New Titles for February
The Blind Assassin
Approximate age 16+ KS 5
At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two world wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident?
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Pongwiffy by Kaye Umansky
Approximate age 7+ KS 2
Pongwiffy and her fellow witches from witchway wood are in a spin. Grandwitch Sourmuddle is going on holiday.
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Grubtown Tales by Philip Ardagh
Approximate age 7+ KS 2
Farflung Heaps self appointed leader of the angry mob becomes furious about being served floppy lettuce that he challenges the restaurant to a 'pasta taste off' with truly explosive results.
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Walking the Walls by Chris Higgins
Approximate age 7+ KS 2
Felix is not scared to be different - but his fellow pupils find him confusing. Felix doesn't care, but everyone around him seems to have something to say about how he's living his life...Why can't they just let him be Felix?
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The Medusa Project, The Thief by Sophie McKenzie
Approximate age 7+ KS 2
THE THIEF Fourteen years ago, four babies were implanted with the Medusa gene - a gene for psychic abilities. Now teenagers, Nico, Ketty, Ed and Dylan have been brought together by government agents to create a secret crime-fighting force
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Kitten Chaos by Anna Wilson
Approximate age 5+ KS 1
KITTEN CHAOS Cat-astrophe! Bertie Fletcher has kittens coming out of her ears!
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Magic Ballerina by Darcy Bussell
Approximate age 5+ KS 1
THE MAGIC DANCE Holly must find someone special to hand the magic ballet shoes to -- could Jade the street dancing girl be the one?
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Approximate age 5+ KS 1
Tramping through the highlands, minding his own business, Charlie is plunged into adventure once again. Can he save a tiny toddler from the grisly, goggle-eyed Goyles? Join Charlie on his most dangerous and terrifying rescue mission EVER
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Young Samurai, the way of fire by Chris Bradford
Approximate age 9+ KS 2
Shipwrecked and his father murdered by ninjas, Jack Fletcher is rescued by the legendary swordmaster Masamoto Takeshi and taken to his samurai school in
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Born to Play by Dan Freedman
Approximate age 9+ KS 2
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
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