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Reviews:

Train Ghost (School Librarian)
Miracle Girl (Write Away!)
Star Games (Waterstones)

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Dinosaur Boy

A story of friendship, danger, bullies and spaceships.
January 24th 2010.

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2010? See the catalogue

  • Dinosaur Boy
  • Train Ghost
  • Cool World
  • Picadilly Mitzie
  • The Last Garden
  • Star Games
  • Miracle Girl
  • The Secret
Featured books

Ages 8+

Dinosaur Boy

New title!  Dinosaur Boy
Maxy and Dan find a huge egg in their local canal. When it hatches into a half-reptile, half-human baby, their lives change forever.

Piccadilly Mitzie

Piccadilly Mitzie
Mitzie the Manor House Mouse leads a colourful band of explorers through the London Underground searching for the legendary Book of Ways.

Last Garden

The Last Garden
Follow Magnolia and friends as they fight to save their beautiful school garden in this exciting and topical story setting greed against green and men against mungos.

Ages 12+

Train Ghost

Train Ghost
Emma Chandler wakes up in an empty train carriage with only the strange ghost of a girl for company. This is an intriguing, thoughtful and mature story with an explosive ending.

Cool World

Cool World
The young rule the Earth, but not wisely. Mree and Joshwa challenge Head Boy and Head Girl in a life or death struggle for power. Not for younger readers.

Miracle Girl

Miracle Girl
The powerful and moving story of Rachel Gabriel as she supports her sick mother, finding love and Shakespears on the way.

Dedication

Book dedications have always intrigued me, but so far I’ve never seen a website dedication. Perhaps this is the first. As it says in The Last Garden, “So special, so loved, so missed.” This little dedication is For Ana.