Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Tabby McTat Picturebook and CD Julia Donaldson A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. The best-selling author and illustrator team of the Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have created a heart-warming story about loyalty and friendship. When Tabby McTat the busker’s cat gets separated ... Download free opening extract |
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Again! Emily Gravett Prize-winning Emily Gravett has hit the jackpot again with a brilliant and original picture book that will delight adults as much as children. Everyone knows that the best bedtime stories can be read again and again and again... But sometimes, ... Download free opening extract |
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What's the Opposite? Oliver Jeffers Award-winning Oliver Jeffers’s endearingly simple Hueys are always asking interesting questions to help them find out more. This time they want to know more about opposites. Some opposites are easy. Everyone knows that Down is the opposite of Up, that ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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As I Descended Robin Talley September 2016 Book of the Month In a Nutshell: Deadly Ambition | Scheming with Spirits | Descent into Darkness Thrilling, chilling, supernaturally-charged retelling of Macbeth set in a prestigious southern state high school. While Lily can’t wait to try out her antique Ouija ... Download free opening extract |
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs The movie tie-in version of the bestselling Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home ... Download free opening extract |
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Beck Mal Peet, Meg Rosoff *** Suitable for ages 16+ Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month September 2016 In turns brutal and passionate, Beck is an utterly compelling story of survival and romance which will catch the breath of all readers and inspire them to fight against ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Tabby McTat Julia Donaldson Best-selling author and illustrator Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have teamed up again to create a heart-warming story about loyalty and friendship. When Tabby McTat the busker’s cat gets separated from the busker he begins a new life on his ... Download free opening extract |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr A wonderful story, about believing in the unexpected and magical. When a tiger turns up on the doorstep one day, the little girl and her mother just welcome him right in and offer him tea. He sits neatly at the ... Download free opening extract |
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Wide-Awake Hedgehog Rosie Wellesley September 2016 Book of the Month Isaac the hedgehog made his debut in The Very Helpful Hedgehog which was much liked at Lovereading4kids. He’s back in a new adventure just right for this time of year, the pages saturated in ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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The Diary of a Killer Cat Anne Fine A cat’s eye view of the world is not exactly the same as a humans! Tuffy’s got no problems with the trail of delicious victims he brings into the house. A bird, a mouse – they are both delicious. In ... Download free opening extract |
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Grandpa Was an Astronaut Jonathan Meres September 2016 Book of the Month | In a Nutshell: Grandparents | Fun | Poignant | Interest Age 5-8 Best known for his hilarious World of Norm books, Jonathan Meres has here written a very different sort of book. Grandpa was an ... Download free opening extract |
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A Child of Books Oliver Jeffers, Sam Winston Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month September 2016 Award-winning storyteller and artist Oliver Jeffers and typographic fine artist Sam Winston have created an extraordinarily adventurous and original picture book which, through words and pictures, takes children on a journey of ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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My Mum's Going To Explode! Jeremy Strong Pure, unadulterated entertainment but beware, you may laugh so much that you can’t stop!! Young readers with a sense of humour will devour it in a sitting and those without a sense of humour at the beginning will be filled ... Download free opening extract |
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Jinks and O'Hare Funfair Repair Philip Reeve Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month September 2016 Bestselling Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre have created a fabulous feisty new heroine in Emily who is determined to be as helpful as she possibly can be to Jinks and O’Hare the ... Download free opening extract |
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Dotty Detective and the Great Pawprint Puzzle Clara Vulliamy Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month August 2016 Dot loves a good mystery! So, when she hears noises in the night she just has to find out what is causing them. Dot is sure there must be a ghost but ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Eye of the Wolf Daniel Pennac Born worlds apart - a wolf from the North and a boy from Africa. The wolf has lost nearly everything on his way to the zoo, including his eye and his pack. The boy too has lost much and seen ... Download free opening extract |
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Kensuke's Kingdom Michael Morpurgo Awarding winning storyteller Michael Morpurgo spins a spellbinding yarn of survival in modern classic. Michael and his dog Stella Artois are swept overboard from their parents’ ship and swept up onto the shore of a nearby island. Michael puts all ... Download free opening extract |
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The Wolf Wilder Katherine Rundell September 2016 Book of the Month Wolves, wildness and freedom are at the heart of this thrilling story. Wolf wilders are employed to reintroduce wolves unfortunate enough to be brought up as pets in rich households back into the wild, ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Shadowsmith Ross MacKenzie September 2016 Book of the Month In a nutshell: good versus evil, spiders, finding courage Ross MacKenzie won the Blue Peter Best Story Award for The Nowhere Emporium and Shadowsmith is another heart-racing adventure. Kirby’s mum was hurt when a freak storm ... Download free opening extract |
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The Other Alice Michelle Harrison Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month August 2016 Award-winning Michelle Harrison’s The Other Alice is a fast-paced, tautly woven story stuffed full of imagination, magic and adventure which gives life in the world outside to characters who should remain safely ... Download free opening extract |
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An Eagle in the Snow Michael, M. B. E. Morpurgo A ‘what if’ story based on a true life events, full of descriptions of heroism and selflessness: for any good writer this would make excellent material for a book, but in Michael Morpurgo’s hands, it’s pure gold. Barney is leaving ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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The Haunting of Jessop Rise Danny Weston September 2016 Book of the Month In a Nutshell: Historical haunting | Eerie intrigue | Sinister secrets Chilling historical novel in which an orphan becomes entangled in a web of supernatural goings-on and family secrets. It’s 1853 and, following the death of his ... Download free opening extract |
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Railhead Philip Reeve August 2016 Book of the Month Set in a shining future world, where trains rumble not just through towns and countryside but across whole galaxies, Philip Reeve’s new novel drenches its readers with extraordinary scenes, images and ideas. Zen Starling ... Download free opening extract |
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Tales of the Peculiar Ransom Riggs A beautifully illustrated book of fairy tales set in the world of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the internationally bestselling series by Ransom Riggs. Lovereading Review to follow... ... Download free opening extract |
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