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How can we live a happy and exciting life without a smartphone? ‘The Anxious Generation’ started a world-changing conversation about the effects of smartphones and social media on young people. Now authors Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price have teamed up to talk directly to those young people about how they can live a life without screens. Packed with facts, stories, and secrets that tech leaders don’t want you to know, this book will not only help kids break free from phones, but also show them how they can be their most confident and adventurous selves. It can help them be amazing.
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All her life, Sunny has known three things about the creatures that prowl the seas off her tiny coastal town. They are dangerous. They are violent. They are monsters. But when a chance encounter leads to an unexpected connection, Sunny discovers just how wrong she has been. The monster she meets – Mo – is intelligent, gentle, and searching for his lost brother. Sunny desperately wants to help, and to keep her new friend a secret. But other people are keeping secrets too. And as hunger grips the town, new truths will emerge about the real monsters in Seawaren.
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Gwyn has never wanted to act like a lady. She much prefers fighting with her wooden sword to weaving intricate tapestries. When her father takes her to join the royal court at Tintagel, Gwyn meets Merlin: a wild young boy with unique powers, in desperate need of her help. They flee Tintagel together, and before long, the young prince, Arthur, joins them. So begins an epic journey across ancient Britain, involving giants, mermaids, unicorns and witches – and their discovery of a truly monstrous plan.
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This is a funny, heartbreaking and uplifting tale about family, bravery and living in the here and now.
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Adam Kay and Henry Paker have educated, entertained and disgusted over a million children with their unique books. This hilarious and fact-filled activity book tours the human body through hundreds of ‘True or Poo?’ questions, perplexing puzzles, extreme experiments, revolting recipes and so much more.
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International bestselling author Jeff Kinney serves up heaps of laughs in ‘Partypooper’, the 20th book in the ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series. You’re invited – RSVP for fun! Over the years, Greg Heffley has chronicled his mishaps and misadventures in a series of diaries – make that journals – but this one really takes the cake! Expect gobs of fun and over-the-top antics as Greg throws an epic birthday party for none other than himself. So come celebrate and laugh alongside Greg, his family, and the entire world of Wimpy Kid fans.
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Travel millions of years into the past, and explore worlds you might only have dreamt of, but that actually existed. From woolly mammoths to early humans, find out how plants and trees and creatures great and small shared a world very different from our own. Uncover the footprints they left behind. Starting with the last ice age and ending when the very first animals started to swim and hunt, this illustrated journey back through time is adapted from the bestselling ‘Otherlands’ by Thomas Halliday.
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Have you ever wondered what life was like for the human beings who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago? What stories did they tell one another? What stories would they want to tell us? Explore the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux and the story of the boy and his dog who rediscovered them in this stunningly illustrated fact-filled book for curious young readers.
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After suffering a tragic loss, 11-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn’t think – she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with ‘the smiling man’, a sinister spectre who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she’s been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true?
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It’s Betsey’s birthday and she’s been looking forward to it for ages. But when it seems like everyone has forgotten she decides to make herself a birthday treat. But Betsey’s in for a big surprise and so are her family!
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From the award-winning author of Noughts & Crosses, comes an adventure for 5-7 year olds. Perfect to read together or as first independent chapter books.Discover FOUR stories in one book. Have no fear, Betsey Biggalow is here! In this collection of stories, Betsey has lots of big ideas for her big adventures! Join her as:She puts on a magic show that doesn’t quite go to planBetsey learns the importance of believing in yourselfShe learns that practise makes perfectBetsey realises that some magic is real…This collection of mini adventures by the beloved Malorie Blackman is perfect to share, or for newly independent readers to read alone.”Perfect for young readers who are beginning to gain confidence in reading independently” – Book TrustAlso available in the Betsey Biggalow series: Betsey Biggalow Is Here!Betsey Biggalow The DetectiveBetsey’s Birthday SurpriseHurricane Betsey.
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When ten-year-old Theo runs off from a school trip to London’s Natural History Museum and decides to pay his gran a surprise visit, he discovers the surprise is on him – his gran is on holiday and Theo finds himself alone in the big city with nowhere to turn. Enter Alistair Goodfellow, a mysterious, flamboyant young person with a charismatic twinkle in his eye. Alistair offers Theo a room at the Casablanca Lily – by day, a run-down and unloved hotel; by night, a palace of magical wonders. Each night, Alistair sends their found family of runaways and ne’er-do-wells, the Moonlighters, out into London in search of lost magical artefacts, gifting them their own magical powers as a reward. Theo is quickly enthralled, but there is more to Alistair than meets the eye, and soon Theo comes to realise that the items Alistair is hunting could be more dangerous than he’d ever imagined.
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