Young witch Salem Hyde is stubborn, impulsive and loves flying. Whammy is nervous, careful and loves staying on the ground. Somehow, though, they're friends. This book continues the series and will contain more adventures (and spells gone awry!) and laughs.
A feel-good YA graphic novel romance about a hot-headed ice hockey player who asks for temper management lessons from the cool, calm boy in drama club – perfect for fans of Heartstopper!
When Alix punches her mean-girl teammate Lindsay, her future in ice hockey is on the line. Alix needs to learn how to control this anger, and she is sure Ezra, the cool and collected theater kid, is the answer. So she asks for his help. But as they hang out and start getting closer, Alix learns that there is more to Ezra than the calm front he puts on. And that maybe this friendship could become something more . . .
With black and white inside illustrations, Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks is an uplifting YA graphic novel about friends, relationships and anger management. Don't miss Faith's other YA graphic novels: One Year at Ellsmere and Friends With Boys, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (with Prudence Shen) and Pumpkinheads (with Rainbow Rowell).
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From the author of “The Snow Goose”.
“I was aware, from the very beginning, that I was a most unusual cat…”
Thomasina is the beloved pet cat of 7-year-old Mary Ruadh, whose strict father is the town's vet. When Thomasina falls ill, her father sees no other option but to put the cat down. Heartbroken by his cruelty, Mary stops speaking to her father and falls dangerously ill herself.
Meanwhile, Thomasina is rescued by Lori, a young woman who lives alone in an isolated glen and is rumoured to be a witch with healing powers.
While Lori helps Thomasina recover from her ordeal, Mary's health continues to deteriorate and it is only when Thomasina makes her miraculous return, on a dark and stormy night, and is reunited with her owner that Mary is pulled from the brink of death.
Jake is not a bad person - he used to be the class joker, the comedian.
He used to have 'potential'. But now he's been expelled from
five schools and only Cattle Rise, a tough inner-city school,
will take him. All he has to do is survive these first few weeks
because otherwise he's heading to the Detention Centre. But survival
means keeping his head down, and that's not something Jake's
very good at. What nobody knows is that Jake is drowning in grief
- a grief that makes him angry and violent and unafraid. Then one
night he hears screams in the night from the girl next door. Could
it be that Robin's trapped in a fate worse than his? Perhaps,
in helping her, he can help himself. But, as he's drawn into Robin's
world, Jake realizes that he's about to discover what real danger
is.
A charming, heartbreaking and beautifully evocative novel about fate, friendship and family
Every day in the vast and vibrant city of Bombay, thousands of dabbawalla delivery-men transport hundreds of thousands of freshly prepared lunches in tiffin boxes, straight from workers' homes and into their offices. Even though the city is a maze of streets, and the tiffins carry a delivery code only dabbawallas can understand, no lunch ever gets lost.
Well, almost never...
When a secret note placed in a tiffin box goes astray, the consequences for a young boy are devastating. Separated from his mother and forced to work as a slave in a cafe, Kunal is sure that if he could just find his family, his life and his fortunes would change forever.
Recruiting the help of a dabbawalla friend, Kunal vows to find his mother - and it seems the answer may lie with the tiffins once more. If a lost note was the beginning of his destiny, can he use another to change it?
Shortlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medal, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by the award-winning UK Children's Laureate 2024–2026 Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an funny out-of-this-world adventure. Perfect for children aged 8+ and illustrated throughout by Steven Lenton.
'Full of heart and emotion that might just bring a tear to your eye' - Tom Fletcher, author of The Creakers
Can a dog from outer space save the world?
When Prez meets Sputnik – a small, loud alien – he's shocked to hear that the world is about to be destroyed. Unless Prez can show Sputnik ten things worth seeing or doing on Earth . . .
But Prez's list of amazing things is not quite the same as Sputnik's – will it be enough to save the planet?
'A wonderful and exciting story about friendship and appreciating what you have' - Independent
It’s 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.
Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn’t know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it’s too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can’t imagine losing her homeland, too. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together.
Told through Nisha’s letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl’s search for home, for her own identity…and for a hopeful future.
