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Murder & Mystery Catwalk Criminal Monster Mission - Ingo - Sarah Sky Helen Dunmore Eva Ibbotson Jessica has been recruited to MI6's On a secret island, three aunts are As they search for their missing secret division of supermodel spies. plotting a wicked crime, but they father near their Cornwall Her first official mission seems are no ordinary kidnappers. Their home, Sapphy and her brother, simple , until it turns into the island is the base for a very special Conor, learn about their family's biggest cyber-attack ever known, and mysterious mission, and they connection to the domains of air threatening the security of the desperately need children to help and water. whole country. Jessica has no them in their work. choice but to take matters into her own hands and catch the culprit - fresh from the catwalk. Bakerloo
Murder & Mystery Virals - Cathy Reichs Secret of the Sirens - The Ruby in the Smoke - Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as Julia Golding Philip Pullman fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt, Tempe Brennan. When Connie goes to stay In 19th-century London, However living on a secluded island with her aunt by the sea, 16-year-old Sally, a recent off South Carolina there is not much she discovers some mythical orphan, becomes involved in a opportunity to put her knowledge to creatures are in danger deadly search for a the test. Until her and her ragbag and that she has a special mysterious ruby. talent that must be put to group of friends stumble across a use to help them. shallow grave containing the remains of a girl who has been missing for over thirty years. Bakerloo
Murder & Mystery Eragon I’d Tell You That I love You, But Stormbreaker - Christopher Paolini Anthony Horowitz Then I’d Have To Kill You – When Eragon finds a polished Ally Carter 14 year-old Alex Rider finds his life stone in the forest, he thinks it is Gallagher Academy might claim to be a turned upside down on discovering that the lucky discovery of a poor school for geniuses - but it's really a his late uncle wasn't a banker, but farm boy; perhaps it will buy his school for spies. Cammie is fluent in instead an agent for MI6. Alex is then family meat for the winter. But fourteen languages and capable of killing dragged into the world of espionage when the stone brings a dragon a man in seven different ways. But the and intrigue himself. one thing the Gallagher Academy hasn't hatchling, Eragon soon realizes prepared her for is what to do when she he has stumbled upon a legacy falls for an ordinary boy who thinks she's nearly as old as the Empire an ordinary girl. itself. Bakerloo
Murder & Mystery Blood Hunters – Fashion Assassin Ferno the Fire Dragon – Steve Voake Sarah Sky Adam Blade Supermodel Jessica Cole has no In the Mexican jungle scientists intention of ever spying again until Strange things are happening in prepare to embark on an she's blackmailed into posing Tom's village. Everyone is terrified, exploration of the world's deepest undercover as bodyguard to a very but Tom is not afraid. He's always sinkhole; a naturally-formed rich fellow model. What seems like dreamed of a quest, a real quest, underwater shaft that no one has a simple job aboard a luxurious and vows to go to the king and ever reached the bottom of. What yacht in Monaco soon turns into a bring help. they are about to discover could deadly mission to stop the most change the world forever. dangerous weapon in the world falling into the wrong hands. Bakerloo
Murder & Mystery Looking For J. J. Take Your Last Breath – The Scorch Trials Anne Cassidy Lauren Child James Dashner Looking for JJ explores the Everyone’s favourite kid detective Thomas was sure that circumstances and motives is back. This time, though, it’s an escape from the maze meant behind the murder of a child - by adventure on the wide open ocean, he and the Gladers would her friend. Six years later, JJ has and Ruby is all at sea…Can she get their lives back. But no now been released, and has a crack the case of the Twinford one knew what sort of life new identity. But is there any pirates while evading the clutches they were going back to. way that she can lead a "normal" of a vile sea monster as well as the life? evil Count von Viscount?
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Look Into My Eyes Murder & Mystery The Da Vinci Code - Lauren Child Seizure W hen an anonymous caller sets Dan Brown Cathy Reichs Ruby a challenge, it’s not long Investigating the murder of a Rumour has it that notorious Louvre curator, Harvard pirate Anne Bonny hid her before she finds her way into the HQ of the most secret of secret symbologist Robert Langdon and treasure somewhere in Charleston agencies – SPECTRUM. They need French cryptologist Sophie in 1720. No-one knows where, but Neveu find clues painted into a her help to crack a code but her Tory Brennan - great-niece of desk job soon spirals into an all-out Da Vinci, uncovering a plot famous forensic anthropologist Dr action adventure, as Ruby uncovers involving the Holy Grail and the Tempe Brennan - is certain that the dastardly plans of the secret society known as the the Virals can work out Bonny's formidable Fool’s Gold Gang… Priory of Sion. cryptic clues.
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Royal Connections The Secret Countess - Faerie Wars Prince Caspian - Eva Ibbotson Herbie Brennan C.S. Lewis After escaping the revolution in Henry finds his life taking on a Russia, eighteen-year-old whole new dimension when he Prince Caspian and his army of countess Anna, penniless and and his old friend, Mr Fogarty, Talking Beasts conquer the living in London, becomes a become involved with Prince Telmarines servant to an aristocratic family. Pyrgus Malvae, who has been But she falls in love with a young sent from the faerie world to earl, and finds it increasingly hard escape the treacherous Faeries to keep her past a Secret. of the Night.
Metropolitan
Tales Set in Cities The Falcon’s Malteser Theodore Boone: The Activist - Carrie's War - Anthony Horowitz John Grisham Theo’s town is under threat, from a Nina Bawden When a dwarf comes into the group of corrupt men planning to build a Bombs were falling on London, office and leaves a package, Tim bypass and destroy countless homes. and Carrie and Nick were Diamond, the world's worst Now thirteen-year-old Theo must stand wartime evacuees billeted in private-detective, is faced with up for his city and stop them. But soon Wales on old Mr Evans. They his toughest case yet. The office the fight turns nasty, and Theo and his were happy to visit their friend is ransacked and the package is friends face a giant battle against the underhand crooks. And when Theodore Albert at Druid's found to contain simply a box of uncovers a terrible secret - a secret he's Bottom until Carrie did the worst Maltesers. Who was the dwarf … discovered illegally - he is torn. thing she ever did in her life. and why was he murdered shortly after his visit?
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Murder & Mystery The Prisoner of Zenda - Catch Your Death Trash – Andy Mulligan Lauren Child Anthony Hope This time, tigers are roaming the Young Rudolf Rassendyl has Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and streets of Twinford, and it looks never seen his near double, the Gardo team up with a younger like someone has deliberately new King of Ruritania. When he boy, Rat, to figure out the released some very rare and very travels to see the coronation, mysteries surrounding a bag dangerous animals. Things are he becomes involved in a Raphael finds during their daily going to get wild – and Ruby is dastardly plot. life of sorting through trash in a going to get badly lost in the Third World country's Dump. wilderness. The question is: will she ever make it out alive?
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Murder & Mystery Theodore Boone Black Ice – Out of Sight, Out of Time John Grisham Young Sherlock Holmes Ally Carter
Theodore Boone is thirteen and Andrew Lane Cammie wakes up in an Alpine wants nothing more than to swap The year is 1868, and convent having lost her memory homeroom for the courtroom; he fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes of the whole summer. She and lives for big trials. A husband awaits faces his most baffling mystery yet. her friends must travel to the trial for his wife's murder. Is he a Mycroft, his older brother, has other side of the world, trying to dangerous criminal or an innocent been found with a knife in his hand, piece together the clues that victim? The case takes a sinister locked in a room with a corpse. Cammie left behind. But there twist when Theo uncovers a surprise Only Sherlock believes that his are people hunting Cammie - witness but Theodore is sworn to brother is innocent. But can he people who will stop at nothing secrecy and time is running out. to protect their secrets... prove it?
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Murder & Mystery United We Spy Exposure - Cathy Reichs Snake Bite – Morris Island is returning to Ally Carter Young Sherlock Holmes normality after the high profile trial Andrew Lane Cammie and her spy school of the Gamemaster, when two local Kidnapped and taken to China, friends to another wildly students seem to vanish into thin air. Sherlock finds himself plunged into entertaining mission. With new Tory and the Virals move quickly in adventure. How can three men be assignments to tail and capture, their attempts to discover what has bitten by the same poisonous snake the final book in the globally happened to their twin classmates. in different parts of Shanghai? Who bestselling series results in an But the pack’s canine powers are wants them dead, and why. explosive finale! growing wilder, and it is becoming Sherlock Holmes. Think you know ever harder to conceal the secret him? Think again. which protects them.
Central
Characters in Danger Young Samurai: The Way Artemis Fowl - Torpix: The Twisting of the Warrior - Eoin Colfer Serpent - Chris Bradford Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl Adam Blade When Jack Fletcher is is a brilliant criminal Tom is on another quest to shipwrecked off the coast of mastermind. But even he defeat both Torpix the Twisting Japan and rescued by the doesn't know what he's taken Serpent, and Malvel, who plans legendary swordmaster on when he kidnaps a fairy - to take the Warlock's staff to Masamoto Takeshi, his only hope Captain Holly Short of the the eternal flame. is to become a samurai warrior. LEPrecon Unit. These fairies But life at the samurai school is a are armed and they are constant fight for survival. Dangerous.
Victoria
Victorians The Villainous The Crystal Palace/ Workhouse Victorians - Terry Deary Young Nanny Pamela Oldfield The daughter of a wealthy Following on from THE VILE Frances Mary Hendry widow discovers the horrible VICTORIANS, Terry Deary gives The story of the creation of side of life when she gets us more of the grim truth the Crystal Palace for the involved in running a about the nasty nineteenth Great Exhibition of 1850 as workhouse. century and lets you in on the told by the housemaid of a darkest secrets of Queen wealthy London family. Victoria's Britain. Bakerloo
Murder & Mystery Theodore Boone: The Cross My Heart and Hope Abduction - John Grisham Invisible City - To Spy - Ally Carter THEODORE BOONE'S best friend Despite Cammie's best intentions M.G. Harris April has disappeared in the to be a normal student, danger When his archaeologist father middle of the night. The only seems to follow her. Cammie and goes missing after an air crash suspect is an escaped convict, and her friends must clear her name in Mexico, UFO-obsessed Josh he won't give them any answers. by discovering the truth about is caught up in a race to find Thirteen-year-old Theo - the son of some mysterious guests...but this the legendary Ix Codex - a lost two lawyers - knows the criminal time the stakes for Cammie's book of the ancient Maya justice system. Terrified that he'll heart - and her beloved school - containing a prophecy. never see April again, he begins his are even higher. own investigation.
