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  • Oliver's Great Big Universe: the laugh-out-loud new illustrated series about school, space and everything in between!

    Oliver's Great Big Universe

    Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
    01 November 2024;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Oliver's Great Big Universe is the first title in the series about 11-year-old Oliver. The series follows in the footsteps of characters such as the Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates with its first-person, heavily illustrated, humorous diary-style format. This book tells the stor...

  • Space: From Sputnik to the International Space Station

    Space: From Sputnik to the International Space Station

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    01 November 2024;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Space: From Sputnik to the International Space Station starts by looking at rockets with labelled diagrams, supporting readers in identifying their components. It then follows the development of space exploration from Sputnik, the first satellite in in space to manned pace fli...

  • Podkin and the Tentacled Terror

    Podkin and the Tentacled Terror

    Name: Jenny CADDICK
    01 November 2024;

    Genre: Fantasy

    A return to the World of Podkin One-Ear is always an absolute joy and offers a totally immersive reading experience, taking you into an amazing fantasy world.  Podkin and the Tentacled Terror is the eighth in this thrilling, adventurous and heart warming quest by Podkin to def...

  • Old Wounds

    Old Wounds

    Name: Stephen Leitch
    30 October 2024;

    Genre: LBGTQ+

    Set in small-town America, Old Wounds is a creepy, thrilling and thought-provoking novel following trans teens Erin and Max who are trying to get to California. Erin isn't quite sure why she's here as she's not spoken to Max in the two years since they broke up, but Max needs...

  • How to Survive a Horror Movie

    How to Survive a Horror Movie

    Name: Lorraine ansell
    29 October 2024;

    Genre: Horror

    Charley is starting over in a new boarding school on a remote island. Luckily her roommate shares her love of horror movies, and they bond over Slasher Saturday movie nights. Tormented by the popular and rich girls, and trying to reinvent her shady past, things take a rapid turn for the worse...

  • The Ghost of Us: A swoony sapphic YA romance

    The Ghost of Us

    Name: Eileen Armstrong
    28 October 2024;

    Genre: LBGTQ+

    Haunted by her own cyberbullying incident years ago, aspiring ghosthunter Cara is determined to throw off her social outcast status by proving ghosts exist via her YouTube channel, Caranormal Activity.  Stumbling across the spirit of Aiden, a popular student who lost his life a year ago, she s...

  • Let's Split Up

    Let's Split Up

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    28 October 2024;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Let's Split Up is a fun (and frightening!) teen slasher story with a knowing nod to classic eighties and nineties horror. Think Goosebumps and Scream with a bit of Mike Myers thrown in! Shelley and Brad are the poster couple at school – the cheerleader and Jock about to...

  • Mermaid Academy: Harper and Splash

    Mermaid Academy: Harper and Splash

    Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
    28 October 2024;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Mermaid Academy: Harper and Splash is the sixth installment in the Mermaid Academy series created by those behind Unicorn Academy. These standalone books focus on one particular merm...

  • Now, Conjurers

    Now, Conjurers

    Name: Ruth Cornish
    25 October 2024;

    Genre: Horror

    Now, Conjurers is an enjoyable read, part horror fantasy, part relatable older teen reality, incorporating mystery and crime into its 400+ thrilling pages. The quirky title, strap line ('welcome to the coven') and the perspective of the cover illustration (by Sam Schechter) of...

  • Our Wicked Histories

    Our Wicked Histories

    Name: Ophelia McCluskey Gahan
    24 October 2024;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Our Wicked Histories is a delightfully sinister read that truly appealed to my love of horror and my interest in crime;  this novel also allowed me to take a peak of a classic Irish folktale. When Meg gets a scholarship that could offer her more than she ever thought po...