SEASON HIGHLIGHTS July
Emma Carroll The Houdini Inheritance Faber & Faber, 4 July, pb, £7.99, 9780571341412
Fiction 9–12 A group of children
inadvertently trick Houdini live on stage during one of his famous shows in Emma Carroll latest book, which has mystery, shipwrecks, wild animals and more.
Patrick Gallagher Transcendent Orion Children’s Books, 6 June, pb, £7.99, 9781510112421
Fiction 9–12 Twin geniuses embark on a
high-tech mission to save the world from climate change in this début adventure story.
Cori Doerrfeld Say Goodbye... Say Hello Scallywag Press, 4 July, pb, £7.99, 9781912650446
Picture Books From the creator of The
Rabbit Listened comes a gentle story about the difficulty of change and the wonder that new beginnings can bring.
Helen Docherty, Brizida Magro (illus) All the Things We Carry Alison Green Books, 4 July, pb, £6.99, 9780702308345
Picture Books This reassuring picture book
celebrates all the precious things we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope.
Tom McLaughlin The Boy Who Painted the World Oxford University Press, 4 July, pb, £7.99, 9780192785343
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Adiba Jaigirdar Four Eids and a Funeral Usborne, 6 June, pb, £8.99, 9781805312970
Fiction 12–16 Said and Tiwa are arch-enemies
but when their Islamic Centre burns down, they are forced together and sparks fly. Swoony dual narrative from two YA superstars.
Picture Books A boy who thinks he can’t
draw or paint meets a determined paintbrush when he stumbles into the pages of a blank book.
L M Nathan The Virtue Season Scholastic: Fiction, 4 July, pb, £8.99, 9780702330926
Fiction 12–16 Manon Pawlak is 18 and is
about to enter into The Virtue Season, a process that will result in a match with a suitable genetic mate. “Bridgerton” meets “The Hunger Games”, says Scholastic.
Bond with a dash of Johnny English.
Rebecca Cobb The School Run Macmillan Children’s Books, 25 July, hb, £12.99, 9781529051315
Picture Books A warm, witty and imaginative
story from Waterstones prize- winner Rebecca Cobb that captures the adventure of getting to school on time.
Matt Ralphs, Kaley McKean (illus) University of Cambridge: Beasts from the Deep Nosy Crow, 6 June, hb, £16.99, 9781839943348
Science Dive down if you dare and discover
the world’s strangest, scariest and most magnificent sea creatures in this illustrated title, the first published as part of a collaboration between Nosy Crow and the University of Cambridge.
David Solomons Spyglass Nosy Crow, 4 July, pb, £7.99, 9781805132363
Fiction 9–12 The author of the award-winning
My Brother is a Superhero is back with another hilarious adventure, pitched as James
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