The start of a thrilling new Second World War mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.
'Superb' Observer
'Meticulous and sharp' Guardian
'Engaging . . . You will make the journey with a spring in your step' The Times
'Robin Stevens is Agatha Christie for children' Katherine Rundell on the Murder Most Unladylike series
1940. Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies.
Enter May Wong: courageous, stubborn, and desperate to help end the war so that she can go home to Hong Kong (and leave her annoying school, Deepdean, behind forever). May knows that she would make the perfect spy. After all, grown-ups always underestimate children like her.
When May and her friend Eric are turned away by the Ministry, they take matters into their own hands. Masquerading as evacuees, they travel to Elysium Hall, home to the wealthy Verey family - including snobby, dramatic Nuala. They suspect that one of the Vereys is passing information to Germany. If they can prove it, the Ministry will have to take them on.
But there are more secrets at Elysium Hall than May or Eric could ever have imagined.
And then someone is murdered...
'Spirited and fun . . . A must for young murder mystery fans' Bookseller
The second adventure in Maz Evans's laugh-out-loud funny
Vi Spy series!
PRAISE FOR THE SERIES:
'Twists, turns, spies and surprises. What more do you want?
Tears? Laughter? Maz Evans delivers them all.' FRANK
COTTRELL BOYCE
'Wildly hilarious' THE GUARDIAN
Vi is failing at top spy school Rimmington Hall – even though
the school motto is ‘Failure is Not an Option’.
To make it worse, nearly-stepbrother Russell Sprout is an A*
student. Worst of all, Vi’s shadowy nemesis Umbra is still
at large.
Can Vi unveil the arch-villain before she gets expelled and her
parents ground her for ever? She’ll need the help of old
friends and new, including 9-year-old super-hacker Missy Fit and
BFF Tamina, who aims to save the world in a different way …
The second book in a brilliant middle-grade comedy adventure
series; follows book 1, Vi Spy: Licence to Chill,
which was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards in 2021.
From the bestselling author of the Who Let the Gods
Out? series; book 1 shortlisted for the Waterstones Book
Prize 2018.
A laugh-out-loud funny, high-octane spy story perfect
for readers aged 8 and up.
Perfectly combines humour and heart: addresses the realities
of being caught between divorcing parents.
Praise for the WHO LET THE GODS OUT? series:
'I totally fell in love with Elliot and the gods, and I think
you're all going to love them too.' ROBIN STEVENS
'One of the funniest new voices in children's literature.
The laughs come thick and fast' DAVID SOLOMONS
'[A] relentlessly witty, fast-paced middle grade adventure'
M.G. LEONARD
Shelby Holmes is not your average nine-year-old. For one, she happens to be the best detective her neighbourhood has ever seen, using her uncanny analytical mind and sassy attitude to solve crimes which stump even the police department.
But when eleven-year-old John Watson moves in to her block of flats, Shelby finds a solution to the one puzzle that's eluded her up until now: friendship.
This dynamic duo find themselves swept up in a dog-napping case that'll take both their talents to crack.
Meet animal lover, Tiger Days! A heart-warming series about animals, friendship and adventure, by bestselling author Sarah Lean.
Beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout.
When nine-year-old Tiger Days stays with her grandmother at Willowgate House she never knows what might happen… new friends to meet, animals to rescue and problems to solve!
Tiger returns to Willowgate and discovers that a mysterious tunnel has appeared under the shed and someone – or something – has been burying eggs in the garden…
Tiger and her friend Tom decides to become detectives – determined to crack the case!
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At Willowgate House, no day is ever dull for Tiger!
There's a thief in Aves Wood! M.G. Leonard, internationally bestselling author of Twitch, Beetleboy and Adventures on Trains, returns with the third gripping wildlife mystery for birdwatching detectives The Twitchers!
>> Twitch won the Sainsburys' Children's Book Award for Fiction 2021
>> Twitch won the CRIMEFEST Award for Best Crime Novel for Children 2021
>> ""A twist-laden, thriller-like tale"" Observer on Twitch
>> ""A clarion call for environmentalists everywhere"" Rob Biddulph on Spark
When the peregrine falcon nest is raided, Twitch realizes a thief is at work. Horrified, he and the Twitchers set out to catch the dangerous criminal, only to be ensnared in a deadly trap. Can they save themselves and stop the villain before anyone gets hurt?
