The second novel from winner of the MacMillan Prize for Picture Book Illustration Kate Pankhurst. The perfect book for 7-9 yr olds who love funny stories with quirky illustrations like DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, the DORK DIARIES and CLARICE BEAN.
Mariella Mystery (That's me!) - totally amazing girl detective, aged 9 and a bit. Able to solve the most mysterious mysteries and perplexing problems, even before breakfast.
Someone is trying to sabotage the Great Puddleford Bake-Off, 'Bake or Break'. It's up to Mariella and her Mystery Girls to work out who, to save the Victoria sponges and pavlovas and prevent the entire contest from turning into a veritable Cupcake Catastrophe and Kitchen Nightmare.
The moving story of a family's fight to reunite after their lives are torn apart by war in Syria, from Elizabeth Laird, award-winning author of A Little Piece of Ground and Welcome to Nowhere.
Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is - lucky not to be living in a refugee camp, lucky to be alive. But it's hard to feel grateful when she's forced to look after her father and brother rather than go back to school, and now that she's lost her home, she's lonelier than ever.
As they struggle to rebuild their lives, Safiya realizes that her family has always been incomplete and with her own future in the balance, it's time to uncover the secrets that war has kept buried.
Another day. Another mood. Meet Judy Moody at her moodiest-best, in this laugh-a-minute fourteenth adventure in the international bestselling series.
Bad moods, good moods, even right-royal-tea moods – Judy has them all in this brand new adventure, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson and Lauren Child. With Grandma Lou’s help, Judy has dug up proof that some old-timey Moodys lived in merry olde England. In fact, if her grandpa’s notes are right, Judy might even be related to — royal fanfare, please — the Queen herself! But then Judy’s family tree gets a few more shakes and some more surprises come tumbling out. Now Judy has some right royal family secrets she’d like to keep hidden away, especially from Jessica, the princess in pink!
We are her world and her universe and her space and her stars and her sky and her galaxy and her cosmos too
Frank is ten. He likes cottage pie and football and cracking codes. Max is five. He eats only Quavers and some colours are too bright for him and if he has to wear a new T-shirt he melts down down down.
Sometimes Frank wishes Mum could still do huge paintings of stars and asteroids like she used to, but since Max was born she just doesn’t have time.
When tragedy hits Frank and Max’s lives like a comet, can Frank piece together a universe in which he and Max aren’t light years apart?
This jaw-dropping, heartbreaking and hopeful novel from debut author Katya Balen will remind you we are all made of stardust. For fans of thought-provoking, moving middle grade from Wonder to Skellig
Now Dad has got a mohawk -
It must be two feet tall!
It's scraping on the ceiling!
Oh, I don't like this at all.
Dad usually looks fairly sensible, so it's a bit surprising when he starts appearing with outlandish new hairstyles! Then things get weirder when he turns up in odd and eccentric clothes! Why can this be? Has he gone mad? No, it's a fancy dress party!
In the next hilarious illustrated instalment of Tom Gates, Mr Fullerman
has a class assignment: a family tree! Tom's ready to learn
all about the Gates family, his friends and a furry creature (or
two!).
But just what *is* that squeaking sound coming from Tom's shoes?
Charlie's racehorse has certainly earned the name Noble Warrior: he won the Derby against all odds and bested a bunch of nasty kidnappers. But now Noddy is facing his greatest challenge yet . . .
Charlie's best friend Polly is still recovering from an accident that left her almost paralysed. But Polly has a real talent with horses - and she and Charlie are determined not to let it go to waste. Can the two best friends find a way to make Polly's equestrian dreams come true, and forge a new path for the racehorse who wouldn't gallop?
The critically-acclaimed first novel from historical
fiction star Lucy Strange - a perfect gift for readers aged 9 and
up.
CHOSEN AS ONE OF AMAZON.COM'S BEST MIDDLE-GRADE BOOKS
OF 2017
CHOSEN IN THE TELEGRAPH'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016
'Perfect in so many ways.' EMMA CARROLL
'Tender, funny, devastating and just about word perfect.'
NATASHA FARRANT, winner of the Costa Book Award
'Outstanding' THE BOOKSELLER
1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is
too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees
– or thinks she sees – in the shadows of their new
home, Hope House.
All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that
Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly
figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond
the garden.
One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood.
What she finds there will change her whole world ...
A beautifully told debut with a classic feel, incorporating
themes of family, loss and childhood loneliness.
Ideal for fans of Emma Carroll and Hilary McKay.
A perfect gift for readers aged 9 and up.
Gabriella Midwinter used to have a home. She wasn’t invisible back then…
For fans of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson, a stunning new novel from the author of SHINE, GLITTER, SEA OF STARS and A MILLION ANGELS.
“What’s strange is that the day it actually happened, everything seemed so normal.”
Caught between arguing parents and moving house, twelve-year-old Gabriella somehow slips through the cracks. Now she’s more alone than ever before. The city streets are no place for young girls but they’re all she’s got.
Unless she can find her brother Beckett.
Unless she can find her home.
A thrilling, pacy adventure about friendship, bravery and real-life injustice from the award-winning author of High Rise Mystery
'For 9+ readers, this gripping, thoughtful update to the Blytonesque ""secret society"" genre engages squarely with racism and social injustice.' Guardian
'Brilliant; a joy to the very end' Katherine Rundell
Josephine Williams is definitely a leader - and her teachers know it! What other eleven-year-old is desperate for MORE schoolwork?
Looking for more challenging tasks, Josie enlists her friends Wesley and Margot into her very own Scout troop, the Copseys, named after the street they all live on. Together they start their quest for their camping badge by sleeping out near to the abandoned factory behind their houses.
But that night they stumble across something strange. Someone seems to be living in the derelict building! The Copseys have to solve the mystery... and perhaps earn their bravery and activism badges along the way...
Perfect for readers who love Robin Stevens and Katherine Woodfine, and full of fast-paced adventure, brilliant characters and snappy dialogue with themes of real-life activism and how to help others.
'I love it!' Elle McNicoll
'An intriguing mystery adventure . . . bold and brilliant' Sophie Anderson
'A joy to read.' Alex Wheatle
'A funny, warm and thought-provoking celebration of community of all kinds' Anna James
