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Author Charlie Higson Series Young Bond
Published 28 May 2009 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
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| Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school - and his country. Life for James Bond will never be the same again. | | |
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| The Museum's Secret |
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Author Henry Chancellor Series Remarkable Adventures of Tom ScatterhornBk. 1
Published 07 May 2009 Publisher Oxford University Press
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| Welcome to the Scatterhorn Museum! But don't get too excited - it's a cold and dingy place, crammed full of tatty stuffed animals and junk. Nobody much wants to visit any more, and its days are surely numbered. But when Tom is sent to live here he | | |
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Author Ali Sparkes
Published 01 Jan 2009 Publisher Oxford University Press
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| Winner of Blue Peter's Book That I Couldn't Put Down and Book of the Year Award 2010 . | | |
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| Wolf Cry |
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Author Julia Golding
Published 06 Aug 2009 Publisher Oxford University Press
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| Freydis's Viking father is bent on revenge after a raid on their homestead. Freydis must accompany him on his hunt. Her one comfort is Enno, a slave ordered to tend her. But Enno has resolved to serve no one, especially not a child. The journey is fraught with danger. Friendships will be formed and loyalties tested every step of the way. | | |
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| The Dragonfly pool |
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Published 03 Apr 2009 Publisher Pan Macmillan
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| Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton Hall is a more interesting place than Tally ever imagined, and an exciting school trip to the beautiful and luscious kingdom of Bergania whisks Tally into an unexpected adventure. | | |
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| Sylvie and the songman |
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Author Tim Binding, Angela Barrett
Published 01 Oct 2009 Publisher Random House Children's Books
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| Sylvie Bartram lives alone with Mr Jackson the dog and her eccentric composer father who invents strange and wonderful musical instruments. One day she returns from school to find a message left in toothpaste on the bathroom mirror; her father has been kidnapped. | | |
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| The secrets of Sophia Musgrove |
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Author Janey Louise Jones
Published 02 Jul 2009 Publisher Random House Children's Books
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| Sophia Musgrove, a seventeen-year-old who has everything a girl could want: beautiful houses, wealthy parents and lots of invitations to lavish parties, but she wants her own adventures. Can she shake off her chaperone, Mrs Willow, for long enough to challenge the unjust society in which she lives? | | |
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| Cookie |
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Author Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
Published 02 Jul 2009 Publisher Random House Children's Books
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| Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She's a plain, timid girl surrounded by super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable criticism from her father. Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and a very real fear that Dad's temper is out of control, Mum and Beauty run away. | | |
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| The Book of a thousand Days |
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Author Shannon Hale
Published 02 Mar 2009 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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| A masterful, suspenseful story, revealed through the diary of a princess's maid, as she and her princess face the wrath of an evil prince - and we are introduced to the most wonderfully modern heroine | | |
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| How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant |
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Author Elen Caldecott
Published 05 Jan 2009 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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| 'Do you really think it will work?' Kirsty nodded. She was surer than she had ever been before. 'This is the only thing that will work.' she said. | | |
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| Coming to England |
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Author Floella Benjamin
Published 05 Oct 2009 Publisher Walker Books Ltd
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| When Floella Benjamin first came to England from Trinidad in the early sixties, her joy at being reunited with her mother overcomes the shock at her new surroundings in cold, noisy London but when she starts school she is upset by the rejection she faces. This book is about one of Britain's best-loved television personalities. | | |
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| The One That Got Away |
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Author Josh Lacey Series Misfitz Mysteries
Published 01 Jun 2009 Publisher Scholastic
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| Ben's family is complicated. And being stuck in a remote cottage with his irritating elder sister, his silly half-sister and his weird step-brother drives him crazy - until a night-time intruder leads the children to make a shocking and dangerous discovery in the shadowy woods that they are strictly forbidden to explore. | | |
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| Hannah's Secret |
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Author Narinder Dhami Series The Beautiful Game
Published 02 Jul 2009 Publisher Hachette Children's Books
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| Friendship and football -- the perfect match! | | |
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| Baboon |
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Author David Jones
Published 05 Jan 2009 Publisher Chicken House Ltd
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| Fourteen year-old Gerry and his parents are returning to the African savannah after six months in London when their plane crash lands in the jungle, killing the pilot. When Gerry wakes, he has a terrifying shock. He is now a baboon. Using his human intellect and powers of reason, he ensures his survival and growing acceptance by a baboon troop. | | |
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| The Pickle King |
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Author Rebecca Promitzer
Published 04 May 2009 Publisher Chicken House Ltd
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| Bea lives in the nowhere town of Elbow, where it rains so much the residents have green mold growing between their toes. Nothing ever happens in Elbow. Its closest claim to fame is a giant pickle factory, owned by Herman, the Pickle King. Herman's a small-tim big shot, a local celebrity... until he turns up dead. | | |
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| City of the Future |
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Author Matt Thomas, Rob Davis Series M.I.Five
Published 01 Sep 2009 Publisher Potter Books
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| Cinderella's Not So Ugly Sister |
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Author Claire Pyatt, Bee Willey Series Confessions of a Fairytale Villian
Published 30 Oct 2009 Publisher Potter Books
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| Cinderella's step-sister, Mildred, tries to thwart her family's plans to ruin Cinderella's wedding day. With the help of her friend, Bo Peep and the rather handsome Josh, one of the King's Men, Mildred embarks on a race against time to save the day. | | |
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