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2) Twitch
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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From the internationally bestselling author of Beetle Boy and the Adventures on Trains series, comes the first book in The Twitchers, a brand new mystery adventure series celebrating friendship, bravery and the incredible world of birds, starring a birdwatching detective called Twitch! Can a birdwatcher outwit an escaped convict? Twitch has three pet chickens, four pigeons, swallows nesting in his bedroom and a passion for birdwatching. On the first...
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One of us is Lying volume 2
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Welcome back to Bayview High . . . It's been a year since the events of One Of Us Is Lying. But nothing has settled for the residents of Bayview. Not now someone has started playing a sinister game of Truth or Dare. Choose truth? You must reveal your darkest secret. Choose dare? Well, that could be even more dangerous. Even deadly. When the game takes an even darker turn, suddenly no one at Bayview High knows who to trust. But they need to find out...
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Murder Most Unladylike Mystery volume 7
Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
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Someone will take their final bow . . . Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting. But danger has a nasty habit of catching up with the Detective Society, and it soon becomes clear that there is trouble afoot at the Rue. Jealousy, threats and horrible pranks quickly spiral out of control - and then a body is found. Now Hazel and Daisy must take...
5) Malamander
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Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep... Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy - especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened...
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 13
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before?War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the enemies...
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Sally Lockhart volume 2
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English
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The breathtaking return of daredevil detective Sally Lockhart. These days, Sally is twenty-two, an entrepreneur and expert financial advisor. But amid the mist-shrouded streets of Victorian London, strange news meets Sally's ears: rumours of the disappearance of steamship Ingrid Linde. As she investigates the loss, a clairvoyant mentions the name of Europe's richest man. Who is financier Axel Bellmann? What is behind the mysterious bad luck that has...
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Enola Holmes volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Follow London's newest and greatest detective, Enola Holmes, in her third captivating adventure - from the series that inspired the film, starring Millie Bobby Brown. Enola Holmes is still on the run from her brother and world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes. After one close encounter too many with him, Enola must abandon her disguise and find a new way to avoid discovery. But when Sherlock's right-hand man, Dr Watson, goes missing without...
9) Thunderhead
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Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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The stakes are high in this chilling sci-fi thriller, in which professional scythes control who dies. Everything else is out of human control, managed by the Thunderhead. It's a perfect system - until it isn't. It?s been a year since Rowan went off-grid. Hunted by the Scythedom, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. Citra, meanwhile, is forging her path as Scythe Anastasia, gleaning with compassion....
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Enola Holmes volume 1
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Language
English
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'A story of a young girl who is empowered, capable, and smart . . . the Enola Holmes book series convey an impactful message to kids and teenagers all over the world that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and it does so in an exciting and adventurous way.' Millie Bobby Brown When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But...
11) The goldfish boy
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Series
The Goldfish Boy volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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12-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is the last person to see his next door neighbour's toddler, Teddy, before he goes missing. Matthew must turn detective and unravel the mystery of Teddy's disappearance - with the help of a brilliant cast of supporting characters.
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Gangsta Granny volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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The new children?s book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams - an extraordinarily brilliant and rollicking mystery adventure illustrated by artistic genius, Tony Ross, and the sequel to the much-loved and bestselling Gangsta Granny. Ben is getting used to life without his beloved granny. She was a cabbage enthusiast, a Scrabble partner? and an international jewel thief known as The Black Cat. Now, only the memory of their extraordinary adventure...
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What the Ladybird Heard volume 1
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English
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A brilliantly funny farmyard adventure, perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime - or any time at all! The ladybird said never a word. But the ladybird saw, And the ladybird heard.... Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two crafty robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer?s fine prize cow. But little do they know that the tiniest, quietest creature of all has overhead their plot, and she has a plan of her own.... What the Ladybird Heard...
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Marsh Road Mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Meet Piotr, Minnie, Andrew, Flora and Sylvia - true friends and even better mystery-solvers! When Minnie's gran comes to stay, all the way from Nigeria, Minnie knows there will be trouble. And straight away Gran notices she's picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport. This one is full of boy's clothes, and she's not at all happy about it! But when their house is burgled and the only thing taken is the suitcase, Minnie realises there'll be much more...
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Shelby Jane Cooper is 17, pretty and quiet. It's just Shelby and her mom, Shaylene, a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans, stitches tapestry, eats ice-cream for dinner and likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn't go to school. Because anything could happen, to a girl like Shelby. When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it's not just her leg that's broken: Shelby's world is shattered. Her mom turns up to collect...
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A Good Girl?s Guide to Murder volume 1
Publisher
Electric Monkey
Language
English
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The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller that everyone is talking about! THE WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD'S CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2020The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi...
17) Rooftoppers
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English
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Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive, but that means still possible. You should never ignore a possible. So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian threatening to send...
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