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Horrible Geography – Odious Oceans by Anita Ganeri
Where in the world can you watch cracks appear in the seabed? Have a bath in a giant clamshell? Get up close and dangerous with a great white? Discover where in the world you can tuck into a poisonous pufferfish, spot some perilous pirates and explore the savage seabed!
The Tell by Martin Chatterton
Family/Relationship Fiction 12 years+
Action, crime and intense family drama combine to create a powerful story in the vein of Two Wolves or A Young Boy Swallows Universe.
The world turns on moments like these. Crossroad moments; a toss of the coin . . . I see half my face in deep shadow, eyes glittering like diamonds, the resemblance to my father never stronger.
Rey Tanic is not like other 14-year-olds. His dad is a mafia boss. His dad is also in jail. When Rey’s life explodes, every decision he makes will shape the rest of his life. How far does the apple really fall from the tree?
Undercover Pricess by Connie Glynn
Family/Relationship Fiction 12 years+
Loved The Princess Diaries, Once Upon a Time and Girl Online? Then you'll love Undercover Princess!
Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who longs to be a princess. She attends Rosewood Hall on a scholarship. Ellie Wolf is a princess who longs to be ordinary. She is attending Rosewood Hall to avoid her royal duties in the kingdom of Maradova.
When fate puts the two fourteen-year-olds in the same dorm, it seems like a natural solution to swap identities, after all, everyone mistakenly believes Lottie to be the princess anyway.
But someone's on to their secret, and at Rosewood nothing is ever as it seems...
Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
Fantasy Fiction 12 years+
SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH
When the note, written in ordinary ballpoint, turns up in the homework books Mr Crossley is marking, he is very upset. For this is Larwood House, a school for witch-orphans, where witchcraft is utterly forbidden. And yet magic keeps breaking out all over the place - like measles!
The last thing they need is a visit from the Divisional Inquisitor. If only Chrestomanci could come and sort out all the trouble.