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Author: Abdel-Fattah, Randa.
Title: Does my head look big in this?
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Year Eleven at an exclusive
prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne,
Australia, would be tough enough, but it is
further complicated for Amal when she
decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head
scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith-without losing her identity or sense of style.
Author: Adams, Douglas.
Title: The restaurant at the end of the
universe
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Accompanied by his good
friend and guide Ford Prefect, Arthur
Dent continues his adventures through
the Universe.
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Author: Adams, Douglas
Title: So long, and thanks for all the fish
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Arthur Dent is 1437 light
years away from Earth, sitting in a Saab.
He has just cracked his head on the
door while climbing in. He feels
stupefied. Maybe it is because he has
just laid eyes on the first female of the
species that he has seen in years,
sitting in the backseat.
Author: Almond, David
Title: The Fire-eaters
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Bobby Burns knows he’s a
lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely
Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of
wondrous things. But things are
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beginning to starting to fall apart. This is
the story of two months in Bobby’s life.
A time of trouble, a time of change , a
time of miracles.
Author: Almond, David
Title: Kit's wilderness
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: In Stoneygate there was a
wilderness, an empty space between
the houses and the river where the
ancient coal pit had once been. In the
wilderness Kit meets Askew, who has a
strange ability to draw other children to
his game called Death. When Askew
disappears, it is up to Kit to find him and
bring him back.
Author: Almond, David
Title: My Dad’s a Birdman
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy
town in the north of England. It's just the
two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who
pops round to check Lizzie's spellings
and tell Dad he's daft - and make them
nice hot dumplings. But today there's
something unusual going on: why is Dad
building himself a pair of wings and
studying the birds to see how they fly?
The Great Human Bird Competition of
course!
Author: Almond, David
Title: Skellig
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Michael's baby sister is ill,
and the whole house is sick with her.
While his parents spend time at the
hospital, he explores their new home. In
the old, derelict garage he finds
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something sinister; a strange creature,
part owl, part angel. Is it something
good or something evil?
Author: Awdry, Christopher
Title: Thomas and the pony show
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Thomas often sees Becky
riding her pony as he puffs past the farm
where she lives. He wants to watch her
taking part in the Pony Show, but his
driver says they will be too busy. The
Fat Controller gives Thomas a very
special job to do and his wish comes
true!
Author: Banks, Lynne Reid
Title: The Indian in the cupboard
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: When Omri is given a toy
Indian and a small cupboard for his
birthday, he has no idea that when he
puts the Indian in the cupboard it will
come alive, or that his 'toy' is a very
small and demanding brave for whose
life and safety he must take
responsibility.
Author: Banks, Lynne Reid
Title: The mystery of the cupboard
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Omri finds a cashbox and a
journal which provide the answer to his
questions as to how the toy figures
became red, and who was able to make
them do so.
Author: Banks, Lynne Reid
Title: Return of the Indian
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Omri is unexpectedly
reminded of his beloved Red Indian, and
can't resist making sure he's still all
right. But when he opens the cupboard
door Little Bull is wounded, nearly dead,
and Omri must find help.
Author: Baudet, Stephanie
Title: In someone else's shoes
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Nicholas has a strange
feeling, as he walks to school on
Monday morning, that he's grown. It's a
stupid idea, he knows. How could you
grow over one weekend? But when he
stands his ground and looks the class
bully right in the eye he knows
something has changed. It's as if
someone else has taken over his
body…..
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Author: Bawden, Nina
Title: The peppermint pig
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Johnnie was the runt of the
litter, a little peppermint pig. He'd cost
Mother a shilling, but somehow his great
naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll
and Theo cheerful, even though it was
one of the most difficult years of their
lives.
Author: Blackman,Malorie.
Title: Checkmate (Book 3 in Noughts and
Crosses Trilogy)
(4 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Can the future ever erase the
past? Rose has a Cross mother and a
nought father in a society where the paleskinned noughts are treated as inferiors
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and those with dual heritage face a life-long
battle against deep-rooted prejudices.
Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually
nothing about her father, but as Rose grows
into a young adult, she unexpectedly
discovers the truth about her parentage,
and becomes determined to find out more,
to honour both sides of her heritage. But
her father's family has a complicated history
- one tied up with the fight for equality for
the nought population. And as Rose takes
her first steps away from Sephy and into
this world, she finds herself drawn
inexorably into more and more danger.
Suddenly, it's a game of very high stakes
that can only have one winner...
Author: Blackman, Malorie.
Title: Knife edge (Book 2 in Noughts and
Crosses Trilogy)
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(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Following Callum's death, the
people who loved him relate how their lives
have been changed, especially in reference
to his girlfriend, Sephy, and their mixedrace child.
Author: Blackman, Malorie.
Title: Noughts and crosses (Book 1 in
Noughts and Crosses Trilogy)
(4 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: The world is divided into two the dark-skinned Crosses, and the lightskinned Noughts. The Crosses are the
rulers, the privileged race; the Noughts are
second-class citizens, erstwhile slaves of
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the Crosses, and still without equal rights in
a world torn apart by race and class.
Sephy is a Cross, the daughter of the
powerful Kamal Hadley. Callum is a
Nought, the son of Maggie McGregor,
Sephy's nanny. Their childhood friendship
turns to love. Till one day the terrorist group
which calls itself the Liberation Militia
explodes a bomb in the shopping mall; the
bomb wreaks havoc not only in the mall but
also in the lives of Sephy and Callum.
Author: Blume, Judy.
Title: Are you there God? It's me, Margaret
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Life isn't easy for Margaret.
She's moved away from her childhood
home, she's starting a new school, finding
new friends – and she's convinced she's
not normal. For a start she hasn't got a clue
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whether she wants to be Jewish like her
father or Christian like her mother.
Everyone else seems really sure of who
they are. And, worst of all, she's a 'late
developer'. She just knows that all her
friends are going to need a bra before she
does. It's too embarrassing to talk to her
parents about these things. So she talks to
God instead - and waits for an answer . . .
Author: Blume, Judy
Title: Freckle juice
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Andrew decides that if he
were covered in freckles like his
classmate, Nicky, no one would notice
whether he had washed his face or
behind his ears. So it seems that freckle
juice, for a price, is just the thing he
needs.
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Author: Blyton, Enid
Title: The enchanted wood
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Jo, Bessie and Fanny had
always lived in the town, but now their
father had a job in the country and they
were all looking forward to having lots of
adventures. "You won't have any more
adventures in the country than you will
have in the town", said their father. But
that's where he was quite wrong.
Author: Blyton, Enid
Title: The naughtiest girl in school
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Elizabeth Allen is spoilt and
selfish. When she's sent away to
boarding school she makes up her mind
to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever
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been! But Elizabeth soon finds out that
being bad isn't as simple as it seems....
Author: Blyton, Enid
Title: The sea of adventure
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Recovering from measles,
the children head for the coast of
Scotland with Bill to recuperate. Bill
soon disappears from the scene,
kidnapped by a couple of unknown
baddies. Our four heroes are left to fend
for themselves.
Author: Blyton, Enid
Title: The twins at St Clare's
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: 'People are going to know
who we are, and what we can do! All the
mistresses are going to sit up and take
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notice of us too. The O'Sullivan twins
are going to be somebodies!' Pat and
Isabel O'Sullivan hate having to start at
St Clare's. They were the most popular
pupils in their old school and they're
determined not to like this new one. But
is St Clare's as awful as they think, and
will the other girls even want them
there?
Author: Brisley, Joyce
Title: Milly-Molly-Mandy stories
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Milly-Molly-Mandy and her
friends Susan and Billy Blunt live in a
little village in the Lankester heart of the
English countryside. They do all the
sorts of things that country children
enjoy - like blackberrying gardening and
going to the village fete.
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Author: Butterworth, Annette
Title: Jake
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Jake loves to chase ducks,
play with dirty washing, and eat
chocolate eggs. He dreams of going to
Crufts, the biggest dog show in the
world, but he knows he'll never get
there. But Jake is a very special dog he's the best friend you could ever have
- and sometimes even a dog's dream
can come true.
Author: Byars, Betsy
Title: The midnight fox
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Tom is from the town and he
is so excited at seeing the fox with the
green eyes, that he goes out every day
hoping to see her again. And when she
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and her cub are in danger from his
uncle's gun, he is sure he is the only
person who can save them.
Author: Cabot, Meg
Title: All American Girl
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Feisty, red-haired Samantha, a
self-described "urban rebel" who has dyed
all of her clothes black, is a 15-year-old
middle child, uncomfortably wedged
between her popular, cheerleader older
sister, Lucy, and her brainy 11-year-old
sister, Rebecca. And she has a major crush
on Jack, Lucy's nonconformistartist
boyfriend, whom she feels is far better
suited to her than to her rather vacuous
sister.
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Author: Cabot, Meg
Title: The princess diaries
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Manhattan teenager Mia
suddenly becomes heir to the Genovian
throne - apparently she really is a
princess! Mia begins taking princess
lessons from her old "grand-mère" and
is followed everywhere by a trigger
happy bodyguard. But if you think she's
moving to Genovia, think again!
