'A cracker . . . Utterly convincing' Philip Pullman
The Disappearance of Tom Pile
When bright lights are spotted above a tiny village in Dorset, the locals suspect German bombers.
Jack Carmody believes otherwise. He is part of a secret government department, set up to explore the supernatural and the unexplained.
Then a boy – Tom Pile – is discovered, alone and scared.
Tom went missing forty years ago
The Miraculous Return of Annick Garel
One year later two French fishermen see strange lights over the channel – and discover the body of a girl, still alive.
Annick Garel drowned in a storm thirty years ago.
Both children have powers that could change the course of the Second World War. Both sides in that war want their secrets
These are two extraordinary stories.
These are the Casebooks of Jack Carmody.
Two brothers take off in a stolen car with a mysterious girl in this tense road-movie story, shot through with playful hopefulness and all the hallmarks of a classic Kevin Brooks.
For brothers Cole and Ruben it's another rainy morning in the badlands of East London, selling dodgy paperwork for even dodgier motors. But arriving in a grimy pub on their latest errand, the brothers stumble across a trio of gangsters, a beautiful young girl and a monkey in a cage – and their entire day is knocked off course. They soon find themselves fleeing in a hot-wired car, girl and chattering monkey in tow, surrounded by police. Their final destination: Oban, five hundred miles north, where they hope to find sanctuary.
Particularly suitable for readers aged 13+ with a reading age of 8.
Venture into the magical and mystical world of Serafina and the Twisted Staff – the sequel to the New York Times bestselling and Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, Serafina and the Black Cloak
Once hidden in the dusty basement of the Biltmore Estate where her pa worked as hired help, young Serafina now struggles to adjust to her new life of airs and graces upstairs in the grand house.
Uncertain about what the discovery of her mother in the dark forests that surround the house means, Serafina finds herself caught between two very different lives.
But when a sinister arrival threatens her whole world, Serafina and her new friend Braeden must solve the mystery of this new evil before it engulfs everything – and everyone – they’ve ever known …
Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil and eats a lot of grass! The astrosaurs are called to a bird dinosaurs' world where disaster has struck! All the birds keep forgetting how to fly and falling out of the sky. As they are about to hold their High Flapper Trials to choose a new leader, this is terrible news. But then an enormous Quetzalcoatlus appears in the sky and declares that he is standing to become the new leader. Teggs and his crew don't trust him - can they work out what's really going on and help the pterosaurs learn how to fly again? With a CD read by Stephen Tompkinson this Astrosaurs adventure is simply astro-nomical!
In the depths of winter, with snow thick on the ground, Badger lies alone and injured. No one knows where he is, and the icy cold is tightening its grip every second.
What will happen to Badger? And can the other animals of Farthing Wood survive the harsh cold and piercing hunger that winter has brought?
The magical bestseller: perfect for readers of all ages
OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017
Winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of
the Year 2017
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize
Beautiful, thrilling and magical, Sunday Times bestselling-author
Kiran Millwood Hargrave's critically-acclaimed first
novel is a modern classic.
'Absolutely loved it from start to finish' TOM
FLETCHER
'I read it, I loved it' MALORIE BLACKMAN
'Kiran Millwood Hargrave creates a spellbinding world of magic,
myth and adventure' EMMA CARROLL
Forbidden to leave her island, Isabella dreams of the faraway
lands her cartographer father once mapped.
When her friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search.
The world beyond the walls is a monster-filled wasteland –
and beneath the dry rivers and smoking mountains, a fire demon
is stirring from its sleep.
Soon, following her map, her heart and an ancient myth, Isabella
discovers the true end of her journey: to save the island itself.
A beautifully written, multi award-winning story of friendship,
discovery, myths and magic for any age – perfect
for fans of Philip Pullman, Frances Hardinge or Katherine Rundell
From the author of Julia and the Shark and The
Mercies, chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club
Set in an extensive and stunningly-imagined parallel
world imbued with magical realism
A gorgeous gift with intricate star-chart illustrations
throughout - a present for young and old, which will stay with
you long after reading
'One of those timeless stories that feels like a real myth' SAMANTHA
SHANNON
'FANTASTIC!' CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER
'Absolutely stunning' CATHERINE DOYLE
'So beautiful and magical' PIERS TORDAY
Twelve-year-old Kit Connelly has been saved from almost certain death ...by a ghost. A ghost who looks a lot like a fourteen-year-old version of herself. Believing that her ghost must have saved her for a reason and knowing that she only has two years left to make her mark, Kit decides to do something life-changing. But her plan to save the world takes her on a nightmare journey involving a crazed rock singer, an old World War II fort in the Thames Estuary - and a spectacular siege that brings Kit's story to a dramatic and surprising conclusion. Spooked is a tale of love and friendship, loss and loneliness, but above all, a story of growing up - and not always wanting to.
It was the kind of August day that hinted at monsoons, and the year was 1774, though not for very much longer.
Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a time-traveller. She, her father and their crew of time refugees travel the world aboard The Temptation, a glorious pirate ship stuffed with treasures both typical and mythical. Old maps allow Nix and her father to navigate not just to distant lands, but distant times - although a map will only take you somewhere once. And Nix's father is only interested in one time, and one place: Honolulu 1868. A time before Nix was born, and her mother was alive. Something that puts Nix's existence rather dangerously in question . . .
Nix has grown used to her father's obsession, but only because she's convinced it can't work. But then a map falls into her father's lap that changes everything. And when Nix refuses to help, her father threatens to maroon Kashmir, her only friend (and perhaps, only love) in a time where Nix will never be able to find him. And if Nix has learned one thing, it's that losing the person you love is a torment that no one can withstand. Nix must work out what she wants, who she is, and where she really belongs before time runs out on her forever.
Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he’d ever known about his life completely upside down.
He thought he’d been helping VirtNet Security to track down the cyber-terrorist Kaine.
He thought the VirtNet would be safe for gamers once more.
But the truth is more terrifying than he could ever have imagined. Kaine is in fact a Tangent, a computer program that has come alive. And Kaine’s master plan is to populate the earth entirely with human bodies harbouring Tangent minds.
Unless Michael can stop him . . .
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series comes The Rule of Thoughts, the exciting sequel to The Eye of Minds. Fans of the Divergent series by Veronica Roth and The Hunger Games will love the new Mortality Doctrine series.
This colourful, action-packed chapter book contains 3 great Superman adventures: Last Son of Krypton, The Museum Monsters and Toys of Terror. In Last Son of Krypton, a scientist on Krypton sends his only son into outer space before the planet explodes. A farmer discovers the child and the strange powers that lie in the hands of this last son of Krypton. In The Museum Monsters, the impish Mr Mxyzptlk has returned from the Fifth Dimension with dozens of troublesome tricks. Even the Man of Steel is helpless against his magic powers! In Toys of Terror, Christmas dreams become nightmares when toys turn deadly. Only Superman can save Lois Lane and a group of children trapped on a runaway festive parade float!
