Fiction Year 7-9
113th Assistant Librarian
Oliver Wormwood is sure his new job in the library will be boring. Until he learns that books hold great power – and danger.
By the end of his first day, Oliver has witnessed a death, been frozen by a book, met a perplexing number of cats, and fought off a horde of terrifying creatures.
With only a mysterious girl called Agatha to show him the ropes, Oliver needs to learn fast . . . if he wants to live longer than the 112 assistant librarians before him.
Penguin link to the book (includes a written and audio sample)
Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables Fight Back
I wish Mr Bambuckle would come back.
Who will cook us breakfast now?
Miss Frost says discipline is the new order, but not if the class in room 12B has anything to do with it . . .
Penguin link to book (includes a look inside and an extract)
WestWords YouTube interview with Tim Harris on plotting and planning
The Kindness Project
A heartwarming story about four kids who overcome their differences and take on the world.
300 Minutes of Danger
10 stories. 10 dangerous situations. 10 brave kids. 30 minutes to escape.
George is trapped in a falling aeroplane with no engine and no pilot. Milla is covered with radioactive waste and her hazard suit is running out of air. Otto is in the darkest depths of the ocean, where something hungry is circling ...
Jack Heath YouTube – Jack reads ‘Boarding School’ from 300 Minutes of Danger
We Run Tomorrow
An action-packed, heart-warming story of friendship, family, sticking together, following your dreams, and taking risks.
Penguin link to book (including look inside and extract)
Nat Amoore YouTube Book Trailer
Better Reading interview with Nat Amoore re: We Run Tomorrow
200 Minutes of Danger
10 STORIES 10 DANGEROUS SITUATIONS 10 BRAVE KIDS 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE... Quinn gets thrown overboard into an icy ocean. Can he outwit the circling shark? Ashling is watching a history-making science experiment―but it's about to go horribly wrong... Oscar hides from two secret agents while something much more dangerous hunts all three of them!
Toffle Towers Fully Booked
Toffle Towers is about to be inherited by the next generation.
Chegwin Toffle is only ten years old. But he isn’t going to let that stop him from turning this run-down hotel into a success. Chegwin is determined to transform Toffle Towers from a boring hotel for grown-ups into an incredibly exciting destination for children (and their families).
But running a hotel isn’t easy. Chegwin has a lot to learn, and his tendency to drift off into daydreams isn’t helping.
Chegwin has plenty of ideas. But can he turn his madcap daydreams into reality?
Mim and the Vicious Vendetta (The Travelling Bookshop #5)
The right book might just change your life ...
Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy.
Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home.
Now Mim has arrived in wonderful Venice, city of canals, palaces, bridges, boats and ... quarrels. Gondolier battles, cat-nappings and laundry theft are just the beginning. The Magnifico family and the Forte family are at war.
Good Reading Magazine interview with Katrina Nannestad
Funny Kid Prank Wars
Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who can make it happen.
As he and his classmates head off on a camping trip, the new boy, Tyson, decides to play some jokes of his own.
Max is the funny kid ... and now there's a prank war to be won!
Monsters in the lake, smuggling ducks, dig-your-own toilets, capsizing canoes, absolutely not falling in love and beans that give you the runs are just some of the things in store for Max and his friends in this Funny Kid adventure.
How to draw Max from Funny Kid
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities
Arlo Goodman lives with his Uncle Avery in a run-down flat above their bookshop. He has no friends, except for his pet mouse, Herbert.
But when a girl called Lisette bursts into the shop and begs him to hide her from a murderer, Arlo's life changes forever.
He's swept up into an adventure involving kidnappers, car chases and a story in The Book of Wondrous Possibilities, where Arlo and his skymouse battle dragons. But can Arlo find the courage to battle an even greater enemy, who threatens to destroy everything he loves?
Penguin website (including look inside and audio sample)