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  • The City of Secret Rivers

    The City of Secret Rivers

    • Jacob Sager Weinstein
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406368857
    • Published: 01-06-2017

    A hilarious fantasy adventure set in modern day London.An exciting subterranean London adventure, the first in a middle-grade trilogy. Hyacinth Hayward has recently arrived from America and is having difficulty adjusting to her new surroundings, especially being in the sole company...

  • After The Fire

    After The Fire

    • Will Hill
    • Usborne Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781474924153
    • Published: 01-06-2017

    Father John controls everything inside The Fence. And Father John likes rules. Especially about never talking to Outsiders. Because Father John knows the truth. He knows what is right, and what is wrong. He knows what is coming. But Moonbeam is starting to see the lies behind Father John's wor...

  • Artichoke Hearts

    Artichoke Hearts

    • Sita Brahmachari
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781509855360
    • Published: 01-06-2017

    Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari is an incredibly insightful, honest novel exploring the delicate balance, and often injustice, of life and death - but at its heart is a celebration of friendship, culture, and life.Twelve-year-o...

  • Letters from the Lighthouse

    Letters from the Lighthouse

    • Emma Carroll
    • Faber & Faber
    • ISBN13: 9780571327584
    • Published: 01-06-2017

    'We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.' February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, 12-year-old O...

  • One Silver Summer

    One Silver Summer

    • Rachel Hickman
    • Old Barn Books
    • ISBN13: 9781910646298
    • Published: 25-05-2017

    After losing her mum in an accident, Sass is sent to live with her uncle in England. Far from her native Brooklyn, the rocky shores and crumbling castles of Cornwall seem like the perfect place to hide her grief. And when she stumbles across a silver horse in a sunlit meadow Sass feels a surpr...

  • 928 Miles from Home

    928 Miles from Home

    • Kim Slater
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781509842193
    • Published: 18-05-2017

    Fourteen-year-old Calum Brooks has big dreams. One day he'll escape this boring life and write movies -proper ones, with massive budgets and A-list stars. For now, though, he's stuck coping alone while his dad works away, writing scripts in his head and trying to stay 'in' with his gang of mat...

  • Dark Matter: Contagion: Book 1

    Dark Matter: Contagion: Book 1

    • Teri Terry
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781408341728
    • Published: 18-05-2017

    Don't miss this startling first book in a breathtaking new trilogy from Teri Terry, queen of the teen psychological thriller and author of the bestselling Slated trilogy! URGENT!An epidemic is sweeping the country.You are among the infected. There is no cure, and you cannot...

  • Walk This Wild World

    Walk This Wild World

    • Sam Brewster, Kate Baker
    • Templar Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781783705412
    • Published: 18-05-2017

    Walk this Wild World celebrates the wondrous diversity of animal and plant life around the globe. Travel to a new habitat and continent with every turn of the page with stunning artwork by award-winning Sam Brewster. See polar bears in the Arctic tundra; elephants in the Serengeti grasslands;...