 | Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure by Michael Hoeye
Buy used from: £0.01 A great bedtime book with bite-size chapters. Wonderful Character with hilarious names. This is the best talking mouse book ever! Be sure to get the sequel too.
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 | Mister Monday (The Keys to the Kingdom) by Garth Nix
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 A fast moving fantasy story; never predictable. Highly recommended!
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 | Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: £3.81 / Used from: £0.01 A true classic in the style of Frances Hodgson Burnett. A cross between 'A Little Princess' and 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' set in the Amazon!
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 | Holes (Cascades) by Louis Sachar
Buy new: £7.25 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderfully quirky story for boys! Cannot recommend enough.
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 | Piratica by Tanith Lee
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderfully written. A whimsical taste of life on the high seas!
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 | Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori
Buy used from: £0.01 First of a Fantastic Trilogy. Utterly hilarious; The Borgias meets Monarch of the Glen. Read the sequels too - you won't be disappointed.
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 | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents: A Story of Discworld. For young Readers by Terry Pratchett
Buy used from: £0.01 A wry twist on the Pied Piper. Great characters! Never have talking rats been so funny.
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 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert O'Brien
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 If you enjoyed The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, you'll love this earlier classic!
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 | The Amulet of Samarkand (Amulet Trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud
Buy used from: £0.01 A gloriously witty fantasy book told from two very different viewpoints.
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 | The Thief Lord by Cornelia Caroline Funke
Buy used from: £0.01 A strange little story set in Venice. Full of atmosphere and charm.
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 | The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £0.01 A magical story for 7 - 9 year-olds. Delightful! Full of humour and wonderful characters.
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 | City of Masks (Stravaganza) by Mary Hoffman
Buy used from: £0.01 This book and its splendid sequel will make you want to visit Italy!
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 | A Series of Unfortunate Events: "The Bad Beginning", "The Reptile Room", "The Wide Window", "The Miserable Mill" by Lemony Snicket
Buy used from: £2.00 Mr Snicket's books are wonderfully witty. If you haven't read them, these 4 are a great buy!
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 | Pirates! (Teen's Top 10 (Awards)) by Celia Rees
Buy used from: £0.13 A fantastic adventure story for 12 -15 year-old girls.
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 | Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first is possibly the best - but the sequels a good too. High-tech fairies, Bond-style gadgets and rapier wit!
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 | Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
Buy used from: £1.48 Epic treatment of a familiar fairytale.
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 | The Wee Free Men (A story of Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Buy used from: £0.50 Great fun! The perfect way to introduce younger readers to Pratchett.
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 | The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £25.01 Epic fantasy. Especially liked the elephant!
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 | Matilda by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Perhaps Kids' books have grown up these last few years - but this is still a splendidly funny read!
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 | Tom's Midnight Garden (Puffin Books) by Philippa Pearce
Buy used from: £0.01 The least frightening, yet most enchanting ghost story ever.
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 | Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £0.01 Very funny story for 8 - 9 year-old girls. Some good twists. Sequel is similar but less good.
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 | Beauty by Robin McKinley
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £0.01 A delightful re-telling of Beauty and the beast.
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 | Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Buy used from: £0.01 Wonderful characters, who seem real because they are neither totally bad or completely good!
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 | The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £0.01 Diana Wynne Jones at her very best.
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