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2025
February
Picture Books
Books for 5+
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Clever Crow
- Author / Illustrator: Chris Butterworth, illus Olivia Lomenech Gill
- Publisher: Walker Books
- Genre: Environment & Nature
- ISBN: 9781529504262
- Published: 06-02-2025
For young bird-watchers and enthusiasts of the natural world comes a unique, surprising and beautifully illustrated non-fiction p
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Cloud Boy
- Author / Illustrator: Greg Stobbs
- Publisher: OUP Children's Books
- Genre: Representation & Inclusion
- ISBN: 9781382054904
- Published: 06-02-2025
Whenever Bobby loses his concentration, he drifts into the clouds . . .
Books for 7+
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Dungeon Runners: Sky Battles
- Author / Illustrator: Kieran Larwood, illus Joe Todd Stanton
- Publisher: Nosy Crow
- Genre: Fantasy
- ISBN: 9781839945212
- Published: 13-02-2025
An action-packed new adventure series from Blue Peter Award-winning author Kieran Larwood and Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Jo
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MEGA: The Most Enormous Animals Ever
- Author / Illustrator: Jules Howard, Gavin Scott
- Publisher: Nosy Crow
- Genre: Animals
- ISBN: 9781839943119
- Published: 13-02-2025
A fascinating celebration of the world's most enormous animals!
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The Notwitches
- Author / Illustrator: Gary Panton, Dotty Sutton
- Publisher: Chicken House
- Genre: Funny Stories
- ISBN: 9781915947413
- Published: 13-02-2025
While lots of children have one or two problems, Melanda Notwitchhas three: her horrible aunts. They really are the absolute WORST!Luckil
Books for 9+
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The Great Theatre Rescue
- Author / Illustrator: Judith Eagle, Jui Talukder
- Publisher: Faber Children's Books
- Genre: Mystery & Detective
- ISBN: 9780571363308
- Published: 13-02-2025
Escape to the 1930s, the land of theatre in this joyous new middle-grade adventure from the bestselling author of The Accidental Stowaway
Books for 11+
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It's a Brave Young World
- Author / Illustrator: Anu Adebogun, illus Soofiya Cruz, Lila Cruz
- Publisher: Little Tiger
- Genre: Personal Growth
- ISBN: 9781838916404
- Published: 06-02-2025
From online safety and predators to frenemies, mood swings and relationship red flags, this coming-of-age handbook is the big sibling you
Books for 14+
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All Better Now
- Author / Illustrator: Neal Shusterman
- Publisher: Walker Books
- Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
- ISBN: 9781529517590
- Published: 06-02-2025
A deadly and unprecedented virus is spreading. But those who survive it experience long-term effects no one has ever seen before: utter c
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Island of Influencers
- Author / Illustrator: Monique Turner
- Publisher: Chicken House
- Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
- ISBN: 9781915947697
- Published: 13-02-2025
Harper wants to be an influencer. Badly. When Belle, her famous cousin,is the latest 'victim' in a string of influencer kidnappings,and i
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Mondays Are Murder
- Author / Illustrator: Ravena Guron
- Publisher: Usborne
- Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
- ISBN: 9781805075707
- Published: 13-02-2025
Kay is told to look out for a thrill on Tuesday, a wreckage on Wednesday, treachery on Thursday, a fire on Friday, sabotage on Saturday,
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Needy Little Things: The new YA thriller with a twist that will leave you speechless
- Author / Illustrator: Channelle Desamours
- Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
- Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
- ISBN: 9781526675064
- Published: 13-02-2025
Sariyah is determined not to let her missing friend become just another statistic, one of many vanished Black girls. But in this pacey YA
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Pieces of Us
- Author / Illustrator: Stewart Foster
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster YA
- Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
- ISBN: 9781398535671
- Expected: 27-02-2025
Two secrets, an unbreakable bond . . . a powerful and heartbreaking love letter to a life-changing friendship, from award-winning author,
January
Picture Books
Books for 5+
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Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book
- Author / Illustrator: Richard Scarry
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Genre: Early Skills
- ISBN: 9780571361182
- Published: 16-01-2025
Classic Richard Scarry: gifted humorist, national treasure, newly published by Faber.
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Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love: A compendium of spectacularly illustrated tales - a perfect Valentine's gift!
- Author / Illustrator: Joseph Coelho
- Publisher: Walker Books
- Genre: Romance & Relationships
- ISBN: 9781529517323
- Published: 16-01-2025
Ten-Word Tiny Tales are designed to spark the imagination, from cherished moments between siblings to touching tales of beloved pets ...
