East Sussex children's book award 2009

When Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye, he turned and waved before getting on. But when it landed half an hour later, everyone trooped off –except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? So Ted and Kat become sleuthing partners, following a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin.

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Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents' car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever. He doesn't know they will be forced to move to Norway or that Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest – a forest full of one-eyed trolls, the sinister huldre-folk, deadly Truth Pixies and a witch who steals shadows.

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The wolf was enormous. Its ravenous jaws were open wide, its eyes glared fire. When Sam's aunt rescues a lost dog, Jenny the Jack Russell, Sam knows that something incredible is going to happen. But Jenny is in danger, and now Sam, Jenny and a gang of fellow runaways face an extraordinary journey. The sky wolves are on their trail, and they won't stop until the rest of the world is destroyed.

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When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he pleads with his parents to keep one of them. Patrick christens his puppy Best Mate and loves to watch him running at full stretch on the heath. But one day Best Mate is kidnapped by a greyhound trainer and begins a new life as a champion race dog. Suzie, the trainer's step-daughter, loves Best Mate on first sight and calls him Bright Eyes. But what will happen when he can't run any more?

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You tend to remember the day your parents disappear. It's one of those things that sticks in your mind. Another of those things is the incredible discovery that behind your dad's office door lies an intergalactic portal. When both of these things happen to William Seward and his brother Daniel they're left with two questions. What are they going to do now? And where are their parents?

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