Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Featuring snappy dialogue from earnest tween voices, skillful prose guides this engrossing story from start to finish. The themes and social commentary found here are gentle and organic—never heavy-handed—and the plot’s antagonists are far from two-dimensional, expertly reflecting real-life human complexity for a middle-grade audience… Tenderhearted and bold.” KIRKUS A moving middle-grade debut […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Pull back the curtain and enter a world where mystery and magic take centre stage . . . Twelve-year-old Tig works at the Theatre Royale, cleaning, selling tickets and doing anything else that is asked of her by her tyrannical boss, Mr Snell. But Tig will do whatever it takes to get […]
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 13 Jun 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop In a remote Nigerian village, twelve-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret … City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. There’s no TV, internet or phone. Not a single human-made sound […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 22 Jun 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A dramatic and moving story set in the same world as the international bestseller The Island from the celebrated novelist Victoria Hislop. The absorbing story of the Cretan village of Plaka and the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga – Greece’s former leper colony – […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 12 Jun 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The story has everything: suspense, sibling love, an eco-angle, a contested will and an admirable moral: nature and friendship trumps stuff.” The Times Twins Jess and Jude Carter live a dream life sailing from one exotic destination to the next with their guardian, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 15 Jun 2021 Times Children’s Book of the Week 5 Jun 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “…an absolute triumph. The perfect blend of mystery and adventure, a winning hero with an eye for ornithological facts and a heart as big as the countryside, plus a cracking whipsmart plot, I think this […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A delightful story that perfectly captures the spirit of a disgruntled pre-schooler…” Roaring Reads A funny story about a feisty little girl, her toy monkey and the mischievous adventures they get up to. Francis’s vibrant, quirky illustrations bring this story to life capturing the wonders of the imagination and the chaos that […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Powerful debut novel for 9+ from a first-generation Chinese-Australian author. Meixing Lim and her family have arrived in the New Land to begin a New Life. Everything is scary and different. Their ever-changing house is confusing and she finds it hard to understand the other children at school. Yet in her magical […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop In their fourth adventure, the Tindims can hardly see each other! A grumpy Gupper fog is swirling all over Rubbish Island and it won’t leave the Tindims alone. And now their world has turned upside down as Ethel B Dina thinks the moon has fallen into the sea! Scrunch me a teabag, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A hilarious, swashbuckling adventure for siblings everywhere! George isn’t good at anything much. In fact, he’s pretty average. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have BIG ambitions, they are just harder to achieve when your big sister, Jess, is brilliant at everything! Then George inherits a mansion from dear old Mrs Smallbone. Except […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Eleven-year-old Danny Chung loves drawing more than anything – certainly more than maths, which, according to his dad and everyone else, is what he is ‘supposed’ to be good at. He also loves having his own room where he can draw in peace, so his life is turned upside down when a […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Feelings, life, and people are allowed to be complicated in beautiful ways in this page-turner.” KIRKUS Thirteen-year-old Ivy Campbell has always been a good kid: She supports her soccer-star brother, bakes with her nana, and puts her friends’ needs before her own. So of course, Ivy is 100 percent supportive when her […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookseller On the day Alex was born, crowds surrounded the hospital. On her first day of school, people spied from the gates. And recently, strangers came to watch her perform in her school play … as the llama. But why? Alex has always been a nobody. Then a mysterious boy named Jasper starts at school […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A story that displays this author’s understanding of children and their worries and at the same time encourages them to accept themselves for who are they are rather than who they think others expect them to be. A kind and empathetic book that is full of wisdom.” Library Lady Anna’s anxious when she’s […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A beautifully observed story about the power of food and friendship” The Bookseller “Tackling food poverty and online bullying head on, and featuring a puppy called Sausage (I can’t even speak for the genius of it all), I dare to defy anyone who will not instantly fall in love with Erin and […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop An outrageous theft. A huge reward. Two friends on the run. An uproariously funny, action-packed new adventure about the power of courage, standing up for what’s right, and fizzy drinks, from the award-winning author of Kick (Branford Boase Award winner in 2018). Queenie stares out at the ocean and dreams of a […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop The stunning conclusion to the mega fame-busting 11-13 trilogy from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl. Party girl actress Mercy Valentine is nobody’s hero and that’s how she wants it. She’s sarcastic, sharp and always defensive – so no one can hurt her ever again. Mercy’s starring in a major theatre […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Sanjeev’s dog Jigsaw is missing in the middle of winter in New Jersey. But this tragedy is dwarfed by what happens to him in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Has he really entered the 6th Century and become the slave to monks traveling the Silk Road to Byzantium – and might they […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Indiana Bones is a shaggy dog with a difference. He’s got superpowers and can sniff out criminals and – with his young friend and owner Aisha – solve mysteries that would flummox the world’s more expert detectives! In their first case, they are on the trail of treasure hidden centuries ago by a […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Now available in paperback… The final book in the Wizards of Once quartet – the No.1 bestselling series from the author of How to Train Your Dragon. Warriors and Wizards combine forces against the dreadful power of the Kingwitch, whose searing evil threatens not only the Wildwoods, but all its creatures. Xar […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Mickey has been recruited to a top secret band of animal spies. Disaster strikes when someone (or some mole…) robs a bank! While investigating the crime, Mickey’s colleague (a rat called Rupert) disappears under very suspicious circumstances. This definitely sounds like a job for Mickey and the Animal Spies!
ACHUKA Book of the Day 25 May 2021 Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 23 May 2021 Times Children’s Book of the Week 22 May 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A beautiful story, touchingly told and utterly without sentimentality. Hilary McKay has a keen ear for sparing dialogue, the banter of families, the awkwardness of saying […]
Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, May 2o21 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Wick has always lived in the dark and dreadful Harklights Match Factory and Orphanage, working tirelessly for greedy Old Ma Bogey. He only dreams of escaping, until one day a bird drops something impossible and magical at his feet – a tiny baby in […]