Author: Carpenter, Humphrey
Title: Mr Majeika and the ghost train
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When Class Three and Mr
Majeika get on board a Ghost Train they
are in for a surprise. Real ghosts appear
and the wicked Wilhelmina Worlock isn't
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far away. But Jody comes to the
rescue...with a dragon to help her.
Author: Carpenter, Humphrey
Title: Mr Majeika and the school play
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Hamish Bigmore is more
unbearable than ever after an
unexpected starring role in an Australian
television soap. The school play
becomes a bit too realistic when a
genuine giant thunders on the stage.
And in the third story, it looks as if the
children will never get back to St Barty's
School after their museum trip - even on
a magic carpet. Mr Majeika's wizardry is
still getting Class Three into all sorts of
trouble, but they have a lot of fun along
the way!
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Author: Cassidy, Anne
Title: Looking for JJ
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: "Looking for JJ" explores the
circumstances and motives behind the
murder of a child - by her friend. Six
years later, JJ has been released, and
has a new identity. But is there any way
that she can lead a "normal" life?
Author: Clayton, David
Title: Snake bite
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: "The flood raced like a great
express train down the canyon ... the
thunder of white water came closer and
closer ... ripping and pulling them ...
"HOLD ON! HOLD ON!" ...then under
they went.
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Author: Clover, Peter
Title: Hercules, operation snowsearch
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Jack and Hercules are
helping a local farmer clear the area of
dangerous traps, left by a cruel poacher.
But as fast as the traps are removed,
new ones are laid. So when next door's
posh pooch goes missing during a
heavy snowfall, her owner is in a terrible
state. Now Hercules has disappeared
too. Jack's worried sick. Will either dog
make it home?
Author: Clover, Peter.
Title: Hercules, treasure hound.
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Jack and Hercules meet an
old man on the beach who appeals to
them to help him rescue the eggs from a
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peregrine falcon's nest on the cliffs. Jack
helps the man retrieve the eggs but
soon realises he is not what he seems but Hercules is on the trail.
Author: Colfer, Eoin
Title: Artemis fowl (Book 1 in Artemis
fowl series)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Artemis
Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind.
But even Artemis doesn't know what
he's about to take on when he kidnaps a
fairy - Captain Holly Short of the LE
Precon Unit. Artemis thinks he's got the
fairies just where he wants them; but
these fairies are armed and dangerous.
Author: Colfer, Eoin
Title: Artemis fowl: The arctic incident
(Book 2 in Artemis fowl series)
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(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Someone has been
supplying Class A illegal human power
sources to the goblins. Captain Holly
Short of the LEPrecon Unit is sure that
the person repsonsible is her archenemy, thirteen-year-old Artemis Fowl.
But is he? Artemis has his own
problems to deal with: his father is being
held to ransom and only a miracle will
save him. Maybe this time a brilliant
plan just won't be enough. Maybe this
time Artemis needs help ...
Author: Colfer, Eoin.
Title: Artemis Fowl: the eternity code
(Book 3 in Artemis fowl series)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Artemis is still plotting for a
billion-dollar-plus payoff for the Fowl
family, but now his enemies are human
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(chiefly Jon Spiro, a ruthless
businessman Artemis tries to blackmail
using stolen fairy technology) and he
has to turn to his old adversary-turnedfriend Captain Holly Short and cutpurse
dwarf Mulch Diggums for help. The
dialogue and action prove as smart and
page-turning as ever this time around,
with Artemis struggling to bring his
faithful bodyguard Butler back from the
dead before racing Mission Impossiblestyle to triple-cross the double-crossing
Spiro.
Author: Colfer, Eoin
Title: Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: This short book works well in
two ways. Firstly, for fans of Artemis
Fowl, this is a neatly written little
episode that fits in between the first and
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second AF books. Secondly, this is an
ideal introduction to the series. If you’ve
never read the Artemis Fowl books and
wonder if they’re for you, then this little
story is a great way to discover them
Author: Colfer, Eoin.
Title: The legend of Spud Murphy
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Every kid in town knows
about Spud Murphy. Grown-ups think
she's the kindly old librarian, but kids
know the truth. They've heard all about
the gas-powered spud gun she keeps
hidden under her desk-make so much
as a sound in her library and you could
get spudded with soggy potatoes. Laugh
out loud and you may never be seen
again . . . And now, in a major coup of
parental injustice, Will and his older
brother, Marty, have been ordered to
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spend their summer vacation in Spud's
library! Will brothers Will and Marty
survive a summer marooned on the
carpet of Spud's children's section,
under the watchful eye of this terrifying
librarian? Or will they discover a new
interest that surprises even them?
Author: Conlon-McKenna, Marita
Title: Under the hawthorn tree
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Ireland in the 1840s is
devastated by famine. When tragedy
strikes their family, Marita, Eily, Michael
and Peggy are left to fend for
themselves. Starving and in danger of
being sent to the workhouse, they
escape. Their only hope is to find the
great-aunts they have heard about in
their mother's stories. With tremendous
courage they set out on a journey that
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will test every reserve of strength, love
and loyalty they possess.
Author: Conroy, Don
Title: The anaconda from Drumcondra
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Something fell off the back
of a lorry. It wriggled and could talk, and
as it turned out, it was looking for a
home. Meet Al - better known as the
"Anaconda from Drumcondra". Once
you take him home, your life will never
be the same again.
Author: Conroy, Don
Title: Joey's big day
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Joey the red kangaroo gets
his big chance to leave the safety of his
mummy’s pouch and explore an
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amazing new world. There he finds a lot
of weird and wonderful creatures and
some not too friendly.
Author: Conroy, Don
Title: Rocky the dinosaur
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: What is as tall as the tallest
giraffe, weighs the same as an African
elephant and is as long as four cars?
David's visitor from Montana - Rocky the
Dinosaur! Rocky is a T-Rex with a
difference! He can parachute, likes jam
doughnuts and runs a breakfast cereal
company. He puts it all down to
evolution! David's adventures are
just beginning…
Author: Cross, Gillian
Title: The demon headmaster strikes
again
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: When the Hunter family are
persuaded to move house, Dinah, Lloyd
and Harvey realize that there is
something very strange about the new
village. And soon Dinah suspects that
their old enemy, the Demon
Headmaster, is back. This time, he has
got control of a research laboratory, and
he's planning to take over nature itself.
But to do that, he needs Dinah - which
puts her in terrible danger.
Author: Cross, Gillian
Title: Rent-a-genius
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Sophy isn't going to waste
any more advice on her ungrateful
family - there must be some people out
there who really need a genius to help
them. For only fifty pence, Sophy will
tackle any problem; from bossy
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grandmothers to disappearing tomatoes.
The only trouble is, everyone needs
helping at once!
Author: Cunliffe, John
Title: Postman Pat and the big surprise
(1 volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The people of Greendale are
surprised, to see Sara bringing the post.
When she's finished the day's work,
they have a surprise for her, too!
Author: Cusick, Richie
Title: The harvest: Buffy the vampire
slayer
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: In this generation, she is
Buffy Summers, 16 years old and a new
student at Tankersley Sunnydale High.
Her experiences at her last school
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persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life
of a normal teenager. But it is no
coincidence that Buffy has come
to this town at this time. Once in a
century comes The Harvest: a night
when his world and ours...
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: The BFG
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The BFG is a big, friendly
giant who spirits a child out of bed one
dark night. Fortunately, this giant really
is friendly, but his countrymen in the
land of giants are child-eaters. Can the
child enlist the aid of his kidnapper in
stopping the nightly massacre?
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: Charlie and the chocolate factory
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Charlie Bucket can't believe
his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket
and wins the chance of a lifetime: a
magical day witnessing the miraculous
creation of the most delectable eatables
ever made.
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: Charlie and the great glass
elevator
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The last time we met Charlie
he had been told that he had inherited
the fabulous Chocolate Factory and he
and his family were riding with Mr
Wonka in the Great Glass Elevator high
above his home town. The Elevator
orbits the Earth in a space adventure
and then returns to the factory to make
Wonka-Vite which causes some
amazing things to happen.
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Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: Esio trot
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Mr Hoppy, a retired
bachelor, harbours a secret passion for
the attractive widow Mrs Silver. She,
however, lavishes all her attention on
another - Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr
Hoppy's wildly ingenious plot to defeat
his rival and win the love of his lady will
delight and amaze, involving as it does
a cryptic riddle and no fewer than
140 tortoises.
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: Fantastic Mr Fox
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Boggis, Bunce and Bean,
three farmers, were lying in wait outside
Mr Fox's hole, each one determined to
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shoot, starve or dig out Mr Fox even if it
took them forever. But Mr Fox's wife
was right when she told the children,
'Your father is a fantastic fox! He has
quite enough brains to fox much
cleverer farmers than Boggis, Bunce
and Bean!'
