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1) Skycircus
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Series
The Cogheart Adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a travelling skycircus arrives in Brackenbridge, Lily and Robert can?t wait to step aboard? But there?s something sinister about the hybrid children who appear as part of the act. And before Lily and Robert can do anything, they?re captured by shadowy figures and whisked off in the mysterious flying circus to somewhere far, far away? Treachery, tight-ropes and trickery combine in this incredible third Cogheart adventure?.
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Series
Discworld Novels volume 28
Language
English
Description
IT'S A RAT-EAT-RAT WORLD . . . Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money. Until they run across someone playing a different tune. Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . .
3) Midnight
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 11
Language
English
Description
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet. For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle - time and time again - by Skulduggery Pleasant?s side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in danger, as a ruthless killer snatches her little sister in order to lure Valkyrie into a final confrontation. With Skulduggery racing...
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English
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It?s the latest Brilliant Blockbuster from Baddiel! A non-stop thrill-ride adventure that will have readers young and old racing to the finishing line.The Taylor Turbochaser is a road-trip rollercoaster? with a twist.At its heart is the unforgettable Amy Taylor. Amy loves cars, and dreams of being a driver. But there?s a major catch: her slow old wheelchair with its broken wheel. When Amy finally gets a new electric one, it?s exciting? at...
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 13
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before?War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the enemies...
6) Sulwe
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
Description
The New York Times Number 1 Bestseller From Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o comes a powerful and moving book about colourism, self-esteem and learning that true beauty comes from within. Sulwe's skin is the colour of midnight. She's darker than everyone in her family, and everyone at school. All she wants is to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey through the night sky opens her eyes and changes...
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Language
English
Description
Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.
9) The infinite
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Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman 'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo 'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin Zephaniah FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME! Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle Bb̕i-Imbel ̌If ̈̕has The Gift, but she?s never used it. Until now. On her twelfth birthday, Elle...
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Series
House at the Edge of Magic volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny sequel to The House at the Edge of Magic. Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvellous, magical House, and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first stop: The Wizarding Hopscotch Championships. There's only one problem: the House is nervous about travelling - and gets the hiccups! Bouncing from world to world with every "HIC!", they finally land at the championships, only for...
11) Throne of glass
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Series
A Throne of Glass Novel volume 1
Language
English
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Celaena Sardothien is a daredevil assassin with unrivalled fighting skills. After a year's hard labour in the salt mines of the kingdom of Endovier, Celaena is offered her freedom on one condition - she must fight as handsome Prince Dorian's champion in a contest sponsored by the king.
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Series
A Throne of Glass Novel volume 2
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But though she won the Kings contest and became his champion, Celaena has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule...
13) Chain of gold
Author
Series
The Last Hours volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Language
English
Description
Chain of Gold is a Shadowhunters novel. Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to Edwardian London in the hope of preventing the family?s ruin. Cordelia?s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn...
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English
Description
Paul believes that the moon is not the moon, but is a great hole in the sky. It's one of many strange ideas that he's never told anyone (at school he was told that he had no ideas at all), until he meets Molly, his irrepressible neighbour, who begins to convince him that his theory might just change the world.
15) Slime
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Language
English
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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 -...
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Simon Snow volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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The eagerly anticipated finale to the Simon Snow series by the number one New York Times bestselling author of Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A brand new young fiction series by much-loved children?s author, Vivian French and illustrated by Nathan Reed.Meet werewolf extraordinaire? Lottie Luna.Beautiful black and white illustrations throughout.Lottie Luna might look your average werewolfbut she?s really rather extra-ordinary. Born on the night of a solar eclipse has given her exceptional powers of super-strength, super-speed and super-vision.But Lottie just wants to live a normal...
18) Prince Caspian
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Series
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English
Description
Prince Caspian is in terrible danger when his wicked uncle, King Miraz, decides to get rid of the young heir to the throne. In desperation, Caspian blows the magic horn, calling on Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund in Narnia's hour of need.
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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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