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  • First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts

    First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts

    • Lari Don
    • Floris Books
    • ISBN13: 9781782501374
    • Published: 18-09-2014

    Winner of a Scottish Children's Book Award.When Yann the injured centaur clip clops into Helen's life she decides to help him even though she's not exactly a vet. But that's just the beginning ... Helen's first aid kit comes in very handy when she meets Yann's friends -- a gang of fabled beast...

  • Egg & Spoon

    Egg & Spoon

    • Gregory Maguire
    • Candlewick Press,U.S.
    • ISBN13: 9780763672201
    • Published: 09-09-2014

  • The Promise

    The Promise

    • Nicola Davies, Laura Carlin
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406355598
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    A picture book of great beauty and hope about the power we have to transform our world.On a mean street in a mean city, a thief tries to snatch an old woman's bag. But she finds she can't have it without promising something in return - to \"plant them all\". When it turns out the b...

  • The Lone City 1: The Jewel

    The Lone City 1: The Jewel

    • Amy Ewing
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406347494
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    A shocking and compelling new YA series from debut author, Amy Ewing; The Handmaid's Tale meets The Other Boleyn Girl in a world where beauty and brutality collide.Violet Lasting is no longer a human being. Tomorrow she becomes Lot 197, auctioned to the highest royal bidder in the...

  • Witchworld

    Witchworld

    • Emma Fischel, Chris Riddell
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9780857634177
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    The witches of Witchworld have no need for old-fashioned wands or broomsticks, not when they have shiny Spellsticks and super-whizzy Skyriders instead. And no one has a cauldron anymore, just a cupboard full of Potions2Go. Flo Skritchett lives with her mother, the editor-in-chief of celebrity...

  • The 100 Society

    The 100 Society

    • Carla Spradbery
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444920086
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    For sixth-form student Grace Becker, The 100 Society is more than just a game; it's an obsession. Having convinced her five friends at Clifton Academy to see it through to the end, Grace will stop at nothing to carry out the rules of the game: tagging 100 locations around the city. With each s...

  • Oliver and the Seawigs

    Oliver and the Seawigs

    • Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192734884
    • Published: 04-09-2014

    A lively, gorgeously illustrated story from Dynamic Duo, Reeve and McIntyre!Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid, and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes off in search of his missing parents. But before he can put his rescue plan into action there...

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    • J.K. Rowling
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781408855683
    • Published: 01-09-2014

    The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of thos...