Books for Babies and Toddlers
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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 |
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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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Lovely Old Lion Julia Jarman Lenny’s grandpa King Lion is getting forgetful and confused. He gets night and day mixed up and even forgets Lenny’s name. Grandma explains he’s not himself and Lenny works out ways to help his grandpa remember, games and activities 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 From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley, comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair. Lovereading Review to follow.. ... Download free opening extract |
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What's a Girl Gotta Do? Holly Bourne August 2016 Book of the Month | In a Nutshell: Feminism * Friendship * Fighting back Inspirational and insanely funny, this third and final book in the Normal trilogy is a motivating must-read manifesto for young women, not to mention ... Download free opening extract |
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How Not to Disappear Clare Furniss August 2016 Book of the Month Hattie’s life changes forever when she meets the great aunt she never knew she had. Gloria by name, and glorious by nature, this headstrong former actress, who likes a gin sling (or three), is ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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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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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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How Much Does a Ladybird Weigh? Alison Limentani Alison Limentani's extraordinary picture book introduces children to a fascinating world of wildlife, weight, numbers, and comparisons in the most original way. Find out how much a ladybird weighs and did you know that five starlings weigh the same as ... 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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The Snake Who Came To Stay Julia Donaldson Interest Age 5-8 When Polly sets up an animal home for pets, she doesn’t anticipate quite how many problems she may face! But then, she doesn’t know she is going to be asked to look after a snake! When Doris ... Download free opening extract |
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Oi Dog! Kes Gray, Claire Gray Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month August 2016 All fans of rhymes will love the witty and simple words in Oi Dog!. The rule says Dogs sit on Frogs but Frog is determined to challenge that. According to Frog, Dogs ... 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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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 |
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The Genie's Curse Tom Percival Spells and enchantments of all kinds are flying around in the latest instalment of Tom Percival’s sparky series Little Legends, which cleverly creates new adventures for favourite fairy-tale characters. Rapunzel finds herself in trouble when she accidentally upsets a genie, ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome Matt Dickinson, our Guest Editor for January 2013 - 'As far as I can remember this was the book that turned me into a reading addict! I absolutely loved it, and to this day can remember the excitement of going ... Download free opening extract |
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How to Update Your Parents Pete Johnson This is a hilarious story of dead fish, gorillas with bananas in their ears, poetry, cunning plans and highly legal documents (kind of). Oh and iPads, iPhones and vlogging of course. I’m sitting at home chortling away at How To Update ... Download free opening extract |
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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 |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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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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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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Fuzzy Mud Louis Sachar The bestselling author of Holes tells a cracking new story in Fuzzy Mud featuring some truly terrifying genetically modified mud. When Marshall takes a short cut home to avoid being beaten up by Chad, the school bully who has been ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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Here I Stand Amnesty International UK August 2016 Book of the Month This powerful collection of stories commissioned by Amnesty International features contributions from a stellar line up of authors, including Sarah Crossan, Matt Haig, Frances Hardinge, Kevin Brooks and Neil Gaiman. Human rights abuses of ... Download free opening extract |
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Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride & Prejudice Natasha Farrant In a nutshell: Dances | Dreams | Determination Younger sister of Lizzy and Jane, Lydia Bennet is one of literature’s great catalysts. Her actions are fundamental to the story of Pride and Prejudice, but there we never learn exactly what ... Download free opening extract |
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The Stars at Oktober Bend Glenda Millard August 2016 Book of the Month | In a Nutshell: Survival | Friendship | Power of words Heartrending and, ultimately, hopeful, this tells the extraordinarily powerful tale of unforgettable Alice, whose “soul is filled with songbirds”, and who refuses to let ... Download free opening extract |
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