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Sea Stories The Ship Between the How to Be a Pirate - Ingo - Worlds Cressida Cowell Helen Dunmore Julia Golding Hiccup and his dragon, As they search for their missing David Jones's dreams are about Toothless, sail with his Viking father near their Cornwall to take a nightmarish turn, as the clan to the Isle of the Skullions home, Sapphy and her brother, pirate ship he has been dreaming in search of Grimbeard the Conor, learn about their family's about materialises. David finds Ghastly's Treasure. connection to the domains of air himself caught up in a deadly and water. battle between rival pirate captains, with the fate of the worlds at stake. Bakerloo
Murder & Mystery Don’t Judge A Girl By Her The Secret Countess - Code - Cathy Reichs Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Cover - Ally Carter Eva Ibbotson Island – but the tranquility is quickly A spy-in-training, Cammie Morgan After escaping the revolution in shattered when Tory Brennan and has a cover for every occasion. But Russia, eighteen-year-old her technophile gang discover a what happens when she is forced countess Anna, penniless and mysterious box buried in the ground. to lose her cover to save her best living in London, becomes a A seemingly innocent treasure hunt friend, Macey? Cammie and her servant to an aristocratic family. soon turns into a nightmarish game friends are determined to hunt But she falls in love with a young of puzzles, as it becomes clear that down the group that threatens to earl, and finds it increasingly hard one false move will lead to terrible, tear their secret sisterhood apart. to keep her past a Secret. explosive consequences. This time it's personal.
Northern
Tales From the North The Cry of the Icemark The Call of the Wild - How to Train Your Dragon Stuart Hill Jack London Cressida Cowell After the death of her beloved Rugged outdoor story of the Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III father, princess Thirrin Freer sled dog, Buck, who was was an extraordinary Viking Strong-In-The-Arm becomes mistreated by his master and Hero, who had power over warrior queen of her broke free to roam the dragons. But it wasn't always like homeland, Icemark, Alaskan that. In this book he tells the story defending it from general Wilderness. of his first dragon. Scipio Bellorum and his conquering army. Bakerloo
Code Red Lipstick Murder & Mystery Theodore Boone: The Terminal Sarah Sky Accused - John Grisham Cathy Reichs Jessica Cole is just your average Thirteen-year-old Theo stands Tory Brennan and the Virals pack teenager, except when she's accused. Stolen property has been are forced to confront the strutting down the glamorous found in his locker and soon Theo is existence of a rival pack - The catwalks of Paris. When her father, under investigation. Somebody is Trinity - who wants them off the a former spy, vanishes sabotaging his reputation and scene - declaring war by engraving mysteriously, Jessica takes matters framing him as a criminal. As the 'One Territory. One Pack' on a into her own hands. She's not just evidence against him mounts, Theo local landmark. What's more this good at striking a pose, she's going must use all of his legal powers to pack's powers seem stronger and to take on MI6 and beat them at chase down the real thief their eyes glow red rather than their own game. golden when they flare.
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Royal Connections Children of the New The Dragonfly Pool The Diamond of Drury Forest Eva Ibbotson Lane - Captain Marryatt Tally and her friends at Dalderton Julia Golding Set during the turbulent time Boarding School form a Cat Royal, ward of the Theatre in English history when the dance troupe and travel to Royal Drury Lane, takes us on a army hunted down those loyal Bergania, where she befriends journey through London's Karil, the crown prince, and helps to the deposed King Charles criminal underworld, and the the First, this tells the story of him flee the Nazis after characters passing through it, as four young orphans his father is assassinated. she helps solve the mystery determined to see the king of the missing diamond. restored to power.
Waterloo
War Eagle Day Once Private Peaceful Robert Muchamore Late summer, 1940. Hitler has Morris Gleitzman Michael Morpurgo conquered France. Now he intends Once is the story of a young Told in the voice of a young to cross the Channel and defeat Jewish boy who is determined soldier, the story follows 24 Britain before winter arrives. A group to escape the orphanage he hours in his life at the front of young refugees led by British spy lives in to save his Jewish during WW1, and captures his Charles Henderson faces a stark choice. To head south into the safety parents from the Nazis in the memories as he looks back over of neutral Spain, or go north on a occupied Poland of the Second his life. risky mission to sabotage the World War. German invasion plans.
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Characters in Danger How to Train Your H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Tarzan: The Greystoke Dragon - Villainous Education Legacy - Cressida Cowell Walden, Mark Andy Briggs Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III Swept away to a hidden academy A new interpretation of a classic was an extraordinary Viking for training budding evil geniuses, character. When Jane, daughter Hero, who had power over Otto, a brilliant orphan, Wing, a of the camp's boss, is rescued dragons. But it wasn't always sensitive warrior, Laura, a shy from danger by a wildman in the like that. In this book he tells computer specialist, and Shelby, jungle, she discovers the the story of his first dragon. an infamous jewel thief, plot to importance of saving the animals beat the odds and escape the and trees from illegal loggers. prison known as H.I.V.E.
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Courage & Artemis Fowl Corby Flood Mortal Engines - Cowardice Eoin Colfer Paul Stewart Philip Reeve Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a A young assassin is stalking her While travelling with her family, brilliant criminal mastermind. But Corby Flood attracts the prey through the city. Hester even he doesn't know what he's murderous attentions of five Shaw's plot is foiled by a young taken on when he kidnaps a fairy - men, called the Brotherhood apprentice who has finally Captain Holly Short of the of the Clowns as she investigates stumbled into a real adventure. LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are the mysterious singing Tom's intervention leaves the armed and they are Dangerous. coming from the ship’s hold. pair stranded in the Out Country.
District
Science Fiction Elidor - Otto in the Time of the TimeRiders: Day of the Alan Garner Warrior Predator The Watson siblings' boring Charlotte Haptie Alex Scarrow day is transformed when Otto's life is changed dramatically When Liam is accidentally sent to they are transported to the when a mysterious girl whispers 65 million years BC, he finds magical world of Elidor to him. He and his friends go on a himself in the hunting ground of where they are entrusted magical time- dinosaurs. Liam must prevent with four ancient treasures travelling adventure to save their the world being taken over by a that must be protected at land and stop the sinister new reality and ensure the all costs. Tumbleman from achieving his timeline is intact. evil plans. Central
Characters in Danger Journey to the River Sea I Am David - The Diamond of Drury Eva Ibbotson Ann Holm Lane - Orphaned Maia is sent to When "the man" helps David Julia Golding greedy relatives in the Amazon escape from the prison camp Cat Royal, ward of the Theatre who have only offered to take where he has lived all his life, Royal Drury Lane, takes us on a her in for the sake of her David can't quite believe it. journey through London's money. Luckily she is Everything in the world criminal underworld, and the accompanied by her gutsy outside is strange and characters passing through it, as governess and together they wonderful. But he knows that she helps solve the mystery find freedom in the glorious at any moment "they" might of the missing diamond. setting of the Rainforest. catch up with him. Central
Characters in Danger TimeRiders - Fantastic Mr Fox Elephant Adventure - Scarrow, Alex Roald Dahl Willard Price Liam, Maddy and Sal all Extraordinary adventures Hal and Roger are on the should have died at different of three nasty farmers, equator looking for a rare periods of history, but two curious creatures, a great white elephant, moments before death they family of foxes, and our where they encounter are recruited by an agency hero. Watussi superstitions devised to fix broken history, and a band of elephant to protect us and to stop poachers. time travel from destroying the world. Central
Characters in Danger Charlie and the The Bad Beginning - Percy Jackson and the Chocolate Factory Lemony Snicket Lightning Thief - Roald Dahl After the sudden death of their Rick Riordan Each of five children lucky parents, the three Troubled kid Percy Jackson enough to discover an entry Baudelaire children must discovers that he is the only ticket into Mr Willy Wonka's depend on each other and their half-blood alive who can wits when it turns out that the mysterious chocolate stop a war of the gods. Will factory takes advantage of distant relative who is he succeed or will there be the situation in their own appointed their guardian is Hades to pay? way. determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Central
Characters in Danger Stormbreaker - The Enchanted Wood SilverFin - Anthony Horowitz Enid Blyton Charlie Higson 14 year-old Alex Rider finds his life When Beth, Joe and Frannie This prequel to the adventures turned upside down on discovering that move house, they discover an of James Bond, 007, introduces his late uncle wasn't a banker, but enchanted wood nearby. They us to the young James when instead an agent for MI6. Alex is then make lots of magical friends and he's just started boarding dragged into the world of espionage visit the mysterious worlds at the school in England and is about and intrigue himself. top of the Faraway Tree. to become involved in his first adventure.
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Royal Connections The Princess Diaries The Secret of Platform 13 Clockwork Prince Meg Cabot Eva Ibbotson Cassandra Clare ‘You’re not Mia Thermopolis any Odge and an old wizard travel In the magical underworld of Victorian more’ Dad said. ‘You’re Amelia through a magical tunnel from London, Tessa Gray finds her heart Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis their island to London to rescue drawn more and more to Jem, while her desire for Will, despite his dark moods, Renaldo. Princess of Genovia.’ the son of the King and Queen continues to unsettle her. But something One minute Mia’s a totally who was stolen as an infant. is changing in Will – the wall he has built normal Manhattan 14-year-old. around himself is crumbling. Could Next minute she’s heir to the finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about throne of Genovia. who she is and what she was born to do?
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Characters in Danger Skulduggery Pleasant Harry Potter and the The Ruins of Gorlan Derek Landy Philosopher's Stone John Flanagan When twelve-year-old J.K. Rowling When fifteen-year-old Will is Stephanie inherits her weird Harry thinks he is an rejected by battleschool, he uncle's estate, she must join ordinary boy till he finds out becomes the reluctant forces with Skulduggery he is a wizard. Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to apprentice to the save the world from mysterious Ranger Halt and Nefarian Serpine's evil plans winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
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Tales From the North The Last Wolf White Fang The Subtle Knife Michael Morpurgo Jack London Philip Pullman A fantasy tale of friendship Jack London's classic tale of a As the boundaries between between a boy and a wolf dog growing up, fighting for worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra that straddles time, taking in survival and his relationship and her daemon help Will the highlands of Scotland with human beings set in the Parry in his search for his and the high Seas. harsh landscape of north-west father and for a powerful, Canada. magical knife.
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Characters in Danger Maze Runner Lies James Dashner The Hobbit Michael Grant When the doors of the lift J.R.R. Tolkien It happens in one night: a girl crank open, the only thing This stirring adventure is a who died now walks among Thomas remembers is his first fantasy that introduces the the living, Zil and the Human name. But he's not alone. He's far-wandering hobbit, Crew set fire to Perdido surrounded by boys who Bilbo Baggins. Beach, and amid the flames welcome him to the Glade - a and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible most – Drake. stone maze..
