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  • Kerfuffle Bird

    Kerfuffle Bird

    • Helen Docherty, Gwen Millward
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9781382053822
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    The Hushlings are always quiet and polite, and that's the way they like it. Except for Maeve who longs to let some of her Big Feelings out!  When the noisy Kerfuffle Bird arrives, Maeve is overjoyed to have someone to whoop and shriek with. But when Kerfuffle Bird's squawking and flapping, war...

  • Live

    Live

    • Luke Palmer
    • Firefly Press
    • ISBN13: 9781915444967
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    Year Twelve pupil George is passionate about his band and his music, even if the three other band members are a little more laid back about it. They play for all their friends' parties, and just might, he hopes, hit the big time. But they have surprise competition from new girl Beth and shy fe...

  • The World's Worst Alien

    The World's Worst Alien

    • Alice Primmer, Fred Blunt
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529519655
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    Hilarious observational humour and witty social commentary combine in this debut comedy of an alien reluctantly coming to Earth to "fix" the mess that humans have made of her school project.When alien "Sky" creates planet Earth as part of a school project, she's de...

  • The Shell Keepers

    The Shell Keepers

    • Truly Johnston
    • Chicken House
    • ISBN13: 9781915947734
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    An enchanting and sunny seaside adventure - perfect for sunny days ahead! When Corrine picks up a shell on the beach, she doesn't expect to see a tiny girl inside it. Kauri lives below the sand and sea, travelling with her family on the tides. But now their miniature world is in danger, and th...

  • Riverskin: A pacy and atmospheric tale

    Riverskin: A pacy and atmospheric tale

    • Mike Edwards
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529523980
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    Tess lives in the "turns", a network of tunnels under the River Tees, with her Aunt Peg and her monstrous Unkle Darkwater. When Aunt Peg starts to develop signs of dementia, Tess must find someone else to keep her safe. And she is beginning to doubt her aunt's stories about her origins, too.</...

  • Best of All Worlds

    Best of All Worlds

    • Kenneth Oppel
    • Guppy Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781916558458
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    When Xavier wakes up on the first morning of an enforced family weekend away with his pregnant stepmum and dad, he doesn't recognise where they are - it's as if the house has inexplicably been transported to the set of a video game, inside an impenetrable dome where the family have been 'donat...

  • Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky

    Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky

    • Pari Thomson, Elisa Paganelli
    • Macmillan Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781035021208
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    Journey to a spectacular magical land in The Forest in the Sky! Pari Thomson's bestselling Greenwild: The World Behind the Door won Blackwell's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Overall Children's Book Prize: discover the much-anticipated finale now! With stunning illustrat...

  • Feel Your Happy: The positive and reassuring picture book about feelings, emotions and sensory overload

    Feel Your Happy: The positive and reassuring picture book about feelings, emotions and sensory overload

    • Emily Coxhead
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529515831
    • Published: 05-06-2025

    A joyful celebration of the senses and how to cope with sensory overload, from the much-loved creator of The Happy News.Every day there are new things to explore. All around us there is lots to see, hear, smell, touch and taste. But sometimes it can feel overwhelming -...