Books - Children

• Piers Torday
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781784292744
• Published: 05-10-2017

A remarkable story about love, loss and the power of the imagination, from an award-winning, celebrated writer for children. On a frozen Christmas Eve, Mouse Mallory and his family set off across a snow-white valley to visit his grandparents. They never arrive. As the whee...

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• Carnovsky, Kate Davies
• Wide Eyed Editions
• ISBN13: 9781786030504
• Published: 05-10-2017

A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council).An anatomy lesson like no other! Look inside the human body with the magic three-color lens and x-ray from head to toe to discover how your body works. <...

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• Lauren John, Catherine Hyde
• Head of Zeus
• ISBN13: 9781786695895
• Published: 05-10-2017

Lauren St John's stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal. Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena has only one dream: to cl...

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• Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, Giovanni Rigano
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444934007
• Published: 05-10-2017

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Eb...

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• Gill Lewis
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192749253
• Published: 05-10-2017

Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest up there in the heather - an...

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• Sue Purkiss
• Alma Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781846884283
• Published: 28-09-2017

An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows no limits, and when one day he goes a step too far, Aunt Constance decides that she's had enough: from now on, his bachelor uncle can take care of him. Uncle Edmund i...

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• Phil Earle
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444013931
• Published: 21-09-2017

From the author of DEMOLITION DAD, the CBBC Book of the Month June 2017, comes the fourth and final hilarious Storey Street by Phil Earle, illustrated by Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted artist, Sara Ogilvie. Perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Liz Pichon and David Walliams.<br...

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• Kim Ventrella, Victoria Assanelli
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509828678
• Published: 21-09-2017

When Stanley Stanwright finds a bone poking out of the earth in his back garden, he is determined to take a picture of it and send it to the Young Discoverer's Competition, thinking it will help bring his dad back home. But the bone begins to grow, reaching up out of the ground until it turns...

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