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  • The Tail of Emily Windsnap: Book 1

    The Tail of Emily Windsnap: Book 1

    • Liz Kessler, Sarah Gibb
    • Orion Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781444015096
    • Published: 06-08-2015

    Emily Windsnap lives on a boat, but her mother has always been oddly anxious to keep her out of the water. It is only when Emily has her first school swimming lesson that she discovers why: as soon as she gets into the water, she grows a tail! Soon Emily discovers a glorious underw...

  • Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist: Book 3

    Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist: Book 3

    • Liz Kessler, Natacha Ledwidge
    • Orion Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781444015119
    • Published: 06-08-2015

    The magic ring that Emily Windsnap - half mermaid, half ordinary girl - finds buried in the sand belongs to Neptune, and he wants it back. But the ring, once on, won't come off, and an angry Neptune sends Emily's boat spinning away across the sea. When it comes to rest, she and her best friend...

  • Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret: Book 4

    Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret: Book 4

    • Liz Kessler
    • Orion Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781444015126
    • Published: 06-08-2015

    Emily is delighted when her family returns to Brightport, but their attempts to follow Neptune's orders to bring humans and merfolk together seem doomed.Thrown out of mermaid school and scorned by her old enemy, Mandy Rushton, Emily goes in search of the lost sirens who were banish...

  • Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun: Book 5

    Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun: Book 5

    • Liz Kessler
    • Orion Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781444015133
    • Published: 06-08-2015

    Emily and Aaron are sent on a top secret mission by King Neptune. The king has been having nightmares he doesn't understand and he knows only that Emily and Aaron must go to the Land of the Midnight Sun to avoid catastrophe. But when the friends arrive in this icy world of mountains and glacie...

  • Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls: Book 6

    Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls: Book 6

    • Liz Kessler
    • Orion Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781444013771
    • Published: 06-08-2015

    Welcome back to the world of Emily Windsnap!  A school trip to a beautiful island plunges Emily and her friends into a new adventure. What is the secret of the mysterious ship that sometimes appears on the horizon, and does the answer lie in the lost city of Atlantis?Emily's advent...

  • One Hundred Bones

    One Hundred Bones

    • Yuval Zommer
    • Templar Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781783703517
    • Published: 01-08-2015

    Scruff the dog is a stray, who just loves to dig. It doesn't make him the most popular dog in the neighbourhood. But when he sniffs out a pile of old bones, he gets all the neighbourhood dogs to help him. They uncover not one, not two, not three... but 100 bones. It is the most exciting dinosa...

  • Bog Child

    Bog Child

    • Siobhan Dowd
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9781909531178
    • Published: 30-07-2015

    Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubl...

  • The Bolds

    The Bolds

    • Julian Clary, David Roberts
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781783443055
    • Published: 30-07-2015

    Mr and Mrs Bold are just like you and me: they live in a nice house (in Teddington), they have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and they love to have a bit of a giggle. One slight difference: they're hyenas. Yes, that's right - they're covered in fur, have tails tucked into their tr...