Books - Families

• Rob Biddulph
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780008207403
• Published: 27-07-2017

Penguin Blue is back, in a swashbuckling new adventure about pirates, treasure, and friendship from Rob Biddulph, the creative genius behind the #DrawWithRob phenomenon and the bestselling and award-winning Blown Away! A pirate hat.A sunny day.For Penguin Blue...

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• Patrice Lawrence
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444927184
• Published: 13-07-2017

The breathtaking second book from the author of Orangeboy, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers, the YA Book Prize, the CrimeFest award, and shortlisted for the Costa Book Award . 17-year-old Indigo has had a tough start in life, having grown up in the care...

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• Janine Beacham
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781510201316
• Published: 13-07-2017

The Clockwork Sparrow meets Downton Abbey It's a bitterly cold winter in Yorke and Rose Raventhorpe and her butler Heddsworth are stuck with Rose's unpleasant cousin Herbert, and his equally horrible butler, Bixby. When an orphan boy named Orpheus interrupts the Cathedral's Mistl...

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• Elizabeth Laird
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509840472
• Published: 13-07-2017

Welcome to Nowhere is a powerful and beautifully written story about the life of one family caught up in civil war by the award-winning author Elizabeth Laird, shortlisted for the Scottish Teen Book Award and winner of the UKLA Book Award.Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and s...

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• Mo Farah, Kes Gray, Marta Kissi
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444934052
• Published: 13-07-2017

From Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah and bestselling author of Oi Frog!, Kes Gray, comes a fun fiction series which will get kids reading, and running too!After returning home from a long cross-country run, it's time for Mo and his friends to decide where to go on their next run...

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• Holly Webb, Jason Cockcroft
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781847156624
• Published: 13-07-2017

Polly and her new ghostly friends William, Rex and Magnus wake Li-Mei, the Chinese porcelain Fu Dog from the Red Drawing Room. The little Pekinese tells them her adventures with Sarah Penhallow - how they investigated rumours of smugglers and sighted a ghostly Green Lady down at the cove. But...

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• Jonny Lambert
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781848696730
• Published: 13-07-2017

Deep in the dewy forest sits an only, lonely panda bear. \"I wish I had a friend,\" Panda sighs, as playful sifakas and graceful flamingos dance around him. But who's that peeking through the bamboo? And can Panda work out how to be her friend? With stunning illustrations from Jonny Lam...

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• Hayley Long
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471406263
• Published: 13-07-2017

A powerfully told story of the love between two brothers in the aftermath of a family tragedyGriff and Dylan are driving into Manhattan with their parents when the worst happens. There is a terrible car accident and Dylan and Griff(1)s parents are killed.The boys are suddenly orphans with nowh...

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