Books - Children

• Nicola Morgan, illus Risa Rodil
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406395419
• Published: 04-08-2022

A fun and practical guide to making your brain brilliant, from well-being expert Nicola Morgan.Build a brilliant brain with this fun and practical guide for young people from award-winning well-being expert Nicola Morgan. From the benefits of the right food, sleep and exercise, to...

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• Sufiya Ahmed
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781801990059
• Published: 04-08-2022

A thrilling and empowering WWII adventure about the French resistance and their British allies, with a determined, Muslim heroine. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo and Emma Carroll, and those looking for diverse historical fiction.July, 1941. Rosina Raja is half-Indian and half-English. Sh...

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• Fleur Hitchcock
• Nosy Crow Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781788009485
• Published: 04-08-2022

This atmospheric thriller, full of daring stunts and sinister villains, is perfect escapism for 9+ readers.  Mouse, a foundling, loves her pieced-together family at the Moth Theatre fiercely. When their leading man, Walter, is wrongly arrested for murder, Mouse swears she'll free him. But anot...

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• David Owen
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781474999236
• Published: 04-08-2022

Meet Alex Neptune, the boy with the power of the ocean in his hands - a brand-new hero for fans of Percy Jackson and Dragon Realm!   For as long as Alex Neptune can remember, the ocean has been trying to kill him. So he's not too happy when a bunch of sea creatures drag him to the abandoned aq...

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• Tom Palmer, Tom Clohosy Cole
• Barrington Stoke Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781800901063
• Published: 04-08-2022

As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship. There is very little to eat and the population lives under the constant threat of arrest and enslavement.   After the murder of...

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• Dan Walker, Jr.
• UCLan Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781912979776
• Published: 04-08-2022

The Light Hunters have fought Monsters for centuries and Squad Juno are the very best at it. From cities to villages, the young group's abilities are on show for all to see now that their powers don't have to be used in secret. Every victory they have prevents a Monster from taking more victim...

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• Andy Jones
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781529500882
• Published: 21-07-2022

A heartwarming, tenderly witty debut about belief - in friendship, in yourself and, maybe, in just a little magic.   "I don't know exactly how wishes work. But I knew a man that did."  Phyll is having a difficult summer. Her family has moved to the seaside, but it's a long way from...

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• Rachel Faturoti
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444963571
• Published: 07-07-2022

Twelve-year-old Sade has been escaping to an imaginary world ever since her mum passed away - with its candy-floss lilac sky, she goes on endless adventures atop her purple-winged bird, Nix. But soon she discovers that frightening shadow beasts live here too and they are seeping into the real...

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