Cecily Sawyer is a spy in training, poring over Little Girl’s Guides to all things espionage and observing the intriguing guests and staff at her parent’s hotel. But when her mother and father mysteriously disappear, will she become the spy she’s always wanted to be? And what’s with all the mice?
Lizzy has dreams of being a famous inventor, but her pet hamster has escaped, and she has to invent something to find him. With help from her babysitter and fellow inventor Ruby, Lizzy learns all about the skills required to become an inventor, how to follow a checklist, and how to consider the audience, safety, and sustainability of anything you might invent.
Introducing the latest companion publication to our Free To Be Me: The Diversity, Inclusion and Representation Reading Guide! Updated for 2025, this booster guide contains 100 new Free To Be Me-themed titles for primary-school-aged children aged 4–12.
When the PSI team is called aboard a luxury cruise ship to help with seemingly inexplicable yet terrifying incidents, they are hopeful that this case won’t be as destructive as their last. But, with tensions rising as the team tries to investigate, the chilling incidents send them tumbling into a downward spiral. Still wary and wounded from the events of their last case, the team finds themselves in deep water.
Ren Barbosa, a passionate, impulsive climate activist with thousands of online followers is sent away to ‘cool off’ after one protest too many. She finds herself living and working on a farm run by the quiet but determined Pearl and her family. Pearl, an influencer in her own right, represents everything Ren claims to despise; calm, compromising, and cautious. Sparks fly from the start, but what begins as tension soon develops into a tender, complex, and deeply satisfying romance.
Folklore, Love, Heartache, Revenge and Peace; these eras make up this Taylor Swift inspired book of poetry. Tied together by a concern for (mostly failed) relationships, the collected poems invite readers to spend some time feeling their feelings, and to maybe gain some new perspective and some comfort from the poets that came before.
This heartwarming story follows Callie and Grace, the founding members of the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives group (SPUD), as they try to undercover the cause behind a series of thefts in their neighbourhood. All the while, Callie is learning to live life with her new hearing aids.
Shy Girl finds it hard to speak up in a world that often celebrates loudness. Shy Girl loves to sing when she’s alone, but her voice disappears in front of others. This touching picturebook gently explores themes of identity, belonging, self-expression, and self-confidence.
Roohi’s grandfather, Neeka Baba, is a master player of the rabab, a traditional stringed instrument from Pakistan. She loves listening to him play with a clap-de-clap-clap rhythm and hearing the songs of her ancestors. Roohi takes daily lessons from Neeka Baba, and dreams of playing just like him at her school’s Eid concert. But when Neeka Baba falls ill, Roohi must continue on her own.
The first in the Aurelain Cycle fantasy series, Fireborne begins amid a bloody revolution, before jumping to the present day. Told through the alternate viewpoints of two of the Guardians, a crucial part of the new regime initiated by the revolution, nine years previously. The Guardians are dragonriders, but not the dragonriders of ‘Before,’ when the noble born dragonriders exerted tyranny over the population of Callipolis. However, all is not as clear cut as one might think, with the Department of Propaganda controlling much of the narrative for the people.
