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The Harry Potter volume 1
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt and Uncle's house. He is bullied by them and his spoilt cousin, and lives a very unremarkable life. But then Harry is transported to a world of magic and excitement.
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Series
The Harry Potter volume 2
Language
English
Description
This is a follow up to 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', which won the 1998 Nestle Smarties Book Prize. Harry Potter is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and this year promises to be just as eventful as the last.
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The Harry Potter volume 6
Language
English
Description
As Voldemort's sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes increasingly clear to Harry that he will soon have to confront his destiny. But will he be able to overcome the challenges ahead of him? The race to locate and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, the hidden pieces of Voldemort's soul, begins. Harry will need all the help he can get.
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Series
The Harry Potter volume 4
Language
English
Description
The holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of term. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School and there are spells to be learnt and potions to be brewed, but there are other events on the march that Harry is not expecting.
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Series
The Harry Potter volume 3
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose.
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Series
The Harry Potter volume 7
Language
English
Description
Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task - that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Harry must find the strength within himself to complete the tasks he has been given, leaving the warmth of The Burrow and following the inexorable path that has been laid out for him.
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English
Description
'It' is a Psammead, an ancient ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them a wish a day, but they soon find it hard to think of sensible wishes, and get themselves into all sorts of trouble. Originally published: London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902
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Series
His dark materials volume 3
Language
English
Description
Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned...
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Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
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This is a funny story which tells the tale of George and his Grandma. When he can't stand her bad habits any longer, he decides to cure her nastiness for good. He concocts a very special medicine which is as nasty as she is - with explosive results.
14) Northern lights
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Series
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English
Description
When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them into the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies.
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Series
The Harry Potter volume 5
Language
English
Description
This new novel by J. K. Rowling continues the further adventures of boy wizard Harry and his friends. Harry is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School, and what he is about to discover will turn his world upside down.
16) Slime
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Language
English
Description
The new children?s book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams - a fantastically funny tale illustrated by artistic genius, Tony Ross. WELCOME TO THE ISLE OF MULCH?This little island is home to a large number of horrible grown-ups. The school, the local park, the toy shop and even the island?s ice-cream van are all run by awful adults who like nothing more than making children miserable. And the island is owned by the most awful one of all -...
17) Peter Pan
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Language
English
Description
The night that Peter Pan flies into the Darling children's nursery is the night that magic flies into their lives. It's the night that Wendy and her brothers follow Peter out of the window and soar through the sky to Neverland. They discover a world of mermaids, fairies, and pirates, of lost boys, and of Captain Hook.
18) Bloom
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Language
English
Description
A beautifully written, incredibly original and wickedly funny novel for readers of 10 and older - BLOOM is for everyone who has ever felt like they didn?t fit in, and for anyone who has ever wanted a little more colour and wildness in their lives? Sorrel Fallowfield is growing up - in a REALLY surprising way . . .Sorrel Fallowfield is so good at being good that teachers come to her when they need help remembering the school rules - and there are LOTS.Luckily,...
19) Fish boy
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Billy is a lonely boy. He's obsessed with swimming in the sea, which is where he goes to wash his problems far, far away. Thanks to his mum's mystery illness, his dad has been forced to work extra hours to make ends meet, so Billy locks himself away with David Attenborough films, and ponders the magic of nature. Meanwhile at school, bullies mercilessly seize on Billy's 'otherness' and make his life as miserable as possible - but then new boy Patrick...
20) Mortal engines
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Series
Language
English
Description
Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl, Hester Shaw. To survive, they must run for their lives through the wreckage.
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