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: George's marvellous medicine
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: George's grandmother has
the nastiest eating habits in the world.
She's as frightening as a witch and as
grumpy as a camel without a hump.
When he can't stand this cantankerous
old woman any longer, George decides
to cure her nastiness once and for all.
He concocts a very nasty medicine.
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Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: James and the giant peach
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: James is a poor orphan who
lives with his two grotesque spinster
aunts, one very fat and one very thin.
When a giant peach grows in their back
garden, James escapes inside it where
he discovers some mysterious
creatures. The peach rolls away from
his unhappy home and James is
released into an exciting new life of
adventure.
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: Matilda
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Matilda is an extraordinarily
gifted four-year-old whose parents a
crass, dishonest used-car dealer and a
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self-centered, blowsy bingo addict
regard her as "nothing more than a
scab." Life with her beastly parents is
bearable only because Matilda teaches
herself to read, finds the public library,
and discovers literature. Also, Matilda
loves using her lively intelligence to
perpetrate daring acts of revenge on her
father. This pastime she further
develops when she enrolls in Crunchem
Hall Primary School, whose
headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, is "a
fierce tyrannical monster . . . ."
Author: Dahl, Roald.
Title: The magic finger.
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The little girl in this story is
very unusual. When someone makes
her angry – and when she just can't stop
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herself - she zaps a punishment on
them with a magic, flashing finger!
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: Revolting rhymes
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Six of the best-known
nursery tales, retold, with some
extremely surprising twists, by that
master of the comic and the bloodcurdling, Roald Dahl. If you thought you
knew the stories of some of the most
popular fairy tales, think again. Here are
six of the best known, retold with more
than a twist or two.
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: The Twits
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two of
the most disgusting, nasty, and horrid
characters in children's literature, from
their repulsive looks (the story opens
with a long, detailed description of Mr.
Twit's unkempt beard) to the mean and
horrible tricks they play on one another
(Mrs. Twit enjoys hiding her glass
eyeball in unexpected places and lacing
the spaghetti with worms; Mr. Twit
works for weeks to convince his wife
that she has "The Shrinks"). Mr. and
Mrs. Twit become the target of revenge
by the Mugglewump monkeys--who
have finally had enough.
Author: Dahl, Roald
Title: The Witches
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: This Roald Dahl classic tells
the scary, funny and imaginative tale of
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a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in
with some real-life witches! "In fairy tales
witches always wear silly black hats and
black cloaks and they ride on
broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale.
This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL
WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and
look very much like ordinary women.
They live in ordinary houses and they
work in ordinary jobs. That is why they
are so hard to catch." Witches, as our
hero learns, hate children. With the help
of a friend and his somewhat-magical
grandmother, our hero tries to expose
the witches before they dispose of him.
Author: Disney.
Title: Finding Nemo
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: On Australia's Great Barrier
Reef live two Clownfish, Marlin and his
son Nemo. Nemo can't swim very well
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because of his damaged fin but he
doesn't shy away from adventure. One
day he swims too far, is captured by
scuba divers and plunged into a
dentist's fish tank in Sydney. Marlin
embarks on an epic journey in search of
Nemo but has to battle through a series
of mishaps in order to rescue his son.
Author: Donaldson, Julia
Title: The Gruffalo
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: A rhyming story about a
clever little mouse and a monster. When
mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous
forest, he invents tales of a fantastic
creature called a Gruffalo to scare off
his enemies. Imagine his surprise when
he meets a real Gruffalo!
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Author: Donaldson, Julia
Title: The Gruffalo's child
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The Gruffalo said that no
Gruffalo should ever set foot in the deep
dark wood. But one wild and windy night
the Gruffalo's child ignores her father's
warning and tiptoes out into the snow.
After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't
really exist...does he?
Author: Donaldson, Julia
Title: Room on the broom
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The witch and her cat fly
happily over forests, rivers and
mountains on their broomstick until a
stormy wind blows away the witch's hat,
bow and wand. They are retrieved by a
dog, a bird and a frog, and each animal
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asks for a ride on the broom. One after
the next climbs on, until the broom is so
heavy that it snaps in two! What will
happen next as they tumble into a bog
and meet a greedy dragon?
Author: Dowd, Siobhan.
Title: The London Eye mystery
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: The facts seem simple
enough. While their mothers have
coffee, Ted and his older sister, Kat, and
their cousin, Salim, wait in a queue to
ride the London Eye, an observation
wheel that allows those locked in the
glass-and-steel capsules to see 25
miles in every direction. A stranger from
the front of the line offers one free ticket,
and since Salim is the visitor, stopping
in London before moving with his mum
to New York, he takes it. Ted and
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Kat see him enter the capsule and
follow his ride, but to their shock, he
doesn’t exit with his fellow riders.
Author: Doyle, Malachy
Title: Billy and the bees
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When someone steals Billy's
rollerblades, his wonderful bees catch
the thief in no time at all! But that's the
easy part! The Rollerblade Thief only
borrowed the blades to catch the Paper
Thief - so now they must catch him! In
the end, the trail leads Billy and his bees
to something amazing in the heart of the
city!
Author: Deary, Terry.
Title: The Angry Aztecs.
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: The Angry Aztecs fills you in on
the foulest facts about Motecuhzoma,
Cuahtemoc, and other people with
unpronounceable names, whose idea of fun
was ripping out human hearts.
Author: Deary, Terry
Title: The awesome Egyptians
(1 volume, Arial 24)
Summary: It's history with the nasty bits left
in! Want to know: · Which king had the
worst blackheads? · Why some kings had
to wear false beards? · Why the peasants
were revolting? Discover all the foul facts
about the Awesome Egyptians - all the gore
and more!.
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Author: Deary, Terry.
Title: The Ruthless Romans
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The Ruthless Romans' reveals
the grim truth behind the greatest empire of
all time - from the terrible twins who
founded Rome to the evil emperors who
made murder into a sport. Read on for the
gory details about the cruel Colosseum and
the people and animals who were
massacred there.
Author: Duffey, Betsy
Title: Lucky in the doghouse
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: George loves his new
puppy, Lucky, but Lucky is out of
control. If George can't stop
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Lucky barking at night and making
puddles in the house, Mum and Dad say
he will have to go!
Author: Farmer, Penelope
Title: Twin trouble
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: A collection of read-aloud
stories about mischievous girl twins and
the trouble they get into. Set largely at
the girls' school.
Author: Fine, Anne
Title: The angel of Nitshill Road
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Until the angel came, there
were three terribly unhappy children at
Nitshill Road School: Penny, Mark and
Marigold. They had Barry Hunter to
worry about. Everyone knew what a
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bully he was, but no one did anything
about it until the angel came - and from
now on, life at Nitshill Road School is
never going to be the same.
Author: Fine, Anne
Title: Bill's new frock
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Forced off to school in a
frilly, pink dress, Bill discovers one of
the worst days of his life is about to
begin. Baffled by the way things are just
different for girls, Bill falls headlong into
trouble. How will it all end for him - or
her?
Author: Fine, Anne
Title: Goggle-eyes
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: When Kelly Johnston is
miserable because her mother is
thinking of getting married again,
forceful Kitty Killin comes to the rescue.
Kitty's not noted for sensitivity or for tact,
but she's been through it all herself with
the man in her own mother's life: the
silver-haired, chocolate-bearing Gerald
Faulkner (otherwise known as Old
Goggle-eyes).
Author: Fine, Anne
Title: How to write really badly
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The new boy, Chester
Howard, quickly decides he hates his
new school. He also quickly realises that
the boy he sits next to, Joe, is the 'Writer
from Hell' and when Joe chooses 'How
to write neatly' as his project, Chester
persuades him to change the Title: to
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'How to write really badly.' Chester
agrees to help, and so begins an
astonishing partnership that brings
rewards both to Chester and Joe, who
thinks he is no good at anything but has
an extraordinary talent.
Author: Fine, Anne
Title: Press play
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When the alarm went off,
Nicky and Tasha sat up in their beds
and stared. Mum wasn't there, but the
cassette player was on the floor by Little
Joe's cot. On top of it was a note. "Press
Play," it said. So Nicky, Tasha and Little
Joe follow Mum's instructions with
hilarious results.
Author: Fine, Anne
Title: A sudden glow of gold
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(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When Mum finally demands
that he clears out his bedroom, Toby
can't even remember why he'd wanted
some things so badly. Dusting off an old
brass lamp, Toby releases a genie who
helps him understand what wanting and
needing really mean or as the genie
says: "Riches, like camel dung, do no
good till they're spread.
Author: Fine, Anne
Title: A sudden puff of glittering smoke
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The disgruntled genie who
appears on her desk seems to be the
answer to Jeanie's problems - whatever
she wishes, he will command. But
Jeanie quickly discovers that she and
her genie have very different views of
the world.
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Author: Fine, Anne
Title: A sudden swirl of icy wind
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Sent to the junk room until
he apologies, William accidentally
releases Mustapha, the genie of the
bottle. Mustapha's tale of the bold
Captain Flook helps William understand
how unhappy he made his Granny. In
turn, he is able to help Mustapha in a
very special way.
