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1) Eden
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Netflix's The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller. In a time when Earth?s rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction, the Virgin Zones were established in an attempt to combat the change. Off-limits to humanity and given back to nature, these thirteen vast areas of land were intended to become the lungs of the world....
Author
Series
Publisher
G2 Rights
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Second in the Egmont School Series: Davina Dupree is excited to be back in her luxury boarding school after the half term holidays, especially as famous Hollywood director Alfie Calpone will soon be arriving to direct the school play. But when jewellery goes missing from First Years' dorms, bullies Cleo and Clarice attempt to pin the blame on Davina's new friend Lottie. The clock starts ticking as Davina attempts to unearth the real culprit before...
Author
Publisher
London Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
John Griffith "Jack" London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with his mother Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged. In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as...
4) Nightshade
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 12
Language
English
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Description
In this adrenaline-fuelled adventure in the number one bestselling series, Alex Rider is sent by MI6 Special Operations to infiltrate a new and sinister organization known only as Nightshade. Alex is on his own, with the fate of thousands of people resting in his hands.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of Murder In Midwinter, Fleur Hitchcock's The Boy Who Flew is a thrilling, murderous tale set among the steep rooftops and slippery characters of Athan's intricately imagined world. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Peter Bunzl and Philip Reeve.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
'It's time,' I say. 'For ... It. Me. You. Us. The bench. The zoo. The question. Why?' The only thing that Elvis Crampton Lucas knows about where he's from is that he was found on the bench at a zoo. And that his now father took him home in a Stetson hat, and named him after the first three vinyl he picked off his shelf. But now, on his twelfth "discovery day", it's time for Elvis to find out who left him at the zoo, and why? On an epic adventure that...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
There are stories about people who want to live forever.This is not one of those stories.This is a story about someone who wants to stop?Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he?s 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England.Obviously no one believes him.So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance,...
Author
Publisher
Stripes Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When Emmeline's scientist parents mysteriously disappear, she finds herself heading across the sea to a safe house in Paris. But before she can reach her destination, she is kidnapped from the ship by evil mastermind Doctor Siegfried Bauer, who is bound for the ice fields of Greenland. There he hopes to summon a mythical creature from the depths of the ancient glaciers, a creature said to be so powerful that whoever controls it can control the world....
10) The last human
Author
Publisher
Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship. A dangerous voyage. A story about what it means to be human. Humans went extinct thirty years ago. Now the world is ruled by machines. And twelve-year-old robot XR_935 is just fine with that. Without humans around, there is no war, no pollution, no crime. Every member of society has a purpose. Everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Until the day XR discovers something impossible. Until the day XR discovers a twelve-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Salt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Summer 1923: the modern world. Orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck and is whisked off to the woods north of London - a land haunted by the past, where lost souls and monsters conceal themselves in the trees. In a sunlit clearing she meets the 'funny men', a quartet of disfigured ex-soldiers named after Dorothy's companions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Here are the loved and the damaged, dark forests and darker histories,...
Author
Publisher
Huia Publishers
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It?s the holidays, and Awatea is staying with his grandparents at the beach. He?s got lots of time and freedom to explore, visit the treehut and have adventures with Carrot, the talking parrot. Awatea catches fish, cooks over a campfire and spends a stormy night in the treehut with Carrot for company. When fending off some territorial magpies and keeping an eye on a pair of leopard seals, Awatea and Carrot notice signs of poachers.
13) The wren hunt
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Every year on St Stephen's Day, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers are judges - a group of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an augur - their sworn enemy - the game would be up. This year, the tension between judges and augurs is at breaking point. Wren's survival, and that of her family, depends on her becoming a spy in the midst of...
14) War horse
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Series
Language
English
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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.
16) One springy day
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Language
English
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Description
The fox has found a great hiding place in Percy?s workshop but when he falls into a pot of Very Strong Glue, he soon finds himself springing into an embarrassingly sticky situation! Is there anything his friends can do to help?.
17) Three kings
Author
Series
Wild Cards volume 28
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire. For decades, George R.R. Martin - bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire - has collaborated with an ever-shifting ensemble of science fiction and fantasy icons to create the amazing Wild Cards universe.In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth?s population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Freddie Yates likes facts. Just not the one staring him in the face - that his secret plan is not, in fact, secret. Because Freddie's journey wasn't meant to involve Big Trev and the onion-eating competition or the loo-exploding pear-and-potato turnovers. And Freddie definitely didn't expect to end up, with his two best friends, on national television in a supergirl costume. But journeys never take you where you think they will. And for Freddie, that...
Author
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Featuring retellings of all seventeen Disney-Pixar feature films, this collection is sure to be a hit with any Pixar fan! This expanded audio edition contains the Disney-Pixar Storybook Collection, plus thirteen stories from the Toy Story Storybook Collection and thirteen stories from the Cars Storybook Collection.
Author
Series
Pirates of the Caribbean collection volume 1
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Before the Black Pearl, there was a teenage stowaway named Jack Sparrow ... Book 1: The Coming Storm Adventure-seeking teenager Jack Sparrow has assembled a motley crew, and they're on the quest of a lifetime. Their goal: to locate and procure the legendary Sword of Cortes, which will grant them unimaginable power. But will this ragtag team of adventurers survive their first mission, or will they succumb to the power of the sea, vicious pirates, ancient...
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