FICTION 9–12
Seb, Hannah and Maria are reunited at the World Football Championship, but Brazil’s star goalie is missing.
Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster! Nadia Shireen 31st August, audiobook, £9.99, 9781398520080 Grimwood is the wildly funny and brilliantly anarchic comedy- adventure series from Shireen.
Simon & Schuster Children’s
How To Steal a Dragon Ryan Hammond 12th October, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781398514645 Details above.
Worst Week Ever! Thursday Matt Cosgrove, Eva Amores 4th January, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781398522008 After the most disastrous TV interview ever, a case of mistaken identity leaves Justin Chase rushing to escape a booby-trapped mansion.
so he decides to make a human.
UCLan
Monster Mayhem Esi Merleh, Abeeha Tariq (illus) 7th September, pb, £6.99, 9781915235602 With the help of a magic paintbrush, Austin has been transformed into a werewolf and Alanna is a vampire. Their mission is to find a crystal ball.
Union Square Kids
SERIES
Classic Starts hb, £6.99, 978145494 Abridged chapter books are the perfect choice for 7-9-year-olds transition- ing from levelled reads to middle-grade fiction. Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne, Deanna McFadden 21st December, 2290 Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll, Eva Mason 8377
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, Oliver Ho 8384 The Time Machine HG Wells, Chris Sasaki 8391
Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster! Nadia Shireen, Nadia Shireen (illus) 31st August, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781471199370 Details above.
Sweet Cherry
Genius on the Green Express Roberta Tedeschi (illus), Pip Murphy 7th September, pb, £6.99, 9781782268185 It’s up to Christie and Agatha to uncover a plot to sabotage Albert Einstein’s radio broadcast before their journey ends.
When Frankie Made a Human Maïté Schmitt (illus), Rachel Delahaye 3rd August, pb, £6.99, 9781782268253 Frankie is fed up and lonely in Frankenstein Castle. He needs a friend. But monsters are mean and werewolves are scary,
The Case of the Missing Tarts Vol 1 Christee Curran-Bauer 21st September, hb, £9.99, 9781454943617 The Pigeon Detectives are looking forward to devour- ing a delectable platter of jam tarts until the tasty treats are stolen. Can they recover the tarts in time?
Usborne
Countdown to Yesterday Shirley Marr 4th January, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781805073628 Beautiful, child-centred story about a boy coming to terms with his parents’ divorce.
GM Linton, Fuuji Takashi (illus) 14th September, pb, £7.99, 9781801313353 Second in the Sunshine Simpson series celebrates family, explores the transition to secondary school and discusses racism while preparing for an around-the-word bake sale.
Anisha, Accidental Detective: Beach Disaster Serena Patel, Emma McCann (illus) 3rd August, pb, £6.99, 9781805311935 There’s sabotage on the school trip and an environmental message, in the seventh hilarious case in this award- winning detective series.
Wacky Bee Books
Family Forever Emily Snape 1st August, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781913292638 Lizzie is daring, cheeky and fun. She loves adventures, being as loud as she can and, most of all, outwitting her older, twin brothers.
Walker Books
Saga of the Shooting Star Gary Northfield, Gary Northfield (illus) 3rd August, hb, £9.99, 9781406383416 Will Leif the Unlucky become an explorer like his dad? From the creator of Julius Zebra comes a funny, illustrated, young fiction series about an unfortunate Viking wolf!
The Incredible Adventures of Gaston Le Dog Michael Rosen, Viviane Schwarz (illus) 2nd November, hb, £12.99, 9781529501209 Playful new tale sprinkles myth, magic and fairy tale to create a brilliant story.
Three Tasks for a Dragon Eoin Colfer, PJ Lynch (illus) 5th October, hb, £14.99, 9781529505825 When a prince is tricked into embarking on a perilous quest to rescue a maiden from a dragon, it may be left to the maiden to save them all.
Sunshine Simpson Cooks Up a Storm
The Puppets of Spelhorst Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (illus) 2nd November, hb, £10, 9781529512854 From master storyteller
comes an original fairy tale, enchantingly illus- trated, in which five puppets confront circum- stances beyond their control.
Fiction 9-12 years
9–12 YEARS
and matching coloured endsheets.
Bala Kids Amulet Books
Billie Blaster and the Robot Army From Outer Space Laini Taylor, Jim Di Bartolo (illus) 17th August, hb, £12.99, 9781419753848 Out-of-this-world, middle-grade graphic novel about a genius scientist and her evil nemesis.
Adventuregame Comics: The Beyond Jason Shiga 28th September, hb, £10.99, 9781419757815 Make decisions and pick a path to the perfect afterlife in this addition to the innovative, interactive graphic novel series from the creator of Meanwhile.
Marvel Super Stories John Jennings (ed) 23rd November, hb, £11.99, 9781419769818 First middle-grade anthol- ogy from Marvel Comics, featuring all-new stories by 15 all-star cartoonists.
Andersen Press
The Legend of Ghastly Jack Crowheart Loretta Schauer 5th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781839133091 Lil and her pet crow must find a way to frighten off a gang of highwaymen in this adventure. Filled with atmospheric illustrations by the author.
My Brother Plato George Myerson 4th January, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781839133848 Get swept away to Ancient Greece in this bril- liantly researched story about what life might have been like for young Plato and his sister Potone.
Arcturus
The Anne of Green Gables Collection LM Montgomery 1st September, multiple item, £49.99, 9781398827684 Delightful box set contains six Anne Shirley tales, presented in smart clothbound volumes with elegant, nature-inspired embossing
The Magical Life of the Lotus Born Thinley Dorji, Sherab Chodzin Kohn 3rd October, hb, £19.99, 9781611807851 The magical story of Padmasambhava (the Lotus Born), the great Indian saint who established Buddhist teachings in Tibet.
Balzer + Bray
Secondhand Dogs Carolyn Crimi 14th September, pb, £6.99, 9780062989192 Heartwarming and heart-tugging middle- grade novel about love, loyalty and what it means to be part of a family features a motley pack of rescue dogs.
Mapmaker Lisa Moore Ramée 9th November, pb, £7.99, 9780063039438 Absorbing, imaginative middle-grade fantasy adventure about a Black boy who has the magical ability to bring maps to life.
A Rover’s Story Jasmine Warga 23rd November, pb, £7.99, 9780063113930 The One and Only Ivan meets the Wild Robot in this deeply moving, middle-grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover.
Barrington Stoke
The Storm and the Minotaur Lucy Strange, Pam Smy (illus) 3rd August, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781800902473 Disaster strikes when nine- year-old George is forced to work down a coal mine. The Industrial Revolution meets Greek mythology in this gripping and atmospheric tale from a superstar author- illustrator pairing.
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