Author: Frank, Anne.
Title: The diary of a young girl
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: In July 1942, thirteen-yearold Anne Frank and her family fled from
the horrors of Nazi occupation, and went
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into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse.
Over the next two years Anne vividly
describes in her diary the frustration of
living in such confined quarters.
Author: Gardam, Jane
Title: Tufty Bear
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Tufty Bear is no ordinary
teddy bear. He looks warm and friendly
and as though at any moment he might
speak - and so he does, to Harry and
Tilly!
Author: Gunning, Peter
Title: Stanley
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: To look at Stanley, one
might have been of the opinion that he
was just another normal young boy.
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There, unfortunately, one would have
been very much mistaken. Stanley was
very, very different.....
Author: Hackett, John
Title: The magic tooth: A tooth fairy
story and ABC
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: A tooth fairy story which
includes an ABC guide to looking after
your teeth for children.
Author: Haddon, Mark.
Title: The curious incident of the dog in the
night-time
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: The dog was lying on the grass
in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs
Shears' house. It looked as if it was running
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on its side, the way dogs run when they
think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But
the dog was not running or asleep. The dog
was dead. There was a garden fork sticking
out of the dog.'" "The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder
mystery novel like no other. The detective,
and narrator, is Christopher Boone.
Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a
form of autism. He knows a very great deal
about maths and very little about human
beings. He loves lists, patterns and the
truth. He hates the colours yellow and
brown and being touched. He has never
gone further than the end of the road on his
own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog
murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey
which will turn his whole world upside
down.
Author: Hall, Willis
Title: The last vampire
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(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: My grandfather was the last
of the Draculas. I do turn into a bat
occasionally but I wouldn't dream of
sucking anyone else's blood. As a
matter of fact I'm a vegetarian. I'm
simply mad about oranges.' On a
camping holiday in Europe the Hollins
family encounter more than they
bargained for....
Author: Hargreaves, Roger
Title: Mr. Bump
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
Summary: Mr. Bump stumbles upon the
perfect job.
Author: Hargreaves, Roger
Title: Mr. Chatterbox
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
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Summary: Mr. Chatterbox is a man who
talks too much, all the time, and about
nothing in particular. However in this
story a solution is found via the magic of
a magic hat!
Author: Hargreaves, Roger
Title: Mr. Grumpy
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
Summary: Mr. Grumpy is an illtempered fellow, but thanks to a cleverly
devised plan by Mr. Happy and Mr.
Tickle, we see a change in Mr.
Grumpy's ways. A change for the better!
Author: Hargreaves, Roger
Title: Mr. Mean
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
Summary: This stingy, Scrooge-like
creature has hoards of money, but lives
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in a run-down house and gives lumps of
coal to his relatives for Christmas. But
one day along comes a wizard, and
teaches him not to be so selfish.
Author: Harrison, Cora
Title: I want a dog!
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Rory and Robert are twins,
and they want a dog. A BIG dog. Mum
and Dad are not so sure, however.
Author: Hawkins, Elizabeth
Title: A monster of a hamster
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Luke and Anna-Louise take
the class hamster home for holiday.
Now it is missing and they are in big
trouble. If only they had a little more
time to find the hamster...but they don't
reckon on the help of the terrible twins!
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Author: Higson, Charlie
Title: Bloodfever (Book 2 in the young
Bond series)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: What began as schoolboy
fun leads to life-threatening adventure
for 13-year-old James Bond when he
stumbles upon members of an Italian
secret society who speak only Latin. On
break from the prestigious Eton School,
James and his schoolmates travel with
two teachers to the Mediterranean isle
of Sardinia to study archaeological
ruins. It turns out that one of James's
teachers is a spy for the Millenaria
society, which is conducting a series of
art heists throughout England and
Europe for a megalomaniacal man
based on Sardinia. James and the new
friends whom he meets on the island
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must find a way to rescue a kidnapped
English girl and to stop the villain who
wants to relive the days of the Roman
emperors.
Author: Hill, Eric
Title: Spot’s Big Book of Colours,
Shapes and Numbers
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The fun way to find out
about colours, shapes and numbers!
Spot and his friends make first learning
easy in this big, action-packed book.
Whether it's finding out the colours of
the rainbow, learning about all sorts of
shapes or counting from one to ten,
Spot makes it lively, exciting and fun!
Author: Hinton, S. E.
Title: The Outsiders
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: According to Ponyboy, there
are two kinds of people in the world:
greasers and socs. A soc (short for
"social") has money, can get away with
just about anything, and has an attitude
longer than a limousine. A greaser, on
the other hand, always lives on the
outside and needs to watch his back.
Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always
been proud of it, even willing to rumble
against a gang of socs for the sake of
his fellow greasers--until one terrible
night when his friend Johnny kills a soc.
The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin,
causing his bifurcated world to crumble
and teaching him that pain feels the
same whether a soc or a greaser. This
classic, written by S. E. Hinton when
she was 16 years old, is as profound
today as it was when it was first
published in 1967.
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Author: Hinton, S. E.
Title: Tex
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: One day Tex McCormick
comes home from school to find his
horse Negrito has been sold by his older
brother, Mason, to pay the mounting
household bills. From then on things get
uglier.
Author: Horowitz, Anthony
Title: Eagle strike (Book 4 in Alex Rider
Series)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Relaxing in the South of
France with his friend Sabina Pleasure
and her family, reluctant MI6 agent Alex
Rider is finally able to be like any other
14-year-old, until a sudden attack on his
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hosts plunges him back into a world of
violence and mystery.
Author: Horowitz, Anthony
Title: Point Blank (Book 2 in Alex Rider
Series)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: After two influential
businessmen die in separate freak
accidents, MI6, England's spy network,
once again calls upon 14-year-old Alex
Rider to infiltrate Point Blanc, a private
school in the French Alps for out-ofcontrol, wealthy teens. Armed only with
his wits and some 007-type devices, he
stumbles upon an evil mad scientist's
plot to take over the world using clones
as replacements for prominent sons.
Spy gadgets, chase scenes, mysteries,
and a cliff-hanger ending will keep even
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reluctant readers interested in the
second novel in this series.
Author: Horowitz, Anthony
Title: Skeleton key (Book 3 in Alex
Rider Series)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Superspy Alex Rider travels
from a reconnaissance mission at
Wimbledon Tennis Championships to an
investigation on Cayo Esqueleto, Cuba.
He begins to make chilling links
between several deaths, an illegal
nuclear weapons deal and General
Sarov's plans for the future of the world.
Author: Horowitz, Anthony
Title: Stormbreaker (Book 1 in Alex
Rider Series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Could you save the world, if
you really had to? Could you escape
from a car crushing machine with
seconds to spare, complete an SAS
training course, dive through freezing
underground waters in pitch darkness,
parachute out of aeroplanes over
London, shoot your enemies, tussle with
man-killing jellyfish, and more? Alex
Rider can. But only because he has to.
It isn't a deliberate career choice,
exactly. If it's? a fast-moving rough-andtumble spy story you're after, with
crazed arch-villain in search of world
domination - or worse - then this is for
you.
Author: James, Sarah
Title: Cliff hanger
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: This story is about a school
trip that goes drastically wrong. This
book is aimed at a lower reading ability.
Author: Jungman, Ann
Title: Septimouse, big cheese!
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Septimouse - 7th son of a
7th son - comes to the rescue when Big
Big Person Dad is made redundant. He
sets up a cheese factory for dad to turn
and soon 45 cheese is famous
throughout the land.
Author: Jungman, Ann
Title: Septimouse, supermouse!
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Septimouse is a genius. He
can do things that other mice cannot do.
He can talk to cats, talk to big people,
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talk to little big people, and make them
as small as mice. But the one thing he
really wants to do is to eat some cheese
- delicious yellow food that big people
use to catch mice - and how on earth is
he going to do that?
Author: Keane, John B.,
Title: The field
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The Field is set in a small
country village in southwest Ireland. Bull
McCabe has spent many hard years of
labour turning the rocky land he rents
from the widow Maggie Butler into a
field suitable for grazing cattle. He has
always considered the land his own, and
dreams of buying it; Butler decides to
sell the land at public auction. 'The Bull'
cannot stand to see the land he so
deeply loves slipping away from him. He
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decides to deal with the situation in the
only way he knows and his actions have
tragic consequences.
Author: King-Smith, Dick
Title: The crowstarver
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Crowstarving was the ideal
job for Spider - he was on his own and
yet never alone, for all around him were
animals of one sort or another.
Author: King-Smith, Dick
Title: The sheep-pig
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When Babe arrives at the
Hoggets' farm he is the only pig in the
yard and rather small and lonely. He is
adopted promptly by a sheepdog, Fly,
and before very long a puzzled farmer
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finds he has quite an efficient working
sheep-pig.
Author: Landy, Derek.
