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Summer of no Regrets
by Kate MallinderShortlisted for the Bristol Teen Book Award 2019After their exams, four sixteen-year-old best friends pledge to live a summer regret-free, doing what they want to do however much it scares them:Sasha agrees to spend the holiday with her father in Geneva, having not seen him for six years, but is not expecting his new girlfriend, or the young man in the cafe.Shy Hetal decides to go to science camp, and finds a new competitive spirit.Nell gets a summer job, but after her accident her mother is scared to let her out of the house - so to do what she wants she will have to lie to her parents.Cam goes to look for her birth father, scared of the future when she can no longer stay with her foster family. What will she find?As all these choices become difficult, even dangerous, they will need to turn to each other for the strength to face the future.Included on The Reading Agency’s 'Top Ten Volunteer Reads 2019' as part of The Summer Reading Challenge.'Bucket loads of summer fun in this warm, funny, utterly delightful story about friendship, taking chances, and living life to the full!' Simon James Green'Books about female friendship are my favourite and Summer of No Regrets is a warm and sunny one. I loved how the girls supported each other through their individual - very different - challenges. A perfect summer read to share with your best friends.' Keris Stainton'Summer of no Regrets is a complete page turner. Perfect for Jacqueline Wilson fans, it is a summer story about female friendship, growing up and being brave. I loved spending summer with the gang!' Jenny McLachlan'A wonderful summery, happy-ending story about friendship. I raced though it.' Perdita Cargill'A great uplifting story, perfect for teen readers.' AM Dassu'Highly recommended, this is one to dive into for the summer.' Fallen Star Stories‘Uplifting, heart-wrenching and totally addictive, this is the must-read teen book of 2019.’ Madge Eekal Reviews‘Wonderfully diverse, sensitively written this is the perfect teen summer read. It really is a breath of fresh air. Both me and my teenage daughter devoured it.’ Book Lover Jo‘This is the book that I really wish I had when I was 14 or 15. It’s so incredibly fun and has some great characters and references all thrown into a very short and easily digestible book. I urge so many people to pick this up, especially if you love the works of Beth Garrod and Simon James Green.’ The Little Contemporary Corner‘This entertaining holiday read is bursting with friendship, romance and fun. I especially love the 'seize the day' theme and felt inspired to do the same!’ Zoe James-Williams, South Wales Evening Post‘Meet Kate Mallinder’s debut novel, Summer of No Regrets, AKA your new summer need-to-read … a tale of friendship, bravery and hope. I read it in a single day!’ Midnight Book Girl
Tulip Taylor
by Anna MainwaringChallenged to go on a ‘survival’ reality TV show, fifteen-year-old make-up vlogger Tulip only accepts to escape her mother’s money-making schemes and protect her younger brother and sister. Set up to fail, can she prove to the TV show, the cute but annoying boy who got her on there and – most importantly – to herself, that she’s more than just a pretty face?
Cool Philosophy
by Daniel TatarskyInside this philosophy-stuffed book are fifty fact-tastic ways to advance your thinking skills, so you’ll never be scratching your head in bemusement ever again.
How to Remember (Almost) Everything, Ever!
by Rob EastawayStruggling to remember all that information they're stuffing you with at school? Want to impress your friends with amazing memory feats? Can't keep on top of all your online passwords? Then you need this book! Packed with cool tricks and fun exercises, How To Remember Almost Everything, Ever will help you hone your memory to super-hero standards. Learn how imagining a walk down your street can help you remember a shopping list, how you can memorise a phone number by picturing the digits as letters, and how music, rhymes and even smells can help. Find out what your brain has in common with a computer, how spies committed things to memory, and how to flummox your parents with memory tricks. How to Remember Almost Everything, Ever is the perfect book for anyone who wants to improve their study skills and make their memory the best it can be.
Lie Kill Walk Away: From the author of The Everest Files and Mortal Chaos
by Matt DickinsonLIEI check the Range Rover dash. The keys are in there.The sirens are closing in. There’s a police helicopter coming over the hospital.KILLI have to decide. Decide right now. I can keep out of trouble. Not get involved. Just run away through the park and go home and pretend none of this has happened.Or I can help Becca.WALK AWAYI stare into her eyes. Those deep blue eyes. Just for a split second.I tell her, ‘get in the car’.Joe and Becca uncover a deadly secret. A lethal bioweapon is about to be unleashed. Millions will suffer a terrible death.Now they are being hunted down.And their problems have only just begun …
Black Powder
by Ally SherrickEngland, 1605. 12-year-old Tom must save his father from hanging. He falls in with a mysterious stranger - the Falcon - who promises to help him in exchange for his service. But on the long journey to London, Tom discovers the Falcon's true mission - and a plot to blow up Parliament with barrels of black powder. Tom faces a terrible decision: secure his father's release, or stop the assassination of the king ...
