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Author
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2016
Description
1942. England is at war. After surviving a bomb raid in Bethnal Green tube station, Doreen can't stop reliving the trauma, and leaves her office job in London. On the south coast, Ivy has been billeted with Doris, a cantankerous woman who is making Ivy's life a misery. When she escapes an explosion at the munitions factory, the nightmares won't go
6) Holes
Author
Series
Holes volume 1
Description
Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
This bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the 'chosen one'? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out
Author
Series
Dog Diaries volume 7
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
The circus has come to town! I've never been to a real live circus before, but I know it will be the best thing EVER! I've heard all about circus things from Mama Mange and, WOW, does she have some stories! I can't wait until opening night. It all looks so AMAZING! Well, apart from those scary man-monsters with green hair and red noses ... Hopefully I can steer clear of them ... With my whole pooch pack alongside me - and, of course, my favorite pet...
Author
Series
The Lonely Hearts Travel Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
?This is a story with real heart. We absolutely loved it.? - Heat?the perfect first-sunny-afternoon in the garden book!?- Kathleen GrayLet yourself go?Starting the Lonely hearts Travel Club was supposed to be the second chance that gave Georgia Green back her life. She thought it would be just like travelling, but the reality is far from rosy as she realises that starting a new business is definitely not a beach!So when Georgia finds herself on an...
10) Solitaire
Author
Series
Solitaire volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
Searingly honest, self-deprecating and utterly compelling - this is the story of Tori Spring. My name is Victoria Spring. I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff in my head and then get sad about it. I like to sleep and I like to blog. I am going to die someday. I think you should also know that I have not always been like this. Last year - before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and...
Author
Publisher
Edward Hendriks
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Some girls from your past you better never see again. My own Brenda, eight months pregnant, was sitting back at home, but Lieve was sitting on the barstool right next to me, red-haired and freckled and, from the first instant my eyes met her green eyes, I knew that I would be making the worst mistake of my life. She was just enchanting. I don't use that word very often, but she was, in the true sense of that word. "Keep my crutch free," she said at...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Description
Charlie Matthews?s love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life, until Auntie Jan gives him a gift that will last a lifetime: a seven-inch single called ?Lucky Star? ... On his ninth birthday, Charlie discovers Madonna, and falls...
Author
Series
Alien in My Belly Button volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Pete Perkins is a normal little boy who loves nothing more than making mischief and pulling practical jokes. But when he wakes up one night to find a tiny green alien called Binko crawling out of his belly button, Pete finds himself caught up in a prank that?s gone all wrong - with cosmic consequences! Binko lives on the planet Pok, where his parents are Head Keepers at the Galactic Zoo. Unfortunately, while trying to play a trick on them, Binko manages...
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