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                            Anton Can Do Magic by Ole Konnecke 24/04/2010
                             
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                            Anton has a magic hat. A real one. Anton wants to do some magic. He wants to make something disappear. . . First Anton tries to make a tree vanish, but it's too big. He manages to make a bird disappear, and even his friend Luke. But where did Luke go?

                             
                            The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh 24/04/2010
                             
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                            What happens when you bury an angel? William, an orphan boy, lives at Crowfield Abbey in the 14th century. Sent into the forest to gather wood, he instead rescues a fantastical creature from a trap - a hob, who shares with Will a dark secret. Somewhere in the forest behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave. And buried deep in the snow is an angel. But how can an angel die? What has it to do with the history of the forest and Abbey? When two hooded strangers arrive at Crowfield asking questions about the angel's grave, Will is drawn into a battling world of good and bad spirits. The forces unleashed are terrifying, the characters are never what they seem, but the boy's simple goodness proves to be the real key of the mystery.

                             
                            You by Stephen Michael King 24/04/2010
                             
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                            The perfect book to share with a child, parent, friend, or any special person in your life, You is a simple yet extremely touching story about how it is the people we love who make the world a beautiful place.

                             
                            What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell 24/04/2010
                             
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                            When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him . . . until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.

                             
                            Eric by Shaun Tan 05/04/2010
                             
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                            Eric is eternally curious and effortlessly charming - a house guest whose approach to the world will capture your heart. This is a mini gift edition of one of the most loved stories from the multi-award-winning, internationally lauded masterpiece Tales from Outer Suburbia.

                             
                            Candor by Pam Bachorz 05/04/2010
                             
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                            In the model community of Candor, Florida, every teen wants to be like Oscar Banks. The son of the town's founder, Oscar earns straight A's, is student-body president and is in demand for every club and cause. But Oscar has a secret. He knows that his parents bring their teens to Candor to make them respectful, compliant - perfect - through subliminal Messages that carefully correct and control their behaviour. Oscar has built a business sabotaging his father's scheme with Messages of his own, getting his clients out of town before they're turned. After all, whowould ever suspect the perfect Oscar Banks? Then he meets Nia, the girl he can't stand to see changed. Saving Nia means losing her forever. But keeping her in Candor, Oscar risks exposure ... and more.

                             
                            Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett 05/04/2010
                             
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                            A lonely little chameleon is so sad he turns blue!

                            He can turn himself into anything and appear to fit in anywhere, but it seems that neither the swirly snail, the green grasshopper nor the stripy sock want to be friends. Will he ever find someone to talk to? Someone just like him?

                            With a subtle and witty interplay between words and illustrations this introduction to colours and shapes (and chameleons!) is sure to delight even very young children.

                            Another triumph by prize-winning Emily Gravett.

                             
                            Sugar Sugar by Carole Wilkinson 05/04/2010
                             
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                            Jackie has left Australia with a psychedelic suitcase and a dream to become a world-famous fashion designer,
                            She knows exactly where she's going and how she's going to get there.
                            So how does a weekend in Paris send her spinning off-course?
                            How does she end up somewhere she couldn't even find on a map?

                             
                            Oops! by Jean-Luc Fromental 05/04/2010
                             
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                            In a distinctive oversize package and illustrated with Joelle Jolivet's signature retro, eye-catching style, "Oops!" follows a family through the streets of Paris as they try to get to the airport for their vacation. Back at their apartment, their house-sitting aunt slips on some soap, setting off a chain reaction of events that create some extreme roadblocks for the family's trip. A movie shoot, a parade, policemen, rampaging bears, aliens, and much more collide in this remarkable new picture book adventure. The book includes a gatefold page at the end that explains in detail the train of chaos on the previous pages.

                             
                            Dropzone by Andy McNab 05/04/2010
                             
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                            Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever.Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He's a natural, so it's no surprise when he's invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team's involved in covert military operations - missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.

                             

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