The twice-lived summer of Bluebell Jones

On her thirteenth birthday, Blue makes a desperate wish. To be transformed into a cool, confident teenager. Enter Red, appearing from nowhere like a wacky fairy godmother. She's only visible to Blue - in fact, she IS Blue, but a year older. With Red by her side to guide her, Blue can avoid all the gruesome embarrassments! But her future self causes a heap of crazy trouble - and there are dark s…

Our tragic universe

Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. So when a book called The Science of Living Forever lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it, starting on a labyrinthine journey that takes her from mysterious beasts of the moor to forest fairies to ships in bottles. New Age theories of everything to physics to narrative theory, and forces her to ask: Does anyone really want to…

The Kingdom of Mammals : The Wonderful World Of Knowledge

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9780005554675

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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's alternate scenarios

On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched a massive surprise attack on the Allies. The Battle of the Bulge had begun. Had Hitler's gambit succeeded, a German victory in the war would have certainly been possible, if not likely. Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios explores this idea, revealing exactly how history could have been dramatically altered. What if the Germans successfully pre…

African Animal Tales: Enormous Elephant

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9781444937619

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African Animal Tales

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The reality frame: Relativity and our place in the universe

Weaving together the great ideas of science, 'The Reality Frame' takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive transformation that life itself has wrought on the natural world. He reveals that underlying …

The gift

In this modern-day fable, workaholic executive Lou Steffen shows an uncharacteristic burst of generosity towards Gabe, a homeless man who always seems to be in two places at once. With Lou's personal and professional fates at important crossroads and Christmas looming, Gabe resorts to some unorthodox methods to show his stubborn patron what truly matters and how precious the gift of time is. …

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Mother tongue

A story set in Russia, about the aftermath of a terrorist attack in which the 18-year-old narrator, Darya, loses her young sister Nika. Darya escapes to Moscow where she eventually realises that running away is no cure for grief.

My grandmother sends her regards & apologises

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9781444775853

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Green Planet ; Life in our woods and forests

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9781912756025

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Colours of the world

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The secret garden

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden

Egg: A Photographic Story of Hatching

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978-0751351033

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KNOWLEDGE MASTER: WILD ANIMALS

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Monkeys (Nature Watch)

A monkey has flexible arms to swing through the trees, a long tail for balance, good eyesight to spot food and predators and - most important of all - a large brain to make sense of its world. This guide explores the complicated lives of monkeys and other small primates. Discover why some Japanese macaques wash their food before eating it, find out how the fearsome canine teeth of male baboons …

Ladybird Tales: The Three Little Pigs

This beautiful Ladybird ebook edition of The Three Little Pigs is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the three pigs as they leave their home and venture out into the big bad world, only to meet the big, bad wolf! Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Tales series include The Little Red Hen, …

The nest

When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means

Ike's Incredible Ink

The journey is the important thing in this tale of a sympathetic -- if temporarily distracted -- artistic soul. Ike wants to write a story, an incredible story. He's all ready to go, but even after cleaning his room and calling his best friend, he somehow can't seem to get started. And then Ike realizes what's missing -- he needs new ink. His very own ink, made from just the right ingredients. …

How to say I love you out loud

When Jordyn's autistic brother joins her at her elite school her junior year, she is determined not to let anyone know they are related, even if that means closing herself off to her closest friends Erin, Tanu, and Alex, the football captain she secretly loves.

House of windows

Maths prodigy Alex goes to Cambridge University at the age of fifteen, where he struggles with making friends and with the transition to university. After joining the school rowing team, he manages to find a place for himself, both within the university and within his family.

Under the same stars

Shabanu, daughter of the windswept Cholistan desert, is the youngest of Rahim's four wives. Although her husband adores her, it is only in his rarely inhabited town house, away from the family home, that Shabanu and her daughter can escape the cruelty of the other wives. But there Shabanu falls dangerously in love with another man, and she must decide whether it is right to follow her heart.

Deenie

A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.

Fleabrain loves Franny

This middle-grade novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952-53. The protagonist is Franny, a young girl of imagination, curiosity, and stubbornness. While recovering from polio, she begins a correspondence with a flea named Fleabrain

Chasing the sun

Georgia Green is on the conveyor belt to happiness. Live-in boyfriend, perfect career and great friends, it seems like Georgia is only a Tiffany box away from her happily ever after. But when she arrives in Australia for her best friend's wedding and is faced with the bridezilla from hell, she starts to realise that she might not want the cookie-cutter ending she thought. What was meant to be…

Listen to the moon

May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies-- injured, thirsty, lost-- and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy. Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even, as some islanders suggest, a German spy? Only one thing is for sure: she loves music and moonlight, and it is …

Honour

Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood.

The night train: A novel

In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music helps Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.

A song for Ella Grey

Claire witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if Ella Grey has been captured and taken from her, but the loss of her best friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world in this modern take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Northern England.

The girl who could silence the wind

On the night Sonia Ocampo is born, the village folk of Tres Montes survive the most horrific storm they have ever seen. Immediately they believe Sonia must possess a special gift to heal and protect. But after a young boy dies despite her prayers, sixteen-year-old Sonia is filled with shame and a sense of utter powerlessness. The hundreds of tiny gold symbols pinned to her shawl now only seem l…

The toymaker's apprentice

Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.