BOLD GIRLS

After much praise for Buffalo Soldier, winner of the Carnegie Medal, Tanya Landman is back with a new historical fiction that will once again draw the reader into an epic adventure.

Mouse dreams of being captain of The Huntress one day. Fearless and chafing to take on the role her grandmother has foretold she is destined for since before she was born, her life is completely entwined with the ship, its crew and the wild seas upon which it sails. Yet life aboard a trading galley in the world of Trianukka isn’t easy or simple.

Evie is not having the time of her life. How unfair is it that she has to spend five days at her odd godmother’s bleak house in the middle of nowhere, while her mother is flying off to Venice on her honeymoon with her new husband? Pretty unfair for this thirteen-year-old London girl! And on top of everything she ends up in the year 1814, after what she would call ‘the worst day of her life’.

Impeccably researched, concise and laugh-out-loud funny, this unique biography uses beautiful graphics and brightly coloured charts to illustrate Austen’s life, talent and enduring legacy. Learn about the etiquette of a Regency ball, see the hierarchy of servants in a middle-class home, and compare the degree to which each Austen heroine was ‘marrying up’ financially.

My Name Is Victoria faithfully recreates the claustrophobic Kensington Palace of Queen Victoria’s childhood. Historian Lucy Worsley gives readers a detailed account of the grim ‘Kensington System’ which Victoria’s guardians applied – and which turned the young princess into a virtual prisoner and made her days joyless.

This delightful début by author–illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky highlights some well-known but also many unfamiliar names of women in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM). This book seeks to redress an aspect of history and science in children’s literature (and elsewhere), where women’s roles, discoveries and value have been poorly represented.

Virginia Campbell and Tourmaline Harris have lived turbulent lives for their eighteen years. In exchange for her mother’s debts, Virginia works for the corrupt district attorney, Hazzard—competing in pageants and dealing drugs. Tourmaline looks like a proper young lady, getting good grades and going to church, but her father is head of a biker club and her mother is in prison.

Erin loves the sea and longs to be able to go out with her mother on her fishing boat. Erin’s fishing town lives under the shadow of dark legend, however, and no one, least of all her mother, is going to let her go out to sea. Unable to suppress her curiosity any longer, Erin sneaks on to her mother’s fishing boat one day to find out for herself about the secret of Black Rock.

Taking the poem ‘Monday’s Child’ for its structure, All about Ella charts a week in the life of its eponymous protagonist, reflecting the quirks of her character, as well as the stresses and strains faced by her and her family. Ella’s brother is seriously ill and she struggles with finding her place, feeling neglected and the feelings of guilt she harbours about resenting the attention her brother receives.

The Edge of Everything can be described as a supernatural coming-of-age novel. Set in present-day Montana, the story overflows with energy from start to finish. Zoe finds herself stranded in a forest during a blizzard, trying to protect her brother Jonah from a murderous criminal. Enter X – the supernatural heartthrob from the Lowlands. Zoe and X have an instant connection – he can’t help ‘holding her with his eyes’ when they first meet.