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Akimbo and the Elephants
3.83 avg. rating
· 437 Ratings
Ten-year-old Akimbo lives on a game preserve in Africa. His father is the head ranger, and Akimbo is eager to help him whenever he can—even if it means getting into some pretty dangerous situations.

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4.59 avg. rating
· 1694 Ratings
The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.

Oskar's school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar's mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of 'friends', but has been arriving in scho…
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
3.83 avg. rating
· 23351 Ratings
Who needs a ladder when you’ve got a giraffe with an extended neck?

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Inky the Octopus
4.15 avg. rating
· 795 Ratings
Out of this tank, I must be free.
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Inky the octopus is bored with aquarium life and wants to escape to the ocean! But just how can an octopus in a tank get to the open seas? …
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Can I Let You Go?
4.48 avg. rating
· 1194 Ratings
Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child.

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I Believe in Unicorns
3.99 avg. rating
· 660 Ratings
Tomas, huit ans, déteste l'école, les livres et les histoires. Il préfère vagabonder dans les montagnes qui entourent son village. Aussi, lorsque sa mère le dépose un jour à la bibliothèque pour assis…
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Mr Pink-Whistle Stories
4.38 avg. rating
· 13 Ratings
Mr Pink-Whistle uses his magic tricks to do what he loves most-help people. Whether he is exposing cheating market-seller Tom Twisty, punishing the jones family for forgetting to feed their cat, or pu…
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The Midnight Fox
3.76 avg. rating
· 958 Ratings
Tom dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.
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Willow Wildthing and The Swamp Monster (Willow Wildthing #1)
When Willow meets the Wild Things she knows life is never going to be the same again.
Strange things happen in The Wilderness. It holds more than you could possibly imagine: secrets, shadows, a witch.…
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Song of the River
4.12 avg. rating
· 43 Ratings
Times are tough for Cari and her mum. A violent storm has flooded the valley where they live, destroying their home and café business.

Things seem bleak – but hope appears in the form of a plan to rein…
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Rainbow Grey
4.15 avg. rating
· 581 Ratings
A magical new series from best-selling author and illustrator, Laura Ellen Anderson!

Ten-year-old Ray Grey lives in the magical Weatherlands, high in the sky! Ray is surrounded by Weatherlings with ast…
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Royal Blood (Royal Blood, #1)
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· 276 Ratings
An American girl becomes the British Monarchy’s greatest nightmare in this thrilling new series where royal scandals just got deadlier.


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What Will Fat Cat Sit On?
3.95 avg. rating
· 2304 Ratings
What will Fat Cat sit on? The pig? (Oink!) The chicken? (Cluck!) How about the dog? (Grrrr.)
    
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3.66 avg. rating
· 209 Ratings
What makes you big? What makes you small? From acclaimed author-illustrator Nina Crews comes a picture book that introduces young children to the concepts of size and comparisons. A great choice for e…
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Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story: The Heartbreaking True Story of My Adopted Daughter and Her Desperate Search for a Loving Home
The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy s adopted daughter Lucy.

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You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! (Mr. Gum, #1)
The beginning of a weird, wacky, one in a million series about the plight of the truly nasty Mr Gum and a crazy cast of characters—a cross between Roald Dahl and Monty Python

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The Giants and the Joneses
3.73 avg. rating
· 266 Ratings
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4.42 avg. rating
· 2996 Ratings
Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mother snatches her from…
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Hide and Seek
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Where's Spot?
4.12 avg. rating
· 17585 Ratings
This bigger, brighter paperback edition of Eric Hill's iconic first lift-the-flap book celebrates 30 years since first publication in hardback. The simple text and colourful pictures will engage a who…
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3.99 avg. rating
· 898 Ratings
New release from Purple House Press, August 2017!

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The Ballad of Valentine
4.00 avg. rating
· 360 Ratings
Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Valentine. I have written forty letters, but you've never read a line. Set to the tune of the song "Clementine," Alison Jackson tells the sweet tale of Vale…
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You're My Little Cuddle Bug
4.43 avg. rating
· 437 Ratings
Celebrate your little cuddle bug with this sweet and colorful rhyming board book!

Celebrate your little cuddle bug with this sweet and colorful rhyming board book! With chunky pages for little hands a…
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The Magic Faraway Tree (The Faraway Tree, #2)
Jo, Bessie and Fanny take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget to the magic Faraway Tree, where he meets Moon-Face, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man, and visits all the different lands…
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The Folk of the Faraway Tree (The Faraway Tree, #3)
"A land at the top of a tree!" said Connie. "I don't believe a word of it."

Jo, Bessie and Fanny are fed up when Connie comes to stay - she's so stuck-up and bossy. But they don't let her stop them hav…
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The Enchanted Wood (The Faraway Tree, #1)
4.23 avg. rating
· 23912 Ratings
Jo, Bessie and Fanny move to the country and find an Enchanted Wood right on their doorstep. In the magic Faraway Tree live the magical characters that soon become their new friends – Moon-Face, Silky…
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Planes Fly!
3.45 avg. rating
· 342 Ratings
From the author of Trucks Roll!, an up-in-the-clouds exploration of all things airplane.

World’s mighty big
but there’s just one sky
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Planes fly!

Take to the skies with this fun, …
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Little Excavator
4.15 avg. rating
· 1205 Ratings
From New York Times  bestselling author-illustrator of the Llama Llama books comes a new character ready to dig his way into your heart!

Here come the BIG RIGS
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The Bangalore Detectives Club (Kaveri and Ramu #1)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Malice Domestic Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel

The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing detec…
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4.03 avg. rating
· 1242 Ratings
What impact would it have when everything suddenly faded to black?

For Mia, a crowded subway ride changes her entire life. Retreating to the wilderness helps her cope with a world that is suddenly to…
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The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
3.77 avg. rating
· 2641 Ratings
What if you could write a new ending for yourself?

England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when…
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