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A unique verse novel using YA vampire tropes to explore queer desire and identity. From the award-winning author of The Deepest Breath and The Space Between.

Planned as the first in a series of stories about a young girl's fantasy travels to various European capitals, this is a humorous and adventurous trip to London in the company of Ben - a boy who lives in a rather famous clock. After Jenny arrives at the Best Bedroom of All where the magical suitcase hides, she steps inside and begins a fantastical journey. She arrives inside the clockwork of Big Ben and meets her guide, a Cockney-slanging boy named Ben who guides her through English history. Together they discover Guy Fawkes as he struggles to light his dynamite, meet a headless King Charles I, soothe a migrainey Good Queen Bess, help Sir Walter Raleigh with his poetry, and much much more.

A fictionalised exploration of the childhood of C.S Lewis

Welcome to the Nightmare Club, the sleepover that is definitely not for wimps. Annie Graves is your host, and she only invites guests who can tell really creepy stories. Jessie was nuts about her cute little Wolfling toy. But her brother had heard rumours about Wolflings: they could move without being switched on. They could turn nasty. He even heard that they could bite. Read it, if you dare - and hang onto your nose!

Did you ever hear that telling a nightmare makes it fade away? It doesn't. Not here anyway. Welcome to the Nightmare Club's Halloween Sleepover. You might not last till morning. This is the story Jack told. His older brother Stephen was a great friend ... until he started to change. His smell. His face. His friends. His diet.

An interactive picture book by a rugby legend, a bestselling author and an award-winning illustrator.

A new adventure from the award-winning author of Wolfstongue and The Fox's Tower

A delightful tale by a Traveller storyteller, co-published by Irish presses Little Island and Skein Press.

>Once the trigger is touched you can't tell who to trust An unflinching verse novel about a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted in an attack he struggles to remember. By the award-winning author of Gut Feelings >Jay wakes in a park, beaten and bruised. He can't remember what happened the night before. But he has suspicions.Jay realises he has been raped -- and that his ex-boyfriend may have been involved.Counselling sessions cause Jay to question everything. His new friend Rain encourages his pursuit of justice. Jay wants answers, but his search will lead him down a perilous path.

The story of a girl growing up with dwarfism, told by Ireland's leading children's author.

"Aria lives on a well-ordered planet whose people have eradicated illness and even death. Earth is their 'shadow planet' which they populated with humans centuries ago so they could study them and learn from their experiences. Now the experiment is coming to an end and Aria must go to Earth with her scientist father to set off a train of events which will destroy its people. Brought up to believe that humans are inferior, Aria is shocked to discover that she is herself half human, and amazed to find that Earth-dwellers live life to the full and feel love for each other, even though they are mortal. But once she understands this, how can she save them, and herself, from destruction?"--

When Meg Lewis agrees to free the ghost of a young boy, she uncovers mysteries spanning time and space. Soon she must decide whether she wants to save herself, or the world.

"When Queen Maeve's army marches north to steal the Brown Bull of Cooley, the leaders of Ulster are cast under a sleeping spell. Just one boy comes out to face the warrior queen and her invading Connacht horde. A lad who has sworn to protect his homeland like a guard dog: the hero Câuchulainn. He's only a beardless youth against an army of men, but when he twists into his war-form, Câuchulainn is the fiercest fighter in Ireland."--Provided by publisher.

A fast-paced and quirky, supernatural YA pageturner about werewolves, vampires, and loving the monster inside you

"The Fox's Tower takes everything you knew, or thought you knew, about nature and the animal kingdom, and turns it on its head." - Piers Torday, author of The Last Wild trilogy