Black Powder
by Ally SherrickEngland, 1605. 12-year-old Tom must save his father from hanging. He falls in with a mysterious stranger - the Falcon - who promises to help him in exchange for his service. But on the long journey to London, Tom discovers the Falcon's true mission - and a plot to blow up Parliament with barrels of black powder. Tom faces a terrible decision: secure his father's release, or stop the assassination of the king ...
Michael Foreman: A Life in Pictures
by Michael Foreman"One of my earliest memories is lying on the floor in front of the kitchen fire, drawing…" Michael Foreman
The Sea Singer
by Shome DasguptaThere was a voice once that sang the ocean to sleep…March is born in April, just as the sun is setting. A singing baby who cannot sleep, she sets Kolkaper on edge. The Town Council orders scientists to take her away and study her at the Cave Forest, a place for freaks like her. Acting quickly, March’s parents send her away to the distant town of Koofay. But March’s destiny is tied to that of Kolkaper. She must return to save the city from itself.An enchanting fable about love and faith and accepting the odd ones among us.
The Icarus Show
by Sally ChristieAlex has worked out a foolproof way to avoid being picked on. Don't React. It's so simple, it's brilliant! David does react and becomes an outcast, nicknamed Bogsy. He's branded a weirdo and Alex is determined to avoid the same fate. But one day, Alex gets a note in his bag that forces him out of his safe little world. Who sent the note? And is it true - will a boy really fly? A powerful story about friendship, loneliness and a strange kind of genius.
Paper Avalanche
by Lisa WilliamsonWhen it comes to flying under the radar, Ro Snow is the expert. No friends. No boys. No parties. And strictly NO VISITORS. It may be lonely but at least this way the truth remains where it should - hidden. Then Tanvi Shah, the girl who almost died, comes tumbling back into her life and Ro finds herself losing control of her carefully constructed lies. Because if Ro's walls come crumbling down, who's going to take care of Bonnie... Bonnie. Never Mum or Mummy or Mother. Just Bonnie.
The Island At The End Of Everything
by Kiran Millwood HargraveAmi lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?
The Island At The End Of Everything (PDF)
by Kiran Millwood HargraveAmi lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?
The Island At The End Of Everything
by Kiran Millwood HargraveAmi lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?
The Island At The End Of Everything (PDF)
by Kiran Millwood HargraveAmi lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?
Cool Kids Cook
by Jenny ChandlerCool Kids Cook is an informative, fun and stylish first cookbook for the pre-teen market. Children from ages 7 to 14 are getting more and more interested in getting into the kitchen. Moreover, they want a cook book that looks quite cool and grown-up, has lots of interesting and fun facts about food background, but that doesn't include recipes for rice crispy cakes and doesn't patronise. This books aims to do just that – to empower kids to a point where they could put a great supper on the table (with a bit of help/guidance for the first few years) and then give them a few exotic dishes with which to show off. This is NOT 'children's food', but real, achievable dishes that teach children about how to eat healthily, shop cannily and learn the vital basic cooking skills to set them up for life. Alongside the classic recipes for muffins and a great birthday cake, you will also find nutritious ideas such as fish en papilotte, adventurous stir fries, vegetable slaws or homemade granola. 50 recipes will teach the basic skills and offer variations to build on those skills. With easy-to-follow step-by-step photography, a fun graphic style to the food facts and kitchen safety, plus loads of basic info on how to shop, plan and balance your diet, this is the book to get kids cooking properly for life.
Wilderness Wars
by Barbara HendersonWhat if nature fights back? In a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea. And, far in the distance, a misty outline. Skelsay. Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be. And now, home. When her father’s construction work takes Em’s family to the uninhabited island of Skelsay, she is excited, but also a little uneasy. Soon Em and her friend Zac realise that the setbacks, mishaps and accidents on the island point to something altogether more sinister: the wilderness all around them has declared war. Danger lurks everywhere. But can Em and Zac persuade the adults to believe it before it’s too late?
Here Be Witches (The Snowdonia Chronicles #2)
by Sarah MussiHere be Witches is the second book in the Snowdonia Chronicles trilogy by Sarah Mussi. A perilous adventure into the magical and murderous realm of mythical Snowdonia.All Ellie Morgan wants is to be with her one true love, Henry. But she’s caught in the middle of a BATTLE as old as SNOWDON itself. A battle between GOOD and EVIL.A WITCHES’ SPELL, cast high on the mountain, has sped up time and made matters MUCH WORSE. The dragons are awake; mythical creatures and evil ghosts have risen. And nearly all of them want Ellie DEAD.Thank heavens for loyal friend George, disloyal bestie Rhi, and mysterious stranger, Davey. Armed with Granny Jones’s potions, Ellie and her companions must set out on a journey to REVERSE THE SPELL, stop the EVIL White Dragon and find Henry.As an eternal winter tightens its grip on Snowdon, Ellie and her friends have just THREE DAYS to SURVIVE and complete their quest.
