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Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Meet Freddy - the most super-amazing superhero robot ever. His unbelievable amazing robotic abilities are mind-blowingly cool. But it turns out that teachers get really angry when you use your rocket boosters in class. Freddy's super awesome - but he's also in big trouble. Can he stay true to himself, stay in school and save his friends?
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It was Benjamin Postlethwaite's job all his long life to make sure the light shone brightly high up in the lighthouse on Puffin Island. Not once in all his years as the lighthouse keeper had he ever let his light go out. But sometimes even the brightest light on a lighthouse cannot save a ship. This is a story of a life-changing friendship, a lost puffin, and a lonely artist. It's the story of an entire lifetime, and how one event can change a life...
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last - the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge - and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions,...
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...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Mirabelle's mum is a witch, her dad is a fairy, and she is a bit of both. When Mirabelle goes off to witch school she promises not to cause any mischief. The only trouble is, causing mischief is one of her favourite things to do. Can Mirabelle and her best friend, Carlotta, put her mischief-making right by home time?
Author
Publisher
Stripes Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Milly loves going to story time at her local bookshop. But the shop is old and creaky, just like its owner, Mrs Minty, and one day Milly arrives to find it closed. What has happened to Mrs Minty and her irreplaceable bookshop?
Author
Publisher
Zephyr
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
On the Tindims' island home, Bottle Mountain is growing terrifyingly tall with rubbish. So tall that one night it breaks away. Across the ocean, a boy discovers Bottle Mountain bobbing by the seashore. For the first time ever the Tindims are discovered and get to meet the Long Legs and Little Legs. Can the Tindims and the humans help each other to save the planet?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
2019. Rahul Agarwal is a genius inventor and his family owns a warehouse full of stuff he can use to build his crazy gadgets. So he should be happy. But Rahul has one BIG problem: he's lonely. 3020. Pip@256XYY.3 7 is lonely too - and can't even leave her LivingSpace, due to the extreme heat outside. Until the day that Pip explores a glowing ring in a lab and finds herself in a warehouse, in 2019. Together, Rahul and Pip are no longer lonely. But they...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Peggy the pug's family have adopted an adorable little bunny, just in time for Easter. Peggy used to be top dog, but now she has to share their attention with this long-eared newcomer. Jealous of the new pet, Peggy decides that she must become a rabbit to compete. Can every-bunny learn to get along and realise that there's more than enough love to go around?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family. Bob, Ivan and Ruby have touched the hearts of millions of readers, and their story isn't over yet.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Between dog and human there is a special bond. A bond that must never be broken. Pup and his boy are inseperable. But both their worlds change forever when Pup is cruelly taken away and abandoned in Dead Dog Alley. With nowhere else to turn, Pup joins a pack of misfit Street Dogs, who help him learn to fight for survival on the streets. Pup holds on to the hope of one day being reunited with his boy. But as that hope shrinks with every passing day,...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Three tiny, ancient beings - Moss, Burnet and Cumulus, once revered as Guardians of the Wild World - wake from winter hibernation. But when their home is destroyed, they set off on an adventure. Can they find a way to survive in a precious, disappearing world?
14) Saving Winslow
Author
Publisher
Guppy Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Louie doesn't have the best luck when it comes to nurturing small animals - not even lightning bugs, worms or goldfish. So when his father brings home a sickly newborn little donkey, he's determined to save him. Taking care of him helps Louie feel closer to brother Gus, who has just left home. Everyone worries that Winslow won't survive, especially Louie's quirky new friend, Nora. But as his bond with Winslow grows, surprising events prove that this...
15) A sea of stories
Author
Publisher
Stripes
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Roo loves visiting Grandpa in his cottage by the sea. The house is filled with objects and each holds an incredible adventure from Grandpa's past. But some memories are too big to keep inside. How can Roo help Grandpa remember those?
16) Llama out loud
Author
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Yasmin Shah is a ten-year-old girl who is part of a big, noisy family and doesn't ever speak. Levi is a rude, sassy toy llama, who talks a lot and has come to wreak havoc in Yasmin's life. Yasmin tries everything she can to escape Levi, but she can't help being dragged along on his crazy antics - and every day brings a new surprise, whether that's an erupting bin, a flying tuna fish, or a hat made from knickers. Life is never boring with Levi around...
Author
Publisher
Book Island
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Berta is a young girl with an artistic soul growing up on a farm in the Swedish countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. Her father doesn't understand her and her mother is dying. But Berta longs to be an artist and can't stay on the farm forever. Based on the life of Swedish artist Berta Hansson, this is the story of a young woman with the bravery to live her own truth and follow her own path, despite the protests of her father and society...
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Set in the snowy fjords of a Viking kingdom, the terrible twins, Hack and Whack, are proud to be the best worst vikings. Nothing stops the marauding pair as they steal boats, loot a birthday party, track a troll and sail off to raid Bad Island with their friends Twisty Pants and Dirty Ulf. Well, almost nothing!
20) Deny all charges
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Artemis's little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz, are lucky to escape with their lives. The Fowl parents and fairy police force decide that enough is enough and the twins are placed under house arrest. But Myles has questions. These questions must infuriate someone, because Myles is abducted and spirited...
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