Title: Skulduggery Pleasant
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: When twelve-year-old
Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate,
she must join forces with Skulduggery
Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the
world from the Faceless Ones.
Author: Lee, Harper
Title: To kill a mockingbird
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Set in a sleepy town in
South Alabama during the great
depression in the 1930s, this is a multiChildVision Library Large Print Catalogue
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layered story which dissects the white
and black communities of the American
South.
Author: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Title: The horse and his boy (Book 5 in
Narnia series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: "This is the story of an
adventure that happened in Narnia and
Calormen and lands between, in the
Golden Age when Peter was High King
in Narnia and his brother and his two
sisters were King and Queens under
him". Shastra and the talking horse Bree
escape from the cruel land of Calormen
and head North towards
Narnia.
Author: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
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Title: The lion, the witch and the
wardrobe (Book 1 in Narnia series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Four children are sent to live
in a rambling, old house, and in an
empty, forgotten room they find an old
wardrobe which leads them into the
magical land of Narnia, a place doomed
to perpetual Darkness unless the
children unite with Aslan the lion against
the evil White Witch to restore joy and
light to the land.
Author: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Title: The magician's nephew (Book 6 in
Narnia series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Digory and Polly find
themselves magically transported to a
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Wood between the Worlds, where
several small ponds act as gateways to
different worlds. They discover the dead
world of Charn and together with Aslan
the lion the pair fight against the evil
Queen Jadis.
Author: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Title: The silver chair (Book 4 in Narnia
series)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Aslan's magic brings Jill and
Eustace to Narnia. Teamed with a
Marshwiggle named Puddlegum, they
venture into the wild waste lands of the
North to resuce Prince Pilian, son of
Caspian, from the Queen of Underland.
Author: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
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Title: The voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
(Book 3 in Narnia series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Edmund and Lucy returning
to Narnia - with their beastly cousin
Eustace in tow – on the ship The Dawn
Treader where their old friend Prince
Caspian is searching for lost friends of
his father's. As the children take to the
Eastern Seas in their hunt for the friends
they find themselves embroiled in a
dangerous adventure.
Author: Lively, Penelope
Title: Staying with Grandpa
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: A small girl is sent to stay
with her grandparents. Her mother has
told her that it might be a bit dull as they
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lead a quiet life. In the event, each day
brings a new drama - some random
such as the discovery of a wasps' nest
in the attic, and some prompted by an
exuberant grandpa. For developing
readers.
Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
Title: The Girl Who Married A Lion
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: A girl discovers that her
young husband might actually be a lion
in disguise, but not before they have two
sons who might actually be cubs . . .
When a child made of wax follows his
curiosity outside into the heat of daylight
and melts, his siblings shape him into a
bird with feathers made of leaves that
enable him to fly into the light . . .
Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever
cannibals who nonetheless get their
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comeuppance, and mysterious forces
that reside in the landscape—these
wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the
variety, and the particular magic of
traditional African lore.
Author: McNish, Cliff
Title: The Scent of Magic (Book 2 in
Doomspell trilogy)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: All over the world children
are discovering they have magical
powers – as Rachel did when she was
abducted by the Witch Dragwena in
THE DOOMSPELL. But the reason is
that the evil Witches of the planet Ool
are determined to avenge Dragwena's
death by manipulating an army of
children and fighting the good Wizards.
Rachel's own powers, and the ability of
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her younger brother Eric to unmake
magic, are tested to the full in a thrilling
story in which she has to confront
another child as strong as she is herself.
Author: McNinsh, Cliff
Title: The Doomspell (Book 1 of
Doomspell trilogy)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: In a blaze of light, rush of
wind, and scrabble of claws, Rachel and
her younger brother are ripped through
the wall and hurtled on to another world.
Like thousands of children before them,
they have been snatched away by the
Witch. But this time the Witch has met
her match. Rachel discovers that she
has extraordinary gifts: she can
transform herself into a speck of dust, or
fly on an owl's back, just as the Witch
can. The Witch is excited - she has
found someone she can use for her own
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evil purposes. But for the Witch's
victims, Rachel is their only hope.
Author: McNish, Cliff
Title: The Wizard’s Promise (Book 3 of
Doomspell trilogy)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Children all over the world
are flexing their powers, but it is only
Rachel and Eric who finally have the
skill to confront the Griddas, the terrible
creatures unleashed by the High Witch.
Author: Meadows, Daisy
Title: Holly the Christmas fairy
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Holly the Christmas Fairy is
all in a flutter, putting the sparkle into
Christmas. Now Jack Frost has stolen
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Santa's sleigh. The Queen of the Fairies
needs Rachel and Kirsty to help Holly
get it back.
Author: Meyer, Stephenie.
Title: Twilight (Book 1 in Twilight series)
(4 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Isabella
"Bella" Swan, moves from Phoenix, Arizona
to Forks, Washington and finds her life in
danger when she falls in love with a
vampire.
Author: Meyer, Stephenie
Title: Breaking dawn (Book 4 in Twilight
Series)
(7 Volumes, Arial 24)
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Summary: Although eighteen-year-old
Bella joins the dark but seductive world of
the immortals by marrying Edward the
vampire, her connection to the powerful
werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.
Author: Meyer, Stephenie
Title: Eclipse (Book 4 in Twilight Series)
(6 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Eclipse starts out with a
mysterious string of murders in Seattle.
Edward thinks that these are newborn
vampire attacks. Edward and Bella fill out
college applications and Bella is making
plans on when she will become a vampire.
The band of new born vampires are lead by
Victoria, and they are coming closer.
However, the Cullens and the Wolf Pack
have a plan. They will all come together
and fight the vampires..
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Author: Meyer, Stephenie
Title: New moon: (Book 2 in Twilight series)
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: When the Cullens, including her
beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than
risk revealing that they are vampires, it is
almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella
to bear, but she finds solace in her friend
Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and
changes in terrible ways.
Author: Miller, Arthur,
Title: The crucible
(1 volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Written in the early 1950s,
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible takes place
in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It
recounts the events surrounding the
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Salem Witch Trials. This was a time
when paranoia, hysteria, and deceit
gripped the Puritan towns of New
England.
Author: Mitchell, Jane
Title: Olivia's collection
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When Olivia moves into a
new house she watches children playing
in the sunshine outside. Olivia is too
shy to join in their games. She decides
to collect some sunshine of her own to
make her room bright and happy - but it
doesn't work out quite so well…
Author: Morley, Sarah.
Title: Windows XP explained: A guide
for blind and Visually Impaired users
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Summary: This book describes
Microsoft Windows XP for blind and
visually impaired computer users,
enabling them to take full advantage of
this new version of windows when using
it with assistive technology. Separate
book with diagrams accompanies this
book.
Author: Morpurgo, Michael
Title: Kensuke's kingdom
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Washed up on a desert
island in the Pacific, Michael struggles
to survive on his own. He can't find food
or water and lies down to die. When he
wakes up there is a plate of fish and fruit
and a bowl of fresh water beside him.
He realises he is not alone on the island
after all...
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Author: Muchamore, Robert.
Title: Maximum security (Book 3 in Cherub
Series)
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Adventure fiction. The CIA have
been hunting Jane Oxford, an international
weapons dealer, for thirty years. Her only
weak point is her son, Curtis. It's a job for
CHERUB. CHERUB kids are highly trained
professionals. Their essential advantage: a
criminal never suspects that a kid could be
spying on him. This is James Adams' most
dangerous mission so far, working
undercover inside a maximum security
prison. Over the years, CHERUB has put
hundreds of criminals behind bars. Now, for
the first time ever, they've got to break one
out.
Author: Muchamore, Robert.
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Title: Class A (Book 2 in Cherub Series)
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: When CHERUB kids go
undercover, no-one suspects that they are
trained professionals, working to infiltrate
criminal organizations that have eluded MI5
and the police for years. James Adams is
on his biggest mission yet, working to nail
Europe's most powerful cocaine dealer.
Author: Muchamore, Robert.
Title: The killing (Book 4 in Cherub Series)
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: A junior MI5 from an exciting
new author. Cherub kids live in the real
world. For official purposes, they do not
exist. When a small- time crook suddenly
has big money on his hands, it's only
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natural that the police want to know where it
came from.
Author: Muchamore, Robert.
Title: The recruit (Book 1 in Cherub Series)
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: A terrorist doesn't let strangers
into her flat because they might be
undercover police or intelligence agents,
but her children bring their mates home and
they run all over the place. The terrorist
doesn't know that a kid has bugged every
room in her house, cloned the hard drive on
her PC, and copied all the numbers in her
phone book. The kid works for CHERUB.
CHERUB is not James Bond. There are no
master criminals or high-tech gadgets.
CHERUB kids live in the real world. They
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slip under adult radar and get information
that sends criminals and terrorists to jail."
Author: Murphy, Jill
Title: The worst witch
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Mildred Hubble was a
trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy
and she was making an awful mess of it.
She couldn't even ride a broomstick
without crashing it and she was always
getting her spells wrong. But she
managed to get by until she turned
Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly
enemy...
