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1407138634 
Paperback 
Year: 2014
Language: English
Interest category: Stories for older children
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Resource type: Physical
Note: Kate's grandfather has died and she's missing him desperately. At least she has her toy tiger, Amos, to keep her company. It was a present from Granddad, and holding him close makes Granddad seem less far away. But she doesn't expect Amos to turn into a real tiger - a big, friendly tiger who smells of Granddad, and sounds like him too. 7+. Ages 5 - 12
109 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
1510003231 
Talking book - CD
Year: 2015
Language: English
Interest category: Spoken Word
Media class: Talking book - CD
Publisher: Clipper Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Joe tells a local news reporter exactly what he would do if he were leader of the country, the video goes viral and Joe's speech becomes famous all over the world. Before long, people are calling for the current leader to resign and give someone else a go - and that's how an ordinary boy like Joe ended up with the most extraordinary job. Now the fun can really start. Hats for cats! Pet pigs for all! Banana shaped buses! Swimming pools on trains! A hilarious story of one boy's meteoric rise to power. Ages 5 - 12
4 CDs (225 min.) (CDs)
0192737740 
Paperback 
Year: 2015
Language: English
Interest category: Stories for older children
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Joe tells a local news reporter exactly what he would do if he were leader of the country, the video goes viral and Joe's speech becomes famous all over the world. Before long, people are calling for the current leader to resign and give someone else a go - and that's how an ordinary boy like Joe ended up with the most extraordinary job. Now the fun can really start. Hats for cats! Pet pigs for all! Banana shaped buses! Swimming pools on trains! A hilarious story of one boy's meteoric rise to power. Ages 5 - 12
226 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
1847155936 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Interest category: Stories for older children
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Stripes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Causing chaos wherever they sail, the robotic Steampunk Pirates are roaming the high seas, hunting for gold! But the evil Iron Duke has other ideas. He's determined to capture the pirates in return for a handsome reward from the King. Can the mechanical marauders stay one wave ahead of their enemy? Ages 5 - 12
Title series: Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates
158 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
1848668619 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Interest category: Stories for older children
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Things Wilf was worried about before: stuffed animals, peanut butter, creepy crawlies that have waggly feeler things instead of eyes. Things Wilf is worried about now: the most evil man in the world, the most evil man in the world living next door, anyone called Alan. When Alan, a self-styled Evil Lunatic, moves in next door with his grumpy robot sidekick and his silent right-hand-dog, Kevin Phillips, Wilf knows he will have to find a way to overcome his fears. And soon he realises: only he can stop Alan's ridiculous yet still Quite Evil plan to destroy the world. Ages 5 - 12
183 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cm (pbk)
014135514X 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Interest category: Stories for older children
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Published outside the British Isles When Mabel Jones unknowingly commits 'The Deed' she finds herself swiftly bundled into a sack and carried off to the pirate ship the Feroshus Maggot. Crewed by the strangest bunch of pirates you would ever want to meet and captained by the dreaded Idryss Ebeneezer Split (a wolf with a false leg carved from a human thighbone, a rusty cutlass sheathed in his belt and a loaded pistol tucked in his pants with no fear of the consequences), the Feroshus Maggot whisks Mabel Jones off on the adventure of a lifetime. Ages 5 - 12
289 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)