New Children's Books

Kenneth Lillington / The Real Live Dinosaur: And Other Stories

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Eileen Dunlop / Finn's Roman Fort

The sequel to "Finn's Island", this title develops the friendship between Finn and Chris and introduces the themes of conservation and of bullying. When news is leaked that a gravel pit may be sited in an area of archeological interest the community...

Tracey Turner / How to Tell a Wizard from a Warlock: Life-saving Differences You Should Know

Just what is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite, a germ and a virus, or rugby league and rugby union? This mad miscellany is for anyone who has found themselves pondering the exact qualities that make a stoat a stoat, and not a weasel,...

Mary C. Ryan / Frankie's Run

As she and her best friend really start to grow up and enter the boy-watching stage, thirteen-year-old Mary Frances wonders if she should try to be like everyone else or fight for her own identity.       This book is second...

Kate Tym / Pig Tales

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Julie Hearn / Follow Me Down

Mind the gap.Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is...

Benjamin Zephaniah / Talking Turkeys

Wanna be in our gang? We cause Peace, Fighters fear us, On de streets The very first ground-breaking children's poetry collection from street poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Playful, clever and provocative, this is performance poetry on the page at its very...

Kaye Umansky / Wilma's Wicked Revenge

When Wilma is denied the opportunity to become a Wicked Queen even though she has earned her Grade Three Magic certificate, she decides to get her revenge by devising a cunning plan that involves a girl named Snow Drop.       This...

Rachel Delahaye / Little Dolphin Rescue

Fliss loves animals and will do anything to save them! Join her on her adventures to save wild animals in danger.A swimming lesson takes an exciting turn when Fliss is magically whisked away to the Indian Ocean! There she finds a young dolphin in trouble...

Chris Blake / Gladiator Clash

Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history’s mightiest warriors. The first book in a new time-travelling series – perfect for fans of Beast Quest.When ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he...

Heidi Heilig / The Girl from Everywhere

Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century...

Sean Taylor / Alligator Swamp

A novel for 8-11 year olds. When Ant travels to a farm owned by a relative, he gets caught up in a tense mystery involving piranha-fish-infested rivers, guns and illegal traffickers of animal skins. An eco-adventure set in the swamplands of western...

Jonathan Stroud / Ptolemy's Gate

Bartimaeus #3   The tremendous climax of the Bartimaeus sequence.Three years on from the events in The Golem's Eye, the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is...

J.D. Irwin / Edwin Spencer: Shadow Magic

School loser Edwin must go back to Hysteria. He MUST. Why Well, erm, to help his doppelganger Prince Auvlin win a triathlon... *cough cough* But Edwin and Perpetua are happy to use even the flimsiest excuse to return to Hysteria. Only things aren t...

Shannon Hale / Palace of Stone

Princess Academy #2   Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding.There, Miri also has...

Liz Kessler / Emily Windsnap: A Tangle of Tails: 3 Books in 1

An omnibus of the first three bestselling Emily Windsnap adventures about a girl who is also a mermaid.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Lindsay Eagar / The Bigfoot Files

From the author of Hour of the Bees comes another captivating story that deftly blurs the line between reality and magic – and will leave you wondering What if? The Loch Ness Monster. The Frogman. Bigfoot. Twelve-year-old Miranda Cho used to...

Connie Glynn / The Lost Princess

The Rosewood Chronicles #3 In the third book in the Rosewood Chronicles return to a world that effortlessly combines the charm of The Princess Diaries and the immersive magic of Harry Potter .Ellie is a rebellious princess hiding her real...

Karen McCombie / How To Be A Human

Who said friends have to match to matter?When the Star Boy’s space-pod crashes in the grounds of Fairfield Academy he knows he must seek shelter. Taking refuge in the school’s boiler room to await rescue he discovers that the room’s...