Author: Nabb, Magdalen
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Title: Josie Smith at school
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Summary: In this book Josie Smith gets
in trouble with the headmistress, meets
a princess and wants to be a fairy in the
school concert. Stories about familiar
situations that all children will
understand and relate to following the
ups and downs of one little girl at
school.
Author: Ness, Patrick
Title: The Ask and the Answer (Book 2 in
Chaos Walking Trilogy)
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Alternate chapters follow
teenagers Todd and Viola, who become
separated as the Mayor's oppressive new
regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a
space colony where residents can hear
each other's thoughts.
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Author: Ness, Patrick
Title: The knife of never letting go (Book 1
in Chaos Walking Trilogy)
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Pursued by power-hungry
Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young
Todd and Viola set out across New World
searching for answers about his colony's
true past and seeking a way to warn the
ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old
World.
Author: Nimmo, Jenny
Title: Emlyn's moon
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Nia is warned against
entering Llewelyn's chapel, but does so,
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and there, with the help of Emlyn and
his father discovers a special gift that
she was unaware that she possessed.
Author: Paulsen, Gary
Title: Dogsong
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Russel takes a dog team
and sled to escape his village and find
the "song" that will make sense of his
life. Journeying across ice flows, and
haunted by dreams, he meets a
pregnant Eskimo girl whose life he must
save. But first he must kill a vicious
polar bear in the ancient way of his
people.
Author: Paulsen, Gary
Title: Hatchet : The call (Book 4 in
Hatchet series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: When thirteen year old
Brians' plane crashlands in the
Canadian wilderness only his survival
skills and his trusty hatchet enable him
to survive. Two years on, Brian is back
in the city, and hating it. He has to obey
the call to return to the woods. Fourth
and final part of the series.
Author: Paulsen, Gary
Title: Hatchet : Winter (Book 3 in
Hatchet series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Brian was
stranded alone in the Canadian
wilderness. Somehow he survived and
was rescued in the summer. But what if
Brian hadn't been rescued? What if
Brian had been left to confront his
deadliest enemy - winter? The Author:
wrote this book in response to the
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thousands of readers who wrote and
asked him how Brian would have coped.
Author: Paulsen, Gary
Title: The return (Book 2 in Hatchet
series)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Brian is asked to return to
the wilderness though this time
accompanied by an adult
and two-way radio. Unforeseen
catastrophe forces him to face a new
terror and series of desperate
adventures.
Author: Pearce, Philippa
Title: Tom's midnight garden
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
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Summary: When Tom hears the
grandfather clock strike 13, he is not
prepared for what is going to happen.
Outside the back door is a garden,
which everyone tells him doesn't exist.
But the magical place in which Tom
finds himself is certainly a garden his
midnight garden.
Author: Picoult, Jodi
Title: My sister's keeper
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Anna was genetically
engineered to be a perfect match for her
cancer-ridden older sister. Since birth, the
13-year-old has donated platelets, blood,
her umbilical cord, and bone marrow as
part of her family's struggle to lengthen
Kate's life. Anna is now being considered
as a kidney donor in a last-ditch attempt to
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save her 16-year-old sister. As this
compelling story opens, Anna has hired a
lawyer to represent her in a medical
emancipation suit to allow her to have
control over her own body.
Author: Pilkey, Dav
Title: The adventures of Captain
Underpants.
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Captain Underpants is about
2 boys named George and Harold. They
are both trouble making boys who
always get in trouble for making pranks
and making stupid comic books.
Author: Pratchett, Terry
Title: The amazing Maurice and his
educated rodent
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
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Summary: Maurice has survived four
years on the toughest streets of
Discworld. He reckons that rats are
dumb, but he's smart enough to realize
that there's a new kind of rat around rats who can talk. This smart cat gets
his own "plague of rats" and a Pied
Piper, but are there any ordinary rats
left? Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has
the perfect money-making scam. He's
found a stupid-looking kid who plays a
pipe, and he has his own very plague of
rats - rats who are strangely educated,
so Maurice can no longer thin
Author: Pullman,Philip
Title: I was A Rat…or The Scarlet
Slippers
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When a small boy turns up
on Bob and Joan's doorstep unable to
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say much except 'I was a rat', the kindly
couple adopt him. It seems strange but
Bob reads about odder things every day
in his newspaper. To them, the sunny
little chap is Roger, and he's trying hard
to adapt to human life. But when he gets
lost and ends up on the run, other
people, egged on by their newspapers,
are quick to see him as the Monster, a
rodent fiend who could terrorise the
town. Only a friend in a very high place
could save Roger from the authorities
who are determined to exterminate him
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Author: Pullman, Philip
Title: Northern lights (Book 1 in His dark
materials trilogy)
(4 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: “Without this child, we shall all
die." Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon
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live half-wild and carefree among scholars
of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that
awaits her will take her to the frozen lands
of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and
ice-bearsfight. Her extraordinary journey
will have immeasurable consequences far
beyond her own world...
Author: Pullman, Philip
Title: The amber spyglass (Book 3 in His
dark materials trilogy)
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Will and Lyra, the two children
at the heart of the books, have become
separated amidst great dangers. Can they
find each other, and their friends? Then
complete their mysterious quest before it's
too late?.
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Author: Pullman, Philip
Title: The subtle knife (Book 2 in His dark
materials trilogy)
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: As the boundaries between
worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her
daemon help Will Parry in his search for his
father and for a powerful, magical knife.
Author: Quinn, John.
Title: The summer of Lily and Esme .
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Alan has just moved from
Dublin to live in an old house in the
country. There the mystery begins - a
locked room at the top of the house a
story of the ghost of a boy called Albert and his new neighbours two elderly
women called Lily and Esme who insist
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on calling him Albert. Determined to
solve the mystery Alan with the help of
his new friend Lisa and some friendly
grown-ups unearths the story of another
summer seventy years before - and is at
last able to give Lily and Esme their
dearest wish.
Author: Rowling, J.K
Title: The Tales of Beedle the Bard
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The book contains five fairy
tales written, ostensibly, in the 15th
century by Beedle the Bard (possessor
of an 'exceptionally luxuriant beard'),
The Tales of Beedle the Bard played a
crucial role in assisting Harry, with his
friends Ron and Hermione, to finally
defeat Lord Voldemort.
Author: Rowling, J. K.
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Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows (Book 7)
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Voldemort's power is
growing stronger. He now has control
over the Ministry of Magic and
Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione
decide to finish Dumbledore's work and
find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat
the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for
them, so everything they do must go as
planned
Author: Rowling, J. K.
Title: Harry Potter and the chamber of
secrets (Book 2)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Harry Potter is a wizard. He
is in his second year at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and
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is immersed in the daily round of
Potions, Herbology, Charms,
Defence Against the Dark Arts, and
Quidditch. But then horrible things start
happening. Harry hears evil voices, and
sinister messages appear on the wall.
Nothing can prepare Harry and his
friends for what happens next.
Author: Rowling, J. K.
Title: Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
(Book 4)
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Harry Potter wakes up with
his scar burning and can't stop worrying
about this until Ron's timely invitation to
the Quidditch World Cup. Something
horrible happens at the match which
casts a shadow over everyone.
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Author: Rowling, J. K.
Title: Harry Potter and the half-blood
prince. (Book 6)
(4 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: 'In a brief statement on
Friday night, Minister for Magic
Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who
Must Not Be Named has returned to this
country and is once more active. "It is
with great regret that I must confirm that
the wizard styling himself Lord - well,
you know who I mean - is alive and
among us again," said Fudge.' Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes
up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year
at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, with Voldemort's power and
followers increasing day by
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Author: Rowling, J. K.
Title: Harry Potter and the order of the
phoenix. (Book 5)
(6 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Dumbledore lowered his
hands and surveyed Harry through his
half-moon glasses. "It is time," he said,
"for me to tell you what I should have
told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit
down. I am going to tell you everything."
Author: Rowling, J. K.
Title: Harry Potter and the philosopher's
stone. (Book 1)
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Harry Potter had lived with
his aunt, uncle and cousin for ten
miserable years, in a cupboard under
the stairs. He had been with them ever
since his parents were killed in a car
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crash. When he was younger, Harry
dreamed of being rescued but nothing
happened - until he is rescued by an owl
and taken to Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry where he
becomes a wizard. Harry Potter thinks
he is an ordinary boy until he is rescued
by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Author: Rowling, J. K.
Title: Harry Potter and the prisoner of
Azkaban (Book 3)
(3 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Harry Potter is a wizard in
his third year at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. The
atmosphere at Hogwarts is tense. The
sinister prison guards of Azkaban have
been called in to guard the school and
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Harry, Ron and Hermione soon discover
why wizards live in fear of Azkaban.
Author: Sachar, Louis
Title: Holes
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Stanley Yelnat's family has a
history of bad luck going back
generations, so he is not too surprised
when a miscarriage of justice sends him
to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention
Centre. Nor is he surprised when he is
told that his daily labour is to dig a hole
and report all he finds there in.
