Books for Babies and Toddlers
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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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My Daddy Julia Hubery However dads look, whatever they do, YOUR dad is the best, and he thinks you're great too! This fun and playful celebration of all dads, everywhere, is now available as a chunky board book with a shiny foiled cover. The ... Download free opening extract |
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Say Hello Like This! Mary Murphy An exuberant book that invites all readers to join in too! All the animals have different ways of saying Hello! The Chicken hello is flappy and clucky, the Frog hello is jumpy and croaky, the Beetle hello is tiny and ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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More Than This Patrick Ness Shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal - One of our Books of the Year 2014 - May 2014 Mega Book of the Month This exceptional new novel from multi-award-winning Patrick Ness will, once again, delight his readers with a superbly written, ... Download free opening extract |
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The Secret Countess Eva Ibbotson By the award-winning and bestselling author of Journey to the River Sea, a novel that sings with characteristic Ibbotson warmth and wit, now with a beautiful new cover look ... Download free opening extract |
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My Smoky Bacon Crisp Obsession J. A. Buckle Josh Walker is a boy who likes a list. Top of his ‘things to do this year’ is: commence upper-body-related action with girlfriend Becky; form a band (death metal preferably); and get a tattoo. By the end of the book ... 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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The Something Rebecca Cobb April 2015 Book of the Month - Longlisted for the 2015 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Award-winning illustrator Rebecca Cobb creates a number of different imaginary worlds in this delightfully fanciful story about a hole in the ground. The little girl ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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The Adventures of Mr Toad Tom Moorhouse Everyone loves the ebullient and outrageous Mr Toad, one of the heroes of Kenneth Grahame’s classic The Wind in the Willows. Tom Moorhouse brings him to life in this modern retelling which captures all the drama of Mr Toad’s famous ... Download free opening extract |
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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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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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How Harry Riddles Mega-Massively Broke the School Simon Mayle April 2015 Book of the Month Harry Riddles, aka the Shoutykid, is back for a new adventure. How can he solve all the problems of his family? Most urgently, with twins imminent, how can he get his sister a job ... 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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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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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 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 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 |
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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 |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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Othergirl Nicole Burstein There are lots of young girls with a best friend they think is so much prettier, funnier, and more popular than they are, that she almost seems to have superpowers. That’s just what it’s like for Louise, except that her ... Download free opening extract |
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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 Haunting of Sunshine Girl Paige McKenzie, Alyssa B. Sheinmel April 2015 Debut of the Month Sunshine has just turned sixteen when she and her mum leave Texas for a new home in rainy Washington. They’ve not even been there one night before something creepy makes its presence felt, to ... Download free opening extract |
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