Zibby Oneal / The Language of Goldfish

Thirteen-year-old Carrie, clinging to memories of her idyllic early childhood, struggles to communicate with family and classmates       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Katherine Woodfine / The Mystery of the Midnight Peacock

The Sinclair’s Mysteries #4   You are cordially invited to Sinclair's Midnight Peacock Ball! The festive season has come to Sinclair's and Sophie and Lil are spending the holidays at snowy Winter Hall. But it turns out that this is no...

Philip Ardagh / Off the Leash: Stick and Fetch Investigate

Stick and Fetch Adventures #3   The third story about detective duo (and best friends!) Sally Stick and her dog Fetch. Together, they're Stick and Fetch: Detectives. A girl. A dog. A detective agency.Stick and Fetch are on holiday, but even in...

Jordan Banjo / The Day We Saved the Future

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R.L. LaFevers / Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos

Theodosia Throckmorton has an extraordinary ability: she can sense ancient magic. This is most useful, as she spends her life fighting curses in the London Museum of Legends and Antiquities, where her father is head curator of a vast collection of...

Tom Huddleston / DustRoad

FloodWorld #2   The sequel to FloodWorld, this equally cinematic book tells the story of Kara and Joe’s adventures in the US, as they travel with a band of ideological outlaws, hell-bent on destroying the Mariners and stealing their...

Amber Lee Dodd / The Thirteenth Home of Noah Bradley

Moving house is no fun. And no one knows that better than Noah Bradley.A curse has forced his family to move thirteen times. Whether it's a typhoon, a flash floor or a flock of persistent birds, the curse always wins. Now, the Bradley family have just...

Iain Lawrence / The Buccaneers

High Seas Adventures #3 A swashbuckling thriller, part three of THE HIGH SEAS ADVENTURES, set on the oceans at the turn of the nineteenth century – drama, horror, adventure… "There's pirates in the West Indies. Cannibals. They cook...

Poppy Shire / Crystal

Magic Pony Carousel #6   "Roll up, roll up for the most exciting ride of your lives Choose your favourite pony and let the Magic Carousel whisk you away on an amazing adventure "Emily can't wait to ride on the Magic Carousel, and picks...

Philippa Gregory / It’s a Prince Thing

Princess Florizella #4   The sequel to THE PRINCESS RULES sees rebel princess, Princess Florizella, going on even more adventures, but this time, she also has a little brother in tow… Once upon a time, there was a princess who broke all...

Kate DiCamillo / Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package

Tales from Deckawoo Drive #4   What will it take for a cynical older sister to realize she's a born accordion player -- with music in her heart?Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person with no time for gee-gaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When...

Debbi Michiko Florence / Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper

Jasmine Toguchi #4   Jasmine's best friend, Linnie, has just gotten a puppy. And now Jasmine wants a pet of her own—a flamingo! So when her grandmother sends Jasmine a daruma doll as a surprise gift, Jasmine colors in one doll eye and...

Howard Selina / The World's Deadliest Vacuum Cleaner

It's the last week of school holidays, by now, Kien and Tim, should have nearly finished their homework, a "school holiday invention project". But they haven't. Then fate steps in, in the form of the local dump - where they find a deadly vacuum...

Alan MacDonald / Starstruck!

A fantastically funny series from Alan MacDonald and David Roberts, creator of Dirty Bertie. Angela Nicely is already well known to fans of Dirty Bertie after he struggled to escape her clutches in Kiss!, and now she has her very own series! Angela is...

Jewell Parker Rhodes / Ghost Boys

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing...

Gianna Pollero / Monster Doughnuts

Ten-year-old Grace likes doughnuts and cakes as much as the next kid - but they are also her secret weapon. Grace is a monster hunter who owns a bakery - and everyone knows how much monsters LOVE any kind of sweet treat! Just don't tell them about...

Paula Harrison / The Glass Slipper Academy

CAN THEY SCARE OFF ALL THE BADDIES?Nothing very exciting EVER happens in the town of Hobbleton. Then Red, Snow and Goldie are trained up as fairytale ninjas, and find that anything is possible…When Madame Hart is accused of taking Prince Inigo,...