Author: Sachar, Louis
Title: There’s a Boy in the Girl’s
Bathroom.
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Bradley Chalkers is the
oldest kid in the fifth grade. He tells
enormous lies. He picks fights with girls.
No one likes him—except Carla, the
new school counsellor. She thinks
Bradley is sensitive and generous, and
knows that Bradley could change, if only
he weren’t afraid to try. But when you
feel like the most-hated kid in the whole
school, believing in yourself can be the
hardest thing in the world...
Author: Serraillier, Ian
Title: The silver sword
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Although the silver sword
was only a paper knife, it became the
symbol of hope and courage which kept
four deserted children alive through the
years of occupation, and afterwards on
the exhausting and dangerous journey
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from war-torn Poland to Switzerland,
where they hoped to find their parents.
Author: Seuss, Dr
Title: ABC
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
Summary: Learning the alphabet is
bound to be fun with Dr. Seuss. Each
letter is featured with Dr. Seuss's
unmistakably nonsensical illustrations
and text: "Lion with a lollipop," "Camel
on the ceiling," "Uncle Ubb's umbrella
Author: Seuss, Dr
Title: Fox in Socks
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
Summary: The rhyme involves Fox
teaching tongue twisters to his suffering
colleague, Mr. Knox; until, at the end,
Mr. Knox has his revenge. The tongue
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twisters gradually increase in difficulty
as the book progresses.
Author: Seuss, Dr
Title: Green Eggs and Ham
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
Summary: The story is told wholly
through images and rhyming dialogue.
There is no descriptive narrative or
analysis. There are two main
characters: The first is unnamed
(sometimes called Sam-I'm-Not, Joey,
Henry or Herman), the second is named
Sam-I-Am, or simply Sam. Throughout
the book, Sam tries to encourage the
first unnamed character to try green
eggs and ham but with little success.
The unnamed character refuses to taste
the dish, insisting that he would not like
it
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Author: Seuss, Dr
Title: I can read with my Eyes Shut
(1 Volume, Arial 36)
Summary: In this book, Dr. Seuss
celebrates the joys of reading, and
encourages children to take pride in
their budding reading abilities with this
unique combination of hilarious stories,
zany pictures and riotous rhymes.
Author: Seuss, Dr
Title: The cat in the hat
Summary: When the Cat in the Hat
steps in on the mat, Sally and her
brother are in for a roller-coaster ride of
havoc and mayhem! The Cat can
rescue them from a dull rainy day, but it
means lots of thrills and spills along the
way.
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Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry and the bogey
babysitter
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Horrid Henry encounters the
babysitter from hell, traumatises his
parents on a car journey, goes trick-ortreating at Halloween and sabotages his
school project. Four stories, as brilliant
and inventive as ever, to add to "the
funniest series ever written about sibling
rivalry and what it's like to be a young
child".
Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry and the Football
Fiend
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Henry as always is getting in
trouble - nothing ever happens quite the
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way it is supposed to do! It can spell
disaster for those around him - for
example, hearing that his little brother is
about the read parts of his diary aloud in
school, Henry sets out to make them
more interesting. But what Henry
regards as interesting can be extremely
embarrassing for all concerned.
Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry and the secret club
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Yet again he is out to cause
trouble but this time Perfect Peter has
other ideas. Why doesn't anyone notice
when Peter is being horrid? A naughty
tale of fun and wickedness.
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Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry tricks the tooth fairy
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Henry is up to his horrid
tricks again. He tries, and fails, to trick
the tooth fairy, rids his family of an
unwelcome houseguest and singlehandedly creates havoc at Cousin
Polly's wedding.
Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Whenever Henry is around
there's trouble with a capital "T".
Everyone agrees he's horrid. His little
brother, Peter, on the other hand, is
perfect. But Henry has ways of getting
even with perfect Peter - especially
when moody Margaret is close at hand
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Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry’s Christmas Cracker
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: A selection of Christmas
themed stories that all run in order of the
month running up to Christmas itself.
This fun and festive book sees Horrid
Henry threatening to ruin his school play
and disrupt Christmas for everyone!
Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry's haunted house
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Horrid Henry gets into a
battle with his brother, Perfect Pete,
over what TV show to watch; goes on
TV himself; discovers where X marks
the spot so he can cheat in the hidden
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competition; and spends the night in a
house he's assured is haunted. It's
business as usual for the tiny terror!
Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry's revenge
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Henry accompanies his
father to the office, hacks into his
parents' computer, meets the Demon
Dinner Lady and plans the ultimate
revenge on Perfect Peter.
Author: Simon, Francesca
Title: Horrid Henry's stinkbomb
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Horrid Henry uses a
stinkbomb in his feud with Moody
Margaret; he wins the school reading
competition, only to find the prize is not
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what he expected; and he enjoys seeing
Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the Head
when he knows it was all his fault.
Author: Snicket, Lemony
Title: The austere academy
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: As their outrageous
misfortune continues, the Baudelaire
orphans are shipped off to a miserable
boarding school, where they befriend
the two Quagmire triplets and find that
they have been followed by dreaded
Count Olaf.
Author: Snicket, Lemony
Title: The bad beginning (Book 1 of a
series of unfortunate events)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: The Baudelaire children,
Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, are
exceedingly unlucky. Their parents had
been killed, and they are forced to go
and stay with Uncle Olaf. It soon turns
out that Olaf has evil plans for the
children.
Author: Snicket, Lemony
Title: The reptile room (Book 2 of a
series of unfortunate events)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: After narrowly escaping the
menacing clutches of the dastardly
Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire
orphans are taken in by a kindly
herpetologist with whom they live
happily for an all-too-brief time.
Author: Snicket, Lemony
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Title: The wide window (Book 3 of a
series of unfortunate events)
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The Baudelaire orphans
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny go off to live
with widowed Aunt Josephine, who is a
very nervous lady and is afraid of almost
everything. Her great passion in life is
English grammar. Unfortunately for the
orphans, Aunt Josephine's house is
perched precariously on a cliff that
overlooks Lake Lachrymose, a lake
filled with deadly leeches. In addition,
Hurricane Herman is headed toward
them. But, most unfortunate for the
orphans, Count Olaf, in the guise of
Captain Sham, has found them.
Author: Steinbeck, John,
Title: Of mice and men
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: This classic novella follows
the lives of two "bindle stiffs", George
Milton and Lennie Small, as they move
from ranch to ranch looking for work.
They dream of owning a piece of land.
George is quick witted. Lennie, on the
other hand is very strong physically but
limited mentally and has a fascination
for touching soft things, such as rabbit
fur and clothes fabrics, which causes
tragic consequences.
Author: Stine, R. L.
Title: Beach party
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Karen has invited her friend
Ann-Marie to stay at her dad's beach
apartment for the summer. They've even
met two guys to hang out with. But
someone doesn't want Karen to get
close to Jerry. In fact, if she gets too
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close, they are prepared to go in for the
kill.
Author: Stine, R. L.
Title: Nightmare hour
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: "These are my scariest
stories ever," says R. L. Stine, "because
I wrote them at the Nightmare Hour."
You know when that is ... it's when the
lights fade, the real world slips into
shadow, and the cold, moonlit world of
evil dreams takes over your mind.
Author: Storr, Catherine
Title: Clever Polly and the stupid wolf.
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: It's not every little girl who
finds a great black wolf at her front door,
saying he's going to eat her up. But
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clever Polly isn't frightened. She has a
plan that's bound to foil the stupid wolf!
Author: Strong, Jeremy
Title: Fat bag: The demon vacuum
cleaner
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The new school vacuum
cleaner is no ordinary machine. It's a
monstrous creation with a dreadful
mission. It has slurped its way out of the
playground on to the streets, and is
eating up everything in its path. It is
getting bigger and stronger to carry out
its evil plan - to sweep up humans
everywhere and take over the planet!
Someone has to stop it, but how?
Author: Swindells, Robert
Title: Abomination
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Martha is 12 and very
different from other children. No
television, no computer, no cool clothes,
especially no friends. Martha has a
secret, a shameful secret. Its name is
Abomination.
Author: Swindells, Robert
Title: Room 13
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The terrible nightmare Fliss
has before the school trip to Whitby is
becoming a chilling reality. The hotel
they are staying in holds a sinister
secret. Every night at the stroke of
midnight something strange happens to
the cupboard on the hotel's dark
landing. None of the teachers will
believe what Fliss has seen but time is
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rapidly running out for Ellie-May
Sunderland. Fliss will need to act quickly
if she is to be saved...
Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
Title: Roll of thunder, hear my cry
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Set in Mississippi at the
height of the Depression, this is the
story of a black farming family's struggle
to maintain their pride, dignity and
independence against the forces of a
cruelly racist society. Narrated by nineyear-old Cassie, it tells of one turbulent
year of tragedy and economic hardship,
of night riders and burnings. Sometimes
terrifying, sometimes warm and
humorous, this novel is now a
recognised classic for teenagers.
