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  • Car Wash Wish

    Car Wash Wish

    • Sita Brahmachari, Louise Wright
    • Barrington Stoke Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781781125236
    • Published: 08-01-2016

    Hudson is a skilled reader of books, but not so much with people. Mum's new bloke Louis is keen to help, and in turn Hudson passes on what he learns to future sibling Zed (for zygote). This all comes in useful at granddad's funeral as Hudson deals with grief, his dad's feelings of guilt and hi...

  • A Dark Trade

    A Dark Trade

    • Mary Hooper
    • Barrington Stoke Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781781125168
    • Published: 08-01-2016

    Gina knows that Victorian London is no place for an orphaned girl - there are those that would literally steal the hair off her head. And so Gina finds work with Thread and Spider as 'George', selling burial outfits stripped off rich corpses. The work is dangerous and illegal, but it is better...

  • Rise of the Slippery Sea Monster

    Rise of the Slippery Sea Monster

    • Gareth P. Jones
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781847156648
    • Published: 07-01-2016

    Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.) The Steampunk Pirates get a taste of their own medicine when the Leaky Battery is raided by a sea monster that's greedy for gold. But when the rusty robots race to get their treasure back, they sail straight int...

  • Intergalactic Ed and the Space Pirates

    Intergalactic Ed and the Space Pirates

    • Ella Denton, Jamie Littler
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192739407
    • Published: 07-01-2016

    All is peaceful and calm in outer space, until a band of space pirates steals the moon! Will Intergalactic Ed and his faithful space cat, Sputnik, find a way to release it? Or will they end up walking the Space Plank? Join Ed and Sputnik in an engaging picture storybook about space, rockets an...

  • Arena 13

    Arena 13

    • Joseph Delaney
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9781782954057
    • Published: 07-01-2016

    The first book in the exhilarating new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.Welcome to Arena 13. Here warriors fight. Death is never far away . . .Leif has one ambition: to become the best fighter in the notori...

  • The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head

    The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head

    • Daisy Hirst, Daisy Hirst
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406365528
    • Published: 07-01-2016

    A poetic and original picture book about the value of friendship from a remarkable new author.\"Arresting, resonant and witty\" The TimesA beautifully bold and fresh new picture book, this hopeful and endearing story about moving house, making new friends and playing im...

  • The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock

    The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock

    • Fereshteh Sarlak, Firoozeh Golmohammadi
    • Tiny Owl Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781910328132
    • Published: 01-01-2016

    Jackal wants to be bright, dazzling and bold so that all the animals of the forest will admire him. One night, he dreams of being a peacock with animals waiting on him hand and foot because of his great beauty. More determined than ever, he hatches a clever plan that will turn him into the bri...

  • The Orange House

    The Orange House

    • Nahid Kazemi
    • Tiny Owl Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781910328118
    • Published: 01-01-2016

    The small Orange House stands at the end of the alley, feeling sad and left out as all the nearby tall buildings admire another new building being built. Her old stone stairs and pipes are no match for the new building's elevator and brand new pipes that they say will never burst. Feeling she...