What a great introduction to the world of physics! Using a style that is very infographic reminiscent, the vibrant and bold illustrations will capture the attention of any toddler and, I’m not ashamed to say, any adult! The text pops on the page, which makes the content really accessible, ideal for a book introducing a scientific topic.
Ele Fountain is an award-winning children’s author, and her latest novel does not disappoint. At fourteen years old, Jess is going to school for the first time to meet friends that, up to this point, she’s only known in the virtual space that dominates society.
Following the death of his mother from cancer, sixteen-year-old Max Friedman comes to believe that he is sharing his brain with a tumour. As the terrified teenager tries to control the malignant tenant, he starts to lose touch with his friends and family, and with reality itself – so his father sends him off to the artsy Baldwin school to regain his footing.
This may just be the first positive book about the transformative power of cyber-bullying. Mireille, Astrid and Hakima have been voted the ugliest girls in their school in a nasty on-line competition that the teachers can do nothing to stop. It hurts. It isolates. It humiliates. But in a bold turning of the tables, it also empowers them to take action and transform their lives.
An Enquiring Mind is not necessarily an advantage when you are holed up in a castle, forbidden to venture beyond its surrounding wall and confronted with secrets wherever you turn. But the gloriously curious Princess Mim is determined to understand, and break, the curse that began the day she was born, and to find out how to open a golden book that she finds in the palace library.
Calla North and her mother Elizabeth live a quiet but happy life together. Elizabeth happens to be the world’s leading expert on ducks—but unfortunately, being an expert on ducks doesn’t always pay the bills. When she is offered a well-paid research trip to the Amazon, it’s an opportunity too good to miss. Calla winds up at boarding school thinking no adventures are likely to find her there … until news arrives that her mother’s plane has gone missing. Can Calla, her friends, and a motley crew of nuns defeat an evil headmistress and find Elizabeth before it’s too late?
Pushkin Children’s Books exist to bring tales from different languages and cultures to readers of English, and ‘open the door to the wide, colourful world these stories offer’. This is a first-time English translation of a book written in 1959 but set in 1940s Japan: ironically, a time when the country was turning inwards to an ultra-nationalist, monochromatic view of world affairs.
Elin’s mother is sentenced to death for failing to protect the Toda – fearsome serpents which form part of the kingdom’s army. Her final act is to send Elin to safety. Raised by a beekeeper who saves her life, Elin soon spies the flying beasts that guard her queen. After going to a school to learn how to care for these royal beasts, Elin discovers a talent and an ability to communicate with the creatures in a way that no one could ever have imagined.
When a young girl named Kid moves into an apartment block in Manhattan from Toronto, she has no idea what awaits her. Shy and rather anxious, she misses her school, her friends and, most of all her cat. But New York City has a lot of unusual things to offer.
Dutch classic Jan Terlouw’s Winter in Wartime sees its first English translation in this Pushkin press edition. It is the Winter of 1944 and Nazi-occupied Holland is on its last legs.
Hunger and hardship are rampant, as the Dutch people wait in desperate hope for Allied liberation. When fifteen-year-old Michiel finds an injured British pilot in his charge, he must join the secret fight of the Dutch resistance. With spies and collaborators everywhere, Michiel and his family must risk everything in their final stand against their Nazi occupiers.