Killer Storm: A terror attack at Everest Base Camp. Ryan and his friends are taken hostage. The scene is set for the ultimate Everest adventure (The Everest Files #3)
by Matt DickinsonKiller Storm: the third and final book in the Everest Files trilogy by Matt Dickinson.Teenage climber Ryan Hart is still in Nepal, working at a refugee centre with his Tibetan girlfriend, Tashi. His obsession with summiting Mount Everest is as strong as ever, but a climbing accident puts his plans on hold.As soon as Ryan recovers, he and Tashi journey deep into the Himalaya. Old friends have come back into their lives and invited them on the adventure. On the way they discover disturbing news: Nepal's summer rains have failed and the country is in chaos. There are riots in the cities. Bandits roam the hills.As they arrive at Base Camp, a violent terrorist attack kicks off. Ryan and his friends are held hostage.Escape is their only option, but all the trails are guarded. They must head for Everest's deadly slopes. The friends battle against the elements to keep one step ahead of the terror leader as the chase intensifies ... Storm clouds gather high on the mountain.The scene is set for the ultimate Everest adventure.
The Warrior in the Mist: The invaders are coming. The battle is about to begin.
by Ruth Eastham'Their bodies flickered strangely - transparent, blueish, as if they were made of flames. With a jolt, he realised that they were fading.Time was running out.'Who are the phantom girls? What do they want with Aidan?Aidan's village is under siege. A fracking company has moved on to the land.Once drilling is complete, the paddocks looked after by Aidan's family will be gone, along with his home and the horse he loves.Aidan and his best friends Emmi and Jon have one last hope. Legend has it that the warrior queen Boudicca is buried close by. If only they can find the tomb ... prove this is the site of her last great battle against Roman invaders ...As the mists of time separating ancient history from present day swirl and fade, Aidan must face a deadly enemy. He must fight to uncover the truth of the ghostly sisters, before it is too late.The Warrior in the Mist is the latest novel from Ruth Eastham, award-winning author of The Memory Cage and The Messenger Bird.
Popcorn-eating Squirrels of the World Unite!: Four go Nuts for Popcorn (Popcorn-eating Squirrels)
by Matt DickinsonEveryone knows that squirrels love nuts, right?Wrong!When three young squirrels meet Salty – a grumpy, greedy old squirrel, addicted to popcorn – they become tangled up in a magical adventure that is to change their lives forever.But what will become of Ben, Cassie and Alfie when the evil honey badgers show up? Will the three friends survive an unexpected tumble in the Pop-O-Matic 3000?Popcorn-Eating Squirrels of the World Unite! by bestselling children’s author Matt Dickinson is a funny, non-stop action-adventure story about four squirrels who dive in to all sorts of mischief and chaos in the pursuit of a delicious new foodstuff: popcorn. Making friends, battling enemies and overcoming obstacles along the way, this is a story for children who like to be thrilled with every page turn.
The Memory Cage: Alex has survived a war. Now his mind is the enemy.
by Ruth EasthamNo child should have to live through a war.No child should have to see what Alex has seen.He's locked it all away in a secret place but, one day, the ticking time bomb in his mind has to detonate.Alex's family want to help, but they have other problems.Only Alex's beloved grandfather can answer his questions about family secrets.But Grandad is scarred by a war of his own - and his memories are fading fast as the effects of Alzheimer's grip him.Time is running out for Alex.Only by unlocking the terrors of the memory cage for both of them, can he hope to escape the nightmares.Ruth Eastham's The Memory Cage is a transfixing story about adoption, Alzheimer's, the strength of the relationships within families through testing times, and the effects our memories have on how we live the rest of our lives.
The Messenger Bird: The truth can be a dangerous thing
by Ruth Eastham‘Absolutely fascinating … completely thought provoking.’ – Books for TeensEnemies on all sides.Nathan doesn’t know who he can trust.It’s a race against time.Get Dad out of prison.Mend a broken family.And solve the mystery of the messenger bird.Set around the top-secret Second World War codebreaking site Bletchley Park, The Messenger Bird is the gripping children’s thriller from Ruth Eastham, award-winning author of The Memory Cage.
Arrowhead: An ancient Viking curse has risen
by Ruth EasthamWhen a playground scrap becomes a fight to the death, and an ancient curse awakes, Jack and Emma must uncover the arrowhead’s secrets – before a terrible evil is unleashed.Award-winning children’s author Ruth Eastham weaves twists, turns and adventures into the rollercoaster ride that is Arrowhead: aspects of Norse mythology, the importance of friendship and teamwork, race-against-the-clock tension, and terror as the world as you know it is turned upside down.Follow the three friends Jack, Emma and Skuli on their mission to save the world from the evil curse, as you are drawn into an emotional and thrilling journey – but one not to be missed.