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History

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You need three things to becomea brave and noble knight:

A warhorse.A fair maiden.A just cause.

Will has a horse-a small chestnutstallion with a white blaze in hisbrow. Ellie is a fair maiden, butshe's supposed to marry Will's

older brother, Gavin. And as for thecause, King Richard is calling for aCrusade. The Knights of Englandmust go to the Holy Land to fight.

Will and Gavin will go. Blood willbe shed. Lives will be taken. Butthrough it all, two things will beconstant-Ellie, and a blood-red

horse called Hosanna. . . .

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History

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When Pierrot becomes an orphan,he must leave his home in Paris fora new life with his Aunt Beatrix, aservant in a wealthy household atthe top of the German mountains.But this is no ordinary time, for it is1935 and the Second World War is

fast approaching; and this is noordinary house, for this is the

Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler.

Quickly, Pierrot is taken underHitler's wing, and is thrown into anincreasingly dangerous new world:

a world of terror, secrets andbetrayal, from which he may never

be able to escape...

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Science

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Accept a transplant of a pig'sheart, or die? That's what Cameronhas to decide ...The story: Cameron

is offered the chance to have ahighly experimental and

controversial operation whichmight save his life. But replacing

his heart with one from a pigbrings not only medical risk, itplaces Cameron at the eye of a

storm of controvers

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Science

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The world has no air. If you want tosurvive, you pay to breathe. But

what if you can't? And what if youthink everything could be

different? Three teens will leaveeverything they know behind in

Sarah Crossan's gripping andoriginal dystopian teen novel of

danger, longing, and glimmeringhope.

Ever since the Switch, when theoxygen levels plummeted and

most of humanity died, thesurvivors have been protected inglass domes full of manufacturedair. Protected . . . or trapped? Or

controlled? Alina's a revolutionarywho believes we can save the

environment. Quinn's a Premiumwho's never had to worry about

having enough air. His best friend,Bea, is an Auxiliary who's never

worried about anything but havingenough air. When the three crosspaths, they will change everything

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RE

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There are two words that arebanned in Tibet. Two words that

can get you locked in prisonwithout a second thought. I watch

the soldiers tramping away andcall the words after them. 'Dalai

Lama.'

Tash has to follow many rules tosurvive in Tibet, a country

occupied by Chinese soldiers. Butwhen a man sets himself on fire in

protest and soldiers seize Tash'sparents, she and her best friendSam must break the rules. They

are determined to escape Tibet -and seek the help of the Dalai

Lama himself in India.

And so, with a backpack of Tash'sfather's mysterious papers and

two trusty yaks by their side, theirextraordinary journey across the

mountains begins.

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RE

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Imagine having the perfect friend,one who never steals, lies or

bullies.Now you can, with the TrooFriend

560, the latest in artificialintelligence! What can go wrong

with a robot buddy? Especially onethat's developing human

characteristics and feelings, andwho has just run away with her

human?A topical and sinister middle-grade

novel about artificial intelligencefrom the Waterstones Children sBook Prize shortlisted author of

The Middler.

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Art/Technology

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Since the death of his mother,Damian has become obsessed by

saints. In order to escape thetrappings of the material world, he

builds a hermitage out ofcardboard boxes near the railway

line.One night, a bag containing

£229,370 falls from the sky andflattens the hermitage. Damian is

convinced it is a gift from God, andcontemplates with his older

brother Anthony the best way tospend it. But with only 17 days left

before the national currencyswitches to Euros and the moneybecomes worthless, this proves tobe much more difficult than they

had anticipated...

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Art/Technology

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n a world where animals no longerexist, twelve-year old Kester

Jaynes sometimes feels like hehardly exists either. Locked awayin a home for troubled children,

he’s told there’s something wrongwith him. So when he meets aflock of talking pigeons and a

bossy cockroach, Kester thinkshe’s finally gone a bit mad. But the

animals have something to say…The pigeons fly Kester to a wild

place where the last creatures inthe land have survived. A wise stagneeds Kester’s help, and together

they must embark on a greatjourney, joined along the way byan over-enthusiastic wolf-cub, a

spoilt show-cat, a dancing harvestmouse and a girl named Polly.

The animals saved Kester Jaynes.But can Kester save the animals?

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Languages

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Through to the tough third roundof the UEFA Cup, Castle Albion faceGerman uber-team Bayern Munich.If only they didn't have to play the

dodgy James Prince, the worstgoalmachine the world has ever

seen, up front. Trouble is he's clubchairman, so they can't really

nobble him - can they?

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Languages

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Sergio Ramos, the lionheartedcaptain of Real Madrid and Spain, isfamous for his pace and strength indefence as well as his leadership on

the field. Follow Sergio on hisjourney from Seville to the

Bernabéuto reach the top of hisgame.

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Maths

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Jamie's dad is orbiting Earth in theInternational Space Station, and

Jamie misses him. At his localobservatory, he picks up a signalon his phone. Can Jamie help his

dad when his mission goeswrong?

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Maths

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Adventures in space and time ofMeg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin

O'Keefe. They are in search ofMeg's father, a scientist who

disappeared while engaged insecret work for the government on

the tesseract problem.

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Geography

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Ade loves living at the top of atower block. From his window, he

feels like he can see the wholeworld stretching out beneath him.

His mum doesn't really like lookingoutside - but it's going outside thatshe hates. She prefers to sleep allday inside their tower, where it's

safe.

Except it isn't any more. Strangeplants have started to take over

and tower blocks are falling downaround them.

Now Ade and his mum aretrapped and there's no way out . . .

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Geography

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27 is a number Ruby hates.It's anumber that marks the

percentage of the population thathas survived. It's a number that

means she's one of the "lucky" fewstill standing. And it's a numberthat says her father is probably

dead. Against all odds, Ruby hassurvived the catastrophic onset of

the killer rain. ...

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terM-Music

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A young journalist goes to Venice,Italy, to interview a famous

violinist, who tells the story of hisparents' incarceration by the Nazis

and explains why they can nolonger listen to the music of

Mozart

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English

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A beautifully written tale ofcourage, friendship, and survival.Imagine a tiny island far out in theAtlantic Ocean off the west coastof Scotland. On some days, you

can hardly see where the sea endsand the land begins, everything

merged in a blue-grey mist of seaspray and wind-blown sand. There

is nothing between here andAmerica. I say nothing, but what I

mean, of course, is nothing butocean. And about sixty-five

kilometres out to sea, one lastremote outcrop of islands and seastacks, with the highest sea cliffs

anywhere in the UK-St Kilda.Distant, desolate, and difficult toreach. The islands at the edge of

the world .

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English

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A powerful and gripping novel thatsweeps the reader from modern-day Britain to the Punjab in the

1960s and back again in aceaseless cycle of tragedy and

conflict.

1950s Punjab - a secret affair goesterribly wrong and the bride

commits suicide after her lover isattacked by her family. The two

families part in violence andconflict.

2004 Leicester - Rani and Sukh fall

in love, unaware of the terriblelegacy of the past and the conflict

between their two families-Cantragedy be averted or will the twoyoung people be able to escape

the cycle of violence and draw thefamilies together for the future?

A retelling of Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet