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The palace are busy preparing for a very important visit from another royal family, The Seadragons, so Emerald must be on her best, most princess-like behaviour.When Prince Mola Seadragon takes a Manta Ray from the royal stable and runs away, Emerald follows and discovers they have much more in common than she thought…
Acclaimed author Elizabeth Strout gives us thirteen rich, luminous narratives centred on a singular and formidable heroine, Olive Kitteridge.
Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are seen as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Italian-American neighbourhood. From childhood, the four sisters complete each other. When Julia falls in love with William Waters, a history student and college sports star, she’s delighted by the way her plans for adulthood are coming to fruition: a husband, a house, a family of her own. But when darkness from William’s past begins to block the light of his future, it is Sylvie, not Julia, who becomes his closest confidante – and the ensuing betrayal tears the sisters apart.
Adam and Jess move into a new house with their three young children: a rambling Victorian villa right at the very top of their price range. Before long Adam discovers a door hidden behind a fitted wardrobe, concealing a secret room. Inside, Adam discovers an array of forgotten items, among them a wallet, an antique watch and an old mobile phone. Jess thinks they should simply throw them away. But Adam resists. He is fascinated by these items and how they came to be inside the hidden room. But like the house, Adam has his secrets too. And soon he will find himself setting in motion a series of events that will place his family in terrible danger.
He’s dead. She’s deadly. The bad guys don’t stand a chance.
The second book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.
Eleven-year-old Oliver wants to be an astrophysicist and explain the wonders of the universe . . . to anyone who will listen to him, in this brand-new fully illustrated series.
The strangest things happen at Wigglesbottom Primary! A cat decides to join year 2 on a school trip to the seaside and has a brilliant time – chasing seagulls, raiding picnics and sunbathing on the shore. But it’s when it goes into the arcade that the trouble REALLY starts.
Discover how practicing the art of kindfulness – being mindfully kind to yourself and others – can boost your happiness, relax your nervous system, reduce blood pressure and inflammation, relieve muscular pain, and even slow down aging at the genetic level.
There aren’t enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris’s life. Her mum died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. She’s a professional organiser whose pantry is a disgrace. No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware – overalls count, right? – she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her in the same way he claimed his favourite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right – like he likes what he sees. The last thing Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there’s no harm in a little summer romance. Is there?
Learn all about what it takes to launch a tech start-up, from finding your idea and starting a team to designing, coding and launching your product! Readers can also discover many other exciting tech jobs, including video game designer, electric car engineer, AI safety researcher, digital fashion designer, coder, robotics engineer, ethical hacker and even meme creator! This fully illustrated book will inspire any child aged 6-10 with an interest in tech.
A delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in being wonderfully weird.Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is, until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden is a reminder to embrace everything that makes us wonderfully weird.
Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer who sees something special in Yeongju – they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live. This is a heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life – and the healing power of books.
You’d better not tickle the rhino, because it just might snort if you do! Babies and toddlers will love exploring the hilarious world of this board book, where each animal can be brought to life by touching a soft patch on the page. As well as a rhino to tickle, there’s a baboon, a gazelle and a hornbill, and on the last page there’s a musical finale with all the animals being noisy at once!
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht – the night their family loses everything. As her child’s safety seems ever-harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Duran, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita’s mother.