Books for Babies and Toddlers
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The New Jumper Oliver Jeffers Now this fabulously quirky group of characters is introduced to younger readers in these toddler friendly board books from the internationally bestselling, award-winning author/illustrator, Oliver Jeffers, creator of How to Catch a Star and Lost and Found. The thing about the ... Download free opening extract |
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Slug Needs a Hug Jeanne Willis April 2015 Book of the Month - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month Best-selling Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross have created many fabulous picture books together. Here, the weedy and whiny little slug is just longing for a hug! How ... Download free opening extract |
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Baby's Very First Slide and See Animals Fiona Watt April 2015 Book of the Month This chunky, colourful little board book is just the thing to develop early faculties including hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills. Cheerful animals are depicted in bright colours on each page, and sturdy sliders ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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Conversion Katherine Howe A fascinating book that captures your imagination for its entirety and then releases it to explore new thoughts and feelings, this is a wonderfully clever foray into the difficulties faced by young women on the cusp of adulthood. The story ... Download free opening extract |
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Finding Audrey Sophie Kinsella Audrey’s family life is reassuringly normal. There’s her Daily Mail reading mum, computer game addicted big brother, and well-meaning dad trying, and generally failing, to say the right thing. It’s sharply observed comedy, and very funny. Audrey has problems though ... Download free opening extract |
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A Monster Calls Patrick Ness Winner of the 2012 Carnegie Medal Rachel Levy chair of the 2012 CILIP Carnegie judging panel said: "A Monster Calls" is an exquisite piece of writing. It is a beautifully economical, structurally brilliant and lyrically descriptive account of a challenging ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Pizza for Pirates Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain April 2015 Book of the Month From the team who created the Roald Dahl Funny Prize shortlisted Spaghetti with the Yeti comes a brand new picturebook, and it’s another tasty treat! This time young George has a wonderful plan to sail ... Download free opening extract |
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You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus Patricia Cleveland-Peck April 2015 Book of the Month - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month There’s lots of laughs here! An elephant on a bus, a whale on a bike, a hippo in a hot air balloon – none of these is ... Download free opening extract |
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Soon Timothy Knapman Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month May 2015 - May 2015 Book of the Month From the illustrator of Owl Babies comes a new classic - the stunning story of a baby elephant, Raju, and his mother who take an ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Sir John the (Mostly) Brave Johnny Smith What’s in a name, asks this new series of madcap adventures for young readers. John Smith is fed up with being teased for having the most boring name in the world, until his granddad lets him into an amazing secret: ... Download free opening extract |
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Don't Forget Tiggs! Michael Rosen May 2015 Book of the Month This tale of the busy Hurrys may well strike a chord with families everywhere. Mr and Mrs Hurry are always rushing, but especially in the mornings. One day they dash off to their respective jobs ... Download free opening extract |
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The Unlikely Outlaws Philip Ardagh Reading Age 6-9 Interest Age 7-10 There are actually four stories for the price of one in this chunky little book. It brings together three of Philip Ardagh’s jolly adventures of the Green Men of Gressingham. The Green Men (brown ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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The Fastest Boy in the World Elizabeth Laird Shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal In a beautifully told story packed with emotion and action, Elizabeth Laird tells how eleven- year- old Solomon turns his dreams of becoming an International runner into reality. Solomon runs everywhere – and always especially ... Download free opening extract |
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Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures Maggie Stiefvater, Jackson Pearce May 2015 Book of the Month Pip Bartlett can talk to animals, which is impressive enough, but her world is full of magical creatures, meaning she’s conversing with unicorns, griffins, hobgrackles et al. Following an unfortunate incident with some unicorns ... Download free opening extract |
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A Dog Called Flow Pippa Goodhart Shortlisted for the Smarties Prize and the Kathleen Fidler Award. Oliver is struggling at school, and the other children laugh at him. What he really wants is a dog, a dog to love him loyally and uncritically; a dog to ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Haunters Thomas Taylor The dead and the living exist side by side in this thrilling time-travelling adventure. In David's recurrent dream, Eddie seems real and it seems like he's got something to tell David. That's scary enough but then David gets picked up ... Download free opening extract |
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The Astounding Broccoli Boy Frank Cottrell Boyce April 2015 Book of the Month Frank Cottrell Boyce is at Hay Fever! What would you do if your skin suddenly turned a bright, broccoli shade of green? Join multi-award-winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce as he introduces the colourful cast ... Download free opening extract |
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The Accidental Prime Minister Tom McLaughlin April 2015 Debut of the Month We’ve all thought it: a twelve-year-old boy could do an MP’s job at least as well as the present lot, probably better. That’s the premise in Tom McLaughlin’s debut novel, only the twelve-year-old in ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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If You Were Me Sam Hepburn April 2015 Book of the Month Two young people from very different backgrounds star in this crime mystery. Aliya’s family have fled to England from Afghanistan, chased out by the Taliban. Dan lives in London with his parents, reluctantly helping ... Download free opening extract |
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The Middle of Nowhere Geraldine Mccaughrean Shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal - One of our Books of the Year 2014 - Shortlisted for The Little Rebels Children's Book Award 2014 Award-winning Geraldine McCaughrean captures a far off landscape and a far off time in her fabulously ... Download free opening extract |
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The Sound of Whales Kerr Thomson Winner of 2014 Times/ Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. This wonderful adventure story, winner of the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, is set on a beautiful Scottish island, where two teenagers – a Scottish boy and an American girl – find ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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Tinder Sally Gardner Shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal - Shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal Award-winning Sally Gardner tells a gripping, bloody and bold story drawing on the traditions of fairy stories of all kinds and especially Hans Christian Andersen’s The ... Download free opening extract |
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The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, May 2015 - May 2015 Book of the Month Another deliciously creepy novel from Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Plagued by an unspoken scandal, fourteen-year-old Faith Sunderly and her ... Download free opening extract |
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Persist Melvin Burgess Interest Age Teen Reading Age 7 In just 54 short pages Melvyn Burgess creates a drama that encompasses a whole life. Trapped in a coma, Marianne doesn’t know who she is anymore, and no longer feels like a person at ... Download free opening extract |
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