Jummy has won a place at the finest girls' boarding school in Nigeria.
Nothing can dampen her spirits, not even when she learns that
her best friend Caro won't be joining her. School is everything
Jummy dreamt of - but when Caro suddenly arrives at the school
to work, not to learn, Jummy must bring all her friends together
to help.
It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited. But from the
start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that
she and her best friend have fallen out. When Amanda turns in for
the night, glad to have her birthday behind her, she wakes up happy
for a new day. Or is it? Her birthday seems to be repeating itself.
What is going on?!
Floss's parents are divorced, and she divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her new stepdad and her baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe. But their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to Australia.
Making the difficult decision to stay at home, Floss moves in permanently with her dad and they muddle along happily together, surviving on chip butties and enjoying visits to the local funfair. But disaster strikes - Dad's money troubles catch up with him and they have to move out of the cafe. They're homeless - but can their new fairground friends help out?
A brilliantly funny, gripping novel - and the bestselling hardback children's debut of 2014 - from a born storyteller, The Parent Agency is an epic wish-fulfilment adventure for every child - and for the child in everyone.
Tilly has just started at her new secondary school and she's the luckiest girl in the world - she's found her new, Best Friend Forever, Mia. But when Amber joins their class a few days later, Mia starts to act a little oddly - A thoughtful story of friendship and trust. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers of 8+
From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK &
STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding
your way home ...
WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
YOUNG QUILLS AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK
AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER
BOOK AWARD
'The Island at the End of Everything is such a fiercely
kind and generous book, and so finely-wrought and so full
of light ... brilliant.' KATHERINE RUNDELL
'Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the new big gun in children’s
fiction ... This is an enchanting book by a writer who fully
deserves the fuss that’s being made of her.' TELEGRAPH
'Beautiful' FRANCES HARDINGE
Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants –
including her mother – have leprosy.
Ami loves her home – with its blue seas and lush forests,
Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival of malicious
government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islanders
untouched by sickness are forced to leave.
Banished across the sea, she's desperate to return, and finds
a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead
her home before it's too late?
The fourth children’s novel by Times number
one bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of the
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the British Book Awards
Children’s Book of the Year
From the author of A Secret of Birds & Bone,
The Way Past Winter, Julia and the Shark and
The Mercies – chosen for the Richard & Judy
Book Club
An irresistibly poetic, bittersweet and heartbreaking
tale of a girl finding her way back to her mother
Clarice Bean meets Finding Dory in this laugh-out-loud diary set under the sea!
Darcy Dolphin and friends are back for some more underwater adventures! In the third book of the series Darcy joins the Sea Trouts, whose motto is 'Lend a Fin'. But Darcy's attempts to be helpful don't exactly go swimmingly... and soon there's chaos at the pet exercise class, an extremely grumpy resident at the Retired Sharks home and a plankton on the run! Can Darcy sort it all out and still have time to throw Ozzie Octopus the best birthday party ever?
The third in a brilliantly funny new illustrated fiction series for boys and girls aged 6 years +. Perfect for fans of The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig by Emer Stamp, Barry Loser, the Wigglesbottom Primary series by Pamela Butchart and the Daisy books.
Sam Watkins has worked as a bookseller, editor and publisher, before becoming a children's books writer and illustrator. She is the author of the Creature Teacher series with OUP, as well as Nick Knight: Super Sub! and Puss in Football Boots, both published by Franklin Watts. Creature Teacher was shortlisted for the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award in 2016. Sam lives in Worthing with her family and a yellow campervan named Daphne.
Vicky Barker is a freelance illustrator and designer based in Liverpool. She has illustrated the Fish Fingers children's series and The Catsup High Detective Agency for Catnip Books, and a series of activity books for bSmall. Vicky loves doodling new characters and is partial to a bit of screen-printing in her spare time.
Jess's cartoons are actually beginning to take off. A local comic store wants to use them in a campaign and she is in danger of becoming really rather famous (at school). This leads to some tensions with her friends. Why can't people be happy for her? It's not as if success is going to her head, or anything. Or actually that it's anything like success at all...
When the 'delightfully different, bright yellow and rather scruffy' Dandylion joins Miss Gardener's neat and tidy class, chaos and fun follow. But after one messy incident he's told to go home - he just doesn't fit in. It doesn't take long, however, for everyone to realise that too much neatness and order isn't always a good thing.
“Mam, did you think George was,” I say, “a bit … weird?”
“Weird? Yes, I suppose so. But you kids are all a bit weird if you ask me. And to tell the truth, it’d be weird if you weren’t.”
When a new boy joins the class, everyone thinks he’s a bit strange, but he’s brilliant at football and loves crisps, and that’s all that matters to Dan and Maxie. However, the truth about George is stranger than anyone could have imagined ... and more sinister, too. Can his new pals help him to become truly free?
