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Boggis, Bunce and Bean are just about the nastiest three farmers you could ever wish to meet. They hate Mr Fox and are determined to get him, and plan to catch him by whatever means necessary.
2) War horse
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At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land.
3) Matilda
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Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Find out how she gets the better of them and her spiteful headmistress, as well as discovering that she has a very special power.
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City Library - Junior Fiction
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A story for adults about small boys, marooned on a coral island. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death.
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Even studying this at school hasn’t put me off re-reading it. Great plot, scary and plausible.
Picked by Clare
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City Stack - Childrens Reading group - Junior Fiction
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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Denton Burn Library - Junior Fiction
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Hiccup Haddock Horrendous III was a truly extraordinary Viking hero. The warrior chieftain and awesome sword fighter was known as 'the Dragon Whisperer', on account of his power over these terrifying beasts. But it wasn't always like that, and this is the story of his rise to fame, in his own words.
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Junior Reading Group
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City Library - Reading Group Stock
Junior Reading Group
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The night the Nazis come to take their mother away, three children escape in a terrifying scramble across the rooftops. Alone in the chaos of Warsaw, they have to learn to survive on their own.
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Stuart Horten, ten-years-old and small for his age, moves to the dreary town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and things get even worse. But in Beeton begins the strangest adventure of Stuart's life as he is swept up in a quest to find his great-uncle's lost workshop.
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It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart.
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West End Library - Junior Fiction
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It's 1953, the Coronation Year, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. It's Spencer's idea to get a team up - some of them are good, and one of them is even a girl, but all of them are football crazy.
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City Library - Junior Fiction
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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Charity Delafield has grown up with her fiercely strict father, in a vast, isolated house that she is forbidden to explore. She knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. One day Charity stumbles upon the dark corridor that haunts her dreams, and suddenly she realises things aren't what they seem.
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CHILDRENS READING GROUP COLLECTION
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Alfie Bloom is just an ordinary boy. Until he receives a letter summoning him to raven-like solicitor Caspian Boone's office. Here, Alfie learns that he has inherited a castle. And through mysterious circumstances surrounding his birth, he has also been entrusted as the caretaker of a centuries-old magic.
12) Four of diamonds
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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Level 5
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Newbiggin Hall Library - Junior Fiction
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It's a dangerous life being the brother of the world's worst private detective: but Nick Diamond has survived, so far. However his survival instincts are about to be tested to the full: a school reunion on a remote island, a holiday to Paris, an investigation into the whereabouts of a man and the visit of a world famous singer.
13) The hat
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14) Once
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Felix lives in a convent orphanage in Poland. He is convinced his parents are still alive and that they will one day come back to get him. When Nazi soldiers come to the orphanage Felix decides to escape and make his way home. The journey to find his parents is a long and difficult one, as Poland is occupied by the Nazis and a dangerous place for a Jewish boy. Felix manages to live and look after himself and another orphan, Zelda, with the help of...
15) Once
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Felix lives in a convent orphanage in Poland. He is convinced his parents are still alive and that they will one day come back to get him. When Nazi soldiers come to the orphanage Felix decides to escape and make his way home. The journey to find his parents is a long and difficult one, as Poland is occupied by the Nazis and a dangerous place for a Jewish boy. Felix manages to live and look after himself and another orphan, Zelda, with the help of...
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City Library - Reading Group Stock
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. But a dog would damage the expensive carpets in Hal's glamorous home, and his rich, neglectful parents refuse to consider one. Then they discover Easy Pets, a convenient dog-rental agency. Terrier Fleck arrives on Hal's birthday, but when Hal discovers that his dog must be returned, he runs away.
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City Library - Reading Group Stock
Junior Reading Group Collection
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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Fenham Library - Junior Fiction
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18) Dead Man's Cove
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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Kenton Library - Junior Fiction
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Newburn Library - Junior Fiction
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When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a children's home to live with her uncle in Cornwall, she longs for an exciting life just like the characters in her favourite detective novels. A real life adventure is on hand as she is deposited at her uncle's spooky house. Why does her uncle, Calvin Redfern, forbid her to go to Dead Man's Cove?
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City Library - Junior Fiction
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City Library - Junior Fiction
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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City Library - Reading Group Stock
Junior Reading Group Collection
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Junior Reading Group Collection
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Half-goblin boy Joseph Grubb lives in Fayt, a bustling trading port where elves, trolls, fairies and humans live side by side. Fed up of working at the Legless Mermaid tavern, Grubb dreams of escape - until a whirlwind encounter with a smuggler plunges him into Fayt's criminal underworld.
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City Library - Reading Group Stock
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Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket and wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made.