Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage)
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A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
£8.99A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
A charming, heartwarming story following a Miami girl who unexpectedly finds love – and herself – in a small English town.
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A Dinosaur Ate My Sister
£6.99A Dinosaur Ate My Sister
A Dinosaur Ate My Sister by Pooja Puri is the wonderfully-illustrated, side-splitting, time travel adventure perfect for every Inventor-in-the-making!
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A Flash of Fireflies
£7.99A Flash of Fireflies
A magical middle grade book about family, friendship and finding your place, with a delicate touch of magic. Perfect for 10-12 year olds and fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Michelle Harrison and Kiran Millwood-Hargrave and The Girl Who Speaks Bear.
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A Fox Called Herbert
£6.99A Fox Called Herbert
Meet Herbert: the rabbit who knows he was born to be a fox. When his mummy isn’t looking, he puts on pointy fox ears, makes himself a bushy tail, and asks his sister to paint him orange, just like a fox. But Mummy doesn’t understand: why can’t he just be a good rabbit? ‘A Fox Called Herbert’ is a true celebration of being ourselves and supporting our loved ones. Let this joyful tale inspire you to be who you are and follow your dreams.
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A Gangster Stole My Trunks
£7.99A Gangster Stole My Trunks
When Jesse’s grandad wins tickets to a retirement cruise and offers to bring Jesse along, Jesse is not exactly thrilled. But from the moment the pair arrive on the cruise ship, it’s a different story. Mysterious cat burglars, crime lords and smugglers all seem to be on board … and odder than that, Gramps knows them all!
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A Girl Called Joy
£6.99A Girl Called Joy
Meet ten-year-old Joy Applebloom, a girl with a knack for finding the silver lining in even the darkest of rainclouds. After years of travelling the world with her parents and older sister, Claude (Claude rhymes with bored, which is just about right), Joy and her family move to suburbia – back to school, back to her grumpy, rule-obsessed grandad and back to normality. Joy soon finds her usual irrepressible positivity and zest for life waning, but when the powers that be threaten to pull down a mighty oak tree, Joy decides to fight back, and realizes that not all magic requires wands and spells, and perhaps the most important sort of magic is the power, resilience and courage that was there all along.
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A Horse Called Moon
£6.99A Horse Called Moon
Knitbone Pepper’s beloved owner Winnie is fascinated by the stars after Knitbone digs up an ancient telescope. So when a heartbroken ghost horse asks for help finding her owner – a world-famous astronomer – Knitbone looks to the skies for a dazzling answer.
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A Moon Girl Stole My Friend
£6.99A Moon Girl Stole My Friend
It’s 2099. Lyla lives in a world of robocats, flying sweets and instant snow, but some things never change. Little brothers are still annoying, school teachers make you cringe, and, when your best friend deserts you for the new girl, it still hurts. Especially when that new girl is from the Moon. But Lyla’s problems lead her into unexpected adventures.
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A most mysterious monster
£7.99A most mysterious monster
When Kevin and his family get stuck in a strange town, they accidentally wake up something OLD and VERY HUNGRY. It’s up to Kevin to save everyone – or else!
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A Most Peculiar Toy Factory
£6.99A Most Peculiar Toy Factory
Something has gone very wrong at Hoggle’s Happy Toys. But five years after shutting its doors, the toy factory is opening again … Bestselling author Alex Bell serves up mystery and dark humour aplenty in this Roald Dahl-esque middle-grade tale of toys brought to life. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+
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A Seal Pup Called Pearl
£6.99A Seal Pup Called Pearl
Jasmine’s dad is a farmer, and her mum is a large-animal vet, so Jasmine spends a lot of time caring for animals and keeping them out of trouble. Unfortunately, this often means she gets into hot water herself. When a newborn seal pup is abandoned on the riverbank, Jasmine and Tom are determined to care for her until she’s old enough to be released. But there are other dangers for baby seals, and when Pearl’s life is threatened again, nobody knows what the future will hold. Will Pearl ever be able to return to the sea?
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A Shirley Hughes Christmas
£14.99A Shirley Hughes Christmas
It’s nearly Christmas, and it’s time for everyone’s favourite Shirley Hughes characters to get ready for the most magical time of the year. There are presents to be hidden, Christmas trees to be decorated and carols to be sung. And when Christmas Eve finally arrives, will Father Christmas come for Lucy and Tom, Alfie and Dave?
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A sudden storm
£7.99A sudden storm
An innocent night out to celebrate his sixteenth birthday turns to tragedy when Arjan is targeted by a group of racist thugs, who single him out for the colour of his skin and the turban that he wears.
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A taste of darkness
£8.99A taste of darkness
A chilling, thrilling collection of 13 haunting tales. From supernatural thrillers, to contemporary horror; creepy ancient legends, to murders gone wrong – this insatiable anthology is impossible to put down, and even more difficult to forget. This must-have collection will keep you awake and inhabit your darkest dreams.
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A treasury of tales for five-year-olds
£14.99A treasury of tales for five-year-olds
Snuggle up together and enjoy this collection of charming and engaging stories written by Gabby Dawnay and selected especially for five-year-olds by literacy experts. The luxurious book with sparkling foil and ribbon marker will make this a must-have gift for the birthday of any five-year-old and Heidi Griffiths’ charming illustrations will mean that the child will cherish this book even as they grow older.
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After
£6.99After
Following a heartbreaking struggle to survive as a Jewish child in Germany, Felix faces perhaps his greatest challenge; to find hope when he’s lost almost everything. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing.
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