Books - Families

• Benjamin Dean
• Simon & Schuster YA
• ISBN13: 9781398540712
• Published: 14-08-2025

From bestselling and award-winning author Benjamin Dean comes a dark, decadent and deadly YA thriller following the perfectly privileged lives of spoilt rich kids and the messy, murderous things they'll do to get what they want. For fans of How to Die Famous, One of Us is Lying and Five Surviv...

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• Jack Mackay, Ben Joel Price
• Oneworld Publications
• ISBN13: 9780861549528
• Published: 14-08-2025

In a creaky old house on a small, damp island, someone - or something - is waiting...  A grieving family. A decaying house. A babysitter with a monstrous secret. Nothing on Gloam Island is quite what it seems... Gwen doesn't need anyone to help her look...

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• Steve Webb
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571372942
• Published: 14-08-2025

Welcome to a story of radioactive ice cream, monsters in the sludge, and two superheroes who spend more time chatting than actually saving the world . . . The silliest penguin and the chattiest cat are back to investigate the cow-eating swamp thing in this action-packed...

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• Radhika Sanghani
• Usborne Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781805318286
• Published: 14-08-2025

A fresh, relatable story with a sprinkling of magic, about a girl who just wants to fit in but her magic powers make her stand out, from award-winning journalist and author Radhika Sanghani. Perfect for fans of Lottie Brooks and Dork Diaries.Sabina Patel just wants...

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• Alastair Chisholm, illus Francesca Ficorilli
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780008723712
• Published: 14-08-2025

When Danny reveals the dark underside of a company making a new fighting toy gadget, he has no idea of the danger he's in. A gripping sci-fi mystery from bestselling author Alastair Chisholm. Everyone is desperate to have a Blitzer, the new fighting-game craze. But Dann...

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• E.V. Woods
• Usborne
• ISBN13: 9781805077633
• Published: 14-08-2025

A puppet master wielding a dark curse.A boy made of shadows.And a girl who must sever the strings and set her sisters free...Emberlyn is a Marionette - one of a troupe of hauntingly beautiful girls who have been cursed to perform until they turn to dust... When another...

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• Ashley Thorpe
• Usborne
• ISBN13: 9781805075653
• Published: 14-08-2025

Ancient magic and all-new heroes in a battle between the living and the dead - an epic story of chaos, myth and adventure for fans of Percy Jackson, from the author of The Boy to Beat the Gods.When her island home is overrun by evil spirits, Evie is saved only by t...

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• Ekaterina Trukhan
• Nosy Crow
• ISBN13: 9781805130833
• Published: 14-08-2025

Third in a series of four sweet and simple stories about a young child's joyful discovery of nature through the seasons. When autumn comes, the leaves are changing colour on the trees, the birds are flying south and the sleepy hedgehog is settling down for his winter sleep. Pine cones,...

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