Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: 9-12, Bree McReady and the Half-Heart Locket, Forthcoming Titles, Hazel Allan
CALLING ALL BREE FANS, SHE’S BACK THIS AUTUMN!
It’s the end of the summer holidays. All seems calm until Honey’s little sister, Mimi, disappears from the school library. Bree, Honey and Sandy realize trouble is afoot and return to aisle 142 to retrieve the magical book carried in their previous adventure.
Soon they are crossing a land divided by centuries of misunderstanding. Its citizens have been tricked into thinking that The Flame of Irenus brings peace, when it fact it fuels hatred.. Realizing they must extinguish it, the three friends set off on another perilous journey…
Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: 9-12, Forthcoming Titles, Keith A Charters, Lee, Lee and the Consul Mutants, Lee Goes For Gold
HE’S BACK… LEE’S HILARIOUS ADVENTURES CONTINUE…!
ISBN: 978-1-905537-13-6
£6.99
Ages:9+
September 2010
Lee has won the chance to be the First Child in Space. It’s amazing what you can win these days by filling in a form on the back of a cereal packet!
Under the command of Captain Slogg, and with Sports Bob at the controls, Lee blasts off for the Moon on the trip of a lifetime. However, he and his fellow astronauts are not the only ones with their eyes on the big lump of cheese in the sky.
When disaster strikes, Lee faces the most important challenge of his life. If he succeeds he will return to Earth a hero. If he fails he may not return at all…
Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Bad Faith, Forthcoming Titles, Gillian Philip, Young Adult
FIREBRAND: BOOK ONE IN THE STUNNING NEW REBEL ANGELS SERIES.
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-19-8
£7.99
Young Adult
August 2010
It’s the last decade of the sixteenth century: a time of religious wars in the full-mortal world. But the Sidhe are at peace, hidden behind the Veil that protects their world - until their queen, Kate NicNicven, determines to destroy it.
Seth MacGregor is the half-feral son of a Sidhe nobleman. When his father is assassinated, and Seth is exiled with his brother Conal to the full-mortal world, they vow not only to survive, but to return to reclaim their fortress and save the Veil.
But even the Veil’s power can’t protect the brothers when the brutal witch-hunts begin…
Firebrand is the first book in the Rebel Angels series by Gillian Philip, the Carnegie Medal-nominated author of ‘Crossing the Line’ and multi-award nominated ‘Bad Faith‘.
Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: 9-12, D A Nelson, DarkIsle
THE EAGERLY AWAITED SEQUEL TO THE AWARD-WINNING DARKISLE.
“Enchanting” - The Sunday Times on DarkIsle
Paperback
ISBN:978-1-905537-18-1
£6.99
Ages 9-12
August 2010
Two months after she saved The Eye of Lornish, Morag is adjusting to life in the secret Northern kingdom of Marnoch Mor. But dark dreams are troubling her and a spate of unexplained events prove that even with the protection of her friends - Shona the dragon, Bertie the dodo and Aldiss the rat - Morag is still not safe from harm…
DarkIsle, D A Nelson’s bestselling first novel was published by Strident in 2007 and went on to win the 2008 Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Award for best children’s book for 8-11 year olds. Rights to it and the sequel have been sold around the world and to Random House in the USA.
Posted on Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 | Tags: Linda Strachan, Spider, Young Adult
THE DEVASTATING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SPIDER
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1905537-20-4
£6.99
Teenage
June 2010
Josh has 25 minutes left to live.
Yesterday he stabbed his best mate and now it’s happened to him. Lying alone in a pool of blood Josh hasn’t much time to think, but there are things he can’t get out of his head.
Where is his girlfriend, Skye? What happened to his missing brother?
And how did he get involved in the gang? As his life slips away the events of the last 24 hours start to look very different…
Posted on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Tags: Forthcoming Titles, Nick Green, The Cat Kin
Paperback
ISBN:978-1-905537-16-7
£6.99
May 2010
“ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S NOVELS THAT I’VE SEEN IN YEARS - GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED AND STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL.” Lee Weatherly, author of ‘Kat Got Your Tongue’.
“… IT’S GREAT… IF YOU HAVE A READER OF THE RIGHT AGE, 8 AND UPWARDS AT HOME, DO GET A COPY …” The Bookwitch.
Everyone who came to the strange gym class was looking for something else. What they found was the mysterious Mrs. Powell and Pashki, a lost art from an age when cats were worshipped as gods.
Ben and Tiffany wonder: who is their eccentric old teacher? What does she really want with them? And why are they suddenly able to see in the dark?Meanwhile, in London’s gloomy streets, human vermin are stirring.
Ben and Tiffany may soon be glad of their new gifts. But against men whose cunning is matched only by their unspeakable cruelty, will even nine lives be enough?
Paperback
