Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire

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He’s a skeleton in a black suit, wide-brimmed hat snapped down low over the eye-sockets.

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The Savage

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Two years ago, I heard David Almond talk about a primitive quality of childhood, through which children have access to ancient powers of survival, imagination, healing, and perhaps redemption, which a

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My Sister Jodie

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Take two sisters: rebellious teenage Jodie and devoted book-loving Pearl.

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The Hundred-Towered City

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Jack, Annie and Davey’s father is an inventor, whose latest inspiration is a time-travelling vintage motorbike.

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Grow It, Eat It

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Gardening is currently fashionable and the design of this book is as good as you’d expect from DK in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society.

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Greek Myths and Legends

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The first thing that strikes you about this title is the pictures – from the cover onwards, bold, some brash, some cartoony, others dramatic, each of the eleven stories illustrated by a different pe

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The Great Snake: Stories from the Amazon

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The author journeys up the Amazon collecting and relating stories.

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Gervelie's Journey

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The true story of a young refugee forced to leave her home in the Republic of Congo and travel in search of safety.

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Firestorm: Dragon Orb

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Dragon Orb, first in the ‘Firestorm’ series, is another story about young people flying around on dragons.

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Earth Matters: an encyclopedia of ecology

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Here’s another cut-and-paste assembly job from the leaders in that field. Encyclopedia of Ecology, eh? We’ll see…

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