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  • The House on Hummingbird Island

    The House on Hummingbird Island

    • Sam Angus
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781447263036
    • Published: 02-06-2016

    'We're going to a fine place,' Idie told Homer to console him, 'with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.' Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey old England to a place where hummingbirds hover and monkeys clamber...

  • Binny Bewitched: Book 3

    Binny Bewitched: Book 3

    • Hilary McKay
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444925432
    • Published: 02-06-2016

    The third book in the heartwarming series about Binny and her family. Binny Cornwallis has lost something. Something that wasn't really hers in the first place. With her best enemy Gareth and her beloved dog Max she turns detective to track it down, but the Cornwallis family are anythin...

  • The Crooked Sixpence

    The Crooked Sixpence

    • Jennifer Bell, Karl James Mountford
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780552572507
    • Published: 02-06-2016

    Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems... Dive head first into the world of Lundinor in this magical adventure story for anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their life.When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb...

  • The Dance in the Dark (Scarlet and Ivy, Book 3)

    The Dance in the Dark (Scarlet and Ivy, Book 3)

    • Sophie Cleverly
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007589227
    • Published: 02-06-2016

    Scarlet and Ivy return to creepy Rookwood School for a third mystery adventure! Perfect for fans of MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE. With their evil headmaster, Mr Bartholomew, safely out of the picture and kindly Mrs Knight in charge, it looks like life at Rookwood School is looking up....

  • World's Greatest Liar: 2016

    World's Greatest Liar: 2016

    • Barry Hutchison, Katie Abey
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781847156730
    • Published: 01-06-2016

    Dylan Malone, aka Beaky, has a habit for telling porkies - every time he opens his mouth, out pops a whopper... But then his long-suffering sister shoves him into the truth-telling machine at Madame Shirley's Marvellous Emporium of Peculiarities. Now Beaky can't tell a lie - not even a teeny-w...

  • Smart About Sharks

    Smart About Sharks

    • Owen Davey
    • Flying Eye Books
    • ISBN13: 9781909263918
    • Published: 01-06-2016

    It's time to learn about the sea's most feared (and most misunderstood) residents: sharks! Owen Davey returns to nonfiction to explain the mysteries of those denizens of the deep. Some are deadly, others are less so, but all of them are fascinating creatures. Exciting and detailed illustration...

  • The Bubble Boy

    The Bubble Boy

    • Stewart Foster
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471145407
    • Published: 19-05-2016

    Winner of the 9+ catergory of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and shortlisted for the Branford Boase AwardA poignant, heartwarming tale that teaches children the importance of treating people with kindness and empathy.Amir is mad. He's crazy. But the hospital woul...

  • Wolves of Currumpaw

    Wolves of Currumpaw

    • Grill William
    • Flying Eye Books
    • ISBN13: 9781909263833
    • Published: 11-05-2016

    \"The Wolves of Currumpaw \"is a beautifully illustrated modern re-telling of Ernest Thompson Seton's epic wilderness drama \"Lobo, the King of Currumpaw,\" originally published in 1898. Set in the dying days of the old west, Seton's drama unfolds in the vast planes of New Mexico, at a time wh...