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Each month we pick the new children's book that we think stands out from the herd, books that are destined to become the classics for this generation and generations to come, in short, books that we are mad about.

  • Fighting Ruben Wolfe

    Fighting Ruben Wolfe
    Markus Zusak

    Paperback · 28 Jan 2010 · €7.75
    Our Price: €6.99

    Keep it clean, fellas. Fair fight. Okay. Do it. Don't go down. If you go down, get up. The bell, the fists, the fight. It begins, and the first round is death. The second round is the coffin. The third is the funeral. The Wolfe brothers know how to fight - they've been fighting all their lives. Now there's more at stake than just winning.

  • January

    January
    Gabrielle Lord

    Paperback · 07 Jan 2010 · €7.75
    Our Price: €6.99

    A fast-moving twelve-volume crime thriller series from a bestselling Australian author.

  • The Magician's Elephant

    The Magician's Elephant
    Kate DiCamillo

    Hardback · 07 Sep 2009 · €11.60

  • The Last Straw

    The Last Straw
    Jeff Kinney

    Paperback · 06 Aug 2009 · €8.99
    Our Price: €7.99

    Greg's dad, Frank, is on a mission - a mission to make this wimpy kid, well, less wimpy. All manner of 'manly' physical activities are planned, but Greg just about manages to find a way out of them. That is until military academy is mentioned and Greg realizes that he's going to have to come up with something very special to get out of this one.

  • The Thornthwaite Inheritance

    The Thornthwaite Inheritance
    Gareth P. Jones

    Paperback · 06 Jul 2009 · €7.75

    A gothic novel featuring twins with a deadly rivalry, mysterious deaths, a fortune to be inherited and any amount of dodgy dealings

  • The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away
    Josh Lacey

    Paperback · 01 Jun 2009 · €7.75

    Ben's family is complicated. And being stuck in a remote cottage with his irritating elder sister, his silly half-sister and his weird step-brother drives him crazy - until a night-time intruder leads the children to make a shocking and dangerous discovery in the shadowy woods that they are strictly forbidden to explore.

  • The Ask and the Answer

    The Ask and the Answer
    Patrick Ness

    Paperback · 07 Sep 2009 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced t learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive?

  • Beautiful Dead

    Beautiful Dead
    Eden Maguire

    Paperback · 02 Apr 2009 · €7.75

    Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere inbetween lie the Beautiful Dead ...

  • The Secret of Kells

    The Secret of Kells
    Eithne Massey

    Paperback · 23 Feb 2009 · €7.99

    This novel brings to life the fictionalised story of Brendan, a young monk in the monastery of Kells and his part in the completion of one of the world's most famous and treasured books, The Book of Kells. Movie tie-in.

  • Dogs

    Dogs
    Emily Gravett

    Hardback · 06 Feb 2009 · €14.15

    Features canines of various shapes, sizes and colours.

  • Gullstruck Island

    Gullstruck Island
    Frances Hardinge

    Hardback · 02 Jan 2009 · €12.90

    On Gullstruck Island the volcanoes quarrel, beetles sing danger and occasionally a Lost is born. In the village of the Hollow Beasts live two sisters. Arilou is a Lost - a child with the power to depart her body and mind-fly with the winds - and Hathin is her helper. They hide a dangerous secret. Until sinister events threaten to uncover it.

  • A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

    A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
    Bill Bryson

    Hardback · 02 Oct 2008 · €19.30

    Covers the mysteries of time and space, the obsessive scientists and the methods they used, the theories, the accidental discoveries which advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction) and the fact that the universe exists and life came to be on this planet.

  • The Maze of Bones

    The Maze of Bones
    Rick Riordan

    Hardback · 09 Sep 2008 · €8.99

    What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world in the form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice - take a million dollars and walk away... or get the first clue and begin the search? At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy are given this choice - and they take the clue.

  • Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

    Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
    Eoin Colfer

    Paperback · 07 Aug 2008 · €16.75

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Jeff Kinney

    Paperback · 03 Jul 2008 · €8.99
    Our Price: €7.99

    Greg Heffley finds himself in a new year and school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller and meaner. Desperate to prove his maturity, Greg is happy to have his sidekick, Rowley, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's popularity to his own advantage.

  • Cosmic

    Cosmic
    Frank Cottrell Boyce

    Paperback · 06 Jun 2008 · €12.85

    Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space. Is Liam the best boy for the job?

  • The Knife of Never Letting Go

    The Knife of Never Letting Go
    Patrick Ness

    Paperback · 14 Oct 2008 · €9.99
    Our Price: €8.99

    Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run.