Books - Children

• Kelly Yang
• Knights Of Media
• ISBN13: 9781913311346
• Published: 01-09-2022

MIA TANG IS PLAYING TO WIN!The Women's World Cup is coming to California, and everyone has football fever - especially Mia! But when her PE teacher gives her a C, Mia has to pull up her grade by scoring interviews with the championship teams. It's not so easy when... 1. The two teams are hunke...

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• Annelise Gray
• Bloomsbury
• ISBN13: 9781800240612
• Published: 01-09-2022

Dido is the only girl ever to have raced to victory at the Circus Maximus, Rome's greatest sporting arena.  Now she and her beloved horse, Porcellus, are in hiding, and Emperor Caligula has put a price on their heads.  Can she outwit the emperor and his bounty hunters?  And will a shocking fam...

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• Helena Duggan
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781474991094
• Published: 31-08-2022

Clever, quirky and hugely imaginative, discover the eagerly anticipated new eco-adventure series from the bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect. Who would you trust to save the world...a boy or a billionaire?The earth has shifted on its axis and a mysterious dark mark has appeare...

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• Judith Eagle, illus Kim Geyer
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571363124
• Published: 04-08-2022

Liverpool, 1910.  When Patch runs up the gangway of steamship, RMS Glorious, she isn't planning to hang around. But if she leaves her hiding place the constable might catch her: sitting tight is worth the risk. Too late, she realises the ship is setting sail! Patch has become an accidental sto...

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• Janelle McCurdy, illus Ana Latese
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571368433
• Published: 04-08-2022

The launch of an outstanding debut fantasy series.  'A fresh, wild, gripping adventure.' Kieran Larwood, author of The Legend of Podkin One-Ear Beware of the shadows, the Reaper King is coming . . .Mia always dreamed of being an umbra tamer until she met the wild creature on the Nightma...

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• 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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