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Junior Fiction

Pencil of Doom by Andy Griffiths

  

A very funny book about a very dangerous pencil.

 


May-Bird : Warrior Princess by Jodi Lynn Anderson

  

At Hog Wallow Middle School, May Ellen Bird was always slightly invisible. Then she went on a long trip to the land of the dead, where ghost  towns glowed blue in the dark dusk and spooky specters dwelled in cities on the Dead Sea. Find out what happens…book three in the series.

 


Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur

  

Something heartbreaking has happened. Eleven year old Aubrey is on her own but she’s determined to hide away and take care of herself, because facing the truth is too much to bear.

 


Grace by Morris Gleitzman

  

In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins a happy family. But then I started doing sins and that’s where our problems began.

 


Judy Moody goes to college
by Megan McDonald

  

Judy’s maths skills need improving so a private tutor – a funky stylish college student – turns Judys bad math-i-tude into a radical glad-i-tude.

 


Young Adult Fiction

Loving Richard Feynman by Penny Tangey

 

  

Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving 15 year old. Richard helped build the atom bomb. Catherine’s just trying to survive school. When your life is falling apart, is it normal to talk to a dead physicist?


Letters to Leonardo
by Dee White

  

It’s Matt Hudson’s 15th birthday and all he wants is some art lessons. Instead, he gets a card from his dead mother. How can someone who died ten years ago send you a card? Simple answer – they can’t. This awful truth changes Matt’s life forever.


Raw blue by Kirsty Eagar

  

A first novel about a teenage girl recovering from her painful past, set in the surfing culture of Manly.

 


Sprout by Dale Peck

  

A move from New York to rural Kansas following the death of his mother uproots Sprout. He’s sure he’ll find no friends…but he soon realises that Kansas is not quite as bad as he thinks.

 


Spud : the madness continues by John van de Ruit

  

WARNING :This book is dangerously funny and will have you splitting your sides and weeping with laughter….!

 


 

Junior Non-Fiction

Guinness world records 2009 : Gamers edition

  

Anyone can become a Guinness world record holder : all you need is practice, dedication and a game you really really love to play.

 


Sort-of-difficult origami by Chris Alexander

  

New models to challenge your origami skills; fancy goldfish, a blooming tulip and more.


Blading
by Martin Smith

  

Bladers see the streets in a different way to everyone else – as an obstacle course . This book gives advise on getting going or getting better in the radical world of blading.

 


Battle
by Richard Holmes

  

Be an interactive eyewitness to the history of battles : from the hand-to-hand combat of ancient warriors to the slaughter of WW 1, examining the weapons, equipment and experience of warfare.

 

 
Titanic by Simon Adams

  

Triumph turns to tragedy as the luxury liner on her maiden voyage sinks to a watery grave.

 

 

WOW! Earth by John Woodward

  

It’s a book about the earth…but it’s unlike any you’ve seen before. It’s like a museum, a search engine and a geography field trip rolled into one.

 

 

Picture Books

Bob and the big plan…

  

A Bob the builder book in the small format like the Thomas Stories.

 

 

Lines that wiggle by Candace Whitman

  

Lines that tickle, lines that sprout, bugs have lines that stick right out….lines are everywhere you look…check out the lines inside this book!

 


Hello baby by Mem Fox

  

Clever monkey babies, dusty lion babies, sleepy leopard babies, hairy warthog babies but which baby is the most treasured one of all?

 


The big yawn by Monika Spang

  

It’s night time at the zoo and all the animals are getting sleepy. First to yawn is the tiger then the swans, the crocs, the giraffes…

 


Dogs by Emily Gravett
 
  

I love dogs : big dogs, dogs that bark, stripy dogs and spotty dogs but the dog that I love best….