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Sea Stories Young Samurai: The Way Titanic/Voyage On the Swallows and Amazons of the Warrior - Great Titanic Arthur Ransome Ellen Emerson White To John, Susan, Titty and Roger, Chris Bradford When Jack Fletcher is Margaret Anne is excited about being allowed to use the shipwrecked off the coast of leaving the orphanage and boat Swallow to go camping on Japan and rescued by the travelling to America as Mrs the island is adventure enough. legendary swordmaster Carstairs' companion aboard But the four explorers find Masamoto Takeshi, his only hope the great Titanic. But after the ship themselves under attack from is to become a samurai warrior. strikes an iceberg, the fierce Amazon Pirates, Nancy But life at the samurai school is a journey turns into a terrible and Peggy, who claim the constant fight for survival. nightmare. island as their own. Central
Characters in Danger Divergent - Veronica Roth Traitor The Divergent, society is divided The Hunger Games Andy McNab into five factions -Candor, Suzanne Collins Danny grandfather, Fergus, was a Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity and Sixteen-year-old Katniss Operator in the SAS before he was Erudite. All sixteen-year-olds must Everdeen regards it as a death betrayed, imprisoned, and falsely select the faction to which they will sentence when she is forced denounced as a traitor. Now Fergus devote the rest of their lives. For to represent her district in the has escaped, but the real traitor is Beatrice Prior, the decision is annual Hunger Games, a fight determined to silence Fergus and between staying with her family to the death on live TV. Danny for good. Together Danny and being who she really is. Her Welcome to the deadliest and Fergus are forced to go on the choice shocks everyone, including reality TV show ever... run in an against-the-odds battle for herself. survival
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Characters in Danger The Angel Experiment The Da Vinci Code - Beautiful Creatures James Patterson Dan Brown Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies Do not put this book down. Investigating the murder of a I'm dead serious - your life Louvre curator, Harvard the darkest of secrets. could depend on it. I'm risking symbologist Robert Langdon and There is a girl. There is a curse. In the end, there is a grave. everything by telling you - but French cryptologist Sophie you need to know. Neveu find clues painted into a Lena and Ethan become bound Da Vinci, uncovering a plot together by a deep, powerful love. involving the Holy Grail and the But Lena is cursed and on her secret society known as the sixteenth birthday, her fate will be Priory of Sion. decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.
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Characters in Danger Department 19 The Recruit Raven’s Gate Will Hill Robert Muchamore Anthony Horowitz When Jamie s mother is kidnapped by A terrorist doesn't let strangers in Matt has always known he has strange creatures, he finds himself her flat because they might be unusual powers. Raised in foster undercover police or intelligence dragged into Department 19, the care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a agents, but her children bring their rehabilitation programme, only to government's most secret agency. They mates home and they run all over find himself in the midst of sinister can provide the tools he needs to find the place. She doesn't know that goings-on. Matt uncovers a terrible his mother, and to kill those who want one of these kids has bugged every secret – eight guardians are him dead. But something much older is room in her house, made copies of protecting the world from the Old all her computer files and stolen her stirring, something even Department 19 Ones, beings banished long ago by address book. The kid works for five children. But devil worshippers can't stand up against… CHERUB. want to let the Old Ones back in...
Waterloo Kensuke’s Kingdom The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – War TimeRiders - Michael Morpurgo John Boyne I heard the wind above me in the sails. I Scarrow, Alex Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the remember thinking, this is silly, you Liam, Maddy and Sal all Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling haven’t got your safety harness on, you should have died at different cruelties being inflicted by his country. All haven’t got your lifejacket on. You periods of history, but he knows is that he has been moved to a shouldn’t be doing this . . I was in the cold house in a desolate area where there is moments before death they of the sea before I could even open my nothing to do and no one to play with. mouth to scream. Washed up on an island are recruited by an agency Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a in the Pacific, Michael struggles to survive devised to fix broken history, strange parallel existence on the other side on his own. With no food and no water, he to protect us and to stop of the adjoining wire fence and who, like curls up to die. When he wakes, there is a time travel from destroying the other people there, wears a uniform of plate beside him of fish, of fruit, and a striped pyjamas. the world. bowl of fresh water. He is not alone . . . Central
Eragon Characters in Danger Inkheart Mockingjay Christopher Paolini Cornelia Funke Suzanne Collins When Eragon finds a polished Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he Against all odds, Katniss stone in the forest, he thinks it is has never read aloud to her since her Everdeen has survived the the lucky discovery of a poor mother mysteriously disappeared. Hunger Games twice. But farm boy; perhaps it will buy his They live quietly until the night a now that she's made it out of family meat for the winter. But stranger knocks at their door. He has the bloody arena alive, she's when the stone brings a dragon come with a warning that forces Mo to hatchling, Eragon soon realizes reveal an extraordinary secret - a still not safe. The Capitol is storytelling secret that will change angry. The Capitol wants he has stumbled upon a legacy their lives for ever. revenge... nearly as old as the Empire itself.
Metropolitan
Tales Set in Cities The Diamond of Drury Fallen Grace Fever Crumb Lane Mary Hooper Philip Reeve Julia Golding London 1861. Grace must find a Set a generation before the Cat Royal, ward of the Theatre way of earning money to pay events of Mortal Engines, the Royal Drury Lane, takes us on a the rent for the pitiful room cities are just beginning to journey through London's that she and her sister live in devour each other. Is the criminal underworld, and the and to buy them food. But the mystery of Fever, adopted characters passing through it, unscupulous Unwin family are daughter of Dr Crumb, the as she helps solve the mystery out to defraud the young key to the secret that lies at of the missing diamond. women of what is rightfully the heart of London. theirs. Circle
Courage & Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Dragonfly Pool - The Cry of the Cowardice Jeff Kinney Eva Ibbotson Icemark - Greg records his sixth grade Tally and her friends at Stuart Hill experiences in a school where Dalderton Boarding School After the death of her he and his friend Rowley hope form a dance troupe and beloved father, princess to survive as undersized travel to Bergania, where Thirrin Freer weaklings amid boys who need she befriends Karil, the Strong-In-The-Arm becomes to shave twice daily. And when crown prince, and helps him warrior queen of her Rowley grows more popular, flee the Nazis after his father homeland, Greg must take is assassinated. Icemark, defending it from measures to save their general Scipio Bellorum and friendship. his conquering army. Circle
Courage & Heidi - Beyond the Deepwoods - Redwall - Cowardice Johanna Spyri Paul Stewart Brian Jacques Heidi, first published in 1881, Abandoned at birth, Twig is The peaceful life of ancient tells the story of a little Swiss brought up by a family of Redwall Abbey is shattered by girl's devotion to her simple woodtrolls. So begins a the arrival of the evil rat Cluny mountain home in the Alps, heart-stopping adventure that and his villainous hordes. and the sorrow she suffers will Matthias is determine to find when transported to unfamiliar take him through a nightmare the legendary sword of Martin surroundings in the city of world as he tries to discover the Warrior which, he is Frankfurt, Germany. his true identity. convinced, will help destroy the enemy.
District
Science Fiction The Invasion - The Iron Man - TimeRiders - K.A. Applegate Ted Hughes Alex Scarrow Jake and his friends take a An iron clad giant falls to Liam, Maddy and Sal all should shortcut one night and meet the bottom of a cliff, have died at different periods an alien after his ship scattering his metal pieces of history, but moments crashes. over the ground. One by before death they are one his body parts come recruited by an agency devised alive and search for each to fix broken history, to other, reconstructing the protect us and to stop time Iron Man. travel from destroying the world. Circle
Courage & The Lion, the Witch Blood Fever - Cowardice King of the Cloud Forests and the Wardrobe Charlie Higson Michael Morpurgo C.S. Lewis During a summer holiday in After being rescued in the Aslan, the noble lion, frees Italy, the teen-age James Bond mountains of Tibet by a near- Narnia from the spell of the tangles with an underground human tribe who revere him as a White Witch. empire of criminals as he god, Ashley must choose attempts to rescue a kidnapped between returning to the violence young.girl. of the village he fled and the tests of courage that await him as the tribe's god.
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Science Fiction Molly Moon's Hypnotic The Midnight Library: No The Hitch Hiker's Guide Time Travel Adventure Escape to the Galaxy - Georgia Byng Nick Shadow Douglas Adams Molly Moon, reunited with her In this book, a group of kids are The insanely funny, satiric parents, is hypnotised by a thrown back in time at the bestseller about the end of the mysterious turbaned gardener mercy of witch children, Joe finds world and the days that follow and eventually transported to a wallet he's going to it. Authur Dent must find a new India, where she meets not regret picking up, and Alex gets home after the world is only a maharajah with a the shock of his life after destroyed, to make way for the speech defect but also former watching a horror film. new hyperspatial express versions of herself. route. Circle
Courage & The Owl Who Was Peter Pan The Wizard of Oz Cowardice Afraid of the Dark James M. Barrie Jill Tomlinson L. Frank Baum Wendy, John, and Michael Lifted from Kansas to the magical Plop is the same as every baby Darling share the endless Land of Oz, Dorothy meets a barn owl - except he is adventures of Peter Pan in Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a afraid of the dark. His parents Neverland, a world where cowardly Lion, all of whom keep telling him that dark is children never have to set off to find the Wizard and best, but it's no use. So Plop's grow up and meet defeat the Wicked Witch of the mother pushes him out of the storybook creatures, the West. nest to ask others what they pirates, Captain Hook and think of the Dark. The Lost Boys.
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Sea Stories James and the Giant Treasure Island The Swiss Family Peach - Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson - Roald Dahl This classic presents a tale of Johann Wyss Madcap adventures as young piracy on the tropical seas, of A terrible storm strands a Swiss James enters a peach as big as treachery and greed combined pastor with his wife and four a house and encounters with romance, treasure and sons on a tropical island. The wonderful new friends . Adventure. Robinsons are optimistic and inventive, and with what they salvage from the wrecked ship and the island's resources, they adapt to their new life.
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Science Fiction Journey to the Centre of Dragon Rider A Darkling Plain the Earth Cornelia Funke Philip Reeve After learning that humans While dealing with people Pauline Francis are headed towards his home, from their past and A retelling of Jules Verne's Firedrake, a silver dragon, a treachery from classic science fiction tale of brownie and an orphan boy unexpected sources, Tom, a journey into an extinct encounter friendly and Hester, and Wren return to volcano, down to the very unfriendly creatures during a save the centre of the Earth. quest World. to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven. Circle
Courage & Divergent - Veronica Roth The Black Stallion The Hobbit Cowardice The Divergent, society is divided Walter Farley J.R.R. Tolkien into five factions -Candor, Story of the wildest of all This stirring adventure is a Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity and wild creatures - a stallion fantasy that introduces the Erudite. All sixteen-year-olds must unbroken, untamed! far-wandering hobbit, select the faction to which they will Bilbo Baggins. devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice Prior, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is. Her choice shocks everyone, including herself.
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Sea Stories Balisk the Water Snake Flood Child Prince Caspian Adam Blade Emily Diamand C.S. Lewis Freya and Silver are trapped in Flooded England, 2216...most Tavania. To rescue of it is under water. Prince Caspian and his them, Tom must find the Bloodthirsty pirates prowl the army of Talking Beasts conquer the magical Tree of Being. But shores, and when they kidnap Sampao the Pirate King has the Prime Minister's daughter Telmarines. summoned six evil Beasts it looks like war. But Lilly to stop him. Can Tom survive Melkun is a girl determined to the deadly attack of put things right, with the help Balisk the Water Snake? of a pirate boy.
