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The prime of miss Jean Brodie
'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into …
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- 9781781129241
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- 265 p. ; 20 cm
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- 823 SPA t
What magic is this?
Sophia, Mia and Alexis are clinging on to a spark of hope that maybe - just maybe - they're special. But could they really be witches with the power to cast life-changing spells? When the three friends gather to cheer up heartbroken Sophia, they're ready to put their theory to the test. But when long-held secrets are revealed and hard truths start to hit home, their night of bewitching quickly …
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- 9781781128855
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- 167 p. ; 20 cm
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- 823 BOU w
Persist
Trapped in a coma, Marianne hears a woman - locked in sadness - visit her every day. It's her mother and she hasn't given up hope, not yet, even though it's been so long, too long, since her daughter opened her eyes. Can they both persist, can they both keep fighting, long enough to find one another again? A haunting, powerful drama from Carnegie Medalist Melvin Burgess. Particularly suitabl…
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- 9781781124949
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- 54 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm
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- 823 BUR p
Olivetti: a boy, a typewriter, and the stories they hold
It's quite possible you've never spoken to a typewriter before. This is not your fault. Humans tend to think we can't understand them. But when you sit still for long enough, there is much you can learn
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- 9781250326935
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- 250 p. ; 21.5 cm
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- 823 MIL o
The songbird and the rambutan tree
Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with her best friend, Bakti, even if it means putting up with her snooty classmate, Violet. Then the Japanese army invades—and as war erupts…
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- 9781631638206
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- 306 p. ; ill. ; 21,5 cm
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- 823 ABE t
Lights in the mirror
Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. Lights in the Mirror has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6, and is fully illustrated throughout. The blue Golf keeps following Max’s car. It’s creepy - who is in the car, and what do they want.
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- 9781800901346
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- 32 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm
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- 823 TOM l
The last hawk
Nazi Germany is a dangerous place for a girl with a stammer - and although her father tries to keep her safe, Ingrid can't help feeling like she's let him down. But in the air, soaring high as she pilots her beloved glider planes, Ingrid is free and incredibly talented. When she gets the chance to fly in a propaganda tour alongside her hero, Germany's daring female test pilot Hanna Reitsch, Ing…
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- 9781781129555
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- 136 p. ; 20 cm
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- 823 WEI t
Ravencave
A grim discovery brings disturbing revelations in this chilling ghost story from the late Marcus Sedgwick. While mucking about in the ruins of an old farm while on holiday in Yorkshire, James hears strange laughter echoing around the walls. The ghost of a young girl appears to him and urges James to follow her but at first he’s too afraid. When she appears again, this time James follows…
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- 9781800901926
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- 113 p. ; 20 cm
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- 823 SED r
The tide singer
In the wake of a tempest hitting her town, Morwenna is left to take care of a stranger washed ashore. The storm is just another of many that have plagued the town for years – people blame the tide singers, legendary sea people who are said to charm storms with their singing. Morwenna has never believed the tales, but when she is left alone with the stranger, she realises this is no ordi…
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- 9781800900110
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- 87 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm
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Frankenstein: a retelling
A thrilling gothic tale of hubris gone badly wrong. A young man’s search for the secret of the spark of life leads him to a horrific experiment in which he creates a gigantic creature from dismembered body parts. Rejected by his creator, the initially gentle creature turns monstrous when his desire to find companionship and love are thwarted. Tanya Landman revisits Mary Shelley’s classic Go…
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- 9781800901773
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- 104 p. ; 20 cm
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- 823 LAN f
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