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Author: Taylor, Theodore
Title: The Cay
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: When the freighter on which
they are travelling is torpedoed by a
German submarine during World War II,
a twelve-year-old boy, blinded by a blow
on the head, and an elderly black
deckhand are stranded on a desert
island in the Caribbean. The man's
wisdom and love enable the boy to
acquire courage and insight and to
overcome his bigotry.
Author: Temperley, Alan
Title: Harry and the wrinklies
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: When Harry's sent to stay
with his great-aunts at Lagg hall, he
thinks he is in for a really dull time. But
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Auntie Florrie, Aunt Bridget and their
elderly friends aren't quite as Harry
expects them to be. Aren't they too old
to be driving fast cars and climbing
trees?
Author: Thompson, D.C. & Co.
Title: The Beano Annual 2010
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
Title: The hobbit: or There and back
again
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: Whisked from his
comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the
wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo
Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot
to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the
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Magnificent, a large and very dangerous
dragon.
Author: Tolkien, J.R.R.
Title: The fellowship of the ring.
(4 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: In "The Fellowship of the
Ring" the young hobbit, Frodo, is
bequeathed a magical ring from his
Uncle Bilbo, and learns that he must
take it into the land of the DarkLord,
Sauron, and cast it into the Cracks of
Doom.
Author: Tomlinson, Jill
Title: The cat who wanted to go home
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Suzy is a little striped cat,
who lives in a French seaside village
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with a fisherman and his four sons. Like
all cats, Suzy is very inquisitive, which
causes problems when she climbs into
the basket of a hot air balloon - and is
carried off over the Channel to England!
How will she ever get back to France? It
won't be easy, but Suzy refuses to be
put off by a bit of water...
Author: Tomlinson, Jill
Title: The gorilla who wanted to grow up
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Pongo, a young male gorilla
wants to grow up. He learns about the
differing roles of his family and the
community in which he lives. Through
play with his young sister (Whoopsie)
and his friends he finds his future role in
life which is to be the leader of the
gorilla troop.
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Author: Tomlinson, Jill
Title: The owl who was afraid of the
dark
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Plop is exactly the same as
every baby barn owl that has ever been
- except for one thing. Plop is afraid of
the dark. His parents keep telling him
that dark is best, but it's no use. Plop
just wants to be out of the nest to ask
other people what they think of the dark,
and Plop is amazed at their replies...
Author: Tomlinson, Jill
Title: Penguin's progress
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Otto is a penguin chick and
he lives with lots of other penguins in
the ice and snow of Antarctica, at the
bottom of the world. But Otto is different
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from all the other chicks he knows,
because he is "first chick," the first
penguin born that year so it's his job to
look after all the younger ones as they
grow up. But nobody has told him
what "growing up" means, and life is
both confusing and exciting for Otto as
he wonders what will happen next!
Author: Townsend, Sue.
Title: The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged
13 3/4
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: At thirteen years old, Adrian
Mole has more than his fair share of
problems - spots, ill-health, parents
threatening to divorce, rejection of his
poetry and much more - all recorded with
brilliant humour in his diary.
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Author: Ure, Jean
Title: Skinny Melon and me
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Cherry's teacher says that
keeping a diary is a good way to unclog
your head of all the bits and pieces that
worry you or make you angry. Cherry's
mum has remarried - will Cherry learn to
like Slimey Roland? Will Mum reveal her
secret? Or will the ups and downs of
family life prove too much for all of
them?
Author: Vornholt, John
Title: Coyote moon: Buffy the vampire
slayer
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: The seedy carnival looks like
just the thing to give Buffy and her best
buds, Xander and Willow, a break from
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staking bloodsuckers. Some greasy
food, a few cheap thrills - what more
could a Slayer ask for? But then Buffy
senses something evil behind the
carnival. Xander and Willow aren't so
sure. They don't buy Buffy's notion
that the carneys are somehow
connected to the corpses turning up
around Sunnydale.
Author: Vornholt, John
Title: Knock on wood
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Westbridge High's American
football team is having a run of good
luck. The team are refusing to wash, as
they think it will bring good luck. Sabrina
and Dream a can't stand the smell and
decide to teach the boys a lesson and
show them how silly it is to be
superstitious. But their plan backfires.
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Author: Westall, Robert
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Title: The kingdom by the sea
Summary: Harry survives the air raid
but this home and parents are gone. He
begins an incredible journey, alone
except for Don, the dog. Harry is a
survivor, but there is one last battle he is
not prepared for. This won the Guardian
Children's Fiction Award and was highly
commended for the Carnegie Medal.
Author: White, E.B.
Title: Charlotte's web
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: This is the story of a girl
called Fern who loves a little pig called
Wilbur. And of how Wilbur's dear friend
Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful grey
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spider, saves Wilbur from the usual fate
of nice fat pigs, by a wonderfully clever
plan (which no one else could possibly
have thought of).
Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Title: On the banks of Plum Creek
(2 Volumes, Arial 24)
Summary: The family's first home in
Minnesota was made of sod. But Pa
builds a clean new house beside Plum
Creek. The money for materials will
come from their first wheat harvest.
Then, just before the wheat is ready to
harvest a strange glittering cloud fills the
sky, blocking out the sun. Soon millions
of grasshoppers cover the field and
everything on the farm. In a week's time,
there is no wheat left at all.
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Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Bad girls
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Mandy had been picked on
at school for as long as she could
remember. That's why she is delighted
when cheeky, full-of-fun Tanya picks her
as a friend. Mum isn't that happy - she
thinks Tanya is a "bad girl" and a bad
influence. Mandy's sure that Tanya can
only get her out of trouble, not into it... or
could she?
Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Cliffhanger
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: From climbing and abseiling
to canoeing and a Crazy Bucket Race,
the adventure holiday promises to be full
of action. There's just one problem as
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far as Tim is concerned: he is hopeless
at sports of any kind. Can he survive the
horrors of a week absolutely packed
with activity? There are surprises in
store for everyone!
Author: Wilson Jacqueline
Title: Cookie
Summary: The main character in
cookie is Beauty Cookson. She goes to
a posh girls school and hates it. The
girls are stuck up and tease her as
Beauty is rather plain and very timid.
Her mum is her dad’s third wife and very
young. Dad is a bully which probably
why he has been married three times.
He terrifies his wife Dilly and little
Beauty. He has very strict house rules
and is constantly criticising Beauty for
her lack of looks. Mum and daughter
live in fear of him. After an awful
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birthday party with the girls in her class
that have bullied her all year Dad does
something unforgivable. Dilly and
Beauty run away.
Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Girls in tears
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Ellie, Magda and Nadine
have got all sorts of trouble. A kiss at a
party threatens to break Ellie and
Magda's friendship. But they both know
that Nadine's about to get into big
trouble with an "Internet date" and only
the two of them together can save her.
Will pride or friendship come first?
Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Girls out late
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: Nine o'clock. That's when I
have to be home. Dad thinks it's not
safe any later. But then the most
amazing things happen. Out with my
best friends, gorgeous Magda and
super-cool Nadine, I meet a boy. And it's
"me" he's interested in. But will stay
interested in a girl who has to be home
by nine?
Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Girls under pressure
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Ellie is convinced that she
has to go on a diet, even though her
friends think that she is being silly.
Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Lola Rose
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
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Summary: When Jayni, her mum and
little brother have to run away from her
abusive father, it starts off as an
adventure. They slip out at night, go up
to London and stay in a hotel, and even
make up false identities. But when the
money runs out and reality bites, is it still
a game they should play?
Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Secrets
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: A chance meeting sparks a
friendship between two very different
girls, Treasure and India. When
Treasure has to run away to avoid her
stepfather, India comes up with a hiding
place inspired by her favourite Author:
Anne Frank. India hasn't got a real
Secret Annexe but she has got a hidden
attic.
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Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: Sleepovers
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: Amy, Bella, Chloe, Daisy
and Emily are school-friends who plan
ever-more elaborate sleepover parties
for their birthdays, until Daisy, the
newest member of their club begins to
dread her turn, wondering what her
friends will make of her home and her
sister, who has learning disabilities.
Author: Wilson Jacqueline
Title: The Story of Tracy Beaker
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: This book is like a fictional
diary and a girl, aged 10, in a foster care
home, is writing in it. Follow Tracy as
she writes about her life in the so-called
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“Dumping Ground” with friends and
enemies…
Author: Wilson, Jacqueline
Title: The suitcase kid
(1 Volume, Arial 24)
Summary: My family always lived at
Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad and me and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But we
didn't live happily ever after. Now Mum
lives with Bill the Baboon and his three
kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her
twins. And where do I live? I live out of a
suitcase. Winner of the 1993 Children's
Book award and shortlisted
for the 1993 Carnegie Medal.
Author: Zusak, Markus.
Title: The book thief
(5 Volumes, Arial 24)
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Summary: Trying to make sense of the
horrors of World War II, Death relates the
story of Liesel--a young German girl whose
book-stealing and story-telling talents help
sustain her family and the Jewish man they
are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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