Adventure Books

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Red Moon Rising (previously Faerie Tribes: The Crystal Mirror)

by Paula Harrison

Laney thinks she’s just an ordinary girl but from the moment she sees a blood-red moon, everything changes. She discovers she’s a member of the Mist Tribe, and her Awakening has set off a chain of events that are dangerous and magical.

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YOUNG_KNIGHTS_ROUND_TABLE_CVR_APR13-1Young Knights of the Round Table

by Julia Golding

Snatched from their cradles by faerie thieves, Rick, Roxy, and Tiago have been brainwashed to hate humans and trained in the art of magical warfare. When Avalon is attacked by an unseen enemy, the Fey send them to Earth to investigate a rumour that the Round Table is being re-formed. 

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YOUNG KNIGHTS_PENDRAGON_CVR_OCT13Young Knights: Pendragon

by Julia Golding

To stop tyrannical King Oberon from invading the human world, Rick and Roxy must track down the legendary Arthur Pendragon and recruit him to fight for their cause. Only then will they stand a chance against Oberon’s armies. But can they find him . . . before it’s too late?

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Opal MoonbabyOpal Moonbaby

by Maudie Smith

It’s the summer holiday and Martha’s decided to spend it alone. She never wants to make another friend, ever! But then a strange furry creature leads her to Opal Moonbaby, an alien girl who just won’t take no for an answer.

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Opal Moonbaby 2About Zooming Time, Opal Moonbaby!

by Maudie Smith

Opal Moonbaby is spending a year on Earth. A whole year! Martha can’t wait to take her to school and introduce her to her friends, but Opal disappears without warning, and even when she comes back, things don’t turn out quite as Martha expected.

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slightlyjones_3Slightly Jones and the Case of the Hidden City

by Joan Lennon

Slightly Jones arrives in the City of Art and Artists, in response to a bewildering telegram.  But will her first case out of her own country prove too much for our detective-in-training?  Will she discover the truth, or will she be lost forever beneath the streets of Paris? 

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dearscarlettjpgDear Scarlett

by Fleur Hitchcock

When Scarlett is given a box from her dead father she finds it’s full of clues. The book, the tools, the postcards, the key – if she can work out what they mean, maybe, together with her new friend Ellie, she can unlock the secrets about him and about herself. 

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amber-cover_new2Amber

by Julie Sykes

How do you live by the rules if you don’t know what they are?

Amber’s lost her memory. The only clues to her identity are an amber necklace and a broken mobile. She’s determined to learn the truth about her secret past but how many rules will she break along the way?

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A Face Like Glass

by Frances Hardinge

In the underground city of Caverna, craftsmen create extraordinary delicacies – amnesia-wines, vision-cheeses and mind-control-perfumes. It is a city of perfect liars, where everybody has been taught expressions by skilled ‘Facesmiths’. Into this distrustful world tumbles Neverfell, a young amnesiac who cannot lie, whose face betrays her every thought…

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 Perfectly Reflected

by SC Ransom

The thrilling sequel to Small Blue Thing: Alex owes Callum her life. She has to find a way that they can be together, but someone really doesn’t want that to happen. They’re out for revenge and will stop at nothing. Who hates Alex that much? And why?

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Perfect SummerPerfect Summer

by Karen King

Living in a society obsessed with perfection, Morgan can’t help being a bit envious of her best friend, Summer. Summer is beautiful, rich and her life seems so perfect. Then Morgan’s little brother, Josh, gets kidnapped. Can Morgan save him and is Summer’s life as perfect as it seems?

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The Case of the London DragonfishThe Case of the London Dragonfish 

by Joan Lennon

Slightly Jones has red hair, too many freckles and a fly-away temper, but she’s not going to let that stop her becoming the next Sherlock Holmes!  Join her as she battles mad scientists, Scottish ghosts and Egyptian mummies – no case is too strange … or dangerous! 

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Small Blue Thing Small Blue Thing 

by SC Ransom

Small Blue Thing – the award-winning starter to a gripping new trilogy. Love. Death. Memory. Betrayal. – The Thames holds its secrets. Alex doesn’t know who to believe, Callum or Catherine. One of them truly cares for her. One of them wants to prey on her memories. Both of them drowned.

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A Most Improper Magick

by Stephanie Burgis

Magic may be the greatest scandal in Regency England. But that’s not going to stop twelve-year-old Kat Stephenson when there are highwaymen to foil, sinister aristocrats to defeat…and true loves to capture for her two older sisters!

Join Kat for the first of the Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson.

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Raven HeartsRaven Hearts

by Fiona Dunbar

When Kitty goes to stay on an eerie, windswept moor,
she soon hears about a terrifying ghost hound rumoured to prey on humans,
A man has disappeared without a trace ­ and he’s not the first. Helped by
a strange spirit called Lupa, Kitty must solve the mystery ­ and fast.

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