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Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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In a world where animals no longer exist, 12-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone a bit mad. But the animals have something to say. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Abi and her two step-brothers, Max and Louis, find that strange things happen when they are alone in their eerie, ivy-covered new house. Abi, reading alone, finds herself tumbling deep into books, while Louis summons a startling guest through his bedroom window. Even Max has started to see shapes in the shadows. Their busy parents see none of it - but Louis' secret visitor is growing too alarming to keep secret, and he finds he cannot manage without...
4) Bad dad
Author
Language
English
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Description
Dads come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are fat ones and thin ones, tall ones and short ones. There are young ones and old ones, clever ones and stupid ones. There are silly ones and serious ones, loud ones and quiet ones. Of course, there are good dads, and bad dads. A high-speed cops and robbers adventure with heart and soul about a father and son taking on the villainous Mr Big - and winning!
6) Beetle queen
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Darkus's dad has disappeared, but his new friend, a giant beetle called Baxter, is some consolation. Together, boy and beetle set out to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. But Lucretia Cutter, a fashion designer with a penchant for beetle jewellery, is dead set against their success.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It is a well-known fact that fairies are born from a baby's first laugh. What is not as well documented is how monsters come into being. This is the story of a creature who is both strange and unique. When he hatches down in the vast underground lair where monsters dwell, he looks just like a human boy - much to the disgust of everyone watching. Even the grumpy gargoyles who adopt him and nickname him 'Imp' only want him to steal chocolate for them...
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Shifa and her brother, Themba, live in Kairos City with their father, Nabil. The few live in luxury, whilst the millions like them crowd together in compounds, surviving on meagre rations and governed by Freedom Fields - the organisation that looks after you, as long as you opt in. The bees have long disappeared; instead children must labour on farms, pollinating crops so that the nation can eat. But Nabil remembers Before and he knows that the soul...
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Secrets, spies or maybe even a monster. What lies in the heart of the wood? Charlie, Dizzy, and Johnny are determined to discover the truth, but when night falls without warning they find themselves trapped in a nightmare. Lost in the woods, strange dangers and impossible puzzles lurk in the shadows. As time plays tricks, can Charlie solve this mystery and find a way out of the woods? But what if this night never ends?
Author
Publisher
Knights Of
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Parents, siblings, teachers, coaches, nosy neighbours, babysitters - there's not much of your day that isn't dictated by someone else. Unless you walk home from school - walkers have a rare unsupervised independence! What waits for them is the mischief of curiosity, allies and enemies, a taste of freedom, and plenty of humour.
11) A far away magic
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When Angel moves to a new school after the death of her parents, she isn't interested in making friends. Until she meets Bavar - a strange boy, tall, awkward and desperate to remain unseen, but who seems to have a kind of magic about him. Everyone and everything within Bavar's enchanted house is urging him to step up and protect the world from a magical rift through which monsters are travelling, the same monsters that killed Angel's parents. But...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. Obviously no one believes him, so when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world comes crashing in, he embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance, and a different way to live - which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die.
13) Flood world
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Kara and Joe spend their days navigating the perilous waterways of a sunken city, scratching out a living in the ruins. But when they come into possession of a mysterious map, they find themselves in a world of trouble. Suddenly everyone's after them: gangsters, cops and ruthless Mariner pirates in their hi-tech submarines. The two children must find a way to fight back before Floodworld's walls come tumbling down.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The family curse has been lifted and the Widdershins sisters: Betty, Fliss and Charlie are free to leave the prison island of Crowstone. But when a mysterious girl arrives at the Poacher's Pocket with a pocketful of hagstones and accompanied by a will-o'-the-wisp, it seems another adventure has landed on their doorstep. And when Charlie goes missing, it's up to Betty and Fliss to journey through misty marches, past wisp catchers and on to a secret...
15) The dark wild
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong. Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies. And soon Kester realises that he is the only one who can stop them.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Find hundreds of things to spot and learn new facts about every destination. With epic adventures from the four corners of the globe and discoveries to be made on your own doorstep, this book will inspire you to set off on your own journey of discovery.
Author
Series
Sky-Ship adventure volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Brightstorm twins are back for another adventure! Eudora Vane has organized an explorer fleet to search the Eastern Isles, the last known destination of missing adventurer Ermitage Wrigglesworth. Harriet Culpepper and the crew of the Aurora join the mission, but they don't believe that Eudora has good intentions. What is she really looking for?
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Flossie Birdwhistle is the Turnkey at London's Highgate Cemetery. As Turnkey, Flossie must ensure all the souls in the cemetery stay at rest. This is a difficult job at the best of times for a twelve-year-old ghost, but it is World War II and each night enemy bombers hammer London. Even the dead are unsettled. When Flossie encounters the ghost of a German soldier carrying a mysterious object, she becomes suspicious. What is he up to? Before long,...
19) The only child
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A little girl - lost and alone - follows a mysterious stag deep into the woods, and, like Alice down the rabbit hole, she finds herself in a strange and wondrous world. But home and family are very far away. How will she get back there? In this magnificently illustrated - and wordless - masterpiece, debut artist Guojing captures the rich and deeply-felt emotional life of a child, filled with loneliness and longing as well as love and joy.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Language
English
Description
In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies. But the people of Caverna have faces as blank as untouched snow. Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying she must wear a mask.
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