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Science Fiction Captain Underpants and the Midnight Over Predator's Gold Invasion...Incredibly Sanctaphrax Philip Reeve Naughty Cafeteria Ladies In the distant future, when cities Paul Stewart from Outer Space move about and consume Twig, a young sky pirate smaller towns, Tom and Hester Dav Pilkey captain, is the only one who hope that the ice city of Is Captain Underpants ready to take can save the floating city of Anchorage will reach the on three massive, tentacled space Sanctaphrax from the Mother rumored haven of the Dead aliens (in disguise)? And has he met Storm. Continent--America--before the his match in a battle with the Giant savage Huntsmen of Arkangel Man-Eating Dandelion find them. of Doom? Circle
Courage & Danny the Champion of Blood Red Road Cowardice the World Moira Yound Insurgent "I ain't afeared of nuthin." Saba's Veronica Roth Roald Dahl twin is golden. She is his living Danny’s life seems perfect: Fighting for survival in a shadow. He is strong and beautiful. his home is a gypsy shattered world… the truth She is scrawny and dark. Nothing caravan, he’s the youngest is her only hope. will separate them... Raised in car mechanic around, and isolated Silverlake, Saba is ignorant his best friend is his dad. of the harsh and violent world Danny discovers his beyond her home. But when her father’s secret, he’s off on twin is snatched by black-robed the adventure of a lifetime. riders, red rage fills her soul.
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Victorians Death Cloud Mary Poppins The Adventure of the Andrew Lane P.L. Travers Missing Detective n 1868, with his army officer A young boy and girl embark Tony Lee father posted to India and on a wonderful adventure With Sherlock Holmes missing, his mother mysteriously with their nanny. the Baker Street Irregulars "unwell," 14-yr-old Sherlock move into 221B Baker Street. is sent to stay with his uncle Then the Lord Mayor's and aunt in Hampshire, daughter goes missing and they where he uncovers his agree to help Eliza Mayhew first murder. find her grandfather. So starts their first case.
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Maze Runner Lies Science Fiction Forsaken James Dashner Michael Grant Jana Oliver When the doors of the lift crank It happens in one night: a girl Riley has always wanted to open, the only thing Thomas who died now walks among be a Demon Trapper like her remembers is his first name. the living, Zil and the Human father, and she's already But he's not alone. He's Crew set fire to Perdido following in his footsteps as surrounded by boys who Beach, and amid the flames one of the best. But it's welcome him to the Glade - a and smoke, Sam sees the tough being the only girl in walled encampment at the figure of the boy he fears the an all-guy world. centre of a bizarre and terrible most – Drake. stone maze.. Circle
Courage & Butterfly Lion The Hunger Games Cowardice Allegiant Michael Morpurgo Suzanne Collins Veronica Roth Bertie rescues an orphaned white Sixteen-year-old Katniss What if a single revelation – lion cub from the African veld. They Everdeen regards it as a death like a single choice – are inseparable until Bertie is sent sentence when she is forced to school far away in England and to represent her district in the changed everything? What if love and loyalty the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie annual Hunger Games, a fight made you do things you swears that one day they will see to the death on live TV. never expected? one another again, but it is the Welcome to the deadliest butterfly lion which ensures that reality TV show ever... their friendship will never be forgotten.
Jubilee Wartime Princess Royal Connections Kaspar Prince of Cats Valarie Wilding Harry Potter and the In 1939, on a royal tour, Princess Elizabeth Michael Morpurgo Half-Blood Prince (later Queen Elizabeth II) meets the Kaspar, a cat brought to the dashing Prince Philip of Greece. Savoy from Russia by a J.K. Rowling Immediately they begin a correspondence, Countess, becomes the only cat In this, the sixth book in the as war breaks out across Europe, where to survive the sinking of the Harry Potter series, Harry pits Philip is sent to serve in the Navy. Elizabeth convinces her father the King, despite his Titanic. his wits against Professor Snape and finds out more about reservations, to allow her to sign up to the war effort and joins the Women's Auxiliary Voldemort's past and Territorial Service. Serving her country, vulnerability. driving trucks and fixing cars, Elizabeth wonders, will she ever see her prince again?
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Science Fiction Divergent - Veronica Roth Miss Peregrines Forbidden The Divergent, society is divided Home for Peculiar Jana Oliver into five factions -Candor, Riley’s beginning to think Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity and Children being a demon trapper isn’t Erudite. All sixteen-year-olds must Lemony Snicket all it’s cracked up to be. Her select the faction to which they will A mysterious island. dad’s been stolen by a devote the rest of their lives. For necromancer, her boyfriend’s Beatrice Prior, the decision is An abandoned gone all weird and she’s between staying with her family orphanage. getting warm and fuzzy and being who she really is. Her feelings for someone who’s choice shocks everyone, including A strange collection of seriously bad news. herself. photographs.
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Courage & Traitor Percy Jackson and the Four Andy McNab Cowardice Lightning Thief - Veronica Roth Danny grandfather, Fergus, was a Readers first encountered Rick Riordan Operator in the SAS before he was Tobias Eaton as "Four" in betrayed, imprisoned, and falsely Troubled kid Percy Jackson Divergent. His voice is an denounced as a traitor. Now Fergus discovers that he is the only integral part of Allegiant. You has escaped, but the real traitor is half-blood alive who can will find more of this determined to silence Fergus and stop a war of the gods. Will charismatic character's Danny for good. Together Danny he succeed or will there be backstory told from his own and Fergus are forced to go on the Hades to pay? perspective in Four. run in an against-the-odds battle for survival
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Science Fiction Percy Jackson and the Sea of Forgiven Insurgent Monsters - Rick Riordan Jana Oliver Veronica Roth You can't tell by looking at me that my Riley has made a bargain Fighting for survival in a dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's with Heaven, and now … shattered world the truth not easy being a half-blood these they've come to collect. is her only hope. days. You mortals can't even see the monsters we have to fight all the time. So when a game of dodgeball turned into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, I couldn't exactly ask my gym teacher for help. Circle
Courage & Raven’s Gate The Recruit Maze Runner Cowardice Anthony Horowitz Robert Muchamore Matt has always known he has James Dashner A terrorist doesn't let strangers in When the doors of the lift crank unusual powers. Raised in foster her flat because they might be care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a undercover police or intelligence open, the only thing Thomas rehabilitation programme, only to agents, but her children bring their remembers is his first name. find himself in the midst of sinister mates home and they run all over But he's not alone. He's goings-on. Matt uncovers a terrible the place. She doesn't know that surrounded by boys who secret – eight guardians are one of these kids has bugged every protecting the world from the Old welcome him to the Glade - a room in her house, made copies of walled encampment at the Ones, beings banished long ago by all her computer files and stolen her five children. But devil worshippers address book. The kid works for centre of a bizarre and terrible want to let the Old Ones back in... stone maze.. CHERUB.
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Farm Boy War Battle of Britain Stay Where You Are and Then Leave - John Boyne Michael Morpurgo Chris Priestley Joey was the last working horse on The story of Harry Woods, The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's the farm, and the apple of Grandpa’s who was a fighter pilot for eye. In War Horse, Joey was sent the RAF in the second father promised he wouldn't go away from the farm to be a warhorse world war. away to fight - but he broke that in WWI. Grandpa had joined the promise the following day. Four cavalry in order to find, and fight, with years later, Alfie doesn't know Joey. Farm Boy brings us forward fifty where his father might be, other years with Grandpa not only telling his grandson, Joey’s story but also a than that he's away on a special, ‘shameful secret’ which he has held secret mission. for years…
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Science Fiction Blood Red Road Foretold Allegiant Moira Yound "I ain't afeared of nuthin." Saba's Jana Oliver Veronica Roth twin is golden. She is his living Riley prepares to kick some What if a single revelation – shadow. He is strong and beautiful. serious demon butt for the like a single choice – She is scrawny and dark. Nothing last time. changed everything? will separate them... Raised in What if love and loyalty isolated Silverlake, Saba is ignorant made you do things you of the harsh and violent world never expected? beyond her home. But when her twin is snatched by black-robed riders, red rage fills her soul. Circle
Eragon Courage & Mockingjay Christopher Paolini The Scorch Trials Cowardice Suzanne Collins When Eragon finds a polished James Dashner Against all odds, Katniss stone in the forest, he thinks it is Thomas was sure that Everdeen has survived the the lucky discovery of a poor escape from the maze meant Hunger Games twice. But farm boy; perhaps it will buy his he and the Gladers would now that she's made it out of family meat for the winter. But get their lives back. But no the bloody arena alive, she's when the stone brings a dragon one knew what sort of life still not safe. The Capitol is hatchling, Eragon soon realizes they were going back to. angry. The Capitol wants he has stumbled upon a legacy revenge... nearly as old as the Empire itself.
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Science Fiction Beautiful Creatures Department 19 Four Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl Will Hill Veronica Roth In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies When Jamie s mother is kidnapped by Readers first encountered the darkest of secrets. strange creatures, he finds himself Tobias Eaton as "Four" in There is a girl. There is a curse. dragged into Department 19, the Divergent. His voice is an In the end, there is a grave. government's most secret agency. They integral part of Allegiant. You Lena and Ethan become bound can provide the tools he needs to find will find more of this together by a deep, powerful love. his mother, and to kill those who want charismatic character's But Lena is cursed and on her him dead. But something much older is backstory told from his own sixteenth birthday, her fate will be stirring, something even Department 19 perspective in Four. decided.Ethan never even saw it can't stand up against… coming.
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Courage & The Angel Experiment The Amber Spyglass Cowardice Fire Storm James Patterson Philip Pullman Andrew Lane Do not put this book down. Lyra and Will find When Sherlock discovers his I'm dead serious - your life themselves at the centre of friends are missing, his search could depend on it. I'm risking a battle between the takes him to Edinburgh and a everything by telling you - but forces of the Authority and mystery involving kidnapping, you need to know. those gathered by Lyra's bodysnatchers and the 'walking' father, Lord Asriel. dead.
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Science Fiction Raven’s Gate Goblins Inkheart Anthony Horowitz Philp Reeve Cornelia Funke Matt has always known he has The squabbling goblins who live in the Meggie loves books. So does her unusual powers. Raised in foster great towers of Clovenstone spend father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a their time fighting and looting. Only has never read aloud to her since her rehabilitation programme, only to clever young Skarper understands that mother mysteriously disappeared. find himself in the midst of sinister dark magic created by a vanquished They live quietly until the night a goings-on. Matt uncovers a terrible sorcerer is rising again. From the lands stranger knocks at their door. He has secret – eight guardians are of men come fortune-seekers - and come with a warning that forces Mo to protecting the world from the Old trolls, giants, cloud-maidens, boglins, reveal an extraordinary secret - a Ones, beings banished long ago by swamp monsters, tree-warriors and storytelling secret that will change five children. But devil worshippers bloodthirsty goblins are swept into a their lives for ever. want to let the Old Ones back in... fabulous magical conflict.
