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  • Things a Bright Girl Can Do

    Things a Bright Girl Can Do

    • Sally Nicholls
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781783446735
    • Published: 01-02-2018

    Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is 17, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to univ...

  • My Colourful Chameleon: A Fun Rhyming Story About a Silly Pet

    My Colourful Chameleon: A Fun Rhyming Story About a Silly Pet

    • Leonie Roberts, Mike Byrne
    • QED Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781784939380
    • Published: 25-01-2018

    A funny, rhyming story about a girl who keeps losing her beloved yet troublesome pet chameleon. It's not her fault though, changing colour is what chameleons do best! Mum is angry at the disappearing critter, and the girl must convince her that the pet can stay. Can she find away of keeping tr...

  • Storytime: I'm Bigger Than You

    Storytime: I'm Bigger Than You

    • Lucy Barnard, Lucy Barnard
    • QED Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781784939397
    • Published: 25-01-2018

    A funny and charming picture book about sibling rivalry and the hurry to grow up. George is Lottie's big brother. He can run faster and reach higher than her. One day at the fairground, they spot the super-duper Big Dipper rollercoaster. Lottie is too small to ride it, but George is determined...

  • A Home Full of Friends

    A Home Full of Friends

    • Charles Fuge, Peter Bently
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444920567
    • Published: 25-01-2018

    Roald Dahl Funny Prize Winner, Peter Bently, teams up with the creator of Little Wombat, Charles Fuge, for this heartwarming story.\"Where will they sleep? I really can't say.Oh, I shouldn't have said they could all come and stay!\"But Bramble was kind. He would never s...

  • Little Red Reading Hood

    Little Red Reading Hood

    • Lucy Rowland, Ben Mantle
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781509825226
    • Published: 25-01-2018

    Whilst leaving footpaths should never be done, Straying from stories is all sorts of fun!Little Red Reading Hood loves reading books and making up stories of her own. When she meets a cunning wolf while on her way to the library, he convinces her to stray from the path and re...

  • I Am Thunder

    I Am Thunder

    • Muhammad Khan
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781509874057
    • Published: 25-01-2018

    I Am Thunder is the Branford Boase Award-winning debut YA novel which questions how far you'll go to stand up for what you believe.  Fifteen-year-old Muzna Saleem is used to being invisible. So no one is more surprised than her when Arif Malik, the hottest boy in school, takes a su...

  • Love, Hate & Other Filters

    Love, Hate & Other Filters

    • Samira Ahmed
    • Hot Key Books
    • ISBN13: 9781471407147
    • Published: 16-01-2018

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019A romantic and relevant debut about Islamophobia and how it affects the normal life of a teenage girl. Maya Aziz dreams of being a film maker in New York. Her family have other ideas. They want her to be a dutiful daughter...

  • The 1,000-year-old Boy

    The 1,000-year-old Boy

    • Ross Welford
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780008256944
    • Published: 11-01-2018

    The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER.  'A wonderful story' Kiran Millwood Hargrave There are stories about people who want to live forever.  This is not one of those storie...