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The Moonlight Mystery Agency: The Birthday Cake Thief (Little Gems)
- Author / Illustrator: Vashti Hardy, illus Agnes Saccani
- Publisher: Farshore
- Genre: Mystery & Detective
- ISBN: 9780008680749
- Published: 02-01-2025
A brand-new series from bestselling author Vashti Hardy
Books for 7+
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Grimwood: Party Animals
- Author / Illustrator: Nadia Shireen
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Books
- Genre: Funny Stories
- ISBN: 9781398530065
- Published: 16-01-2025
PRE-ORDER NOW! The unmissable new book in Nadia Shireen's bestselling and brilliantly anarchic illustrated comedy adventure series, Grimw
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Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow's Great Race
- Author / Illustrator: Eric Huang, illus Phung Nguyen Quang
- Publisher: Little Tiger Press
- Genre: Myths & Legends
- ISBN: 9781788957373
- Published: 09-01-2025
When the Jade Emperor gets bored, there's only one answer ... a Great Race! Fiery shapeshifter Ming and solitary cat Miaow enter for a ch
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Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat
- Author / Illustrator: Eric Huang, illus Phung Nguyen Quang
- Publisher: Little Tiger Press
- Genre: Myths & Legends
- ISBN: 9781788957380
- Published: 09-01-2025
Ming and Miaow are ready for their first mission as Guardians of the New Moon! But things are tense between Miaow and his longtime frenem
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Nature: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About the Natural World!
- Author / Illustrator: Eric Huang, Sam Caldwell
- Publisher: Words & Pictures
- Genre: Non Fiction
- ISBN: 9780711292765
- Published: 23-01-2025
In this myth-busting guide to nature, from animals to plants, fungi, bacteria and even prehistoric creatures, everything you think you kn
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One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust
- Author / Illustrator: Michael Rosen, illus Benjamin Phillips
- Publisher: Walker Books
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- ISBN: 9781529515985
- Published: 02-01-2025
A poignant and ultimately uplifting picture book based on a true story of an escape from a convoy to Auschwitz."Get through o
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Terrible True Tales: Greeks: From the author of Horrible Histories
- Author / Illustrator: Terry Deary
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- ISBN: 9781801996006
- Published: 16-01-2025
Horrible Histories author Terry Deary presents a laugh-out-loud collection of Greek tales based on thrilling true stories - four books in
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Terrible True Tales: The Stone Age: From the author of Horrible Histories
- Author / Illustrator: Terry Deary, illus Tambe
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- ISBN: 9781801995962
- Published: 16-01-2025
Horrible Histories author Terry Deary presents a laugh-out-loud collection of Stone Age tales based on thrilling true stories - four book
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The Bold Kitten
- Author / Illustrator: Holly Webb, illus Sophy Williams
- Publisher: Little Tiger
- Genre: Animals
- ISBN: 9781788957397
- Published: 09-01-2025
Hana and her family have fled Syria to stay with a host family in the UK. Hana is nervous and lonely at first, until she bonds with a kit
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The Island Vet (3) - Devil Bird Island
- Author / Illustrator: Gill Lewis, Irina Avgustinovich
- Publisher: Barrington Stoke
- Genre: Environment & Nature
- ISBN: 9781800902787
- Published: 02-01-2025
(Dyslexia-friendly)
Books for 9+
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Hunt for the Golden Scarab (Time Keys, book 1)
- Author / Illustrator: M. G. Leonard, illus Manuel Sumberac
- Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
- Genre: Adventure
- ISBN: 9781035005963
- Published: 30-01-2025
Follow twelve-year-old Sim's time travel adventure in Ancient Egypt in Hunt for the Golden Scarab, the first title in Time Keys, a specta
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Ice Apprentices: A breathtaking new children's fantasy series: Volume 1
- Author / Illustrator: Jacob North
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Books
- Genre: Fantasy
- ISBN: 9781398533936
- Published: 30-01-2025
A BREATHTAKING new children's fantasy series set in a frozen world with mighty monsters and spellbinding magic.
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Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
- Author / Illustrator: Philippa Leathley
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre: Adventure
- ISBN: 9780008660925
- Published: 30-01-2025
Discover a thrilling and magical children's adventure story of courage, family and fate. New for 2025
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Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm: the first adventure in an electrifying new fantasy series!
