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A story of friendship, hope and the importance of kindness, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a story full of heart and humour, told from a unique perspective. When a new boy joins their class, a group of children try to befriend him.ReviewsThey soon...

When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to be measured and assessed. They decide that Peter is racially valuable. He is Volksdeutscher: of German blood. With his blond hair, blue eyes, and...

SHORTLISTED: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Older ReadersSHORTLISTED: 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Indigenous Writing PrizeSHORTLISTED: 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Indigenous Writers' PrizeSHORTLISTED: 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards,...

Follow Larry the Leprechaun around Ireland, and see if you can find him in Newgrange, at the Rock of Cashel and in Dublin's St Patrick's Day Parade! But it won't be easy: he is hiding in the middle of Irish dancers, traditional musicians, climbers,...

It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can't stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens...

**The bestselling debut novel from YouTube sensation Oli White. CONTAINS EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT!**Things haven't been easy for Jack recently - life as a teenager has its ups and downs. But when he meets a new group of friends, who are every bit as geek...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250146694Author Dodie SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Wednesday BooksPublisher Wednesday BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm *...

In Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science and invention. He's also an occasional, but reluctant, sleuth. The truth is that he'd rather be in his lab tinkering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780758281524Author Jennifer EstepFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm)...

Sometimes parties are not all they are cracked up to be . . . the brilliant new novel from a Carnegie nominated author.Hope has never been happier. She's on her way to Crete, after a group of her friends have made her an honorary 'lad' and let her tag...

Sometimes parties are not all they are cracked up to be . . . the brilliant new novel from a Carnegie nominated author.Hope has never been happier. She's on her way to Crete, after a group of her friends have made her an honorary 'lad' and let her tag...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368043885Author Gretchen McNeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Everyone says fourteen-year-old BILLIE is nothing but trouble. A fighter. A danger to her family and friends.But her care worker sees someone different. Her classmate ROB is big, strong; he can take care of himself and his brother.But his violent stepdad...

What if nature fights back? In a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea. And, far in the distance, a misty outline. Skelsay. Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be. And now, home. ...

The third and final instalment in the breathtaking Half Bad series by Sally Green.Nathan Byrn is running again. The Alliance of Free Witches has been all but destroyed. Scattered and demoralized, constantly pursued by the Council's Hunters, only a bold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780439895989Author Libba BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic US

The fantastic follow-up to Time After Time and Stand By Me Families are so complicated! Molly's dad seems so lonely. He lives on his own, he won't get a pet, he doesn't get on with his brother ... Best friends Molly and Beth suspect his problems lie...

“I am just going to write because I cannot help it.”                                                                      Charlotte Brontë Haworth 1847. When Mother and her beloved twin brothers are taken by the Haworth ‘miasma’, to keep her family...

Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. Not a Good Look has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6 and is fully illustrated throughout.Engage your seriously...

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper-middle-grade series based on one of the Marvel Universe's break-out characters - Shuri, from Black Panther! An original, upper-middle-grade series starring...

"Impossible not to love." -Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this...

Adrian Mole is suffering the traumas of first love, parental divorce and spots. He also believes he is an intellectual just waiting to be discovered. In his diary he writes the intimate secrets he can't tell anybody else.Book InformationISBN...

Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny. Septimus faces a perilous quest to find Nicko and Snorri, who have been trapped back in time. Everyone at the Castle is realising that Nicko and Snorri's chances of coming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847453235Author Elinor Brent-DyerFormat PaperbackImprint Girls Gone By PublishersPublisher Girls Gone By Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534419933Author Cindy PonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

An enchanting contemporary take on the Hansel and Gretel fairytale set in modern-day Galway. Features locations such as the Spanish Arch, Salmon Weir Bridge and Eyre Square, as Sean and Grainne seek out the perfect present for their mother. They pack...

A snowy adventure for the dog pals, Dubbin and Todd. Dubbin flips off his wheels and Ta-da! His skateboard becomes a snowboard. Todd follows behind on a tray but there are frightening things along the way - can he and Dubbin deal with them? The third...

A compelling story about multicultural society and the importance of lending a helping hand. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 12+ When the Singh family move into a new house, their neighbour Mick is far...

Sam Hannigan runs an animal shelter in Clobberstown, Co. Dublin with her creepy-crawlie-crazy best friend Ajay Patel and her just-plain-crazy granny Nanny Gigg. Oh yes, and her big bully brother Bruno. When a mysterious package arrives on the doorstep...

Written in vivid micro fiction with a stream of consciousness feel and multimedia elements, The Wicker King explores a codependent friendship fraught with madness, love, and darkness. When August learns that his best friend, Jack, shows signs of...

What does your shadow get up to? Jack and his amazing magical shadow are the VERY best of friends who do everything together. But when Jack's shadow gets up to mischief and starts acting of its own accord, Jack gets...

The second volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy, now a thrilling, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO series. "What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man. He's ...

'Remember: Demons lie'Locked away inside the fortified walls of Oxford's St Wilfred's College, surrounded by alchemists sworn to protect them, Taylor and Sacha are safe from the Darkness. For now.But time is short. In seven days Sacha will turn 18, and...

Ben Tomlin has been an only child for thirteen years. So when his research-scientist parents bring home a baby chimp to raise as a human child, Ben's life is turned upside-down. Teaching a baby chimp how to understand language is not his idea of fun,...

Dane Washington and Billy D couldn't be more different. Dane is clever and popular, but he's also a violent rebel. Billy D has Down's Syndrome, plays by the rules and hangs out with teachers in his lunch break. But Dane and Billy have more in common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312535995Author Shauna CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Square FishPublisher Palgrave USAWeight(grams) 260g

An unhappy girl who engages in self-harm, a high schooler ostracised by her classmates, and an old woman looking to live out her twilight years in peace - what could three such different people have in common? That's what grade schooler Nanoka Koyanagi...

This isn't just about me. It's also about the other people in my life - my mother, my father, my dead sister Sky, my penpal Denille, Rich Uncle Brian, Earth-Pig Fish and Douglas Benson From Another Dimension. These are people [with the exception of...

Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in and she couldn't care less.Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago and it's all God's fault. When Dawn's dad found God, it was the worst time ever. He thought he'd found the answer to...

Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in and she couldn't care less.Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago and it's all God's fault. When Dawn's dad found God, it was the worst time ever. He thought he'd found the answer to...