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0349013063 
Paperback 
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death
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0241979064 
Paperback
Year: 2018
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: All over the world, doors are appearing. They lead to other cities, other countries, other lives. And in a city gripped by war, Nadia and Saeed are newly in love. Hardly more than strangers, desperate to survive, they open a door and step through. But the doors only go one way. Once you leave, there is no going back.
XX00416257 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2014
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Lamplight
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Julie Teal Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life.
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1529050863 
Paperback 
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.
0655646280 
Audio book
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Bolinda/Canongate audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar. 10 Audio CDs Summary: One boy, one boat, one tiger
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1509822127 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: 1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. Britain now stands alone while General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war.
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1489421335 
Audio book
Year: 2018
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Bolinda/Audible audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Richard Armitage. 6 discs
0655618112 
Audio book
Year: 2019
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Bolinda/Audible audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Nicholas Guy Smith. 15 discs
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1785414836 
Large print
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Large print
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorpe
Resource type: Physical
348p ; 24 cm
1444839233 
Large print
Year: 2018
Media class: Large print
Publisher: Thorpe
Resource type: Physical
1471238695 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2013
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Clipper Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Narrated by Adjoa Andoh Baileys Women's Prize for fiction Longlist 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for fiction Shortlist 2014 From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race.
0008138303 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Resource type: Physical
Note: Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life.
1784162124 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Resource type: Physical
Note: Set in 1939 Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger's life changes when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow at brother graveside, left there by accident , its her first book of thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words.
140882485X 
Paperback
Year: 2011
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
1609450787 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Europa
Resource type: Physical
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0099549484 
Paperback
Year: 2010
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Arrow
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 30s.
0722532938 
Paperback
Year: 1995
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Thorsons
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is the story of Santiago, a shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world in search of a worldly treasure. From his home in Spain, he journeys to Tangiers, and from there into the Eygptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him.
Recommended Reads for Children and Young People
1471408477 
Paperback 
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is. We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hir
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1782692649 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with her best friend Gaynah. There's only one problem - she can't remember anything that happened last summer.
1848127995 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Piccadilly Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Twelve-year-old Nadia has discovered a new and dangerous secret: she is lonely. Then two things happen that change everything. She meets Eli, who she suspects may be a superhero, and she finds a strange letter under the dried juniper branches.
1788006348 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen's jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang?
1909531197 
Paperback 
Year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Definitions
Resource type: Physical
Note: Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won't explain so Bruno decides there is only one thing for it - he will have to explore this place alone. What he discovers is a new friend. A boy with the very same birthday. A boy in striped pyjamas. But why can't they ever play together?
1489483128 
Audio book
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Bolinda/Audible audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Peter Noble. 5 discs
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1510105018 
Paperback
Year: 2018
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it. He's eight years old (just like me), but he's very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn't like sweets - not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite! But the truth is, Ahmet really isn't very strange at all.
1510093389 
Audio book
Year: 2018
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Rachael Beresford. 7 discs Violet hates living in Perfect. Why does everyone have to wear special glasses to stop them going blind? What are the strange noises in the night and why is Mum acting so weird? Then Dad disappears and Violet is determined to uncover the truth with the help of the mysterious Boy. But returning normality to Perfect is a battle they never imagined.
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1510102086 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Join 12-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam in a story of adventure, survival and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India. Filled with friendship, love and courage, this young girl's thrilling journey to save her parents is an ideal read for children aged 9-12.
0007333862 
Paperback
Year: 2009
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
0006753337 
Paperback
Year: 2001
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Collins
Resource type: Physical
Note: A boy rejects a possible career as a vet and travels to Rwanda to be a clown in an orphanage
XX00077625 
Audio book
Year: 2006
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Random House
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Michael Maloney. 4 discs Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year 2009 The reader will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno, and sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence....