Firefly Press

  • Summer Under the Stars

    £9.99

    Four 17-year-old friends drive across France in what should be the holiday of a lifetime. But Sasha feels as if her dad’s wedding will be the end of her relationship with him; Cam is reeling from being rejected by her birth grandparents; Hetal is doing badly in school for the first time; and Nell’s in love and afraid she’ll lose Tom if she’s away too long. They need to rekindle their friendship. They need a road trip to end all road trips. They need a summer under the stars.

  • Live

    £9.99

    Teenager George is passionate about his band and his music, even if the three other band members a a little more laid back about it. They play for all their friends parties, and just might, he hopes, hit the big time. But they have surprise competition with new girl Beth and shy fellow-pupil Taidgh taking to the stage as talented musicians. Then disaster strikes and dealing with loss and grief the whole year group must work out who their true friends are and how to rebuild their futures.

  • Project pony

    £7.99

    Natalie has had enough of her mum’s boyfriend, but what’s the best way to get him out of their lives for good? Perhaps going away with Mum and best friend Ashlin to the Own Your Own Pony week will persuade Mum that Natalie and horse riding are all they need.

  • Feather

    £7.99

    Huw always pops in to see his nan on the way home from school – she bakes him cakes and never fusses about his homework. And so it’s a great shock when, one day, Nan forgets his name, and calls him Hywel – the long-unmentionable name of her late brother. As Nan slowly slips into the grip of dementia, Huw and his friends go on a quest to learn more about Hywel and what happened to him.

  • Snails of the unexpected

    £7.99

    Shapeshifting snails on a mission to save the world! Struck by lightning one fateful night, Fergus and Shelby receive the power to transform into whatever they want: custard, crisp packets, giant plastic crabs – you name it, they can change into it. And with a slug uprising taking place, things are about to get even stranger. Can Fergus and Shelby save humankind from being turned into lettuces by an evil slug masquerading as the Prime Minister? Expect the unexpected in the best thing since sliced cucumber!

  • Starspill

    £7.99

    It’s been 140 years since the Wolf swallowed the Sun, so why are all the cats in the dark, fog-shrouded town of Starspill bothering Zac about it now? He just wants to stay warm, listen to stories, and work hard for his brother as an apprentice starsmith. But the cats have other ideas. They want Zac to steal one of the three legendary Embers of the Sun from the town museum for them, and they’ve taken his precious secret map to make sure he’ll agree!

  • Welsh giants, ghosts and goblins

    £10.99

    A mix of giant, ghost and goblin stories from all parts of Wales, collected, retold and reimagined by Claire Fayers, with the character of Idris the giant weaving through the book as he collects stories on his adventure.

  • Flame chasers

    £7.99

    All Ember wants to do is fly with the golden flamebirds who stop over every year at Bright Beacon before heading west across the seas to their mysterious home. Their fiery arrival is also the signal for the waiting Flame Chasers in the harbour below to get ready to follow the birds, whose glowing tail feathers grant the finder a wish. But when Pa tells Ember he is chasing without her, she is devastated. Can she find a ship and captain to help her find her father, and the flamebirds secret home?

  • … And I hear dragons

    £7.99

    A childrens poetry anthology of dragon-focused poems, conceived and edited by the National Poet of Wales, Hanan Issa. It is a ground-breaking new anthology from diverse Welsh writers aimed at children aged between eight and twelve.

  • Michael the incredible super-sleuth sausage dog

    £6.99

    Being a su-paw-star isn’t working out quite like Michael had planned. So when Susan the Labrador gets kidnapped, Michael jumps at the chance to increase his TV ratings and wow his fans by becoming not just a mind-reading sausage dog, but a detective mastermind as well – oh, and he should probably try and save Susan from her kidnappers too.

  • Me and Aaron Ramsey

    £7.99

    ‘Me and Aaron Ramsey’ tells the story of Sam and his dad who both love football, which is always there for them however tough real life becomes, until Dad’s dreams of football stardom go horribly wrong. Sam’s love for the footballing legend becomes tangled with his relationship for his father as things go south in their family life.

  • Tarantula terror

    £6.99

    SPUD – the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives are back, and they have another mystery to solve. When Callie, Grace and Bo discover that a tarantula has escaped from the wildlife park, they must find the spider and reunite her with her spiderlings before she dies from the cold. Can Callie’s magical hearing aids and Mynah bird Bo – the SPUD team’s Spy in the Sky – help to find the missing creature before it’s too late?