Clutch is a thrilling spring mystery adventure about friendship, bravery and protecting nature, perfect for readers 9+ and for fans of Robin Stevens, Lauren St John and Jenny Pearson. It can be enjoyed as a stand-alone adventure or read as part of The Twitchers series.
Praise for The Twitchers:
“Leonard knows her audience and the jeopardy comes in flocks ... Find your nest, curl up and enjoy.” The Times, Children's Book of the Week on Twitch
""A twist-laden, thriller-like tale of a bird-mad boy, some bullies and an escaped convict hiding in the nearby woods."" Observer on Twitch
""A skilfully crafted mystery adventure. A clarion call for environmentalists everywhere."" Rob Biddulph, LoveReading4Kids on Spark
""A twisty crime drama as well as a persuasive story about friendship and nature."" The Sunday Times on Twitch
""Simply genius."" BBC Wildlife Magazine on Twitch
""Another pacy wonderful adventure steeped in the magic of nature and friendship.” Jasbinder Bilan on Spark
“Leonard has crafted an intelligent mystery from unlikely material, with bonus bird facts.” Irish Times on Twitch
“A winged masterpiece.” Maz Evans on Twitch
“Enthralling from beginning to end, it really touched my young bird-loving heart! Just wonderful!” Dara McAnulty on Twitch
“Twitch is 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 is M. G. Leonard's best book yet.” Christopher Edge on Twitch
“Cracking characters, beyond pacy plotting and an ending that is almost Bugsy Malone-esque!” Phil Earle on Twitch
THE SECOND LAUGH-OUT-LOUD ADVENTURE FOR LEONORA BOLT, SECRET INVENTOR.
'Fizzing with fun, friendship and fabulous inventions!' - Maria Kuzniar, The Ship of Shadows
Leonora isn't supposed to be building a submarine in a tree. Or turning the local wildlife luminous. In fact, she is supposed to be keeping her head down and drawing no attention - because Leonora Bolt is an inventor in secret.
But she can't stop thinking of the clues she found to her missing parents' location. So, deep in hiding in Snorebury, desperately trying to avoid being discovered by her evil uncle, Leonora is hatching a plan.
So what if involves launching a homemade submarine into the middle of the ocean, accompanied only by a couple of friends and an otter with particularly sensitive whiskers? For when disaster strikes, Leonora's wackiest plan might just be her most brilliant yet...
Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses – an epic Caribbean adventure!
On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus…
When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in the jungle she can’t believe it is real. Yet from that moment on the strongest connection grows between them, and she begins to uncover an incredible history. For centuries ago, Felipa and her horse, Cara Blanca, were running for their lives.
As the fates of Beatriz, Felipa and their horses become entwined, Beatriz realises that the future of the world’s rarest horses depends on her.
Based on the extraordinary true story of the Abaco Barb, a real-life mystery that has remained unsolved for over five hundred years.
Cordelia and her triplets Rosalind and Giles have lived safely in the castle at the centre of the forest all their lives, protected by the spells their mother has woven. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is when she turns into a dragonfly or a blackbird and can fly beyond the great stone walls. But then one day the outside world comes to them. Two rival dukes and their soldiers have come for the triplets – because whoever is the eldest is the heir to the throne.
But their mother knows that since the Raven Crown was broken, no one has been able to rule the kingdom of Corvenne and live, and she will not give up any of her children to that death sentence. When she refuses to reveal which child is the eldest, she is taken prisoner, and Cordelia and her brother and sister find themselves on the run in a dangerous new world. And as they set out across Corvenne to rescue their mother, Cordelia begins to see that there is a deep magic at work, driving her towards a destiny that could tear her family apart, take away her freedom forever or, just maybe, heal a kingdom devastated by a war that has raged for generations.
The third book in The Trapdoor Mysteries, a series about Tally, a code-breaking, animal-loving servant girl and her best friend, a squirrel named Squill, who solve mysteries with the help of a secret library...
Orphan Tally is the servant girl at Mollett Manor - and she's also the Secret Keeper of the magical library hidden beneath a trapdoor, underneath the manor's grounds. Along with Squill the squirrel, she uses the enchanted books to solve crimes.
So when ghostly noises start haunting the lady of the manor in the middle of the night, she's terrified and turns to Tally for help. But can the library help Tally catch something that no one can see?
'No one has ever come out alive'. Hal and Roger Hunt crash-land into the middle of a pioneering expedition to the unmapped regions of the greatest jungle on earth: the Amazon. And when their mission to explore the uncharted territory of the Pastaza River goes off course ...it's the survival of the fittest.
