Books - Families

• Jamie Smart
• David Fickling Books
• ISBN13: 9781788453455
• Published: 14-08-2025

Crumbles the baker is having a crisis of confidence - all of her recipes are going disastrously wrong! There's only one thing for it: a trip to Food Island, where a best friend and a host of NEW chaffies are on hand to inspire Crumbles eventually back to top cooking form! ...

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• Bethany Walker
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9780702340659
• Published: 14-08-2025

12-year-old Meddy Gordon has serious anger issues...  In this hilarious book for middle-grade readers, Meddy rants about family and friendships, using her diary as a way of letting out her anger and keeping her emotions in check. So far, so normal. You know the kind of thing: frustrations with...

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• Eve Ainsworth, Theo Parish
• Barrington Stoke
• ISBN13: 9780008739522
• Published: 14-08-2025

Ellie battles feelings of anxiety about school that she can't explain in this sensitively told tale from acclaimed author Eve Ainsworth. When Ellie wakes up one day and can't face going to school, her parents think there must be a reason. Is she being bullied? Or is the...

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• Kieran Larwood, Joe Todd Stanton
• Nosy Crow
• ISBN13: 9781839945243
• Published: 14-08-2025

The third in an action-packed new adventure series from author Kieran Larwood and illustrator Joe Todd Stanton. Young readers will love discovering the world of the Dungeon Runners!   ARE YOU READY FOR THE CHALLENGE? It's time to fight or take flight!  Kit thought he wa...

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• Benjamin Dean
• Simon & Schuster YA
• ISBN13: 9781398540712
• Published: 14-08-2025

From bestselling and award-winning author Benjamin Dean comes a dark, decadent and deadly YA thriller following the perfectly privileged lives of spoilt rich kids and the messy, murderous things they'll do to get what they want. For fans of How to Die Famous, One of Us is Lying and Five Surviv...

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• Rochelle Falconer
• OUP Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781382062770
• Published: 07-08-2025

Junie and Ruby bicker all day. They bicker over breakfast, about clothes, and even over a pencil they find on the floor. They are so busy bickering they don't notice that Mummy is acting differently . . . she's huffing, she's puffing, and she's sprouting FUR!When Mummy becomes the cheeky Mummy...

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• Martin Macintyre, Katie Ponder
• Dorling Kindersley
• ISBN13: 9780241740255
• Published: 07-08-2025

This collection contains more than 20 enthralling new retellings of famous Celtic myths for children, plus exciting profiles of all the major characters of Celtic legend.Children will love exploring each myth, told in a straightforward and compelling way that is ea...

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• Louise Gooding, Irina Avgustinovich
• DK
• ISBN13: 9780241687925
• Published: 07-08-2025

Meet Minna and learn about the concept of masking in this informative and inclusive picture book on neurodiversity.  Minna's Masks teaches children aged 3-5 all about the awesome abilities that neurodiverse individuals have and gives them a safe space to feel accepted....

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