Books - Families

• Christine Roussey, Pamela Butchart
• Bloomsbury Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781526656674
• Published: 09-05-2024

Penelope Snoop is BACK, and she has a new case to solve. Her super-special shiny seashell has VANISHED! With her trusty sidekick, Carlos the dog, Penelope sets out to uncover the mystery - and begins a search for the shiny shell which will take them to the depths of the ocean and back again!</...

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• Lou Carter, Magda Brol
• Bloomsbury Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781408864937
• Published: 09-05-2024

Rabbit is desperate to buy a new car . . . until one fine day, he finally saves up enough for his heart's desire. VROOM! But when Rabbit sees his friends showing off their cool diggers and flashing fire-engines and amazing sailboats, it's hard to resist trying to outdo them all . . . Get ready...

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• Amie Jordan
• Chicken House
• ISBN13: 9781915026118
• Published: 09-05-2024

A grisly murder. A detective warlock with a dangerous past. A girl out of her depth. Can they solve the case? Sage is an ordinary girl and a werewolf, moving between worlds, desperate to make sense of her life. When her supernatural friend, Lucy, is found murdered in the human domain, Sage is...

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• Tom Percival
• Simon & Schuster
• ISBN13: 9781398527126
• Published: 09-05-2024

A beautiful and urgent exploration of the experience of child poverty from Tom Percival, creator of the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series, for fans of Boy at the Back of the Class. There's a bunch of kids in there and suddenly they're all looking at me like someone who can act...

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• A. S. Hussain
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471413490
• Published: 09-05-2024

Tweety is struggling.  Battling depression and faced with parents and friends who don't fully understand what's happening, 16-year-old Tweety feels like no one is listening and there's nowhere to turn to. Until she stumbles across Desi Girl Speaking, a podcast by someone else who's struggling...

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• Sarah Naughton
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9780702329760
• Published: 09-05-2024

One has a secret, one of them saw, there's blood on the papers, who'll take the fall?   Zaina never meant to get involved. The plan was always to focus on her exams, make her dad proud. But none of this is what she'd planned for. Chanelle never made it to the exam; Nero's convinced he saw some...

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• Louise Finch
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9780702331084
• Published: 09-05-2024

From the highly-acclaimed author of The Eternal Return of Clara Hart comes a devastating heartbreak romance with a speculative twist. When Iris Green discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her with one of her best friends, she...

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• Clare Helen Welsh, Ana Sanfelippo
• Little Tiger
• ISBN13: 9781801044189
• Published: 09-05-2024

A CBT-inspired novelty book by Clare Helen Welsh, accompanied by beautiful, nuanced illustrations from Ana Sanfelippo. When you change the way you look at the world, the world you look at changes. When you put on your sunny-side specs a bad mood can become a good mood, a...

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