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Hey You!: An empowering celebration of growing up Black
- Dapo Adeola, Alyissa Johnson, Sharee Miller, Jade Orlando, Diane Ewen, Reggie Brown, Onyinye Iwu, Chante Timothy, Gladys Jose
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780241521946
- Published: 10-06-2021
This groundbreaking picture book is a lyrical, inspirational exploration of growing up Black, written by award-winning illustrator Dapo Adeola, and brought to life by some of the most exciting Black illustration talents working today.Remember to dream your own dreamsLove your...
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Monstrous Design
- Kat Dunn
- Head of Zeus
- ISBN13: 9781789543681
- Published: 10-06-2021
With swashbuckling, super-fast paced action and own voices queer romance, The Battalion of the Dead return in a dazzling new adventure, set amid the opulence and squalor of 18th-century London and Paris. 1794, London: where luxury and squalor rub shoulders and men of science conspire to...
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Indiana Bones
- Harry Heape, illus Rebecca Bagley
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571353507
- Published: 03-06-2021
Indiana Bones is a shaggy dog with a difference. He's got superpowers and can sniff out criminals and - with his young friend and owner Aisha - solve mysteries that would flummox the world's more expert detectives!In their first case, they are on the trail of treasure hidden centuries ago by a...
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King Tutankhamun Tells All!
- Chris Naunton, Guilherme Karsten
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780500652558
- Published: 03-06-2021
Young history buffs and celebrity fanatics alike will enjoy this humorous and irreverent introduction to King Tutankhamun written by Egyptologist and TV presenter Dr Chris Naunton. Readers hear first-hand from King Tutankhamun how he became the ruler of ancient Egypt at the tender age of nin...
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Tremendous Things
- Susin Nielsen
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781839130618
- Published: 03-06-2021
Wilbur has spent his teens being bullied and now he's sure he's nothing but a loser: his best friend is 85 years old, and his only talent is playing the triangle in the school band. Things start to look up when a mix-up with the French exchange programme results in Wilbur being assigned a<span...
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When the Sky Falls
- Phil Earle
- Andersen Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781783449651
- Published: 03-06-2021
1941. War is raging. And one angry boy has been sent to the city, where bombers rule the skies. There, Joseph will live with Mrs F, a gruff woman with no fondness for children. Her only loves are the rundown zoo she owns and its mighty silverback gorilla, Adonis. As the weeks pass, bonds deepe...
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Raising Hell
- Bryony Pearce
- UCLan Publishing
- ISBN13: 9781912979547
- Published: 03-06-2021
Meet Ivy Elisabeth Mann -' I know what you are thinking, but I'm not half faery, or demon, or angel or anything like that. Mum's a Body Shop consultant living in a bungalow in Birmingham and Dad enters crosswords.' Once upon a time, Ivy and her friends did a very stupid thing and now th...
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Children of the Quicksands
- Efua Traore
- Chicken House
- ISBN13: 9781913322366
- Published: 03-06-2021
In a remote Nigerian village, twelve-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret ... City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. There's no TV, internet or phone. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of b...
