The Best Witch in Paris by
When Luna swaps her moonstone ring for an Australian boobook owl in the Lost Forest, the mysterious bird seller makes her promise to keep the bird hidden.
This is not easy when you live with very inquisitive witch aunts. And it's not easy when you find out that the fearsome Madame Valadon, the Best Witch in Paris, is missing her boobook owl and will stop at nothing to find it.
Could it be that Luna has Madame Valadon's familiar? Why then did the mysterious bird seller tell Luna the owl was hers? A familiar can belong to only one witch, after all.
Luna has a big puzzle to solve, good friends to help her, and lots of questions. The biggest one of all: who is she, really?
Otherworldly by
Ellery doesn't believe in magic, doesn't believe there's anything but science behind the five-year winter, and definitely doesn't believe the handsome regular at his cafe is actually a supernatural familiar.
Knox has been trapped in the human realm for years. Finally freed, he should be going home to the Other World, but he's scared of what awaits him there.
Knox needs a tether to the human world: Ellery needs a way to stop the endless winter. Striking a deal will change everything for them both.
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet by
Twelve-year-old Al Schneider is used to holding things in. she lives right across the hall from her best friend, Leo, and even he doesn't know about her crushes on girls or her sneaking suspicion that she poops more than anyone else on the planet. So when Al is diagnosed with Crohn's disease, she figures it's just one more thing to keep to herself. After all, who wants to talk about what you do in the bathroom?
The problem is, the more Al tries to keep her emotions bottled up, the worse she feels. And when Leo gets cast in the school play and starts making new friends, Al starts to wonder if there scarier things than talking about what you do in the bathroom. Maybe some things - like feelings - really are better out than in.
Return to Sender by
After three years away, seventeen-year-old Brodie McKellon has returned to live with her eccentric grandmother above the last remaining Dead Letter Office - the place letters go when no one is left to claim them.
Soon, Brodie is consumed by an unsolved mystery - the unclaimed letters of a group of teens who seemed to vanish many years ago - while also attempting to reconcile with her former best friends, Elliot and Levi.
As the trio are drawn into the riddle of the dead letter writers, they discover that the past is never truly past, and that it's never too late for old wrongs to be put right...
Wild East by
When fourteen-year-old Ronny's life is struck by tragedy, his mum decides it's finally time they move from East London to East Anglia.
In his new city, as a Black teenager in a mostly white school, Ronny feels like a complete outsider and struggles to balance keeping his head down with his ambition of becoming a rapper.
But when a local poet comes into class, Ronny discovers a world he's never considered before. Rap is like spoken word, bars equal poetry -- and maybe the combination of both could be the key to achieving his dreams?
City Spies by
Code Name Brooklyn.
Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in juvenile detention and - even worse - banned from using computers. Enter Mother, a British spy who offers her a way out of her current problem, and the chance to make a name for herself within a top secret MI6 agency.
Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. When not attending the local boarding school, they're honing their unique skills, suck as a sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives.
Jumping right into action, Sara soon finds herself taking her computer savvy to Paris for an international youth summit, hacking into a rival school's computer to prevent them from winning a million euros, dangling thirty feet off the side of a building, and trying to stop a villain... all while navigating the complex dynamics of her new family.
No one said saving the world was going to be easy...
Mysterious World by
Uncover our planet's most sensational secrets with this mind-boggling atlas of mysteries that's packed with over 70 strange and unexplained enigmas. Bursting with stories about UFO sightings, monsters on the run, bizarre disappearances, ghostly hauntings and more,
Mysterious World is the ultimate kid's guide to curious events from across the globe. When was the last sighting of the Abominable Snowman? Why does the legend of Area 51 still fascinate us today? What happened to the people who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb and were they really cursed? With fun facts and spooky tales on every page, this epic mystery atlas is an awesome guide to the unusual. Kids will soon be impressing their friends and family with intriguing details from paranormal stories; all that's left to decide is... do you believe them?
Guinness World Records 2025
This year's edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year. This 70th anniversary edition also looks back over the last 70 years, to highlight the best and most interesting records of all time.
The Design Book
Discover the key ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs in the history of design. This book explores and explains the big ideas and key principles behind more than 90 celebrated design concepts and movements, placing each in its historical, cultural, and stylistic context. It analyses the ideas and principles behind the design of pioneering products, information systems and environments, exploring how creativity and innovation shape our lives, from the Aesthetic Movement to Mid-century Modern and contemporary Parametricism.
Explanatorium of Nature
Get closer to nature than you've ever been before with this jaw-dropping guide to our wonderful world. Marvel at the breathtaking photography showcasing flora and fauna in the most incredible, intricate detail. From ants to elephants, the animal kingdom is explored and explained in this extraordinary encyclopedia that puts you at the heart of the action. See the tiny spines on a stinging nettle, watch lichen spreading over a tree, and observe the secret suckers on an iguana's feet. The mysteries of the natural world are displayed in brand new images, together with cross-sections, macro, and electron microscope images. Alongside the utterly absorbing visual content, Explanatorium of Nature brings its own fountain of knowledge about how nature works.
Knowledge : A Visual Compendium
How lists, codes, systems, and collections make sense of our world. Ever wondered how many moons there are in our Solar System, or the number of Olympic sports, or who the 46 US presidents were? If so, this is the book for you! Leaf through the pages of this book and you'll find an intriguing array of objects, animals, lists, and artefacts from nature, science, technology, the arts, and history, which illustrate how we order, understand, and make sense of the world. Discover the 40 orders of birds, the 88 constellations, the 36 Morse Code symbols, the 118 chemical elements, the 206 bones in the human body, and much more!
Design & Building on Country by
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices.
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