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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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In a little cottage on the edge of the grand Somerset Estate, Mona lives with her aunt - a dressmaker to the lady of the house. Life on the edge of the Somerset Estate means that Mona knows she will never have a life full of beautiful clothes and riches. But soon, that will all change . . . When Lady Somerset dies and a new member of the family inherits the house, Mona is propelled into a life of razzle-dazzle parties, new Bohemian friends and wonderful...
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When Col?s childhood imaginary friends come to life, he discovers a world where myths and legends are real. Accompanied by his guardians - a six-foot tiger, a badger in a waistcoat and a miniature knight - Col must race to Blitz-bombed London to save his sister. But there are darker forces at work, even than the Nazi bombings. Soon Col is pursued by the terrifying Midwinter King, who is determined to bring an eternal darkness down over everything....
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Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A magical and heart-warming novelisation based on the brand-new Secret Garden movie out in cinemas spring 2020.Frances Hodgson Burnett?s classic story has been vividly brought to life on the big screen by award-winning writer Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), producer David Heyman (Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Paddington) and BAFTA-winning actors Julie Walters and Colin Firth.Children will love this official novelisation of the film...
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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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Narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day, the wail of the sirens comes too late.
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