A little boy and his mummies set off on a grand adventure together to build a treehouse and with imagination and hard work, they combine their skills as a family to make his dream come true. This is a gentle and warm story rooted in realism, with practicality at its core. The fact that the little boy has two mums is incidental and complementary to the story, rather than being the main focus.
The Fabric of Us is a gentle story where grief and heartache are delicately explored through the eyes of a little girl who has lost her parent. We move through the mourning alongside her, sitting with the feelings and catching a glimpse of hope along the way.
Andrew Perrault is convinced that when he returns to Wickwood Academy, everything will be alright; his twin sister Dove will make up with Thomas, the school rebel who illustrates Andrew’s macabre fairytales, and the only person who truly understands him. But on his first day back, Andrew realises nothing will be the same again. Dove is still angry, and Thomas is the number one suspect behind his abusive parents disappearance. Following Thomas to the out-of-bounds forest beside their school one night, Andrew learns that the truth is far more gruesome than he could have imagined.
How to Find a Missing Girl is a sapphic YA mystery that follows Iris, a determined teenager searching for answers after her older sister, Stella, disappeared a year earlier. Refusing to let the case fade away, Iris forms an amateur detective group and continues investigating. When her ex-girlfriend, Heather, suddenly goes missing soon after releasing the final episode of her true-crime podcast about Stella’s disappearance, Iris becomes convinced that the cases are linked. With time running out, she races to uncover what really happened to both of them.
It’s love at flat white for Eli and James when they meet at the Brewbear cafe. A rogue source of magic has been detected at a nearby abandoned farmhouse and James is on a mission to locate its source. Eli has never known another witch. For centuries, Arcana has investigated paranormal entities parallel to the world of human beings and contained their magic to preserve order. But within Arcana’s celestial interiors and grand halls, the Majors are harbouring a perilous secret. Can Eli and his newfound coven free themselves from the hands of a generational curse?
With an introduction from Patricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg 2023–2026 and Frank Cotrell-Boyce, Children’s Laureate, the Northern Lights recommended reading guide aims to shine a light on talented authors and illustrators from the North of Ireland who create books for young readers.
Perfect for fans of outcast hero sagas like Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows, Queen of Faces is a lavishly built world that tackles the big questions, while also keeping the action flowing and developing its own unique magic system and characters.
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One year after their first run-in with the Carrington Ghoul in Let’s Split Up, the Sanera Four have reunited in their hometown for a brand-new Halloween festival, only to be met with worse than a copy-cat killer: someone who wants to rewrite the ending.
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