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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
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
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
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
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.
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Series
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
Series
Publisher
Zephyr
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Tindims, tiny recyclers, have always lived in secret, but now as plastic threatens to overwhelm their island home, the Tindims make contact with children for the first time ever to show them how to turn rubbish into treasure.
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
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
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Sonia and I have a lot in common. Our parents are divorced. Our dads are gay. We both love barbecue potato chips. But she is different from me in at least one way: you can't tell how she's feeling just by looking at her. At all. When Bea's dad and his wonderful partner, Jess, decide to marry, it looks as if Bea's biggest wish is coming true: she's finally (finally!) going to have a sister. They're both ten. They're both in fifth grade. Though they've...
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Series
Publisher
Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Cookie, Keziah and Jake are best mates and life is good. Cookie's birthday party is coming up and she has had the most fantastic idea for a Save the Planet party where everything is recyclable and no plastic is used. Before long, Cookie is buzzing with plans. But then disaster strikes - Suzie Ashby totally swipes Cookie's idea and sends out invitations for her own Save the Planet birthday party. Worse still, Suzie seems to think Cookie is her new...
13) Pop!
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Queenie stares out at the ocean and dreams of a world beyond her small-town. She's about to get her wish. When the priceless recipe to the world's most popular drink - thought to be lost forever - washes up at her feet, Queenie's life instantly changes. Everyone wants it, and with a $10 million bounty on her head, Queenie's soon on the run. Pursued by bounty hunters, black-ops helicopters and angry mobs, Queenie's journey involves a trip to Area 51,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
You're never too young to make a big difference, as Hope Jones has learned in her fight against plastic pollution. Now she's on a mission to save the animals, and persuade everyone she knows to turn vegetarian. But just how can Hope get Dad to give up his beloved bacon butties?
15) First light
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Peter can't wait to join his parents on an expedition to the ice caps of Greenland to study global warming. But while he's there, he begins to suspect there might be another reason for this trip other than scientific research. And in another world, there is Thea, who lives with her family under the ice, and is desperate to see what's above it. When Thea and Peter meet, two worlds will collide, and a host of secrets will be released.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Things aren't going great for Archie Albright. His dad's acting weird, his mum too, and he all he wants is for everything to go back to normal, to three months before when his parents were happy and still lived together. When Archie sees a colourful, crumpled flyer fall out of Dad's pocket, he thinks he may have found the answer. Only problem? The answer might just lie at the end of the rainbow, an adventure away. Together with his best friends, Bell...
Author
Publisher
Little Tiger
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Otto and Nanu are off on a climbing adventure - to the top of Lion Mountain! But Nanu is having a forgetting day and can't remember the way home. Can Otto be a brave explorer, just like she taught him, and lead their expedition home?
Author
Publisher
Stripes
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Little Rabbit is bored - everyone else is too busy to play. Her grandfather, Big Rabbit, suggests she helps him out for the day - he has lots of jobs to do. Little Rabbit is unsure what her grandfather does, but together they visit their woodland neighbours, and Little Rabbit realises that the smallest of gestures can make a big difference.
19) Rocket boy
Author
Publisher
Little Tiger
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Callum Grant knows a lot about the solar system. But he doesn't know what it would be like to see a Martian sunset with his own eyes. Until one day Callum sets off on an adventure unlike any other.
20) The blue beyond
Author
Publisher
Little Tiger
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Lana dreams of becoming the greatest explorer in the world. But when Lana sets off on an incredible journey, she soon realises that she is one very little fish in the great big ocean.
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