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Royal Connections Elizabeth The Royal Ranger Den of Thieves Kathryn Lasky John Flanagan Julia Golding Daughter of a fallen queen, young After a senseless tragedy destroys his life, Cat Royal, finds herself homeless, Will is obsessed with punishing those Princess Elizabeth lives a travels to Paris, becomes an responsible. His worried friends must find a complicated and dangerous life. She underground reporter, nearly gets way to stop him taking such a dark path. Will fears her father's famous temper must take an apprentice. The candidate Halt hung for being a traitor to the but loves him dearly - she would has in mind will surprise everyone ‒ and it revolution, and is baffled by trade all her jewels just to be will be a request Will cannot refuse. But attention from numerous suitors; all noticed by him! As the royal family when a routine mission uncovers a shocking the while being disguised as a prissy moves palaces, court intrigue swirls web of crime, Will must decide where his ballerina! As the French Royal family around the young princess, under priorities lie ‒ finishing his quest for revenge, flee, Cat discovers the power of the the threat of a French invasion. or saving innocent lives? people. Vive La Revolution!
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By Royal Command Royal Connections Cat Among the Pigeons Henry VIII’s Wives Charlie Higson Julia Golding Alison Prince James is expecting his life to get back to normal when he returns The Drury Lane Theatre has been The court of King Henry VIII is to Eton from Mexico, but danger my home all the length of my life brought brilliantly to life in this is never far away. And when his – but today I must leave it. My Story special. Spanning a whole world explodes, he is Adventure calls! My new friend period of 20 years, the fates of all forced to go on the run, pursued Pedro is in trouble and all the Henry's six wives are told from by enemy agents and the British eyes of London are on us. So we the perspective of two young authorities. James must choose must go into hiding, I must courtiers serving at the royal between friendship and duty. His disguise myself, play a new role. palaces at different periods. life will never be the same again. This is my story . . . Jubilee
Royal Connections Lady Jane Grey Cat O’Nine Tails Lupo and the Curse at Sue Reid Julia Golding Buckingham Palace
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey who Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for Aby King was Queen of England for nine days in the British Navy, takes passage to It's the Queen's birthday, and the July 1553. Jane grew up watching her America and navigates her way cousins in training as heirs to the palace is ready to celebrate. But the throne, little imagining that by a twist through a fiendish plot to do away discovery of an ancient curse of fate she would one day be crowned. with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom. threatens to spoil the plans - for ever. But this is Tudor England where From the grand Assembly Rooms of Can Lupo and his friends get to the nobody plays fair, and even a queen Bath to the wilds of a new frontier, bottom of a mysterious curse which isn't safe from those who wish her Cat finds she is for once quite out of harm. was brought to Buckingham Palace her depth. All aboard, Cat's going from ancient Egypt? abroad. Jubilee
Cat’s Cradle Marie Antoinette The Princess Diaries – Take Royal Connections Julia Golding Kathrine Lasky Two I have travelled halfway across the world and back chasing mystery and Young Marie Antoinette has a Meg Cabot adventure. Back on home soil I have recurring nightmare, in which the 14-year-old Mia is still coming to barely laid eyes on Drury Lane before my broken head of her porcelain doll terms with the fact that she’s a world is turned upside down and I am is her own. Marie Antoinette princess – and heir to the throne forced to leave once again. As an orphan doesn't know her fate, but she I never had the chance to meet my of Genovia! But when she mother, but when news of my lost knows her destiny to one day be announces on national TV that family reaches me from Scotland I must the Queen of France. But all the her mum is pregnant by her head north for the border. My friends in preparation in the world cannot algebra teacher and plans to London have always been beside me, equip her for the adventure she is but this is one task I must face alone! marry him, a right-royal fuss about to embark upon. results!
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Sea Stories Peter Pan Seizure Take Your Last Breath – James M. Barrie Cathy Reichs Wendy, John, and Michael Lauren Child Rumour has it that notorious Darling share the endless Everyone’s favourite kid detective pirate Anne Bonny hid her adventures of Peter Pan in is back. This time, though, it’s an treasure somewhere in Charleston Neverland, a world where adventure on the wide open ocean, in 1720. No-one knows where, but children never have to and Ruby is all at sea…Can she Tory Brennan - great-niece of grow up and meet crack the case of the Twinford famous forensic anthropologist Dr storybook creatures, the pirates while evading the clutches Tempe Brennan - is certain that pirates, Captain Hook and of a vile sea monster as well as the the Virals can work out Bonny's The Lost Boys. evil Count von Viscount? cryptic clues.
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Royal Connections Third Time Lucky Black Heart of Jamaica Meg Cabot Egyptian Princess Julia Golding Mia’s got everything a girl could Vince Cross The Caribbean is as far removed a possibly want. She’s a princess – and In 1490 BC Asha, daughter of King place from London as one can she’s got a boyfriend! But that’s where Tuthmosis lives a carefree life at possibly imagine, and I soon find it all goes wrong. Because Kenny is just the royal court in Thebes. But myself amid slave revolts and NOT the guy she really wants. when a prophecy foretells that 'a swashbuckling pirates. Actresses Michael’s the one she’s loved forever young woman will prove to be the must keep their calm at all times – but he’s going out with someone best man in the Two Kingdoms', but this adventure will test my infinitely cleverer than Mia. Someone she's caught up in a world of plots mettle more than any challenge I who can clone FRUIT FLIES, for and danger... have yet faced. heaven’s sake!
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Royal Connections The Princess Diaries : Mia Clockwork Princess Goes Fourth - Meg Cabot Cassandra Clare The Little Prince Mia and Michael are finally an item, If the only way to save the world Antoine De Saint-exupery but Grandmere seems to have other was to destroy what you loved This 1943 classic The Little plans. Just before the couple's first most, would you do it? The clock Prince—with its winsome hot date, an unmissable royal is ticking. Everyone must choose. illustrations of a boy prince and engagement turns up. Could it be that Passion. Power. Secrets. his tiny planet—appears to be a Michael doesn't measure up – and Enchantment. Danger closes in children’s fairy tale. It doesn’t that Grandmere's got someone else in around the Shadowhunters in the take long, however, to discover mind for Princess Amelia Mignonette third and final instalment of the that it speaks to readers of all Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo? bestselling Infernal Devices ages. trilogy. Jubilee
Sixsational Royal Connections Princess Academy Brat Princess Shannon Hale Meg Cabot Miri lives on a mountain where her Cathy Hopkins How can Mia bear it? Michael, her one ancestors have quarried stone and lived Leonora is a typical Leo - always true love, has gone away to college, in poverty for generations. Then just wanting to get her own way. But leaving her to face a new school year before winter's first snowfall, a her parents have had enough and alone (well, nearly). With a potential delegation from the lowlands arrive with they pack her off to boot camp. eco-disaster in Genovia, a new English exciting news. The king's priests have teacher who can't stand her and a Leonora learns she is a Zodiac divined that her small village is the home totally transformed Boris to get used of the future princess. In a year's time, Girl, and the planets don't like her to, life for the world's most reluctant the prince will come himself and chose behaviour either. royal is looking like it can't get much his bride from among the girls of the worse. village. Will Leonora change her ways?
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Tales From the North The Witches Kaspar Prince of Cats The Eagle of the Ninth Roald Dahl Michael Morpurgo Rosemary Sutcliff In spite of everything his Kaspar, a cat brought to the The ninth legion marched into the grandmother has taught Savoy from Russia by a mists of northern Britain and him about witches, a Countess, becomes the only cat were never seen again. Four young boy gets turned to survive the sinking of the thousand men disappeared and into a mouse but does Titanic. the eagle standard was lost. manage to interrupt their Marcus's father was one of those plans. men so he sets off to find out what happened. Jubilee
Royal Connections A Little Princess Double or Die Lupo and the Thief at the Frances Hodgson Burnett Charlie Higson Tower of London-Aby King The story opens in New York just In a North London cemetery a The royal family are disturbed by before the outbreak of World War I, professor is kidnapped at gunpoint. A the shocking news that there has when young Sara is enrolled in private suspicious letter crammed with cryptic been a break-in at the Tower of boarding school while her father goes clues arrives at Eton. To decipher the off to war. Under the domineering deadly mystery, James Bond must take London - everything has been scrutiny of the school's wicked a series of dangerous gambles. Once stolen, including the crown jewels. headmistress, Miss Minchen, Sara the code is cracked, he has just The adults say it's a human matter, quickly becomes popular with her forty-eight hours to save the professor but Lupo has an especially bad schoolmates, but fate intervenes and from the dark forces that threaten to feeling about this particular crime. she soon faces a stern reversal of destroy them both. fortune. He and Kitty take matters into their own hands.
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Tales Set in Cities The London Eye Mystery The Worst Witch Stoneheart Siobhan Dowd Jill Murphy Charlie Fletcher When Ted and Kat's cousin Mildred Hubble was a trainee George awakens an ancient Salim disappears from the witch at Miss Cackle's Academy, power when he breaks the London Eye, the two siblings and she was making an awful head of a small dragon. must work together, Ted with mess of it. But she managed to Together, with the help of his brain that is "wired get by until she turned Ethel, Edie and other spits, he must differently" and impatient Kat, the teacher’s pet, into her make amends for what he to try to solve the mystery of deadly enemy. has done and defend himself what happened to Salim against the taints to survive. Metropolitan
Tales Set in Cities Theodore Boone: The Code - Cathy Reichs At the Sign of the Fugitive - John Grisham Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Sugared Plum Theodore Boone is on a class trip Island – but the tranquility is quickly Mary Hooper seeing the sights of the capital shattered when Tory Brennan and It is June 1665, Hannah has just city. But he hadn't counted on her technophile gang discover a arrived in London to help her seeing the most wanted man in mysterious box buried in the ground. sister run her shop. She finds the history of his home town, A seemingly innocent treasure hunt love amidst a growing terror of Strattenberg. Suddenly Theo is soon turns into a nightmarish game the bubonic plague that is caught in the hunt for an of puzzles, as it becomes clear that creeping closer to her parish. accused murderer, alongside the one false move will lead to terrible, FBI. explosive consequences.
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Tales Set in Cities Theodore Boone Clockwork Angel Snake Bite – John Grisham Cassandra Clare Young Sherlock Holmes Theodore Boone is thirteen and Magic is dangerous – but love is Andrew Lane wants nothing more than to swap more dangerous still... When Kidnapped and taken to China, homeroom for the courtroom; he sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray arrives Sherlock finds himself plunged into lives for big trials. A husband awaits in England during the reign of adventure. How can three men be trial for his wife's murder. Is he a Queen Victoria, something bitten by the same poisonous snake dangerous criminal or an innocent terrifying is waiting for her in in different parts of Shanghai? Who victim? The case takes a sinister London's Downworld, where wants them dead, and why. twist when Theo uncovers a surprise vampires, warlocks and other Sherlock Holmes. Think you know witness but Theodore is sworn to supernatural fold stalk the gaslit him? Think again. secrecy and time is running out. streets.
