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Nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal Bridie lives on the remote Scottish island of Tornish, the youngest of three sisters. Although she loves her island, with its wild seas and big skies, she guiltily nurses a secret dream of flight - to America and the freedom of the New World. But her family are struggling under the spiteful oppression of the new Laird, and it seems that even some of the Laird's own household are desperate to leave. When the Laird's full cruelty becomes apparent, there's no more time for daydreams as Bridie needs to help the people she loves escape to safety. Cover and chapter head illustrations by Jasu Hu. Map illustration by Hannah Horn. The first in a gripping, d...
It's 1940. Gloria and her brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London. Their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. But Gloria quickly learns that nothing is ever as it seems in this strange new place.
Meet the Love children: oh-so-perfect Linn, airy-fairy Rowan, animal-obsessed Tor - and Ally, trying to have a normal life somewhere in the middle of it all. Which isn't easy when you live in a house that's a cross between an animal hospital and something out of 'Changing Rooms'. And then there's school and the small matter of the forgotten history project and the obnoxious new girl that - oh joy! - Ally's been nominated to look after. It's going to be a fun couple of weeks... The first in the wildly successful, utterly loveable ALLY'S WORLD series.
A story of friendship and ghostly mystery from one of the best-loved UK writers for girls. Maisie's dad has a new job as live-in caretaker of a Victorian school. Finding it hard to make friends, things change when Maisie tells her new classmates about something strange she saw the night before - a girl's face in the window of a gothic tower.
Rowan Love is thirteen and full of good intentions \. so why does life keep going so wrong? Her teachers think she's dippy and disorganized, her best friend has new mates, and nobody appreciates her unique fashion sense. Maybe keeping a diary will help? Wander through Rowan's funny and fabulous journal and find out all about hero worship, fairy lights, guardian angels, and making hair accessories out of sweet wrappers!
Flo Brown is watching a fairytale unfolding in front of her eyes. Her mum is in the finals of the 'Big Dreams' talent show. At home millions of TV viewers are tuned in, waiting for the nation's favourite to give another spine-tingling performance. Their lives will change forever. Just NOT in the way Flo and Queenie expect.
"Kirsten wishes life could be more normal. School is ace, but at home it's all doom and gloom. What Kirsten really needs is a chat with her oldest friend, Honey. But Honey and Kirsten lost touch ages ago. Can Kirsten find a way back to her 'forever friend'?"--Publisher description.
Who said friends have to match to matter? When the Star Boy's space-pod crashes in the grounds of Fairfield Academy he knows he must seek shelter. Taking refuge in the school's boiler room to await rescue he discovers that the room's small window is the perfect place to watch humans go by. The Star Boy knows about humans from his Earth lessons but no one from his planet has ever studied them up close. Now he has the perfect opportunity. There are two humans in particular that catch his attention - a boy called Wes and a girl named Kiki. But as his curiosity grows so does his courage and, making a momentous decision, the Star Boy follows Wes and Kiki into class ... and into their lives. A warm and otherworldly story about finding friendship in the most unlikely of places, for fans of Tamsin Winter, Cath Howe and Ross Welford.
For once, Ally's looking forward to school - well, the last week of it anyway. There's a fun run and the legendary end-of-term party coming up. But that's before Kyra starts smuggling illegal pets
There's always something going on in Ally's World! Ally's totally gobsmacked when she finds out that her best mate Sandie's moving away and even more shocked to find that her big sis is considering going to university miles away from home. She's only just got Mum back and now everyone else seems to want to leave... Apart from Billy, that is, who's become a bit like a shadow, following Ally's every move - just what is the loveable muppet up to?