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A charming, emotionally touching children’s fable from award-winningauthor Jeremy Strong, highly illustrated in black and white andlaunched in a beautiful, covetable hardback – perfect for fansof Winnie-the-Pooh, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and theHorse and Pax.
The perfect next step for Isadora Moon fans-told in diary format and packed with beautiful full-colour illustrations for 7+.Meet Wiska Wildflower, a little wiskling with big creative ideas. Her family have just moved to Twitching and she’s excited to start at her new school, but making true friendships won’t be easy . . .
Strange happenings are afoot in Temstown. Everyone is saying vampires are to blame and the townsfolk have their stakes at the ready. But Mina, Buffy and Bella, three unusual cousins, are about to discover a family secret – and an ancient book – that could change everything. Could their connection to Dracula give them the powers to heal – not cull – vampires?
Nobody knows who started the Darkive. It’s a database filled with first-hand accounts of strange, unexplained experiences. Ghosts; paranormal entities; weird anomalies. Each one is stored with a bank of evidence to prove the story. Are you ready to dive in? Adam didn’t think his summer holiday could get any worse. His camping trip with his best friend, Sol, seems to be doomed. They’ve been arguing, and now they find themselves in a strange, abandoned town, where they are told to take part in a game of hide-and-seek. But the rules are hard to follow. And who, or what, are they hiding from?
When a powerful group of aliens threaten Earth, a mysterious species called the Onni offers humanity hope. But there’s a catch. Ninety-one children from across the planet must first prove their worth by competing in a series of trials set on a distant planet. For twelve-year-old Kola, who has long dreamed of going into space, it’s the chance of a lifetime. But once aboard the Onni mothership, Kola finds himself thrown into a misfit team of Champions. As secrets unravel and tensions rise, Kola and his team must decide who to trust and what it really means to be a Champion. Because in the end, it’s not about being the smartest or the strongest. It’s about standing together.
Return to the magic of the Archipelago? The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell’s epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.
A funny, gorgeously illustrated young fiction series about a starcome to earth! Instead of granting wishes, Nora is on a missionto teach humans a lesson… But she’s still ready to lend a sprinkleof stardust! Ideal for readers aged 6-9, the perfect next stepfor Isadora Moon fans or readers of Sibéal Pounder and LauraEllen Anderson.
Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is eager to spend the holidays at Owl Park, an enormous manor house in the country. Owl Park holds many delights, including a troupe of travelling actors, glamorous visitors from Ceylon, a secret passage and an emerald with a curse! Aggie refuses to believe there’s anything to the superstition, until she and her friends discover a body instead of presents on Christmas morning. Aggie and Hector must once again put their deductive skills and imaginations to work and find a murderer on the loose.
Vinir, the luscious-locked elven menace is staying in Midgard. To preserve the peace and prevent him from trying to murder Loki (again), Odin sends the goddess Freyja to keep an eye on things.Soon, strange things start to happen. Thor receives mysterious fan mail, Valerie and Georgina start bickering and, worst of all, Heimdall develops a crush on Loki’s teacher!With friends turning into enemies and enemies into friends, it’s up to Loki – and (horrifyingly) Vinir – to figure out what mischief is afoot.
A mythical timeslip story about family, love, loss and memory, with an epic sea voyage at its heart, inspired by the legend of Odysseus.
Cleo's obsession with popularity and perfection is about to collide with the new reality of having to wear braces (her worst nightmare) and an unlikely group project that just might change her perspective forever.
Martine is eleven when she goes to live on a game reserve in Africa, a place where mysteries and secrets abound, where the intoxicating magic of the country casts all sorts of spells. One lonely night, she looks out of her window and sees a young giraffe, silver tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight. ‘For a split second their eyes locked, the small sad girl and the slender young giraffe, then the sky went dark. Martine pressed her face to the window, desperate to see the white giraffe again’. In that instant Martine knows that she is prepared to risk everything for it. The giraffe looks at her as if it is waiting.
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