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Kensuke’s Kingdom Sea Stories Eagle Day Michael Morpurgo Fashion Assassin Robert Muchamore I heard the wind above me in the sails. I Sarah Sky Late summer, 1940. Hitler has remember thinking, this is silly, you Supermodel Jessica Cole has no conquered France. Now he intends haven’t got your safety harness on, you haven’t got your lifejacket on. You intention of ever spying again until to cross the Channel and defeat she's blackmailed into posing Britain before winter arrives. A group shouldn’t be doing this . . I was in the cold of young refugees led by British spy of the sea before I could even open my undercover as bodyguard to a very Charles Henderson faces a stark mouth to scream. Washed up on an island rich fellow model. What seems like choice. To head south into the safety in the Pacific, Michael struggles to survive a simple job aboard a luxurious of neutral Spain, or go north on a on his own. With no food and no water, he yacht in Monaco soon turns into a curls up to die. When he wakes, there is a risky mission to sabotage the deadly mission to stop the most German invasion plans. plate beside him of fish, of fruit, and a dangerous weapon in the world bowl of fresh water. He is not alone . . . falling into the wrong hands.
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Tales Set in Cities The Diamond of Drury An Elephant in the Garden The Diary of a Young Girl Lane - Michael Morpurgo Anne Frank Julia Golding Dresden, 1945. Elizabeth and Karli's In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Cat Royal, ward of the Theatre mother works at the zoo, where her Frank and her family, fleeing the favourite animal is a young elephant occupation, went into hiding in an Royal Drury Lane, takes us on a named Marlene. Then the zoo director Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next journey through London's tells her that the dangerous animals – two years Anne vividly describes in her criminal underworld, and the including the elephants – must be shot diary the frustrations of living in such characters passing through it, as before the town is bombed. Unable to close quarters, and her thoughts, she helps solve the mystery give Marlene up, their mother moves feelings and longings as she grows up. of the missing diamond. her into the back garden to save her… Her diary ends abruptly when, in and then the bombs start to fall. August 1944, they were all betrayed. Metropolitan
Tales Set in Cities Clockwork Prince Den of Thieves Theodore Boone: The Cassandra Clare Julia Golding Abduction - John Grisham In the magical underworld of Victorian Cat Royal, finds herself homeless, THEODORE BOONE'S best friend London, Tessa Gray finds her heart travels to Paris, becomes an April has disappeared in the drawn more and more to Jem, while her underground reporter, nearly gets middle of the night. The only desire for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something hung for being a traitor to the suspect is an escaped convict, and is changing in Will – the wall he has built revolution, and is baffled by he won't give them any answers. around himself is crumbling. Could attention from numerous suitors; all Thirteen-year-old Theo - the son of finding the Magister free Will from his the while being disguised as a prissy two lawyers - knows the criminal secrets and give Tessa the answers about ballerina! As the French Royal family justice system. Terrified that he'll who she is and what she was born to do? flee, Cat discovers the power of the never see April again, he begins his people. Vive La Revolution! own investigation.
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Lupo and the Thief at the Tales Set in Cities Cat Among the Pigeons Dodger Julia Golding Tower of London-Aby King Terry Pratchett The Drury Lane Theatre has been The royal family are disturbed by Dodger is sewer scavenger living my home all the length of my life the shocking news that there has in the squalor of Dickensian – but today I must leave it. been a break-in at the Tower of London. Everyone who is nobody London - everything has been knows Dodger. Anyone who is Adventure calls! My new friend Pedro is in trouble and all the stolen, including the crown jewels. anybody doesn’t. But when he eyes of London are on us. So we The adults say it's a human matter, rescues a young girl from a but Lupo has an especially bad beating, suddenly everybody must go into hiding, I must disguise myself, play a new role. feeling about this particular crime. wants to know him. And Dodger’s This is my story . . . He and Kitty take matters into their tale of skulduggery, dark plans own hands. and even darker deeds begins.
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Tales From the North King of the Cloud Forests Fire Storm TimeRiders - Michael Morpurgo Andrew Lane Scarrow, Alex Liam, Maddy and Sal all After being rescued in the When Sherlock discovers his should have died at different mountains of Tibet by a near- friends are missing, his search periods of history, but human tribe who revere him as takes him to Edinburgh and a moments before death they a god, Ashley must choose mystery involving kidnapping, are recruited by an agency between returning to the bodysnatchers and the 'walking' devised to fix broken history, violence of the village he fled dead. to protect us and to stop and the tests of courage that time travel from destroying await him as the tribe's god. the world. Metropolitan
Theodore Boone: The Cat O’Nine Tails Tales Set in Cities Double or Die Accused - John Grisham Julia Golding Charlie Higson Thirteen-year-old Theo stands Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for In a North London cemetery a accused. Stolen property has been the British Navy, takes passage to professor is kidnapped at gunpoint. A found in his locker and soon Theo is suspicious letter crammed with cryptic America and navigates her way clues arrives at Eton. To decipher the under investigation. Somebody is through a fiendish plot to do away deadly mystery, James Bond must take sabotaging his reputation and with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom. a series of dangerous gambles. Once framing him as a criminal. As the From the grand Assembly Rooms of the code is cracked, he has just evidence against him mounts, Theo Bath to the wilds of a new frontier, forty-eight hours to save the professor must use all of his legal powers to from the dark forces that threaten to Cat finds she is for once quite out of destroy them both. chase down the real thief her depth. All aboard, Cat's going abroad. Metropolitan
Cat’s Cradle Tales Set in Cities Julia Golding Hetty Feather Victorian Workhouse I have travelled halfway across the world Jacqueline Wilson and back chasing mystery and Pamela Oldfield adventure. Back on home soil I have Featuring a brand-new feisty Edith Lorrimer is the sheltered barely laid eyes on Drury Lane before my Victorian heroine, Hetty Feather, daughter of a wealthy widow who world is turned upside down and I am this is a compelling, moving, is on the Board of Governors at a forced to leave once again. As an orphan funny and totally fascinating Tracy workhouse for the destitute. I never had the chance to meet my Beaker-esque tale that will thrill Whilst visiting the workhouse, mother, but when news of my lost family reaches me from Scotland I must and captivate readers. Edith meets with Rosie Chubb, a head north for the border. My friends in troubled orphan who is a liar, London have always been beside me, quick-tempered and always in but this is one task I must face alone! trouble... Metropolitan
Tales Set in Cities Dodger A Little Princess Return of the Emerald Skull Terry Pratchett Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart Frances Hodgson Burnett Dodger is sewer scavenger living The story opens in New York just After collecting a strange parcel from a in the squalor of Dickensian deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and before the outbreak of World War I, London. Everyone who is nobody when young Sara is enrolled in private delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby thinks he's earned a moment to sit knows Dodger. Anyone who is boarding school while her father goes on the rooftops and eat his favourite pasty. anybody doesn’t. But when he off to war. Under the domineering scrutiny of the school's wicked But soon he realises that all is not well at rescues a young girl from a headmistress, Miss Minchen, Sara the school - but is the problem quite as he beating, suddenly everybody expects it? A gruesome tale of a school quickly becomes popular with her wants to know him. And Dodger’s overrun by a terrible curse - who will schoolmates, but fate intervenes and survive? tale of skulduggery, dark plans she soon faces a stern reversal of and even darker deeds begins. fortune.
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Tales Set in Cities Catch Your Death Black Ice – Clockwork Princess Lauren Child Young Sherlock Holmes Cassandra Clare This time, tigers are roaming the If the only way to save the world Andrew Lane streets of Twinford, and it looks The year is 1868, and was to destroy what you loved like someone has deliberately fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes most, would you do it? The clock released some very rare and very faces his most baffling mystery yet. is ticking. Everyone must choose. dangerous animals. Things are Mycroft, his older brother, has Passion. Power. Secrets. going to get wild – and Ruby is been found with a knife in his hand, Enchantment. Danger closes in going to get badly lost in the locked in a room with a corpse. around the Shadowhunters in the wilderness. The question is: will Only Sherlock believes that his third and final instalment of the she ever make it out alive? brother is innocent. But can he bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy. prove it
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Tales From the North There's a Viking in My Bed The Golden Compass Uprooted Jeremy Strong Philip Pullman Lynn Reid Banks When a tenth-century Viking Lyra's friend Roger disappears, In 1940 as war rages across finds himself stuck in the and she is determined to find Europe, ten-year-old Lindy waves twentieth century, one thing's for him. goodbye to England and makes certain - life will never the long journey to Saskatoon, be the same again! Canada, along with her mother and her cousin Cameron. They may be far from the war but they are also far from home and everyone they know and love. Northern
Tales From the North The Kingdom by the Sea Troll Blood The Amber Spyglass Robert Westall Katherine Langrish Philip Pullman When a bomb during an air raid destroys When seafaring traders, land in Trollsvik, Lyra and Will find Harry's home and kills his family, he looking for crew to join their journey to themselves at the centre of knows that he is all alone in the world and Vinland (North America), Hilde is a battle between the has only himself to rely on. Anxious that desperate to join the ship. She begs her forces of the Authority and he will be sent to live with his fussy parents to let her go. They reluctantly Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the agree. Action-packed, suspense-fuelled those gathered by Lyra's war-battered land of North East England, and with a wonderful cast of characters, father, Lord Asriel. his only friend in his journey a stray dog Troll Blood is a truly rip-roaring read that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever find a place to call home again, or will he be on the run forever?
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Dodger Victorians Terry Pratchett Pirate Kings The Lottie Project Dodger is sewer scavenger living Alex Scarrow Jacqueline Wilson in the squalor of Dickensian Relocated to Victorian London, the Hi! I'm Charlie (DON'T call me Charlotte - London. Everyone who is nobody TimeRiders joy-ride back to 1666 to witness ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! the Great Fire of London. In the ensuing knows Dodger. Anyone who is The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and chaos, Liam and their newest recruit, drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven - anybody doesn’t. But when he Rashim, find themselves trapped between like me - but she's left school and has a the fire and the Thames. They escape rescues a young girl from a job as a nursery maid. Her life is really onboard a river boat, only to be confronted beating, suddenly everybody hard, just work work work, but I bet she'd by an unscrupulous captain with his heart wants to know him. And Dodger’s know what to do about my mum's awful set on treasures of the high seas . . . tale of skulduggery, dark plans boyfriend and his wimpy little son. I bet and even darker deeds begins. she wouldn't mess it all up like I do . . .
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Little Lord Fauntleroy Tales From the North Sky Hawk Frances Hodgson Burnett Avoidable Gill Lewis Cedric Errol lives with his mother in Rachel Medhurst When Iona befriends Callum, genteel poverty after the death of she shows him an osprey his father, Captain Cedric Errol. One My name is Hope and I'd like nesting on his farm -- a rare and day, they are visited by an English to introduce you to our world. exciting discovery. As they lawyer named Haversham with a Earth is full of two races, the watch over the osprey, tragedy message from Cedric's grandfather, Avoidables and Perfects. strikes and Callum's life the Earl of Dorincourt. Cedric has becomes intertwined with a girl inherited the title Lord Fauntleroy, in Gambia, changing his and is the heir to the Earldom and a life forever. vast estate.
