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  • Dork Diaries: Crush Catastrophe

    Dork Diaries: Crush Catastrophe

    • Rachel Renee Russell
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471167751
    • Published: 19-10-2017

    Nikki Maxwell and her BFFs are all counting down to the end of the school year. Nikki thinks she has her summer all figured out, with lots of fun plans to hang out with her friends and her crush, Brandon. It's going to be perfect! Squeee!But then a new boy turns up at school and sh...

  • La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One

    La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One

    • Philip Pullman
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780385604413
    • Published: 19-10-2017

    Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have...

  • Maths Quest: Escape from Hotel Infinity

    Maths Quest: Escape from Hotel Infinity

    • Kjartan Poskitt, Sachin Nagar, Amit Tayal
    • QED Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781784938512
    • Published: 19-10-2017

    Seeking shelter from a storm, your troubles have only multiplied ... can you get to grip with numbers and Escape from Hotel Infinity? Use your problem-solving skills and mathematical knowledge to help save the day! Finding the answers will enable you to advance through the story, following the...

  • Optical Illusions

    Optical Illusions

    • Gianni Sarcone, Marie-Jo Waeber
    • QED Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781784938475
    • Published: 19-10-2017

    Winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2018 The brain is an amazing thing, but it doesn't always get things right when it comes to sight. This book is here to explain why, with astounding images, baffling puzzles, and simple reveals which show the reader how each tri...

  • Stupendous Science

    Stupendous Science

    • Rob Beattie, Sam Peet
    • QED Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781784938468
    • Published: 19-10-2017

    Learn to make ice cream with salt, a smartphone projector, a lava lamp and more with this brilliant book of simple home experiments! Using basic ingredients and equipment, turn your home into a laboratory ready to perform these 70 fun science experiments - learning physics, chemistry, biology...

  • Winter Magic

    Winter Magic

    • Abi Elphinstone, Amy Alward, Emma Carroll, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Geraldine McCaughrean, Lauren John, Piers Torday, Katherine Woodfine, Michelle Magorian
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471159824
    • Published: 19-10-2017

    ***Pre-order Abi's latest adventures, EVERDARK and THE CRACKLEDAWN DRAGON, out in 2021!***A beautiful and classic anthology of frosty, magical short stories from acclaimed children's writers. The Dreamsnatcher's Abi Elphinstone heads up this gorgeous collection of winte...

  • Matt Millz

    Matt Millz

    • Harry Hill, Steve May
    • Faber & Faber
    • ISBN13: 9780571338542
    • Published: 19-10-2017

    Open with your best gag. Finish with your second best. Make sure your face matches the material.Sell your routine . . .Matt Millz LOVES stand up comedy. He's studied the best. He's memorized all the advice. He spends hours writing new gags and thinking up crazy sketches . . . So when the schoo...

  • Notes on my Family

    Notes on my Family

    • Emily Critchley
    • Everything with Words
    • ISBN13: 9781911427056
    • Published: 18-10-2017

    Lou's world is changing, breaking down, chaos is seeping in- a touching , unsettling and darkly hilarious novel told by a cool narrator who observes the world-school, family, love- in a way that makes you want to laugh and cry. 'Hilarious.' Mugglenet. Sunday Times Book of the Week, nominated f...