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  • Roman Quests: Escape from Rome: Book 1

    Roman Quests: Escape from Rome: Book 1

    • Caroline Lawrence
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781510100237
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    The first in a brand new historical adventure series from million-copy-selling Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian. The year is AD 94. When the evil Emperor Domitian sends soldiers to seize his family's home in the middle of the night, t...

  • Spangles McNasty and the Fish of Gold

    Spangles McNasty and the Fish of Gold

    • Steve Webb, Chris Mould
    • Andersen Press
    • ISBN13: 9781783444007
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    Welcome to Bitterly Bay. Spangles McNasty has decided to spend his summer doing what he loves the most: shouting at babies, pulling faces at old ladies, eating cold chips from bins and best of all, collecting other people's spangly things! Having convinced themselves that goldfish are m...

  • The Adventures of Alfie Onion

    The Adventures of Alfie Onion

    • Vivian French, Marta Kissi
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406363104
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    A stand-alone comic adventure for younger readers by sublime storyteller Vivian French, with pictures by Marta Kissi, a talented new illustrator and animator.A stand-alone comic adventure for younger readers by sublime storyteller Vivian French, with pictures by a talented new illu...

  • The Secret Cat (Tiger Days, Book 1)

    The Secret Cat (Tiger Days, Book 1)

    • Sarah Lean
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780008165666
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    Meet animal lover, Tiger Days! A brand-new young fiction series about animals, friendship and adventure by bestselling author Sarah Lean. Beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout. When nine-year-old Tiger Days stays with her grandmother at Willowgate House she never kno...

  • There's a Dragon in my Backpack!

    There's a Dragon in my Backpack!

    • Tom Nicoll, Sarah Horne
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781847156761
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    Book two in a hilarious new series featuring one boy and a little dragon with an oversized appetite for adventure. Eric finally succumbs to Pan's demands and agrees to take the Mini-Dragon to school with him. But Eric gets more trouble than he bargained for when nightmare neighbour Toby switch...

  • Booked

    Booked

    • Kwame Alexander
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781783444656
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you...Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Cross...

  • The Shapeshifter: Feather and Fang

    The Shapeshifter: Feather and Fang

    • Ali Sparkes
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192746054
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    Dax Jones will not be tamed.The Children of Limitless Ability can do all sorts of amazing things. Terrifying things too. Some can move things with their minds. Some can make themselves vanish. Dax Jones can change his form; can hurtle through the sky at 200km an hour, or swim underwater for mi...

  • Captain Pug

    Captain Pug

    • Laura James, Eglantine Ceulemans
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781408866368
    • Published: 05-05-2016

    Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart sailor suit. There's just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water!Captain Pug is the first book in a glorious new illustrated series about roly-poly Pug and his human, Lady Miranda. It was shortlisted...