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Trouble is brewing in Ogreville. One ogre is plotting to steal the king’s throne, another destroys everything he touches, and one is about to throw an almighty tantrum! It’s up to Maudie and Jimmy to foil a dastardly plan and save the kingdom.
When Sammie wins the opportunity to train at a K-pop bootcamp she jumps at the chance. Rivalry ramps up as the girls train for a place in new band Eclipse.
Margo is on a train to a new boarding school when she slips into another dimension, passing from the height of Irish summer into the chill of an alien winter, from a 24-hour day to one that begins and ends in just six hours. From a stranger on the train – a travelling salesman by the name of Moon – she learns that New Davia is part of a world scarred by uprisings, travel bans and world sealings. Power is determined by time – who has it, who doesn’t, and who has the freedom to travel between time zones. Can Margo find a way to get back home – or will she choose to stay in a world where her teenagehood is slipping away faster than ever before, but where she may have found the only person with whom she would choose to spend eternity?
Everyone in school knows Nick and Charlie. Everyone knows they’re going to be together forever. But Charlie’s busy with his bid to become head boy. And while Nick is preparing to leave for uni, he’s starting to wonder who he’ll be – without Charlie.
We’re running now, along the spine of the world, and behind us, just below, half the land is sliding away to nowhere. Jelly is not looking forward to the first school trip at her new school, since her best friend ditched her and is determined to make Jelly miserable. Lincoln however can’t wait – he used to visit the hills with his brothers and he’s excited to be back. But what neither of them expected was for the extreme weather to cause the reservoirs to burst, and for the area to be flooded. Or to be left behind when the rest of their group is evacuated. As rain pours down and the water rises, Jelly and Lincoln have to put aside their fears to outrun the storm.
Just when Lottie thought life might be going back to normal everything goes wrong again! Amber’s hanging out with the Ultra Mean Girl Gang at school and is completely ignoring the Queens of Eight Green. Mum’s gone back to work and expects Lottie to ‘help around the house more’, Bella keeps biting everyone and Pot Noodle will not stop sniffing every dog’s bum. DISASTER! Now Lottie has to come up with a foolproof plan to get Amber back before her friendship group is destroyed forever. What could go wrong? Join Lottie as she battles the mean girls, takes on school injections (apparently they can go through your arm!) and even more extremely embarrassing moments.
A beguiling and absorbing novel from the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Award: when Leila returns home to help her mother during flood season, she finds Arthur, the boy she's thought about since leaving school; but if she is to move on with her life, she must confront the past and its many demons…
Filled with hilarious doodles, this funny and feel-good story of friendship drama, embarrassing moments and secret crushes perfectly captures the highs and lows of tween life.
Don’t fall in love. That’s the only rule. In this world, everyone knows their death date. If you’re rich, you can check in to a resort to have the greatest final few weeks of your life, in five-star luxury. Regan works at one of these resorts as a ‘Juliet’. Her next client is Jude, who has a week to live. Regan’s job is simple: make Jude feel as though he has found true love before he dies. But when a fake romance starts to become something else, can they take on Fate together – before Jude’s death date catches up with them?
It’s Snail’s birthday, and he wants to do something special. He’s always dreamed of seeing the sunset over the sea – but it’s a long way to go. Can his friends help make his dreams come true? This is a charming story about friendship and optimism from internationally bestselling author-illustrator Petr Horácek.
Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for every boy she's ever loved. The letters are for her eyes only. Until the day they are mailed, and suddenly Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
Celebrate what makes being together special in this lively, touching ode to community and friendship featuring clever die-cuts to peek through.Chosen by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama to share at a preschool’s storytime read-aloud, Alone & Together is a joyful picture book about feelings. It explores why we need each other—our friends, families, neighbors, and communities—while also gently reassuring children that being alone is powerful, too.Charming art and clever peek-through die-cuts reveal surprising transformations with each page turn. Alone & Together teaches young readers that individual contributions combined with community cooperation make anything possible!Alone, we are strong / Together, we are invincibleAlone, we grow / Together, we flourish.
Lottie’s done with embarrassing herself. There can’t possibly be any more ways to do it! Right? Have her annoying little brother announce her bra size while shopping? Done. Got her head stuck in a coffin during an escape room? Check. Go viral and embarrass herself on national media? Completed. So surely nothing else could possibly phase her. Until an invitation from Amber to join her family ski holiday suddenly arrives. Join Lottie on her next (mis)adventure full of life lessons, funny LOLs and cringe inducing moments – this time on skis!
When Thomas’ blind sister gets kidnapped during a trip to Venice, no one believes he has discovered a clue as to her whereabouts. It’s up to Thomas to race across Venice, navigating canals, carnival parades and masked balls, to try and rescue his sister from the people who snatched her.
‘This morning when I was out walking, I found a best friend. At least I think so. It certainly looks a lot like it! He really has a best friend kind of face’. In this comedic picture book exploring a forever childhood question about friendship, squirrel and a mushroom explore the forest through the seasons, show each other special trees, build snow mushrooms, share the good times and bad-which become good bad times alongside a friend. Then spring arrives, and so does a new friend. And then another. This raises a profound question for an overthinking squirrel: should we have just one best friend? After much drama, Squirrel doesn’t find an answer-the friends keep coming – and he ends the book with at least three better best friends.
When Bear arrives at the Woody Woods for the first time, he is looking for a friend. But it seems like all the friends are already taken. But then he meets Bird, who is looking for something, too – the Puffy Fluffy Octopus Cloud! Bear decides to help her look for it and so begins an unexpected adventure. Will they ever find that octopus-shaped cloud? Perhaps they might find something even better?
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