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Chicken House
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Tamarind never knew her Indian mum, Chinty, who died soon after she was born. So when she arrives at her ancestral home, a huge mansion in the Himalayas surrounded by luxuriant gardens, she's full of questions for her extended family. But instead of answers, she finds an ominous silence - and a trickle of intriguing clues: an abandoned hut, a friendly monkey, a glowing star ring, and a strange girl in the garden who calls herself Ishta. Slowly, Tamarind...
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English
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'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
3) Moon rising
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Series
Wings of Fire volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling series soars to even greater heights with a new prophecy and five new dragonets ready to claim their destiny! Peace has come to Pyrrhia . . . for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure...
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Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem! Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy and chaos ensues . . .
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Edie and the Flits volume 1
Publisher
Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Edie Winter finds a mysterious shoebox on the London Underground she's amazed to discover that it's home to a family of Flits - tiny winged people. But Impy, Speckle and Nid need Edie's help. Not only do they need supplies (rice crispies, sugar sprinkles, digestive biscuits and raisins) and someone to look after them, but their brother Jot has run away and they need Edie's help to find him. Set against the backdrop of London and...
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Publisher
Curious Fox
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Her best friend, who also happens to be her brother, has left home with no explanation. And the one thing that makes her happy and keeps her sane knitting has just got her detention. She's never felt more alone. But the bees have a lot to say about it starting with finding her brother.
7) Wildspark
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Series
Ghost Machine Adventure volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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In Medlock, machines don?t come to life - life comes to machines. Prue Haywood is on a mission: getting the ghost machines of Medlock to remember the people they used to be. She needs to find her brother, Francis. If she fails, her brother will stay dead. And if she succeeds, all of society may fall apart. From the acclaimed author of Brightstorm comes a new, breathtaking world to discover.
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Publisher
Guppy Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A thrilling tale of friendship and courage - Maggie Blue, strongwilled and isolated, sees her enemy from school taken through a window to a parallel world by one of their teachers and determines to follow, whatever the cost. With the help of irascible cat, Hoagy, they discover a world where happiness is being stolen - and they must do everything they can not to be caught up in its web of destruction. Maggie Blue is an outsider, both at home and at...
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Rebel of the Sands volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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The second installment of this highly-acclaimed trilogy, Traitor to the Throne throws the irrepressible Amani into a world of espionage, harems, and the Sultan himself. This is not about blood or love. This is about treason. Nearly a year has passed since Amani and the rebels won their epic battle at Fahali. Amani has come into both her powers and her reputation as the Blue-Eyed Bandit, and the Rebel Prince's message has spread across the desert -...
11) Bloom
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English
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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,...
12) Fish boy
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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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...
13) The magic place
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
And even though she only saw it in her dreams, she felt sure it was real. From her cellar bedroom, Clementine dreams of a magic place. And she's determined to find it one day. But first she must escape from her wicked aunt and uncle and from the Great Black City. With the help of her best friend, Gilbert, a very clever cat, she sets off on an epic journey that just might make her dreams come true. A thrilling, moving and funny adventure about looking...
14) Vardaesia
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Series
The Medoran Chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Pantera Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
?When Day and Night combine and fight against one Enemy, then Dark and Light shall meet mid-strike and set the Captives free.? In the wake of loss and devastation, Alex must cast aside her grief to seek aid from those who banished the Meyarins long ago. But the proud Tia Aurans care little for the woes of mortals and demand that Alex-and her friends-undergo the Gates of Testing to prove their world is worth saving. With an ancient prophecy looming,...
15) Queen of shadows
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Series
Throne of Glass volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Bloodthirsty for revenge on the two men responsible for destroying her life, and desperate to find out if the prince and his captain are safe, Celaena returns to Rifthold, the seat of so much evil. She has accepted her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, there are dark truths to learn and debts to be paid. Aelin must stay hidden beneath her assassin's hood and draw on her mortal strength as Celaena...
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The Wizards of Once volume 3
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English
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Wish is a warrior girl with a Magic spoon and a Magic eye ... Xar is a Wizard boy with a dangerous Witchstain on his hand. Wish and Xar are now outlaws on the run, hunted by Warriors, Wizards and worst of all, by WITCHES ... Can they find the ingredients for the spell to get rid of Witches before the Kingwitch gets his talons on Magic-that-works-on-iron? This Quest is the most terrifying and treacherous of all ... And SOMEONE is going to betray them...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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THE LATEST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined A Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta... Nesta Archeron has always been prickly - proud, swift to anger and slow to forgive. And since the war - since being made High Fae against her will - she's struggled to forget the horrors she endured and find a place for herself within the strange and deadly Night Court. The...
19) The bone season
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Bone Season volume 1
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English
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19-year-old Paige is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped. She is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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An elite female fighter must reenter the competition to protect her found family of younger sisters in this scintillating young adult fantasy inspired by West African culture, perfect for fans of The Gilded Ones and Creed. Eat. Dance. Fight. This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle?s elite, all-female fighting sport of Bowing. But it isn?t really Dirt?s life anymore. At sixteen, she is old and has retired from competition. Instead, she...
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