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  • Straight Outta Crongton

    Straight Outta Crongton

    • Alex Wheatle
    • Little, Brown Book Group
    • ISBN13: 9780349002880
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE 2016Round these ends, it's hard to hold on to your dreamsLife's a constant hustle for Mo. Her mum's boyfriend Lloyd is just another man who likes to beat down women; the South Crong streets are fraug...

  • Sea (The Huntress Trilogy)

    Sea (The Huntress Trilogy)

    • Sarah Driver
    • Egmont UK Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781405284677
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    The first book in a stunning new fantasy adventure trilogy, perfect for readers aged 9+ and fans of Philip Pullman, Piers Torday, Abi Elphinstone, Katherine Rundell and Frances Hardinge. In the sky, the fire spirits dance and ripple. Grandma says they showed our Tribe t...

  • The State of Grace

    The State of Grace

    • Rachael Lucas
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781509839551
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    Whip-smart, hilarious and unapologetically honest, The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas is a heart-warming story of one girl trying to work out where she fits in, and whether she even wants to.Sometimes I feel like everyone else was handed a copy of the rules for life and mine got l...

  • Evie's Ghost

    Evie's Ghost

    • Helen Peters
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9780857638427
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off on honeymoon, sending Evie to stay with a godmother she's never even met in an old, creaky house in the middle of nowhere. It is all monumentally unfair. But on the first night, Evie sees a...

  • The Hate U Give

    The Hate U Give

    • Angie Thomas
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406372151
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018.  Winner of the Children's Book of the Year 2018 at the British Book Awards.  #1 New York Times bestseller.  A Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the Year.  A major motion picture, starring Amandla Stenberg.  Sixteen-year-old Starr lives...

  • The Bookshop Girl

    The Bookshop Girl

    • Ashley King, Sylvia Bishop
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407159690
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    This story is about a little girl named Property Jones, so-called because she was left in the lost property cupboard of a bookshop when she was five years old. Property loves living in the bookshop, but she has a whopper of a secret ... she can't actually read! So Property doesn't see the news...

  • Beetle Queen

    Beetle Queen

    • M.G. Leonard
    • Chicken House Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781910002773
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    The second book in the bestselling BATTLE OF THE BEETLES series - perfect for fans of Roald Dahl!'Truly great storytelling.' MICHAEL MORPURGO on BEETLE BOYCruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies. When Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt discover further e...

  • Nibbles the Book Monster

    Nibbles the Book Monster

    • Emma Yarlett
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781848692879
    • Published: 06-04-2017

    Nibbles is a very naughty book monster - he's chomping, munching and nibbling his way through fairytales that don't belong to him! Can you help catch him and put him back in his own story? Children will love to lift the flaps, peek through the peep holes, and chase Nibbles through a fan...