Books - Families

• Karen M. McManus
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141375632
• Published: 01-06-2017

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFive students go to detention. Only four leave alive.Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond.Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a l...

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• Elys Dolan
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192746023
• Published: 01-06-2017

Brilliant new young fiction from comedy genius, Elys Dolan, creator of Steven Seagull, Weasels, and Nuts in Space.High in the mountains are the Dragon Caves, and inside the deepest, darkest dragon cave, lives the most terrible dragon. And his name is Dave. Dave's terrible (as in rubbish) at al...

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• Virginia Bergin
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509834037
• Published: 01-06-2017

Welcome to the Matriarchy. Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, things are pretty much just as you would imagine a world run by women might be: war has ended; greed is not tolerated; the ecological needs of the planet are always put first. In tw...

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• Catherine Barter
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781783445240
• Published: 01-06-2017

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the moment that I saw that email, which was such a tiny thing bu...

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• A.P. Winter
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910655092
• Published: 01-06-2017

They say magic is long-gone ... but is it? A chain of fantastical mishaps in schoolboy Bert's dull life spiral out of control - but then he's rescued by Finch, a plucky girl-adventurer with metal legs. Soon they're sailing through the clouds on a pirate airship bound for the forgotten land of...

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• Robert Winston, Owen Gildersleeve
• Dorling Kindersley Ltd
• ISBN13: 9780241283806
• Published: 01-06-2017

A book that takes a young reader on an exciting and unique journey through all the working parts of a human body.My Amazing Body Machine dives deep inside our human bodies and into our intricately wired brain, teaching young readers about the human anatomy. With clear text, close-u...

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• Garth Nix
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471404467
• Published: 01-06-2017

The hugely anticipated return to Garth Nix's New York Times bestselling Old Kingdom series.Lirael is no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, with dead creatures to battle and Free Magic entities to bind. She's also a Remembrancer, and wielder of the Dark Mir...

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• Tom Nicoll, David O'Connell
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781847158314
• Published: 01-06-2017

The closest he's ever come to super-stardom is playing the back end of a donkey in the school Nativity play. Then his sister drags him along to an Apocalips concert and he overhears members of the band plotting to destroy all humanity. Starting with their own lead singer. Can Sam discove...

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