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Sea Stories The Infinite Sea A Sea of Stars Grey Wolves
Rick Yancey Kate Maryon Robert Muchamore With the Royal Navy losing the For Cassie Sullivan and the rest of Two girls with two very different war at sea, six young agents Earth's remaining human lives come together in this must sneak into Nazi-occupied survivors, the situation was beautiful and moving story of Europe and sabotage a already desperate when the 5th friendship and family. Wave hit. It's about to get worse. submarine base on France's western coast.
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Tales From the North Dubious Deeds The Quest Begins Philip Ardagh The Sea of Adventure Erin Hunter Eddie Dickens finds himself, Enid Blyton once again, involved in One black bear, one polar bear, When Bill takes Philip, Dinah, circumstances not of his and one grizzly bear travel Lucy-Ann and Jack on a making, this time in Scotland, on a perilous quest to the mysterious trip to the desolate Northern Lights, escorting a with a cast of weird northern isles, Bill gets characters and a plot to kill shape-shifting grizzly cub whose kidnapped and the children are Queen Victoria. destiny will affect them all. left marooned far from the mainland. Northern
Tales From the North Sophie's Lucky The Shadow in the North The 7 Professors of the Dick King-Smith Philip Pullman Far North Sophie wants to grow up to Sally Lockhart, with the help of John Fardell be a lady farmer and she'd her fiance and her friend, tries to Sam and his new friends, Zara love to have a pony, but unlock the mystery of an and Ben, have just three days doesn't think that will ever unexpected collapse of a British to save six professors who were happen. But she does get shipping firm in Victorian kidnapped by the sinister invited to spend her summer England. Professor Murdo. holiday in Scotland with her best friend, Great Aunt Al. Northern
Gangsta Granny Tales From the North Me and My Shadow Maximum Ride Forever David Walliams Joan Lingard Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after Emma lives with her Mum and Dad in James Patterson he is made to stay at his grandma’s Edinburgh. Her older brother has left As Maximum Ride boldly house. She’s the boringest grandma ever: home - they are a close, happy family. all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, navigates a post-apocalyptic The arrival of Eve changes everything. and eat cabbage soup. But there are two world, she and her broken flock Eve follows Emma around and the two things Ben doesn’t know about his are roaming the earth, searching girls look a lot alike. Eventually Emma grandma. discovers that Eve' is her half sister, for answers to what happened. 1) She was once an international jewel conceived one night sixteen years ago, thief. when her father was in London. The 2) All her life, she has been plotting to story is of a family dealing with a tough steal the Crown Jewels, and now she and intriguing situation. needs Ben’s help.
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Victorians Victorian Workhouse Clockwork Prince Hetty Feather Pamela Oldfield Cassandra Clare Jacqueline Wilson Edith Lorrimer is the sheltered In the magical underworld of Victorian Featuring a brand-new feisty daughter of a wealthy widow who London, Tessa Gray finds her heart Victorian heroine, Hetty Feather, is on the Board of Governors at a drawn more and more to Jem, while her desire for Will, despite his dark moods, this is a compelling, moving, workhouse for the destitute. continues to unsettle her. But something funny and totally fascinating Tracy Whilst visiting the workhouse, is changing in Will – the wall he has built Beaker-esque tale that will thrill Edith meets with Rosie Chubb, a around himself is crumbling. Could and captivate readers. troubled orphan who is a liar, finding the Magister free Will from his quick-tempered and always in secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do? trouble... Northern
Tales From the North Inkheart Eragon Cornelia Funke Christopher Paolini How to Be a Pirate - Meggie loves books. So does her When Eragon finds a polished father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he Cressida Cowell stone in the forest, he thinks it is has never read aloud to her since her Hiccup and his dragon, the lucky discovery of a poor mother mysteriously disappeared. Toothless, sail with his Viking They live quietly until the night a farm boy; perhaps it will buy his stranger knocks at their door. He has clan to the Isle of the Skullions family meat for the winter. But come with a warning that forces Mo to in search of Grimbeard the when the stone brings a dragon reveal an extraordinary secret - a Ghastly's Treasure. hatchling, Eragon soon realizes storytelling secret that will change he has stumbled upon a legacy their lives for ever. nearly as old as the Empire itself. Northern
Cat’s Cradle Tales From the North Sparks Julia Golding Ally Kennen The Water Horse I have travelled halfway across the world Grandpa has written Carla a Dick King-Smith and back chasing mystery and In 1930, on the coast of adventure. Back on home soil I have letter telling her his secret barely laid eyes on Drury Lane before my dream. He wants a real Viking Scotland, eight-year-old world is turned upside down and I am funeral. She's determined Kirstie finds a large egg which forced to leave once again. As an orphan to make it come true, even hatches into an unusal I never had the chance to meet my though she'll break the law sea creature, and as he grows mother, but when news of my lost her family must decide family reaches me from Scotland I must and every rule she has ever head north for the border. My friends in what to do with him. known. London have always been beside me, but this is one task I must face alone! Piccadilly
Sea Stories The Infinite Sea The Kingdom by the Sea Rick Yancey Pippi Longstocking in the Robert Westall Somehow the boat was still afloat South Seas – Astrid Lindgren When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he - another wave had lifted it clear Pippi and her friends, Tommy and of the first rock and was driving it knows that he is all alone in the world and Annika, set sail for the Canny Canny has only himself to rely on. Anxious that further inshore. It bumped Islands, where Pippi's father is king. he will be sent to live with his fussy against the base of Crab Rock and They explore secret caves, and play Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the skewed around, then tipped marbles with real pearls. Luckily the war-battered land of North East England, momentarily to starboard . . . and pirates and sharks they meet are no his only friend in his journey a stray dog as it did so, she saw a figure that he meets on the beach. Will Harry match for Pippi Longstocking! ever find a place to call home again, or crouching in the bottom. will he be on the run forever? Piccadilly
Sea Stories Robinson Crusoe Listen to the Moon The Worst Witch All at Sea Daniel Defoe Jill Murphy Michael Morpurgo Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, May, 1915. Mildred Hubble, the worst witch Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a Alfie and his fisherman father find at Miss Cackle's Academy for remote and desolate island. As he a girl on an uninhabited island in Witches, can't bear to leave struggles to piece together a life for the Scillies – injured, thirsty, behind her beloved cat, Tabby, himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and lost… and with absolutely no when the class goes for a week spiritual values are tested to the limit. memory of who she is, or how she beside the seaside. But keeping For 24 years he remains in solitude came to be there. She can say Tabby leads Mildred into yet and learns to tame and master the only one word: Lucy. more trouble. island, until he finally comes across another human being. Piccadilly
Sea Stories Percy Jackson and the Sea of The Deep 20,000 Leagues Under Monsters - Rick Riordan Helen Dunmore the Sea – Jules Verne You can't tell by looking at me that my A devastating flood has torn Jules Verne invites readers dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's through the worlds of Air and to go below the ocean's not easy being a half-blood these Ingo, and now, deep in the waves in the first-ever days. You mortals can't even see the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer submarine with Captain monsters we have to fight all the legend says that only those with Nemo and a range of time. So when a game of dodgeball dual blood – half Mer, half fantastical sea creatures. turned into a death match against an human – can overcome the ugly gang of cannibal giants, I couldn't Kraken. exactly ask my gym teacher for help.
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Science Fiction The Angel Experiment The Giver - Lois Lowry The 100 - Kass Morgan James Patterson It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, Ever since a devastating nuclear no pain. No one in the community wants Do not put this book down. war, humanity has lived on for anything. Everything needed is spaceships far above Earth's I'm dead serious - your life provided. And at twelve years old, each could depend on it. I'm risking member of the community has their radioactive surface. Now, one everything by telling you - but profession carefully chosen for them by hundred juvenile delinquents - you need to know. the Committee of Elders. Twelve-year old considered expendable by society Jonas has never thought there was - are being sent on a dangerous anything wrong with his world. But from mission: to re-colonize the planet. the moment he is selected as the Receiver of Memory, Jonas discovers that their It could be their second chance at community is not as perfect as it seems. life...or it could be a suicide mission. Piccadilly
Cat O’Nine Tails Alone on a Wide Wide Sea Sea Stories Troll Blood Julia Golding Michael Morpurgo Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for When six-year-old orphan Arthur is Katherine Langrish the British Navy, takes passage to shipped to Australia after WWII he loses When seafaring traders, land in Trollsvik, his sister, his country and everything he looking for crew to join their journey to America and navigates her way knows. Overcoming hardships Arthur is Vinland (North America), Hilde is through a fiendish plot to do away finally saved by the extraordinary people desperate to join the ship. She begs her with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom. he meets and by his talent for boat-design parents to let her go. They reluctantly From the grand Assembly Rooms of and sailing. Now he has built a special boat agree. Action-packed, suspense-fuelled Bath to the wilds of a new frontier, for his daughter Allie – a solo yacht and with a wonderful cast of characters, designed to carry her to England in search Troll Blood is a truly rip-roaring read Cat finds she is for once quite out of of his long-lost sister. Will the threads of her depth. All aboard, Cat's going Arthur's life finally come together? abroad. Piccadilly
Sea Stories Pirate Kings Always Remembered Black Heart of Jamaica Alex Scarrow Kelly Risser Julia Golding Relocated to Victorian London, the Ken, leader of the Blue Men has The Caribbean is as far removed a TimeRiders joy-ride back to 1666 to witness kidnapped Evan. Before they left, Evan place from London as one can the Great Fire of London. In the ensuing was able to leave a package for possibly imagine, and I soon find chaos, Liam and their newest recruit, Rashim, find themselves trapped between Meara—her grandfather's necklace with myself amid slave revolts and the fire and the Thames. They escape one word written in blood. Azuria. swashbuckling pirates. Actresses onboard a river boat, only to be confronted Meara doesn't understand it and must keep their calm at all times by an unscrupulous captain with his heart neither does her dad or Kieran. A war is but this adventure will test my set on treasures of the high seas . . . brewing, and Meara is determined their mettle more than any challenge I people must prepare for the battle. have yet faced.
