| First Strike |
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Author Jack Higgins, Justin Richards
Published 28 May 2009 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
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| Jack Higgins, master of the modern thriller, teams up with Justin Richards, bestselling author of Dr Who, to deliver a pulse-pounding new instalment in the adventures of the teenage Chance twins! | | |
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| Benny and Babe |
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Author Eoin Colfer
Published 04 Jun 2009 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
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| A summer in the Irish countryside is not Benny Shaw's idea of a good time. All he gets is teasing, which is a favourite pastime of annoying tomboy Babe Meara. Streetwise Benny has met his match and he doesn't know the rules of this particular game. And when Babe turns from a real pain into a real girl, the trouble well and truly begins. | | |
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| Foul Play: Dead Ball |
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Author Tom Palmer
Published 06 Aug 2009 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
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| Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev and a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie, Alex Finn. But Alex goes against their wishes. Something is going on with England's replacement goalie, and Danny soon finds himself caught up with the criminals of the footballing underworld. | | |
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| Shark Island |
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Author David Miller
Published 07 May 2009 Publisher Oxford University Press
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| Hanna, Ned and their parents are on the holiday of a lifetime on the paradise island of Kaitan. But the idyll is shattered when pirates come in the night, burning their house and kidnapping their mother and father. The children are stranded, and don' | | |
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| Cosmic |
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Author Frank Cottrell Boyce
Published 03 Jul 2009 Publisher Pan Macmillan
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| Liam is too big for his boots, for his football strip, and for his school blazer. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space. Is Liam the best boy for the job? | | |
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| The TV Time Travellers |
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Author Pete Johnson
Published 04 Jun 2009 Publisher Random House Children's Books
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| Zac and Izzy win a place on a new reality TV show, but they have no idea where they're going or what to expect. They must live as if it's 1939, the start of World War Two. It's a hard life and, since each contestant is desperate to be the final winner, problems occur. When the live final arrives, the audience will all be stunned by what occurs. | | |
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| Shrapnel |
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Author Robert Swindells
Published 01 Jan 2009 Publisher Random House Children's Books
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| It's the height of World War Two. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting. Gordon wishes he was too. Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War One, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War Two - he's gone missing. When Gordon tracks Raymond down, he ends up involved in more than he'd bargained for. | | |
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| Without Looking Back |
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Author Tabitha Suzuma
Published 07 May 2009 Publisher Random House Children's Books
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| Twelve-year-old Parisian boy Louis Whittaker has a lot on his plate - his parents are locked in a custody battle over him and his brother and sister, Mum's always working late and Dad's rarely allowed to visit them. Louis finds release in his dance classes and discovers he has a real talent for ballet. | | |
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| Escape from Shadow Island |
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Author Paul Adam
Published 02 Jul 2009 Publisher Random House Children's Books
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| Max is an ordinary north London schoolboy by day, but at night he performs sell-out public shows as an escapologist. Max's mother, Helen, was convicted of murdering her husband. One evening, a mysterious man from Santo Domingo - Lopez-Vega tells Max that his mother's trial was rigged. When Max goes to the hotel, he finds Lopez-Vega dead. | | |
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| I Spy |
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Author Graham Marks
Published 28 Aug 2009 Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd
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| A spy mystery set in 1920s Constantinople that shows a boy's fight to find his father. | | |
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| Revenge! |
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Author John Pilkington Series Elizabethan Mysteries S.
Published 27 Mar 2008 Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd
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| When Ben Button catches a beggar-boy suspected of stealing, he is shocked to discover that the disguised thief is really a girl! A runaway, Jane was left destitute after she and her family were thrown off their farmland by a nobleman. This same nobleman is preparing for his nuptials in London where Ben and his company of actors will be performing. | | |
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| William the Conqueror: Nowhere to Hide |
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Author Caroline Corby
Published 06 Jul 2009 Publisher Walker Books Ltd
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| A young boy is sent away to France, far from the political turmoil of the Normandy court. He spends his years training to become a knight and learning the value of friendship and loyalty - which will be vital when decides he must return to take his rightful place as Duke of Normandy. | | |
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| The Well Between the Worlds |
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Author Sam Llewellyn Series Monsters of Lyonesse
Published 06 Apr 2009 Publisher Scholastic
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| In Lyonesse, if you know how to swim, you must be a Cross - a half-human, half-monster hybrid. When Idris Limpet survives drowning, he is condemned to death, but a hasty escape leads him to safety. Now he is going to become a monster groom and care for the very eatures waiting to be killed for the land's fuel. | | |
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| Roald Dahl and His Chocolate Factory |
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Author Andrew Donkin, Clive Goddard Series Horribly Famous S.
Published 07 Sep 2009 Publisher Scholastic
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| Everybody knows that Roald Dahl wrote brilliant books for children and created a fantastic chocolate factory. But did you know that Roald was a fighter pilot, and a spy in the Second World War? This book contains things you wanted to know about the man with the chocolate factory. | | |
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| Two Tigers on a String |
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Author Josh Lacey Series Misfitz Mysteries
Published 07 Sep 2009 Publisher Scholastic
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| One afternoon, Frank comes home from school to an empty flat. His mother has disappeared. She isn't back that night. Or the next. Where has she gone? How will Frank find her? It's a job for the Misfitz. Together, they sneak out of their home, catch a train across the country and search for clues. | | |
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| Sharp Shot |
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Author Dominic Barker
Published 08 Jul 2009 Publisher Catnip Publishing Ltd
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| Waking the World |
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Author Matt Thomas, Rob Davis Series M.I.Five
Published 01 Sep 2009 Publisher Potter Books
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