- Author / Illustrator: Ash Bond
- Publisher: Templar Books
- Genre: Fantasy
- ISBN: 9781800786837
- Published: 30-01-2025
The beginning of a major new fantasy series. Join Peregrine on a cosmic adventure through the realms!
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Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women!
- Author / Illustrator: Eric Huang, illus Sam Caldwell
- Publisher: Words & Pictures
- Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
- ISBN: 9780711292888
- Published: 30-01-2025
In this myth-busting guide to remarkable women past and present, everything you think you know will be proven wrong!
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The Cursed Tomb: A thrilling, ancient-Egyptian adventure
- Author / Illustrator: Iszi Lawrence
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Genre: Adventure
- ISBN: 9781801996051
- Published: 30-01-2025
A thrilling adventure of ancient curses, myths and legends set in ancient Egypt, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll, Horrible Histories and
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WildLives: 50 Extraordinary Animals that Made History
- Author / Illustrator: Ben Lerwill, Sarah Walsh
- Publisher: Nosy Crow
- Genre: Animals
- ISBN: 9781788007351
- Published: 16-01-2025
True tales of wild and wonderful lives to be treasured forever!
Books for 11+
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American Mystery (Don't Doubt the Rainbow 3)
- Author / Illustrator: Anthony Kessel
- Publisher: Crown House Publishing
- Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
- ISBN: 9781785837289
- Published: 31-01-2025
The third book in the Don't Doubt the Rainbow seris, American Mystery centres around the mystery first mentioned by Grandpa David at the
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne
- Author / Illustrator: Jonathan Stroud
- Publisher: Walker Books
- Genre: Dystopian
- ISBN: 9781529514377
- Published: 16-01-2025
The thrilling final book in a phenomenal trilogy from the bestselling author of Lockwood & Co.
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The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick
- Author / Illustrator: Larry Hayes
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Genre: Horror
- ISBN: 9781526677785
- Published: 02-01-2025
By night, Finn has horrible nightmares. By day, they come TRUE! A gripping horror story for readers of 10 and over
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The Zombie Project
- Author / Illustrator: Alice Nuttall
- Publisher: Chicken House
- Genre: Horror
- ISBN: 9781915947345
- Published: 02-01-2025
In a world without bees, death-flies are needed to grow food. But death-flies need bodies - lots of them. And bodies mean zombies. Merian
Books for 14+
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Girl, Ultra-Processed: A bold, body-positive YA about friendship, dating and self-love.
- Author / Illustrator: Amara Sage
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Genre: Personal Growth
- ISBN: 9780571385911
- Published: 16-01-2025
A searing look at diet culture and all its ugly consequences, from the talented writer of Influential.
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Let the Light In
- Author / Illustrator: Jenny Downham, Louis Hill
- Publisher: David Fickling Books
- Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
- ISBN: 9781788453486
- Published: 02-01-2025
An extraordinary novel by mother-and-son authors Jenny Downham and Louis Hill. This is a searing, powerful, ultimately uplifting explorat
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Saint-Seducing Gold: The second book in the swashbuckling YA historical fantasy series
- Author / Illustrator: Brittany N. Williams
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Genre: Fantasy
- ISBN: 9780571381647
- Published: 02-01-2025
Swashbuckling, romantic, and full of the sights and sounds of Shakespeare's London: Saint-Seducing Gold is the sequel to
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The Boy I Love
- Author / Illustrator: William Hussey
- Publisher: Andersen Press
- Genre: LBGTQ+
- ISBN: 9781839134821
- Published: 23-01-2025
It's WWI and, at just 19, Stephen has already survived a year at the front, and lost his first love. Now he must return to the fighting.<
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The Party: The New York Times best-selling YA thriller
- Author / Illustrator: Natasha Preston
- Publisher: Hot Key Books
- Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
- ISBN: 9781471418266
- Published: 02-01-2025
#1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author NATASHA PRESTON is back with another pulse-pounding, twisty read!
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The Wilderness of Girls
- Author / Illustrator: Madeline Claire Franklin
- Publisher: Chicken House
- Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
- ISBN: 9781915947857
- Published: 02-01-2025
Rhi discovers four young women living wild and guarded by wolves.The girls tell her that they are lost princesses raised by a mancalled M
Books for 16+
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After Life: The tear-jerker masterpiece from the bestselling author of If I Stay
- Author / Illustrator: Gayle Forman
- Publisher: Hot Key Books
- Genre: Bereavement
- ISBN: 9781471418310
- Published: 16-01-2025
The extraordinary new young adult novel from bestselling author of If I Stay, Gayle Forman.
