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September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, 10-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn’t know where she’s going, or what’s going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she’s going on ‘a little holiday’. Shirley is billeted in the country, with two boys from East End London, Kevin and Archie – and their experiences living in the strange, half-empty Red House, with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley, will change their lives for ever.
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This special anthology features the very best stories about cats and dogs from the world of children’s literature, chosen by author and Battersea Cats and Dogs Home patron Jacqueline Wilson. The book includes a new story by Jacqueline herself, ‘Leonie’s Pet Cat’, as well as extracts from treasured classics such as ‘The Hundred and One Dalmations’ by Dodie Smith and ‘Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat’ by Ursula Moray Williams, and from modern favourite writers such as Anne Fine and Patrick Ness.
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London, 1876. Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital. The hospital cares for abandoned children but Hetty must first live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school. Her happiness is threatened once more when she is returned to the Foundling Hospital.
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Lizzie refuses to speak to her new stepbrothers, Sam their dad, or even her mum. She’s totally fed up at having to join a new family and nothing can coax her into speaking to them. Then she meets Great Gran, a more stubborn person than she will ever be.
Thinking Fast & Slow 
Grief Works 
