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  • The Girl Who Raced the World: a page-turning retelling of the beloved classic Around the World in Eighty Days

    The Girl Who Raced the World: a page-turning retelling of the beloved classic Around the World in Eighty Days

    • Nat Harrison
    • Piccadilly Press
    • ISBN13: 9781835871386
    • Published: 25-09-2025

    You must take every day, every hour, every minute one tick at a time.It is 1872 and, when Maggie Appleton's beloved mother dies, she is left with nothing but a letter for a mysterious stranger called Passepartout. With nowhere else to turn, Maggie seeks out Passepartout and, in doi...

  • The History of We: "A rich and beautifully told history of humanity" Joseph Coelho

    The History of We: "A rich and beautifully told history of humanity" Joseph Coelho

    • Nikkolas Smith
    • Oneworld Publications
    • ISBN13: 9781836431411
    • Published: 25-09-2025

    "A rich and beautifully told history of humanity...Sublime." Joseph Coelho What did "the beginning" look like?Let us travel back to the start,so far back that all of our rootsbegin to tell the same story.The history of WE. Fossil records show that...

  • The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam

    The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam

    • Annelise Gray
    • Zephyr
    • ISBN13: 9781035911011
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    A mythical timeslip story about family, love, loss and memory, with an epic sea voyage at its heart, inspired by the legend of Odysseus.Phoebe dreams of becoming an artist like her grandmother, Cass, a brilliant storyteller who has passed on her love of Greek myths...

  • This Is Not A Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets

    This Is Not A Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets

    • Traci N. Todd, illus Jade Orlando
    • Nosy Crow
    • ISBN13: 9781805132646
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    A beautiful, bold and moving collection of 100 poems by Black poets for the whole family to treasure. Discover classic favourites and new stars in a book that belongs on every child's bookshelf. This gorgeously-illustrated children's anthology makes the perfect introduc...

  • The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good

    The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good

    • Kirsty Applebaum
    • Nosy Crow
    • ISBN13: 9781805131472
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    A hidden garden. An ancient tale. A missing child. This is an addictive mystery with crossing narratives that's impossible to put down. Fran doesn't want to stay with her aunt and uncle and her annoying cousin, Imogen. Imogen is rude and unfriendly and, it turns out, missing... But her...

  • Sin Bin Island - an unmissable adventure from the Red Dwarf co-creator

    Sin Bin Island - an unmissable adventure from the Red Dwarf co-creator

    • Doug Naylor
    • David Fickling Books
    • ISBN13: 9781788453707
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    Detention just got dangerous!  When Jack Digby is sent to Cyril Sniggs's Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls, he doesn't expect lessons in how to fire cannons and fend off pirate attacks. But perhaps he should, as the school, some say, was founded by a pirate.</p...

  • The Fate of Podkin One-Ear

    The Fate of Podkin One-Ear

    • Kieran Larwood, illus David Wyatt
    • Faber Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9780571369577
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    Little rabbits can do great things! The final book in the epic The World of Podkin One-Ear series.Podkin and his crew have brought all the gifts together in this astonishing finale that brings this nine book series to a close. The gifts then melt and morph before t...

  • The Last Bard (HB)

    The Last Bard (HB)

    • Maz Evans
    • Chicken House
    • ISBN13: 9781913696900
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    The bestselling author of Who Let the Gods Out is back with a new story packed full of humour and heart!  Will Davenant has known more tragedy than laughter. But in an unexpected twist, he inherits his grandfather's copy of The Complete Works of Shake...