip Reeve |
Here lies Arthur
[ Reviews ] |
Not the Arthur of legend but a gripping and sometimes violent look at how life might have been at his court.
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Scholastic |
9781407103587
£6.99
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Gennifer Choldenko |
If a tree falls at lunch break
[ Reviews ] |
An unlikely friendship in this American school story leads to an unexpected discovery that changes both their lives.
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Bloomsbury |
9780747589273
£5.99
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Valerie Zenatti |
Message in a bottle
[ Reviews ] |
Starting with a true event: a bomb blast in Jerusalem, this touching story looks at the Arab Israeli conflict through the email correspondence between an Israeli girl and a boy in Gaza.
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Bloomsbury |
9780747590446
£6.99
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Maria Snyder |
Poison study
[ Reviews ] |
A gripping magical adventure story with a resourceful heroine who saves her life by choosing the job of poison taster.
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Mira Books |
9780778301929
£6.99
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Nick Hornby |
Slam
[ Reviews ] |
There's only one skateboarder, and his name's Tony Hawk. Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to talk to. So I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back. Because just when it seemed like everything had come together for me, I had to go and screw it all up. It only took two seconds. But all of me knew: a funny and moving story of coping with a teenage pregnancy.
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Penguin Books Ltd |
9780141321400
£7.99
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Malorie Blackman |
The stuff of nightmares
[ Reviews ] |
A compelling and very scary series of nightmares: experienced by Kyle as he hovers between life and death after a train crash.
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Corgi Childrens |
9780552554633
£6.99
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Benjamin Zephaniah |
Teacher’s dead
[ Reviews ] |
A teacher is dead, murdered by two of his students in front of the school. He was a good man. People liked him. So how could this happen? Why? It just doesn't make sense to Jackson, and he is determined to investigate the case until he understands. |
Bloomsbury Publishing |
9780747586098
£6.99
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Sally Nicholls |
Ways to live forever
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Sam has leukemia, and he is determined to make every minute count. What he wants are answers to the questions nobody will answer - and his research into the mystery of dying proves both humorous and uplifting. |
Marion Lloyd Books |
9781407104997
£7.99
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