Books - Families

• Roma Agrawal, illus Jisu Choi
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781510230750
• Published: 29-08-2024

Technology and engineering surround us. From HUGE things, like spaceships and skyscrapers, to much smaller things like the toaster in our kitchen and the shoes on our feet. But all of these things only exist because of seven small inventions: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the le...

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• Adalyn Grace
• Hodderscape
• ISBN13: 9781399726085
• Published: 20-08-2024

The New York Times bestseller Adalyn Grace is back with a gorgeous, thrilling, beautifully romantic gothic fantasy - if you loved Belladonna and Foxglove, you will adore this . . .Blythe Hawthorn has never let anyone tell her what to do . . . and she's not about to start now.  Head...

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• Gabi Burton
• Hodderscape
• ISBN13: 9781399718462
• Published: 20-08-2024

Hearts break. Kingdoms shatter....  In the second book in this dark and seductive YA fantasy duology, which began with Sing Me to Sleep, a siren must decide if saving her kingdom is worth betraying the boy she loves...

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• Ged Adamson
• Nosy Crow
• ISBN13: 9781839948954
• Published: 15-08-2024

Theo can't wait to get his very own dog. But when Geoff arrives, Theo is confused . . . Geoff doesn't play fetch, chase squirrels or do any normal doggy things. He likes painting and making smoothies!  When Theo has to introduce Geoff to his friends, he's SO embarrassed.  Why can't Geoff be li...

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• Meg Rosoff
• Bloomsbury YA
• ISBN13: 9781526646187
• Published: 15-08-2024

Paris. August.  One long summer of nothing.  48 hours of everything.  From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible new YA novel. 17-year-old Callum is facing an unfortunate truth: his summer exchange in rural France was a failure. No epic adventure, no summer fling, a...

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• Janelle McCurdy, illus Ana Latese
• Faber Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9780571368471
• Published: 15-08-2024

In this thrilling finale, Mia must defeat the Reaper King once and for all!    As the city of Nubis tries to recover from the Reaper King's attack, Mia is still reeling from her own personal loss. Everything she thought she knew has been turned upside down, and she finally understands that she...

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• Robert Tregoning, Greg Stobbs
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192786708
• Published: 15-08-2024

From the Indie Picture Book Award Winner 2024 Robert Tregoning, comes What the Crow Saw Below, a beautifully wirtten fable-like tale of hope, stunningly illustrated by Greg Stobbs. On the tangled, twisted branches, in a tangled, twisted wood, stood a young crow, looking downward, like h...

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• Ingela P Arrhenius
• Nosy Crow
• ISBN13: 9781805130871
• Published: 15-08-2024

A stand-out series of beautifully soft, black-and-white cloth books - with a crinkly page, buggy handle, felt flaps and a mirror! Cuddle up with baby's first cloth book featuring high-contrast images to help develop a newborn's eyesight. In Cuddly Bear, you'll find a host of friendly fa...

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