Lisa Thompson - Goldfish Boy
Fiction 9+
393 pages
12-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is the last person to see his next door neighbour's toddler, Teddy, before he goes missing.
Matthew must turn detective and unravel the mystery of Teddy's disappearance - with the help of a brilliant cast of supporting characters.
Jill Tomlinson - The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark
Fiction 7+
99 pages
Plop, the baby owl, is like every barn owl there ever was, except for one thing - he is afraid of the dark! But the dark is brimming with excitement and magic.
As Plop ventures into the night, he meets a boy who shows him fireworks, a black cat who takes him exploring, a girl who tells him about Father Christmas, among other surprising discoveries.
Piers Torday - The Lost Magician
Fiction 9+
329 pages
1945. They have survived the Blitz, but when Simon, Patricia, Evelyn, and Larry step through a magical library door, they walk into an enchanted kingdom of fresh adventure and danger. A bewitching wonderland of fairies, bears and tree gods, which is now under threat from the mysterious silver robots of the Unreads.
The many stories of the Library are locked in eternal war, and the children's only hope is to find the mysterious Librarian. What they discover will change not just their own lives, but the fate of the world, for ever.
Piers Torday - There May be a Castle
Fiction 9+
292 pages
Mouse is travelling to see his grandparents on Christmas Eve with his mother and two sisters. But it's snowing, visibility is bad, and the car goes off the road and crashes. When he wakes, he's not in his world any more. He meets a sheep named Bar, who can only say Baaa, and a sarcastic horse named Nonky, a surprising mix of his beloved toy horse and his older sister.
So begins a quest to find a castle in a world of wonder - a world of monsters, minstrels, dangerous knights, and mysterious wizards; a world of terrifying danger but also more excitement than Mouse has ever known. But why are they looking for a castle?