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Threads
by Sophia Bennett
Fashion fairy tales really can happen. When Nonie, the trend setter, humanitarian Edie and budding actress Jenny meet a young African refugee called Crow, sketching a dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, they discover a common passion and somehow find a way to make all of their dreams come true.
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Young 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
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 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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About 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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Suzy P & the Trouble With Three
by Karen Saunders
The sequel to Me, Suzy P.
Suzy’s off camping. As if being stuck in a caravan in rainy Wales with her entire family, bezzie Millie and Mum’s best friend’s daughter, Isabella, wasn’t rough enough, Millie’s started spending all her time with Isabella. Suzy’s devastated. Can her friendship with Millie survive?
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Prim Improper
by Deirdre Sullivan
Primrose Leary has just started secondary school.
Likes: her pet rat, Roderick; her best friend, Joel; being a little bit different
Dislikes: living with Fintan; not having her mum around any more.
A funny book about being very sad indeed.
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Improper Order
by Deirdre Sullivan
Things are getting a bit DRAMATIC for Primrose Leary. Can she defeat the evil Karen, find True Love (and cake) but without losing her best friend – and get to be a cruciverbalist? And how come the dog is called Wayne Rooney? It’s all most improper.
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Shrunk!
by Fleur Hitchcock
SHRUNK! is the story of Tom Perks, who after finding a meteorite, develops the ability to shrink things. Unfortunately, he shrinks Jupiter, shortly followed by the school bully, and discovers that the Solar System is a delicate mechanism, as indeed, is friendship.
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Minnie Piper: The Ladybird Code
by Caroline Juskus
If you like parties, secrets and ladybirds this could be the spottylicious book for you! Minnie Piper is back and planning her best birthday ever when a string of riddles sets her off on a birthday treasure hunt.
Contains real riddles and Morse Code.
A Sunday Times recommended read.
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Minnie Piper: The Chocolate Cipher
by Caroline Juskus
Winner of THE FANTASTIC BOOK AWARDS!
The fabaroony Minnie Piper is on her toughest challenge yet – to solve Cleopatra’s Chocolate Cipher and win a year’s supply of chocolates! But disaster strikes when Wanda Wellingtons, is dognapped. Will Minnie ever see her dog again?
Contains hieroglyphics and puzzles so get cracking!
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Diary of a Mall Girl
by Luisa Plaja
Molly lives in the residential block of her local shopping centre, on the doorstep of all the best shops and entertainment – and right where most of the school gossip starts. But is being at the heart of everything as much fun as it sounds? Find out in Molly’s private diary!
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Kiss Date Love Hate
by Luisa Plaja
When Lex creates profiles for herself and her friends in a mysterious computer game, she makes a few wishful adjustments. If only these changes could come true in real life! And then they do…
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Eva and the Hidden Diary
by Judi Curtin
Eva’s great at solving problems, but surely even she can’t fix something that went wrong in the past? When Eva and Kate find a diary, written long ago by a girl their own age, they are determined to right old wrongs! But the present, too, is throwing challenges at them …
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The Year of Big Dreams
by Karen McCombie
Flo’s mum is in the final of the Big Dreams TV talent competition. She’s the nation’s favourite new star.
Their lives are about to change forever – just NOT in the way Flo expected…
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Ask Amy Green: Boy Trouble
by Sarah Webb
Ask Amy Green – any problem solved!
Alice Next Door
by Judi Curtin
Poor Megan! Not alone is she stuck with totally uncool parents, but now her very best friend, Alice, has moved away. Now Megan has to face school and the dreaded Melissa all on her own.
The two friends hatch a risky plot to get back together. But can their secret plan work?
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The Celeb Next Door
by Hilary Freeman
Rosie has lived in Paradise Avenue, Camden Town all her life. As well as the market to hang out at and gigs to go to, there are celebrities to spot, and TV studios where she and her best friends Sky and Vix might get noticed. When Rosie finds out that the drummer from a chart-topping group is moving into the house next door, she makes it her mission to befriend him. But things don’t turn out quite the way she expects …
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Silenced
by Simon Packham
Sand Dancers: Let the Dance Begin
by Lynda Waterhouse
My Big Fat Teen Crisis
By Jenny Smith
When Sam’s best friend Gemma moves away, she feels like a tragic loner. She’s in love with the new boy in History, but she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance.
It’s time, she decides, for a radical change of image.
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Everything is Fine (and Other Lies I Tell Myself)
by Cathy Brett
As the summer stretches endlessly ahead, 15 year-old Esther
needs something to distract her from her troubled family. Then she
finds 6 letters behind her bedroom fireplace: five from a young soldier
in the WW1 trenches to his girl, and one from her to him… unopened…
unsent.
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Me, Suzy P
by Karen Saunders
I’m Suzy Puttock, fourteen years old and a total disaster magnet. I embarrass myself ALL THE TIME.
I’ve had my boyfriend, Danny, since forever, but there’s this hot new guy, Zach, just started at school. And I kind of think I like him. So now I’m all kinds of confused!
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