Drinn is cursed. She’s not the only one: in her world, many girls are damned with curses that make them social outcasts. Isolated for most of her life, The Dandelion Riots follows Drinn as she unites other cursed girls to rally against their society.
What do you do when you know there is a monster hiding under your bed? Sophie decides to write her monster a letter, telling him she knows he is there and that she will call the Monster Police if he doesn’t leave. When the monster sends his own letter back it is the start of a fantastic back and forth between the two, with a surprise at the end of the book.
Nina is on the way home from school when she discovers a watering can with the incredible ability to change the size of whatever it waters.
The story follows a young girl searching for the perfect gift for her mother, only to realise that none of the available options depict a mother that looks like hers. A heartwarming and thought-provoking book about a young girl’s heartfelt effort to find a Mother’s Day card that reflects her diverse culture. This book explores themes of cultural representation, love and the simple yet profound act of appreciating mothers and their individuality.
This gripping and exciting book examines the aftermath of an apocalyptic event involving artificial intelligence and humans, called the Flood, in which the world as we know it has ended with not many survivors left. Humans and machines were connected to each other via a link called the Hive that short-circuited, and almost everything has been destroyed.
Marking the 10th Anniversary, this edition of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls has been expanded to include twenty-two new women, organized alphabetically by first name. Women included span history from 1479 BC to present day and represent countries all over the world as activists, athletes, conservationists, creators, performers, politicians, and scientists, among other occupations. However, mastery takes dedication and persistence, no matter how naturally talented one is. The volume’s message is clear: it does not matter what you do so long as you enjoy it.
Maya Bright, our 12-year-old protagonist, is not going to let the loss of her leg stop her from living her best life. Returning to school after a life-changing accident, Maya is determined to cross everything off her life goals list before she turns thirteen. These goals include getting her ears double pierced, having a silent disco, and learning how to roller-skate. This might be more difficult with her prosthesis, but her friends Vita and Miles are there to help and to cheer her on at every turn.
‘Ice breathes. Rock has tides. Mountains rise and fall. We live on a restless earth’. Book Two of the geomancer trilogy is prefaced with this quote from Robert McFarlane’s 'Underland: A Deep Time Journey,' and it marks the essence of the trilogy, where Millwood Hargrave is exploring the earth as personification; living and breathing, with ancient girls and disappearing forests.
When bad news is everywhere and we feel helpless in the face of injustice, this book reminds us of the rights we have, who fought for us to have them, and how they did it.
Sariyah, a Black 17-year-old, has a unique ‘gift’ for hearing the needs of strangers, but it won’t seem to allow her to hear the needs of those closest to her. This ability intrudes on Sariyah’s daily interactions, adding to the challenges she navigates due to family circumstances. Sariyah’s brother is unwell with Sickle cell disease, her mother struggles with depression and while her parents are still together, her father opted to stay in their original home when the rest of the family relocated because of her brother’s health condition.
