‘Dear Sebastian, I hate you’: a tale of three gutsy Victorian girls
Sally Nicholls's latest historical novel Yours from the Tower is a rewarding read for youngsters that never feels like a dull lesson
Sally Nicholls's latest historical novel Yours from the Tower is a rewarding read for youngsters that never feels like a dull lesson
Clive Gifford is out to save children’s non-fiction from terminal decline, and he’s back with the dizzyingly informative The Book of Time
Cloudlanders, the debut novel from Christopher Mackie, is an enjoyably eccentric story full of imagination and thoughtfulness
Peril on the Atlantic, the first in a series by best-selling novelist AM Howell, is highly suspenseful and full of exciting twists
Mya-Rose Craig's new work is a meticulous chronicle of the migrations of seven bird species – but it is also so much more besides
Oskar Kroon successfully puts his country back on the literary map with his enchanting and suspenseful children’s book Rhubarb Lemonade
Nazneen Ahmed Pathak doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to Britain’s colonial legacy in her debut children’s novel, City of Stolen Magic
Amid the recent relentless slew of environment books, Pari Thomson’s wonderful fantasy Greenwild shows the publishing industry how it’s done
The popular historian skilfully interweaves myth and history to create an extraordinary novel likely to stand the test of time
Carnegie Medal winner Katya Balen has written a fantastical underwater adventure with a gentle message about the environment at its core
With his penchant for classical riddles and myth, Philip Womack retains an air of nostalgia in this thoroughly modern children’s fantasy
The Artemis Fowl author and co-writer Andrew Donkin tackle the meaty subject of climate change in their latest graphic novel Global
Switching unicorns for dragons in the picture book series’s latest, Morrisroe once again melds a suspenseful plot and fun rhyming couplets
Roland Chambers avoids making the naturalist a villain in this enchanting, empathetic novel told from the perspective of a giant tortoise
Marking 30 years of the beloved series, The Worst in the World is vintage Terry Deary – deceptively informative with plenty of gore
John Devolles’s book Germs, in his Little Minds series, might be short, but it packs a lot of detail and vivid colour into its pages