 | Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.85 A magical read. Tom is sent to stay at his aunt's house - a house where the grandfather clock strikes 13! This draws Tom into a garden which shouldn't exist and an adventure you won't forget.
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 | The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Buy new: £4.14 / Used from: £0.01 What better setting for a modern day mystery than the London Eye? Trying to guess what happened to Salim makes this book a real page-turner.
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 | The Unravellers by Tracey Morley
Buy new: £5.46 Fantastic adventure about how Danny and Sam are drawn into the mystical world of Beachcombers - tiny pebble-shelled creatures that live on a Cornish beach. Full of humour and excitement.
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 | Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.01 Set in the early 1900s, this story tells of orphaned Maia and her journey to South America. Full of colourful characters and richly-described landscapes.
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 | Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £3.39 / Used from: £0.31 This has the feel of a Brothers Grimm fairytale, full of suspense and horror and the theme of good versus evil.
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 | The Borrowers (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mary Norton
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful story about a family of tiny people who live under the floorboards and 'borrow' from 'human beans'. Another must read.
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 | Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Buy new: £3.14 / Used from: £0.01 When Michael falls from a yacht and is washed up on a desert island, he fears for his survival. But then he meets Kensuke. A story of trust and friendship.
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 | The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £3.33 / Used from: £0.93 A modern day fairytale about a boy called Hogarth and a great iron man. What makes this book stand out is its lyrical prose.
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 | Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.65 Two children are happy to help their father with one of his experiments and agree to become cryonically frozen for a couple of hours. However, they wake up in 2009, some 50 years later...
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 | The Hobbit (Essential Modern Classics) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 The quest of little furry-footed hobbit Bilbo Baggins will transport you to weird and wonderful lands. The sly, riddle-speaking Gollum is one of literatures top baddies,
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