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Victorians Diamond Velvet - Mary Hooper Little Lord Fauntleroy Jacqueline Wilson Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam Frances Hodgson Burnett Born to penniless parents who longed for laundry. With both her mother and Cedric Errol lives with his mother in a strong, healthy son, Diamond was a father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. genteel poverty after the death of dainty, delicate daughter - and a bitter his father, Captain Cedric Errol. One disappointment. Discovering an Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a day, they are visited by an English extraordinary gift for acrobatics, famed medium, who asks Velvet to come Diamond uses her talent to earn a few to work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first lawyer named Haversham with a pennies, but brings shame on her family. by the young yet beautifully dressed and message from Cedric's grandfather, When a mysterious, cruel-eyed stranger bejewelled Madame. But soon Velvet the Earl of Dorincourt. Cedric has realises that Madame Savoya is not all spots her performing, Diamond is sold - inherited the title Lord Fauntleroy, and is taken to become an acrobat at that she says she is, and Velvet's very life Tanglefield’s Travelling Circus. is in danger. and is the heir to the Earldom and a vast estate. Victoria
Victorians Kim Little Women Rudyard Kipling Louisa May Alcott The Adventures of Tom Kim, an Irish orphan, Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Saywer – Mark Twain accompanies a holy man on his Beth, and precocious Amy. The four The Adventures of Tom Sawyer March sisters couldn't be more journey throughout India and different. But with their father away at by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel his quest for a mystical river. war, and their mother working to about a young boy growing up support the family, they have to rely on along the Mississippi River. one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely? Victoria
Victorians Greyfriars Bobby Alice’s Adventures in The Jungle Book Eleanor Atkinson Wonderland Rudyard Kipling Bobby, an active Skye Terrier, Lewis Carroll Orphaned as a baby, Mowgli is adores his master Auld Jock, and he brought up by animals in the dies, Bobby refuses to leave his The story of a girl named Alice grave in Greyfriar's Churchyard in falling through a rabbit hole jungle. Edinburgh. By day, he plays with into a fantasy world populated the local orphans and eats at a by peculiar creatures. nearby tavern, but, in spite of anything even the Lord Provost himself can do, every night for fourteen years Bobby returns faithfully to sleep by his master.
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Victorians Through the Looking Great Expectations Glass – Lewis Carroll Charles Dickens Kidnapped Alice's second adventure takes Young Pip lives with his sister and her through the looking-glass to her husband, the kindly blacksmith Robert Louis Stevenson a place even curiouser than Joe, eking out a hard life. Pip’s one David Balfor is kidnapped when his greedy uncle wants his Wonderland. true aspiration is to apprentice for Joe and become a blacksmith inheritance. himself, a dream that sustains him and gives him hope. But though he doesn’t know it, Pip’s fates are about to turn. Victoria
The Water Babies Victorians Clockwork Prince Charles Kingsley Witch Finder Cassandra Clare Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by Ruth Warburton In the magical underworld of Victorian the underhand Grimes as a chimney London, Tessa Gray finds her heart sweep. While cleaning a chimney one London, 1880, and drawn more and more to Jem, while her day, Tom becomes lost and appears in eighteen-year-old Luke Lexton is desire for Will, despite his dark moods, Ellie’s bedroom. She mistakes him for a about to endure his initiation into continues to unsettle her. But something thief and he flees in fright, down to the the Malleus Maleficorum - the is changing in Will – the wall he has built edge of a stream where he falls asleep. secretive brotherhood devoted to around himself is crumbling. Could In his dreamlike world, he becomes a finding the Magister free Will from his water baby, swimming with the other hunting witches, and the secrets and give Tessa the answers about water babies and discovering an organisation that will help Luke who she is and what she was born to do? aquatic playground full of strange and take revenge on the witch who wonderful characters. murdered his parents.
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Victorians Awful End Return of the Emerald Skull Fallen Grace Philip Ardagh Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart Mary Hooper When both of Eddie Dickens's parents After collecting a strange parcel from a London 1861. Grace must find a catch a disease that makes them turn deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, way of earning money to pay yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and the rent for the pitiful room smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he Barnaby thinks he's earned a moment to sit should go and stay with relatives at their on the rooftops and eat his favourite pasty. that she and her sister live in house Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie, But soon he realises that all is not well at and to buy them food. But the those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and the school - but is the problem quite as he unscupulous Unwin family are Even-Madder Aunt Maud, and it doesn't expects it? A gruesome tale of a school overrun by a terrible curse - who will out to defraud the young look as if the three of them are ever going women of what is rightfully to reach their destination. survive? theirs.
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Victorians Oliver Twist The Ruby in the Smoke The Railway Children - Charles Dickens Philip Pullman Edith Nesbit Poor orphan Oliver Twist In 19th-century London, Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter survives life in an orphanage, 16-year-old Sally, a recent are growing up in comfort the workhouse, and a life of orphan, until their happy life ends crime with the evil Fagin. becomes involved in a deadly overnight. Their mother is in After kidnap and robbery, he is search for a mysterious ruby. distress, and their father is restored to his gone. inheritance, and his rightful place in the world. Victoria
Victorians Black Beauty -- A Christmas Carol - The Vile Victorians - Sewell, Anna Dickens, Charles Terry Deary A horse in In this classic story, All the terrible truth about nineteenth-century Ebenezer Scrooge learns the events not so long ago, from England recounts his true meaning of Christmas the vile Victorian queen experiences with both after being visited by three herself, to some vicious good and bad masters. ghosts. Victorian villains. It contains nasty facts about cruel careers for kids, rotten school rules for teachers, and a gory guide to death. Waterloo
War War in My Town Uprooted The New Patrol E. Graziani Lynn Reid Banks Any McNab Bruna, lives in a small Italian village in In 1940 as war rages across Tuscany. Though the Second World War Liam Scott is back in Afghanistan, has been raging in Europe for some time, it Europe, ten-year-old Lindy waves goodbye to England and makes this time with 4 Rifles. No longer seems far away. But before long, Bruna's the new guy, it’s his chance to brothers are called to fight and retreating the long journey to Saskatoon, Nazis occupy her village. Her peaceful life Canada, along with her mother prove himself and take the lead. is shattered when her beloved village find and her cousin Cameron. They But the warzone has changed themselves in the centre of the fighting may be far from the war but they dramatically, and so have the between the Nazis and the Allied forces rules. pursuing them - the final front defended are also far from home and by the Nazis in Europe. everyone they know and love. Waterloo
A Company of Swans War The Book Thief Eva Ibbotson Grey Wolves Marcus Zusak Ballet classes are Harriet's only escape from Robert Muchamore 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is her intolerably dull life. So when she is
With the Royal Navy losing the holding its breath. Death has never chosen to join a corps de ballet which is been busier. setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she war at sea, six young agents must Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with sneak into Nazi-occupied Europe leaps at the chance to run away for good. a foster family on Himmel Street. Her Performing in the grand opera houses is and sabotage a submarine base parents have been taken away to a everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in concentration camp. Liesel steals on France's western coast. love with an aristocratic exile makes her books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the new life complete. Swept away by it all, she bombs begin to fall. is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down . .
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War Allegiant An Elephant in the Garden Then Veronica Roth Michael Morpurgo Morris Gleitzman What if a single revelation – Dresden, 1945. Elizabeth and Karli's I had a plan for me and Zelda. like a single choice – mother works at the zoo, where her Pretend to be someone else. Find favourite animal is a young elephant changed everything? new parents, be safe forever. What if love and loyalty named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals – made you do things you including the elephants – must be shot Then the Nazis came. never expected? before the town is bombed. Unable to give Marlene up, their mother moves My name is Felix. This is my story. her into the back garden to save her… and then the bombs start to fall. Waterloo Wartime Princess War Valarie Wilding The Diary of a Young Girl New Enemy In 1939, on a royal tour, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) meets the Anne Frank Andy McNab dashing Prince Philip of Greece. In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Liam Scott has joined Recce Immediately they begin a correspondence, Frank and her family, fleeing the Platoon, and it looks like he will as war breaks out across Europe, where occupation, went into hiding in an Philip is sent to serve in the Navy. Elizabeth Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next be heading for Somalia. His convinces her father the King, despite his two years Anne vividly describes in her mission is to gather intelligence reservations, to allow her to sign up to the diary the frustrations of living in such from behind enemy lines, carrying war effort and joins the Women's Auxiliary close quarters, and her thoughts, out top-secret surveillance and Territorial Service. Serving her country, feelings and longings as she grows up. dead-letter drops. But he’s new to driving trucks and fixing cars, Elizabeth Her diary ends abruptly when, in the game and there’s a lot to wonders, will she ever see her prince August 1944, they were all betrayed. again? learn.
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War War – Stories of Conflict A Tale of Two Cities Insurgent
Michael Morpurgo Charles Dickens Veronica Roth The drama, the cruelty, the Doctor Manette returns Fighting for survival in a courage and the consequences of safely to London after shattered world… the truth war feature in this collection of many years in the Bastille is her only hope. stories. prison, and then sees his family haunted by the terrors of the French Revolution. Waterloo
War Escape from Shangri-La Blitz - The Midnight Zoo - Michael Morpurgo Vince Cross Sonya Hartnett When her grandfather Based on real historical Andrej, Tomas, and their sister suddenly appears after having events, this is a fictional flee their Romany encampment been absent from the family account of when it is attacked by Germans for fifty years, twelve- one girl's experiences during during World War II and find a year-old Cessie helps him the Blitz. zoo, where talking animals help escape to Dunkirk to recover them understand what has his past. happened. Waterloo
War Friend or Foe - An Elephant in the The Sleeping Sword - Michael Morpurgo Garden - Michael Morpurgo It's the Second World War, Blinded in an accident, Bun and because of the Blitz, Michael Morpurgo Bendle stumbles into an David and his friend Tucky In 1944 when the allied underground tomb containing a have been evacuated to the bombs begin to fall on the shield and an ancient sword. As countryside where they must city of Dresden, Lizzie and he touches the hilt, his whole live with strangers. Then one her family must flee to avoid body is gripped by an incredible, night they see a German plane Russian troops. But they are centuries-old power. It is a crash on the moors. Can they not alone. They have an power that will change Bun's life just leave the airmen to die? elephant to look after. for ever. Waterloo
War The Trenches: Billy The Amazing Story of Between Shades of Stevens, The Western Adolphus Tips - Gray - Front 1914-1918 Michael Morpurgo Ruta Sepetys Jim Eldridge When Boowie reads the diary In 1941, 15-year-old Lina and that his grandmother sends her family are pulled from The story of Billy Stevens, who him, he learns of her childhood their Lithuanian home by went to fight in the trenches on during WW II, when Allied Soviet guards. While fighting the Western Front in the First forces practised for the D-Day for her life, Lina vows to honor World War. invasion in the area of her her family by burying her story home, and about her beloved in a jar on cat, Adolphus Tips. Lithuanian soil. Waterloo
War War Horse - Carrie's War - Blitzcat - Michael Morpurgo Nina Bawden In England, Albert is growing Bombs were falling on Robert Westall up on a Devon farm with his London, and Carrie and Nick During World War II, a young horse, Joey. However were wartime evacuees black cat journeys all Albert, Joey and many other billeted in Wales on old Mr across war-ravaged people will all be drawn into Evans. They were happy to England in an effort to the nightmare of war as visit their friend Albert at track down her beloved they all struggle to survive in Druid's Bottom until Carrie master. the blasted wilderness of did the worst thing she ever the Western Front. did in her life.