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  • Postcards from Valhalla

    Postcards from Valhalla

    • Danny Weston
    • UCLan Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781915235657
    • Published: 02-11-2023

    Viggo is fifteen years old, living in Edinburgh with his mum. He has no plans for the future other than to watch the new Thor movie at his local multiplex. But one morning, he wakes to the news that his older brother, Magnus, has gone missing on Shetland. Mum has already booked tickets to go a...

  • Explodapedia: Evolution

    Explodapedia: Evolution

    • Ben Martynoga, illus Moose Allain
    • David Fickling Books
    • ISBN13: 9781788452502
    • Published: 02-11-2023

    Explodapedia is an exploded encyclopedia - everything you need to know, one book at a time!  It's a fresh approach to non-fiction, taking key scientific subjects and presenting them in a way that's hugely entertaining and readable, whilst still presenting reliable, serious, in-depth informatio...

  • How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone

    How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone

    • Alex Norris
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781406397345
    • Published: 02-11-2023

    A brilliantly witty and wise illustrated guide to relationships for teens - by the hugely popular webcomic artist and creator of Oh No!Isn't it wonderful when love strikes? When you encounter someone beautiful and interesting and suddenly: feelings. But what do you do when that fir...

  • The Fastest Tortoise in Town

    The Fastest Tortoise in Town

    • Howard Calvert, Karen Obuhanych
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529514278
    • Published: 02-11-2023

    The familiar fable of the tortoise and the hare gets a charming and funny new spin....   Barbara Hendricks has entered a running race ... but what was she thinking?! After all, she's a tortoise - and everyone knows tortoises are the slowest of the slow. But for some reason, Lorraine - her best...

  • Little, Brown Nut: with a giant fold-out map

    Little, Brown Nut: with a giant fold-out map

    • Mary Auld, Dawn Cooper
    • Mama Makes Books
    • ISBN13: 9781739774882
    • Published: 01-11-2023

    Start Small, Think Big is a series that sets young readers on a journey of discovery, beginning from the small and familiar to new areas of knowledge where they really have to think big! Little Brown Nut starts small, with a large, weighty fruit falling...

  • Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth

    Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth

    • Steve Mushin
    • A&U Children's
    • ISBN13: 9781760292812
    • Published: 31-10-2023

    Join maverick inventor Steve Mushin as he tackles climate change with an avalanche of mind-bending, scientifically plausible inventions to rewild cities and save the planet. Jump into his brain as he designs habitat-printing robot birds and water-filtering sewer submarines, calculates how far...

  • The Snow Girl

    The Snow Girl

    • Sophie Anderson, Melissa Castrillon (Illustrator)
    • Usborne Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781803704357
    • Published: 26-10-2023

    From award-winning and critically acclaimed Sophie Anderson, comes a fairy-tale story of friendship, belonging and bravery, in an adventure through a winter wonderland. The perfect read for the whole family this Christmas.'I wish the snow girl would come to life. Then I would have...

  • The Frost Goblin

    The Frost Goblin

    • Abi Elphinstone, Fiona Woodcock
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471199806
    • Published: 26-10-2023

    "The deepest frost has the power to rekindle hope in anyone who's lost it..."    In Bertie Crash-Wallop's noisy family, it can sometimes feel like there is no room for a quiet boy like him. But when Bertie meets a family of goblins on the night of the deepest frost, is it possible he might mak...