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Monsters Of Men: Chaos Walking Book Three
Patrick Ness

$27.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books

Winner of the 2011 Carnegie Medal

The electrifying finale to the multi-award-winning trilogy, Chaos Walking!

'War,' says the Mayor .'At last.'

Three armies have marched on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying ... Buy or find out more 


The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman

$16.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Winner of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals 2009.

'It's going to take more than a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will,' said Silas, 'take a graveyard.'

An original adventure story about a boy raised b... Buy or find out more 



Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd

$17.95 – Paperback book / David Fickling

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in ... Buy or find out more 


Just In Case
Meg Rosoff

$16.95 – Paperback book / Puffin

What if Fate were out to get you? The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. He must hide, become an entirely new person to escape Fate . . . if he can.

This stunning, thought-provoking and dar... Buy or find out more 



Tamar
Mal Peet

$19.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books

Carnegie award-winning story about love, lies and secrets in a time of war.

When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past another Tamar emerges, a man in... Buy or find out more 


Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve

$18.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic

Gwyna, escaping from raiders, is rescued by Merlin from the river and in turn helps him to deceive the impressionable warriors into believing in a Lady of the Lake, guardian of a mystical sword she bequeathes to Arthur. ... Buy or find out more 



Millions
Frank Cottrell Boyce

$12.95 – Paperback book / Macmillan

Two bothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to join the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appallin... Buy or find out more 


A Gathering Light
Jennifer Donnelly

$16.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

'Nobody got fed while I read A Gathering Light: If George Clooney had walked into the room I would have told him to come back later when I'd finished.' Dinah Hall Sunday Telegraph

When Mattie Gokey is given a bundle of l... Buy or find out more 



The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett

$15.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books

Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don't run. Rats that fight Maurice, a scruffy tomcat with an eye for the main chance, has the perfect fiddle going. He has a stupid-looking kid for a piper, and he has his very ow... Buy or find out more 


The Other Side Of Truth
Beverley Naidoo

$14.95 – Trade paperback / Puffin

A shot. Two shots at the gate in the early morning and a car screeches away down an avenue of palm trees.

A tragedy – and a terrible loss for Sade and her younger brother, Femi, children of an outspoken Nigerian journali... Buy or find out more 



Postcards From No Man's Land
Aidan Chambers

$17.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox

Rich and complex, this novel weaves together two stories separated by 50 years. Chambers links the story of a Second World War soldier with that of his grandson and namesake, Jacob, who is visiting Amsterdam for the comm... Buy or find out more 


Skellig
David Almond

$17.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

The classic David Almond novel now available complete and unabridged! Winner of the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.

Michael was looking forward to moving house, but now his baby sister’s ill and his parents a... Buy or find out more 



Junk
Melvin Burgess

$14.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

An uncompromising, true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the destructive world of drug addiction and prostitution. This tour-de-force should become the definitive teenage novel on this subject. Buy or find out more 


The Changeover
Margaret Mahy

$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn′t the first time she′d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The ho... Buy or find out more 



Northern Lights: His Dark Materials Book One
Philip Pullman

$19.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic

When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly throug... Buy or find out more 


Whispers In The Graveyard
Theresa Breslin

$14.95 – Paperback book / Egmont Books

Solomon is very angry—at the teachers and his father who have failed him, at the mother who has left him, and also at himself. He can't bear to be at school or at home. His refuge is one corner of the church graveyard, w...


The Scarecrows
Robert Westall

$21.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox Books

There were three people, standing in the darkest place, watching him. Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can't bear her new fianc or the way his mother and sister seem to have forgotten his late father. ... Buy or find out more 


The Ghost Of Thomas Kempe
Penelope Lively

$14.95 – Paperback book / Egmont Books

James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage - with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing - and stuff is happening. Stuff that is normally the kind of thing he does. An... Buy or find out more 



Watership Down
Richard Adams

$14.95 – Paperback book / Puffin

Heroic rabbits trek from their poisoned warren to a new home. Long, complex and totally absorbing. Buy or find out more 


Pigeon Post
Arthur Ransome

$27.95 – Trade paperback / Red Fox Books

The Swallows, Amazons and Ds are camping in the Blackett family's garden at Beckfoot. The Swallow is not available for sailing. James Turner (Captain Flint) has sent word that he is returning from an expedition to South ... Buy or find out more 



The Owl Service
Alan Garner

$14.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships.

It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling. Fro... Buy or find out more 


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