Tia and her mum start an adventurous new life on Gull Haven Island, finding lots of animals who need their help along the way.
Tia’s mum has a new job as the vet on Gull Haven Island and there are a lot of animals who need her help.
When she’s called away to help a sickly cow on a nearby island and gets trapped there in a storm, Tia has to step up and care for the animals staying in the surgery. It’s a big responsibility and then she has to deal with a mysterious creature that washes up on the shore after the storm.
Their new life on the Haven Islands is clearly going to be full of adventures!
Particularly suitable for readers aged 7+ with a reading age of 7.
From the bestselling author of the Waterstones Prize shortlisted Front Desk series.
A gripping middle-grade novel about Lina, who leaves China to live with her parents and sister in the US, after five years apart. She's been waiting for this moment but it's not exactly like the postcards...
As Lina reckons with the big change and feeling left out, she learns about family, friendship, and the power of belonging. And when her teacher starts facing challenges for her latest book selection, a book that deeply resonates with Lina, it will take all of Lina's courage and resilience to get over her fear in order to choose a future where she's finally seen.
A sensitive, beautifully illustrated portrait of a universal rite of passage: losing a beloved grandparent.
Grandma is always on her knees in the dirt, with her gardening gloves on, lovingly tending the plants and talking to her roses. And when the weather is hot, she takes the hose and waters her ""most special flower of all"" – the little girl narrating this touching story. But when Grandma dies, sadness threatens to overwhelm everything – until the little girl remembers all her beloved Grandma has taught her... and resolves to keep the garden in bloom.
Shaken by a shocking loss, Amy and Dan flee to an exotic land and
trace the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet: a military
leader of mythic proportions. But just as the siblings begin
to master the art of ancient warfare, they confront a dangerous
enemy - the truth. With the stakes higher than ever, Amy and Dan
uncover a devastating secret about the Cahill family that changes
everything.
A touching new tale of hope and miracles from the award-winning Siobhan Parkinson.
I love Miranda and so will you - Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl
Miranda has a Big Imagination, and always wins Word of the Day at school. When her sister Gemma is taken into hospital, Miranda escapes into her own fantasy land, Magnanimous. With giraffe police, ham sandwich trees and a Crystal-Clear Glass Hospital for Getting-Better Children, Magnanimous grows and grows. As her sister gets worse, things Miranda writes seem to trigger small miracles she has been asking for: her gran stops smoking, horrible Darren Hoey is nice to her ... Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?
Draculaura brings her ghoulfriends on a special trip to Transylvania for her dad's wedding. Dracula is getting a new wife, and Draculaura is getting a new stepmomster!
Read all about her fangtastic adventure in this brand new Monster High series.
It's 1987 and Ira and Zac are being uprooted once again, this time to Skilly House, a home for social care children. Their lives over the next few years are beautifully realised amongst the antipathy of the authorities, the drama of the poll tax riots and the moments of peace and hope Ira finds at Skilly and further afield. This is memorable and moving tale about growing up, making friends and finding a home.
Find out where honey comes from as Grandpa the Beeman teaches the basics of beekeeping to his young grandson. This rhyming story includes 7 pages of endnotes full of essential facts about bees, beekeeping, honey, and the vital part that bees play in the natural world.
This exciting and appealing picture book contains everything you need to know about making an elephant's first day at nursery school fun and happy. Packed full of useful tips about an elephant's behaviour in a classroom setting, this is a perfect book for any child who has ever dreamed of making more unusual friends during their nursery school day...
""Beautiful and heartwarming, gentle yet powerful, truly a book to treasure."" Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs
Everything so far, if Peijing had to sum it up, was a string of small awkward experiences that she hoped would end soon.
The night of the Mid-Autumn festival, making mooncakes with Ah-Ma, was the last time Peijing remembers her life being the same. Now facing a new home, a new school and a new language, everything is different. But Peijing hopes her new friend Joanna can show her the way.
Soon though, cracks start to appear in Peijing's family. The grown-ups are no longer themselves and Biju needs her to be the dependable big sister. Peijing has no idea how she's supposed to cope with the uncertainties of her own world while shouldering the burden of everyone else.
If her family are the four quarters of the mooncake, where does she even fit in?
A big-hearted, magical story about sisterhood and a family finding their way in a new place.
Winner of the YA Book Prize.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.
Father John controls everything inside The Fence. And Father John likes rules. Especially about never talking to Outsiders. Because Father John knows the truth. He knows what is right, and what is wrong. He knows what is coming.
Moonbeam is starting to doubt, though. She's starting to see the lies behind Father John's words. She wants him to be found out.
What if the only way out of the darkness is to light a fire?
