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Series
Boy Who Grew Dragons volume 2
Publisher
Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The second book in a wonderfully funny and sparky series. Tomas has a secret - a big secret. He has his own tiny dragon, Flicker! A dragon which grew on a very special tree at the bottom of his grandad's garden. And not only that - his friends Ted, Kai and Kat have dragons too, all grown on the same dragonfruit tree ... Having your own dragon is magical - but Tomas is also about to find out what living with a dragon is REALLY like. When the fire-breathing...
82) Quicksilver
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery - abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of 'strange magnetism.' It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
The early 1900s. Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near Birmingham and centre of the world's chain-making trade. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends meet. When tragedy strikes, the Butler family is separated and Lucy is taken in by Bertha Hipkiss, another impoverished chain maker, struggling to look after her own family. Lucy, while feeling...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Steph has spent decades building a family with her husband Mal and putting their family first. She is the glue that holds them all together and she has convinced herself that she's been happy ... most of the time. But as she stands at her birthday party watching her husband talking about a wonderful marriage she doesn't fully recognise, the doubts that she has been pushing down for so long begin to grow ... After the party, as Steph tries to gather...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
For all those who imagine escaping to a chĆ¢teau and living the dream ... to find that even dreams can have their complications. Steph, Jo and Meredith have been friends since school. Their lives have all taken very different paths across the years, but when Meredith buys a romantic chĆ¢teau in an idyllic village in the Dordogne she finds she can't do it alone - so who better to enlist for help than her two old friends? Together they hope to bring...
86) Imperfect women
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When Nancy Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind two best friends, an adoring husband and daughter, and a secret lover whose identity she took to the grave. Nancy was gorgeous, wealthy and cherished by those who knew her - from the outside, her life was perfect. But as the investigation into her death flounders and her friends Eleanor and Mary wrestle with their grief, dark details surface that reveal how little they knew their friend, each other...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Here's what Sam knows: There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, his best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he left Sam was a playlist of songs, and a suicide note: For Sam - listen and you'll understand. As he listens to song after song, Sam tries to face up to what happened the night Hayden killed himself. But it's only by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him that he will finally be able to piece together...
Author
Series
Marsh Road Mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Meet Piotr, Minnie, Andrew, Flora and Sylvie - true friends and even better mystery-solvers! Flora and Sylvie are going on the holiday of a lifetime with their dad. But - WHAT? - Dad cancels the trip only hours before the flight because - OH MY GOODNESS - someone has stolen precious blueprints of Dad's latest invention: an amazing new scooter. But who? And why? Time to call on the only five people who can possibly solve the crime! The third in a fantastic...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on...
90) Learning to swim
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again. In dramatic contrast to her own conventional family, the Radley's were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad....
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
It is the tutor who tells the young Gustav that he must try to be more like a coconut - that he needs a hard shell to protect the softness inside. This is what his native Switzerland has perfected - a shell to protect its neutrality, to keep its people safe. But his beloved friend, Anton, doesn't want to be safe - a gifted pianist, he longs to make his mark on the world outside. On holiday one summer in Davos, the boys stumble across a remote building....
92) Cogheart
Author
Series
The Cogheart Adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
When 13-year-old Lily's inventor father vanishes after a Zeppelin crash, Lily's determined to hunt down the truth behind his disappearance, helped by Robert, the local clockmaker's son, and her wily mechanical fox Malkin. But shadowy figures are closing in and treachery lurks among the smoky spires of London - along with a life-changing secret.
93) Release
Author
Language
English
Description
Today will change Adam Thorn's life. Between his religious family, unpleasant boss and his ex-boyfriend, the bindings of his world are coming undone. And way across town, a ghost has risen from the lake. Is there time for Adam to find his release?
94) Stepping up
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Language
English
Description
Beth has never stuck at anything. She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember. Its not that she hasn't TRIED to grow up; it's just that the only commitment she's held down so far is Friday drinks at the village pub. Then, in the space of a morning, her world changes. An unspeakable tragedy turns her life upside down, and she finds herself guardian to her teenage niece and toddler nephew; catapulted into an unfamiliar world of bedtime...
95) Pure imagination
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Reggie doesn?t want a new friend, especially not a highlighter-green, three-foot-tall beaver. Oswald doesn?t want a new friend either, especially not a book-loving, bed-making, broccoli-eating boy. But when an imaginary friend gets a new assignment, they?re stuck there until the kid no longer needs them. And with Oswald?s home world of Imagination mysteriously crumbling away into nothing, befriending Reggie seems like a safer bet than disappearing...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Can you see him? My kitten? Close your eyes tight His fur is so soft and all silvery white Imagine him quick! Have you imagined enough? Oh, good, you can see him! It's Squishy McFluff! When Ava discovers an imaginary cat in the cabbage patch, she knows she's found a new best friend. Together, Ava and Squishy McFluff get up to all kinds of mischief ... The Invisible Cat! Supermarket Sweep! Squishy McFluff Meets Mad Nana Dot Secret Santa Seaside Rescue!...
97) Going solo
Author
Series
Girl Online volume 3
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Penny?s life is back to normal. As Penny starts the school year she?s ready to face the world - alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early, and no-one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when she accepts Megan?s invitation to visit her performing arts school, it seems like an opportunity to make some new friends. Helping everyone else seems to be the right remedy - Elliot needs her friendship more than ever, and she meets...
98) Hello, universe
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can...
99) The go-away bird
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
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Description
The Go-Away bird sat up in her nest, With her fine grey wings and her fine grey crest. One by one, the other birds fly into her tree, wanting to talk or to play, but the Go-Away bird just shakes her head and sends them all away. But then the dangerous Get-You bird comes along, and she soon realizes that she might need some friends after all...
100) The sister returns
Author
Series
Stitch in Time volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The third novel in a dazzling historical trilogy from bestselling author Joanna Rees, following The Runaway Daughter and The Hidden Wife. For fans of Lucinda Riley and Penny Vincenzi.
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