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Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Get the jet! What could go wrong when cautious, scientific, singlet-wearing George Parker and reckless rich-kid Chase Landon-Bond take off on a global rescue mission? Just about everything! There are private jets, troublesome pets, crazed criminals, treacherous trips, chaos, too much coffee and two hundred million missing dollars. There are close calls, ridiculous disguises, accidental haircuts and that's just the first bit! Are George and Chase doomed?...
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Ham on Rye follows the path of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. The novel begins against the backdrop of an America devastated by the Depression and takes the Chinaski legend up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Arguably Bukowski's finest novel.
23) The woods
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Being afraid of the dark doesn't mean being afraid alone. When a boy can't find his favorite stuffed bunny, he bravely heads into the woods to look for it. Instead, he finds a big, scary brown bear! But the bear is just lonely, so the boy shares his night light and forges ahead with his new companion, until...they run into two frightening giants! As the boy continues on, he comes across other seemingly menacing creatures, but finds that-like him-they're...
24) Shuggie Bain
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.
25) Rudolf Nureyev
Author
Series
Little People Big Dreams volume 30
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series,�Rudolf Nureyev�tells the inspiring story of this iconic Russian ballet dancer. New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Rudolf Nureyev, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of all time. Rudolf fell in love with dance as a child. But he was not allowed to go to ballet school until he was 17. There, he had to make up for lost time and hone...
26) J. R. R. Tolkien
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, J. R. R. Tolkien tells the story of one of the most beloved fantasy writers of all time.
27) Charles Dickens
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Introduce your child to the life of Charles Dickens, the great author of classic literature including�Oliver Twist,�A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities,�and many more.
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Why, for example, were Pablito, my elder brother, and I dark-haired with olive skin when the rest of my classmates were sandy and pale? Why did our family have a second way of speaking, which I didn?t understand? Why was ours the only home I knew where the walls were dominated with pictures of men in spangly waistcoats and tight trousers?' For Antonio, growing up Spanish in Glasgow is a nightmare - one of shame and potential embarrassment on every...
29) time twister
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy. Join Charlie Bone as he discovers the truth about the Red King, and the key to his own past ... January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam's cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor's in the 21st century, and realises...
Author
Series
Stuart volume 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
31) Pigeon English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A laugh-a-minute action-packed alien adventure perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart and Frank Cottrell Boyce. Best friends Freddy and Sal have accidentally intercepted a message from Alan - a spectacularly grumpy, brain-munching alien from outer space. Alan has only one message. Earth is going to be invaded in exactly ten hours? time. Soon the police, NASA and even Presidents from around the world are getting involved - and Freddy is about to become...
33) Pablo Picasso
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Discover the incredible life of Pablo Picasso, an inspirational artist from the 20th century, in�this book from the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series.
34) Nelson Mandela
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Discover the incredible life of Nelson Mandela, the first Black president of South Africa, in�this book from the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series.
35) Count
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Brandon is a boaster - he says he is brilliant at lots of things. Then he is challenged to count up to ten million. So Brandon starts - one, two, three ... and before long he is up to one thousand. Everyone around him is bewildered and annoyed - his friend Waris, his teachers and Miss Hexx, the head. But Brandon can?t stop counting. And then strange, impossible things start happening. The numbers are taking over everything ...
Author
Publisher
Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam 'AD-ROCK' Horovitz and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the almost impossible-to-fathom overnight success...
37) Punching the air
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ?Boys just being boys? turns out to be true only when those boys are white.��Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid?s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn?t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to�the�refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change...
Author
Series
Merrily Watkins volume 7
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery - so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily - her own future uncertain - uncovers a dangerous obsession with suicide, death and the afterlife hidden within these shadowed medieval streets.
40) Crowfall
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Cast out from the clockwork island of Ironhold, where mechanical technology controls everything, Orin Crowfall finds himself adrift on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. As Orin and his robot friend Cody struggle to make sense of the events that brought them here, the one thing they know for sure is that Ironhold is in trouble. They need to get back, whatever the cost. Plagued by perilous seas and freak storms, and with a terrifying sea monster...
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