Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories
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A history of my weird
£7.99A history of my weird
Starting high school was never going to be easy for Mo, but a fall out with her so-called friends leaves her lonelier than ever. Then she finds Onyx. Exploring an abandoned Victorian asylum may seem a weird way to develop a friendship, but then Mo has always found she does things a bit differently. Together they help each other accept their own differences even when others struggle to do the same. Determined to keep the pair apart, Onyx’s dad actions force them back to the secrecy of Denham asylum. On Halloween night, with the old building due for demolition, the two friends enter for the last time.
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A Monster Ate My Packed Lunch!
£7.99A Monster Ate My Packed Lunch!
Izzy and her friends are on a school trip to a big lake. Gary Petrie is excited because the lodges where they’re staying have ROBES AND SLIPPERS! The lake is dark and deep and a bit scary. But it’s when they open their packed lunches that they know! There’s a MONSTER in the lake and it’s coming for their CRISPS!
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Aliya aboard the time train
£7.99Aliya aboard the time train
Aliya can’t wait to return to the Infinitum Time-Travel Academy.But when evil magic threatens the city, and rumours of rogue magicianDorian Darke circulate, Aliya is sent away on the time-travellingtrain, the Silver Express. But the trip is derailed when apassenger is murdered. It becomes clear that Aliya must face terribledanger once again.
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Arsenic For Tea
£7.99Arsenic For Tea
Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy’s glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for Daisy’s birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing Uncle Felix. But it soon becomes clear that this party isn’t really about Daisy at all. Naturally, Daisy is furious. Then one of their party falls seriously, mysteriously ill – and everything points to poison. With wild storms preventing anyone from leaving, or the police from arriving, Fallingford suddenly feels like a very dangerous place to be.
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Busy nursery
£6.99Busy nursery
A first novelty board book about going to nursery, with push, pull and slide mechanisms.
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Chronicles of a lizard nobody
£7.99Chronicles of a lizard nobody
Master storyteller Patrick Ness turns to middle grade in a hilarious adventure about a mismatched group of animals attending school together, brought to life by funny illustrations. Zeke and Daniel have just been made hall monitors by Principal Wombat. This has nothing to do with the fact that they are monitor lizards. And never mind the fact Alicia, the only other monitor lizard in the school, is also a hall monitor. Somehow, the three hall monitors must impose order on arrogant lions, excitable seals and super-relaxed pandas. And worst of all, there is Pelicarnassus! A pompous giant pelican and the son of a major supervillain, who inexplicably has it out for the lizards. Can the hall monitor lizards and their new friend, a blind, fearsome red-tailed hawk, protect their school from all manner of outlandish threats?
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Coven
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Curious tides
£9.99Curious tides
An atmospheric dark academia fantasy for fans of The Atlas Six, The Binding, The Hazel Wood and Fourth Wing, set in a world of lunar magic, secret societies and dangerous friendships.
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Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
£7.99Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
Eleven-year-old Danny Chung loves drawing more than anything – certainly more than maths, which, according to his dad and everyone else, is what he is ‘supposed’ to be good at. He also loves having his own room where he can draw in peace, so his life is turned upside down when a surprise that he’s been promised turns out to be his little, wrinkly, ex-maths-champion grandmother from China. What’s worse, Nai Nai has to share his room, AND she takes the top bunk! Nai Nai can’t speak a word of English, which doesn’t make things easy for Danny when he is charged with looking after her during his school holidays. Babysitting Nai Nai is NOT what he wants to be doing! Before long though it becomes clear to Danny that there is more to Nai Nai than meets the eye, and that they have more in common that he thought possible.
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Desirable
£6.99Desirable
A hilarious comedy from award-winning Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell Boyce. When George gets an out-of-date aftershave for his birthday, he isn’t particularly impressed. But the aftershave seems to have developed some extra properties?and George is now irresistible to every girl around!
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Dexter Procter the ten-year-old doctor
£14.99Dexter Procter the ten-year-old doctor
It was clear from an early age that Dexter Procter was different. He started speaking at four seconds old. By the age of three, he had 87 A-levels, from Afrikaans to Zoology. And by ten, he was working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital. Despite a loving but annoying family and a couple of good friends (Rupi and Otto), Dexter’s always struggled to fit in. Add to this a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem at his old school (all the teachers struck down with awful diarrhoea) – will Dexter be able to save his job, save the school and find his place in the world? (Spoiler alert: yes!).
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Do you ship it
£8.99Do you ship it
When Cerys’ best friend and secret crush Jake moves to a new college, she realises she’s running out of time to take their relationship from platonic to romantic. She’ll do anything to get out of Jake’s friendzone, even if that means diving into the huge fantasy fandom he loves so much. But when Jake introduces Cerys to his shiny new friend Max, who goes to all the conventions and loves a costume, she realises she’ll need to do a lot more to grab Jake’s attention than just read a few fanfics. Can Cerys convince Jake they should become the new couple to ship? Or will he see straight through her cosplay?
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Dragon riders of Roar
£7.99Dragon riders of Roar
The epic and funny new magical fantasy series set in the world of the bestselling Land of Roar.
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Five star stories
£7.99Five star stories
The laugh-out-loud, packed-with-pictures Tom Gates bestseller – nowin paperback.Tom wants to write a five star story for a school project and takesinspiration from his collection of ODD OBJECTS.
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Fuzzy Mud
£7.99Fuzzy Mud
Tamaya is on a scholarship to the prestigious Woodridge Academy and every day she and seventh-grader Marshall walk to school together. They never go through the woods. And when they arrive at school they stop talking to each other – because Marshall can’t be seen to be friends with a little kid like Tamaya. Especially not with Chad around. Chad-the-bully, who makes Marshall’s life utterly miserable. But today, hoping to avoid Chad, Marshall and Tamaya decide to go through the woods – and what is waiting there for them is strange, sinister, and entirely unexpected.
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Ghost story society
£7.99Ghost story society
As if Shadowhall Academy wasn’t creepy enough, Lilian and her friends have started a Ghost Story Society. It’s all harmless fun, until one girl warns of a sinister book hidden somewhere in the school that can bring your darkest secrets to life. So when Lilian finds a mysterious book and discovers a long history of strange happenings at Shadowhall, she starts to suspect the terrifying story might be true. Lilian’s friends warn her not to mess with dark magic, but she’s never been one to resist an adventure. And when she writes her deepest secrets in the book, she unleashes a danger far worse than she could ever imagine.
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