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  • The Stars at Oktober Bend

    The Stars at Oktober Bend

    • Glenda Millard
    • Old Barn Books
    • ISBN13: 9781910646151
    • Published: 02-08-2016

    Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has a brain injury, the result of an assault. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. When Manny first sees Alice, she is sitting on the rusty roof of...

  • The Paw Print Puzzle (Dotty Detective, Book 2)

    The Paw Print Puzzle (Dotty Detective, Book 2)

    • Clara Vulliamy
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780008132453
    • Published: 28-07-2016

    Dot, her best pal Beans and TOP DOG McClusky are back on the case in a brand-new story! When Dot starts hearing strange noises at night she's convinced there must be something SPOOKY afoot. But before they can prove there's a ghost on the loose, Dot and Beans have to follow Ace Detectiv...

  • Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, Book 5)

    Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, Book 5)

    • Holly Smale
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007574650
    • Published: 28-07-2016

    "My name is Harriet Manners, and I will always be a geek."   The fifth book in the bestselling, award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is. She knows duck-billed platypuses don't have stomachs.She knows that fourteen squirrels were once...

  • Marge in Charge

    Marge in Charge

    • Eglantine Ceulemans, Isla Fisher
    • Templar Publishing
    • ISBN13: 9781848125339
    • Published: 28-07-2016

    \"Isla Fisher is hilarious\" David Walliams\"Charming, funny, delightful: Marge is the babysitter all children would wish for\" David BaddielMeet Marge, the mischievous babysitter with rainbow hair who loves to make a mess and bend the rules . . . At dinnertime Chef Marge cooks up chocolate so...

  • The Other Alice

    The Other Alice

    • Michelle Harrison
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471124273
    • Published: 28-07-2016

    What happens when a tale with real magic, that was supposed to be finished, never was? This is a story about one of those stories . . .Midge loves riddles, his cat, Twitch, and - most of all - stories. Especially because he's grown up being read to by his sister Alice, a brilliant...

  • What's a Girl Gotta Do?

    What's a Girl Gotta Do?

    • Holly Bourne
    • Usborne Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781474915021
    • Published: 25-07-2016

    HOW TO START A FEMINIST REVOLUTION: 1. Call out anything that is unfair on one gender, 2. Don't call out the same thing twice (so you can sleep and breathe), 3. Always try to keep it funny, 4. Don't let anything slide. Even when you start to break...Lottie's determined to change the world with...

  • Run

    Run

    • Kody Keplinger
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444932706
    • Published: 14-07-2016

    Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and an alcoholic mom. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never stayed out past ten p.m., never gone on a date and never broken any of her parents' ov...

  • King Flashypants and the Evil Emperor: Book 1

    King Flashypants and the Evil Emperor: Book 1

    • Andy Riley
    • Hachette Children's Group
    • ISBN13: 9781444929591
    • Published: 14-07-2016

    The first in a fun new series - 'Brilliantly original and hilarious ... it's nearly as good as one of my books' David Walliams. 'One for fans of Horrid Henry and Tom Gates' The GuardianEdwin isn't an ordinary boy. He is a king, with a throne, and his own suit of armour...