Described as “Stephen King meets Hitchcock for the Netflix generation”. Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker – she thinks nothing can scare her. But when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she’s swiftly packed off to live with a grandmother she’s never met in Harrow Lake, the […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 15 Jul 2020 Times Children’s Book of the Week 18 July 2020 “A gorgeously written tale with a sublime lyricism to it… the story resonates across the ages, holding a mirror up to contemporary Britain.” — Catherine Bruton “Elen Caldecott presents the sensory world of Late Antique Britain – clothes, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 13 Jul 2020 A new YA graphic novel from French illustrator Elizabeth Holleville… Being a teenager is hard enough without finding out your new best friend is a 60-year-old ghost… Louise spends every summer at her grandmother’s house with her older sister and their cousins. But this summer, Louise realises […]
ACHUKA Book Of The Day 23 June 2020 Times Children’s Book of the Week 13 Jun 2020 YA novel set in Zimbabwe telling a story about freedom, inter-generational friendships and forgiving the past. Tumi desperately wants to make the Zimbabwean national swimming team. Only in swimming does he escape the hatred and exclusion that his […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 19 Jun 2o2o Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 2020 A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder. When Jay Reguero hears of his cousin Jun’s death, everything changes. Although years have passed since they were last in […]
Carnegie Medal Winner 2020 ACHUKA Book of the Day Fri 8 Nov 2019 & Thu 18 Jun 2020 Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week, 27 Jan 2019 Irish News Book of the Week, 22 Jan 2019 “The beautiful culmination of a series of stories about two brothers facing complex emotional and practical issues and […]
A LGBTQ+ thriller. Dylan is forced to come out after his secret relationship with Ellis is exposed on social media, but to his surprise, everyone is really supportive – or appears to be. But Dylan’s and El’s happiness is short-lived, and following a tragic accident, Dylan begins to realize how little he knows about the […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Mon 15 Jun 2020 Shortlisted for 2020 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Fourteen joyous, funny and life-affirming essays about growing up from gal-dem’s talented writers. gal-dem, the award-winning online and print magazine, is created by women and non-binary people of colour. In this thought-provoking and moving collection of fourteen essays, gal-dem’s […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 10 Jun 2020 Shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2020 Seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-Americans along with her parents. With the help of newly-made friends also trapped within the camp, Layla begins her fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp’s Director and […]
In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, King has just lost his older brother, Khalid. King is convinced his brother isn’t dead, that he has instead turned into a dragonfly, and he searches for Khalid down by the bayou. Khalid visits him in his dreams. King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 23 May 2020 Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 24 May 2020 UK exclusive of the collector’s edition of this trilogy prequel with reader’s guide and a Q&A with the author, Suzanne Collins, and her editorial director David Levithan. This edition also features head and tail bands and […]
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 10 May 2020 A beautifully moving and utterly original love story from Carnegie-shortlisted author Jenny Valentine. Me? I’m Jude – like the Patron Saint of lost causes. Him? He’s Novo. Like nothing on earth. Literally. In the beginning, before Novo showed up, my mum and me moved to […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Thu 21 May 2020 Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in 15-year-old Dara McAnulty’s world. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his connection to wildlife and the way he sees the world are raw in their telling. “I was diagnosed with Asperger’s/autism aged […]
“A charming and satisfying first novel.” KIRKUS Cal wants to be a journalist, and he’s already well underway with almost half a million followers on his FlashFame app and an upcoming internship at Buzzfeed. But his plans are derailed when his pilot father is selected for a highly-publicized NASA mission to Mars. Within days, Cal […]
New title from author described as “The queen of YA wartime intrigue.” Windyedge Airfield, Scotland. World War II. Louisa Adair, newly orphaned and shunned for her mixed-race heritage, has come here to the edge of the world to look after an old lady with a dark past. Jamie Beaufort-Stuart is a flight lieutenant whose squadron […]
ACHUKA Book of try Day Mon 11 May 2019 “A love story, a ghost story, a mystery-thriller.” Ally arrives from England with her brothers to stay for a month in Africa – weeks of running wild on an unspoiled, untamed coast amid mangrove creeks, vast white sandy beaches, coral reefs and warm seas. But on […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Tue 5 May 2020 by the winner of the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award ‘Pure poetry, filled with uncantatory repetitions, soaring cadences and burnished images.’ – The Observer ‘You can smell the bubble gum on Woodson’s characters breath and feel their lips as they brush against your ear… The present, […]
The highly-anticipated and brilliantly crafted crime-thriller sequel to the no.1 debut of 2019, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her […]
Sam Waver has always been a loner: bullied, struggling at school, with parents who have very little time for him. The one person he has always been able to rely on is his beloved older sibling – but when they announce that they are transitioning, Sam’s life is thrown upside down. He’s convinced nothing will […]