Susan Moore / Indigo Island

Nat Walker Trilogy #3   The third riveting story about orphan heiress, Nat Walker, and her robot dragon, Fizz. Nat has faithfully followed the clues her father has left her from beyond the grave, and she is closing in on the prize. Soon, all...

Jenny Pearson / The Incredible Record Smashers

A record-smashing, feel-good adventure packed with heart, humour and Guinness World Records from Costa Award-shortlisted JENNY PEARSON, and Kid Normal illustrator Erica SalcedoLucy is a fixer of broken things. But there's one thing she can't fix and...

Angela Woolfe / Avril Crump

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Stacey Matson / Scenes From the Epic Life of a Total Genius

Arthur Bean #2   It’s a new year for Arthur Bean which means new goals. He plans to have his own column in the school newspaper, save the environment, and write and direct an award-winning zombie film. All the while, he is going to be...

Tenny Nelson / Disney Raya & The Last Dragon

From a young age, Raya trained to become a fierce Heart Warrior. Suddenly, when her home and family are threatened, Raya must leave her beloved Heart Island with her friend Tuk Tuk. Together, they begin a fantastical adventure filled with bravery,...

Enid Blyton / Morning Mist And Starshine; Adventures Under The Sea

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Caroline Lawrence / The Gladiators from Capua

March AD 80. In Rome, the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open his new amphitheatre (now known as the Colosseum). Flavia, Nubia and Lupus take this opportunity to go to Rome and search for their missing...

Jennifer Killick / Alex Sparrow and the Zumbie Apocalypse

Alex Sparrow #3   The Zumbies are on the rampage - members of the Cherry Tree Lane zumba class are apparently dying and then mysteriously coming back to life! Alex, Jess and Dave have to put a stop to it before Alex's mum and nan join the...

Nicholas O. Time / Going, Going, Gone

In Due Time #1 Three middle schoolers travel back in time on a madcap adventure with the help of a library book in this laugh-out-loud start to the brand-new series, In Due Time.Going, Going, Gone opens in the library at Sands Middle School...

Nicholas O. Time / Wrong Place, (Really) Wrong Time

In Due Time #3   Luis takes The Book of Memories home and things get crazy in this third zany novel, part of the all-new In Due Time series.When librarian Valerie Tremt gives student Luis Ramirez a chance to go back in time, he knows...

Nicholas O. Time / Stay a Spell

In Due Time #2   School librarian Ms. Tremt sends Jada and her friends back to 1977 to learn a valuable lesson in this second zany novel, part of the all-new In Due Time series.Now that librarian Valerie Tremt has given her students access to a...

Dana Meachen Rau / What Is a Solar Eclipse?

Learn about the phenomenon of a solar eclipse just in time for the Great American Eclipse that will take place on April 8, 2024 in this title in the Who HQ Now series featuring newsmakers and trending topics.Just in time for the third North American...

Debbi Michiko Florence / Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl

Jasmine Toguchi #3   It’s talent show time at school, and eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is excited to show her stuff. But as she thinks about her strengths―tree-climbing, mochi making, collage―none of them feel quite right to perform...

Debbi Michiko Florence / Jasmine Toguchi, Super Sleuth

Jasmine Toguchi #2   The second heartfelt story of friendship and sisterhood in this charming new chapter book series, starring a Japanese-American girl!It's a big weekend for Jasmine Toguchi! She's excited to celebrate Girl's Day ― a Japanese...

Debbi Michiko Florence / Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen

Jasmine Toguchi #1   Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and top-notch mess-maker!She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do...

Amanda Mitchison / Crog

When Wilf sees the simple wooden bowl in the local museum, he’s not sure why he’s so drawn to it – but it has him mesmerized. Leaving with the bowl under his jacket, he notices two men in dark suits heading purposefully inside, and...