Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Five Minutes' Peace Jill Murphy There can’t be a mum in the country who doesn’t identify with Mrs Large, wrapped in her comfortable dressing gown, doing her best to get away from her children for just five minutes peace (and managing a scant three minutes ... Download free opening extract |
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A Great Big Cuddle Michael Rosen A Reader Review Panel Pick of the Year 2015 - chosen by Robyn Chorely, aged 5- Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month, September 2015 Children’s Laureates Chris Riddell and Michael Rosen combine here to create a beautiful collection of ebullient ... Download free opening extract |
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Twit to Who? Smriti Prasadam-Halls A Piece of Passion from editor, Boxer Books The idea of owls and the dark, dark night has always been a magical one. Owls are known for being wise and watchful and there is something immediately peaceful and comforting about ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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The Dark Days Club Alison Goodman This first novel in a trilogy of deliciously dark, supernatural page-turners set in Regency England is packed with passion, period detail and devastating demons. London, 1812, and sharp-minded, strong-spirited Lady Helen Wrexhall is about to be presented to Queen Charlotte. Her ... Download free opening extract |
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Sophie Someone Hayley Long Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Children's Book Award - September 2015 Book of the Month Sophie Nieuwenleven’s story is shocking, so she tells it in the only way she can – in code, using random code worms to keep any ... Download free opening extract |
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There Will be Lies Nick Lake Joanne Owen's Pick of the Year 2015 - January 2015 Book of the Month Award-winning Nick Lake tells a complex story fusing two strands of narrative into a richly woven single thread. Seventeen-year-old Shelby Cooper has always been very protected ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Old Bear's Bedtime Stories Jane Hissey December 2015 Book of the Month Jane Hissey’s Old Bear stories make perfect bedtime reading: warm-hearted and so reassuring. Many of her best-loved characters feature in these stories and the more threadbare her bears and toys are, the more authentic ... Download free opening extract |
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Fabulous Pie Gareth Edwards Shortlisted for Children’s Book Award 2016, Books for Younger Children category Fabulous Pie is shortlisted for the Children’s Book Award, the only children’s prize selected by children. In the story a bear calls out to the other inhabitants of the forest ... Download free opening extract |
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Blue Penguin Petr Horacek November 2015 Book of the Month There are some breathtakingly beautiful illustrations in Petr Horacek’s new picture book, and a story to bring a lump to the throat. Blue Penguin does the same things that the other penguins do but, ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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The Snow Beast Chris Judge A Staff Pick of the Year 2015 - chosen by Louise Weir - December 2015 Book of the Month - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, October 2015 Chris Judge’s delightful Beast is back for a fresh adventure and this time ... Download free opening extract |
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Lift-the-Flap Computers and Coding Rosie Dickins With its equal mix of quirky facts and puzzles to try, Lift-the-flap Computers and Coding provides a whole new technique for learning how computer coding runs. Not only will it help readers understand how coding works, it also answers questions ... Download free opening extract |
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Tom's Sunflower Hilary Robinson Written and illustrated with warmth, humour and sensitivity, this excellent book, part of the Copper Tree Class series, tackles the subject of family break-up. Hana is confused and upset because her parents are going to live separately, and all the ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Not Bad for a Bad Lad Michael, M. B. E. Morpurgo This wonderful story was inspired by a conversation that Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman had about a prison at Hollesley Bay in Suffolk that Michael Foreman remembered from growing up nearby. Into this Michael Morpurgo weaves his story of how ... Download free opening extract |
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I Believe in Unicorns Michael, M. B. E. Morpurgo Michael Morpurgo pulls on the heart strings in a short book into which he has packed a number of strands, richly woven together. Tomas lives for the outdoors: he hates books, reading and stories. But one day, his mother forces ... Download free opening extract |
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The Adventures of Miss Petitfour Anne Michaels A Staff Pick of the Year 2015 - chosen by Shelley Fallows - December 2015 Debut of the Month There is something quite wonderful about indulging in your favourite cake, beautifully decorated with sweet delectable icing. Well the same can ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Last of the Spirits Chris Priestley December 2015 Book of the Month What would Christmas be without a ghost story? Chris Priestley, master of the macabre, has written one that while it will send shivers down the spine can be enjoyed by all the family. His ... Download free opening extract |
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Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 10) Jeff KinneyNovember 2015 Book of the Month Old School is number ten in the multi-million-selling Wimpy Kid series and author Jeff Kinney is on very good form. The generation gap is something of a theme in this episode: Greg doesn’t understand ... Download free opening extract |
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House of Robots: Robots Go Wild! James Patterson December 2015 Book of the Month Another helping of page-turning fun from James Patterson, ably assisted by Chris Grabenstein. Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez shares his home with robots – his mum is a robot scientist - and one of them, E, even ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Island Nicky Singer December 2015 Book of the Month Island is a powerful and vivid new story from Nicky Singer, the prize-winning author of Feather Boy. London teenager Cameron is cast away on an uninhabited island in the Arctic with his scientist mother ... Download free opening extract |
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An Island of Our Own Sally Nicholls Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Children's Book Award - Shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize From the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book prize comes a new novel about family and friendship. Jonathan, Holly and Davy have been ... Download free opening extract |
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Winterkill Kate A. Boorman This is such a gloriously different and delightful read. The storyline sucks you in whole and clamours to be read as quickly as possible, while the beautifully bewitching writing encourages you to savour every word. Emmeline and her people rely ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Andrea Reeces's Pick of the Year 2015 - Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Children's Book Award - Shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, May 2015 Award-winning Frances Hardinge is spellbinding is this ... Download free opening extract |
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One Sarah Crossan Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Year 2015 - September 2015 Julia Eccleshare's Mega Book of the Month Award-winning Sarah Crossan tells an astonishing and difficult story with the surest of touches in this tender, funny and life affirming book. Grace ... Download free opening extract |
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A Song for Ella Grey David Almond Winner of the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize -Winner of the 2015 Peters Book of the Year 'Teen Fiction' Award Award-winning David Almond is at his lyrical best in this eloquent, tender and ultimately devastating contemporary teenage love story ... Download free opening extract |
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