When Elly makes two new friends at a super-secret midnight meeting in a tree house, her summer suddenly gets a whole lot sunnier. Along with Tash's cheeky dog, Mojo, the girls explore Sunday Island-uncovering a mystery that links their pasts, but threatens their friendship ...
Mean Princess Poison has ruined the blue lagoon and made the mermaids who live there homeless! Charlotte and Mia have to grant four watery wishes to break the evil curse.
Ava loves helping out at her local marine life centre, especially when the baby sea turtles are about to hatch! She just wishes that they would get to the sea safely ... Can Charlotte and Mia help her wish come true?
""I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had.""Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam.
Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special. A hero. Her younger brother is Trig - everyone loves Trig. But Maggie's just a middler; invisible and left behind. Then, one hot September day, she meets Una, a hungry wanderer girl in need of help, and everything Maggie has ever known gets turned on its head.
Narrated expertly and often hilariously by Maggie, we experience the trials and frustrations of being the forgotten middle child, the child with no voice, even in her own family.
This gripping story of forbidden friendship, loyalty and betrayal is perfect for fans of Malorie Blackman, Meg Rosoff, Frances Hardinge and Margaret Atwood.
""I thought I'd almost reached my fill of dystopian novels, but Kirsty Applebaum has rebooted the genre. The plot pulls you along and I liked Maggie more and more as she grew in courage. There is a touch of Harper Lee's Scout about her."" - Alex O'Connell, The Times
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'I devoured The Light Jar whole and insist you do
the same. Pure, breathtaking genius' Maz Evans, bestselling
author of Who Let the Gods Out?
The second read-in-one-sitting mystery from the bestselling
author of The Goldfish Boy, one of 2017's biggest
children's books.
Nate and his mother are running away, hiding out in a tumbledown
cottage in the middle of a forest.
When Mum heads off for provisions, and then doesn't return, Nate
is left alone and afraid, with the dark closing in all around
him.
But comfort can come from the most unexpected of places - a mysterious
girl trying to solve the clues of a treasure hunt and the
reappearance of an old friend from his past.
Will Nate find the bravery needed to face the
troubles of his present and ultimately illuminate the future?
A story of fear and hope, loneliness and friendship.
A genuinely gasp-out-loud twist.
A page-turning, twisty mystery with characters to root for.
A timeless tale of courage, resistance and friendship, The Umbrella Mouse is a heart-stopping adventure drawing on the true stories of animals caught in the conflict of WWII, winner of the 2019 Sainsbury's Book Prize for Fiction and selected for Waterstones Book of the Month.
1944, and London is under attack. Young mouse Pip Hanway's safe and quiet world is turned upside down when her home, umbrella shop James Smith & Sons, is destroyed by a bomb. Orphaned and alone, she must begin a perilous quest to find a new home.
But the only way to get there is by joining Noah’s Ark, a secret gang of animals fighting with the resistance in France, operating beneath the feet of the human soldiers. Danger is everywhere and as the enemy closes in, Pip must risk everything to save her new friends.
Beautifully illustrated by Sam Usher, Anna Fargher's debut novel takes you on an incredible journey through a war that reaches even the smallest of creatures.
'An ambitious and wonderfully well-achieved first novel' Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse.
'A spellbinding tale of bravery and hope, where courage is found in the smallest of heroes' Gill Lewis, author of Sky Hawk.
A brave and bold new picture book by Matt Carr, perfectly timed
for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
Meet the mole on a mission!
Armstrong the star-nosed mole doesn't dig living underground. His
friends think building a rocket to go to the moon, alone, is an
astronomically bad idea, but Armstrong is determined to boldly go
where no mole has gone before.
On the moon, Armstrong bounces around in his space suit, but soon
starts to miss his cautious mole mates.
How can a mole with big dreams have it all: adventure AND friendship?
