Ghost is the story of three girls across time, and the supernatural entity that connects them. Aine, a Celt taken as a Roman slave, Sarah, an 18th century healer, and Marie, a present day art school drop-out with a gift for seeing through the veil that couldn’t be taught by any college.
Eleven-year-old Pip and his mother are eagerly awaiting ‘swanfall’, when all the migrating swans come back to the estuary. A keen nature lover, Pip helps Mum care for the birds, and his greatest joy is watching for the arrival of their favourite swans, Silver, Midnight and Moonshadow.
Amelia Cheesehart and her friend Webster are back and going bananas in this delightful comic for young readers!
Webster, a banana-loving spider, is on a quest to collect packs of choco-nana sweets to win an exclusive T-shirt. However, the friends soon discover that the choco-nanas have been stolen along with all the chocolate in the museum. It’s now up to brave and bold Amelia to solve this mystery.
From Carnegie Medal-winning author Katya Balens comes this emotionally rich story of a boy’s life-transforming friendship with an elderly neighbour and his pigeons. Con’s dad has left, leaving him consumed by grief and guilt which he struggles to express except as violent anger. Con’s outbursts hurt and alienate friends and teachers, and worry his hard-working, long-suffering mother, but he seems powerless against their force.
The ship’s setting of the third book in the Geomancer series creates the ideal space for camaraderie among the women who crew it. As the author observes; ‘perhaps a shared year aboard a ship was as good as a shared childhood on land’. In The Ship of Strays, more than its predecessors two protagonists have equal presence, and the focus on Ysolda, the trilogy’s heroine is widened to give parity to Eira; the Wolf Queen’s daughter.
When planet Earth faces an attack from an alien galaxy, a species called the Onni seeks help from the Global Council of Earth. To fight this common enemy, children are recruited to become space champions by completing trials. Kola is keen to take part as he has always been interested in space and believes this will help progress treatment for his sister who has Sickle Cell Disease.
This quirky mystery story introduces young readers to a town full of monsters, werewolves, vampires, gnomes and other spooky inhabitants. Werelock and Scratch’s investigative skills are put to the test when the vampire mayor is murdered – temporarily, because he is undead – and Werelock’s Mum is framed for the crime. Fans of ghostly stories and mythical characters will love the city of Gothica, where these eerie creatures live.
This genuinely brilliant book, inspired by the award-winning Bust or Trust podcast, hones in on much needed critical thinking skills for today’s world. If you are wondering how to guide young people to interrogate the information they consume in today’s online world, this is the perfect book to teach them how. In a post truth era where social media and AI are presenting so much uncertainly through fake news and a lack of fact checking, this book is a tool which all readers could use for navigating information.
In this sequel to Dinosaur Pie, Oleg receives a camera from his mum, but it is not like other cameras… when Dino Mode is activated – poof, you’re a dinosaur!
Bear’s Nap will delight young readers with its cast of noisy animals, its beautiful illustrations and a funny twist at the end. Gravett’s wonderful rhyming text brings her readers on a journey with Bear as he sets out to find out who is keeping him awake.
