Books of the Month - May

Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day
Amy de la Haye
When Granny Elsie’s precious hat gets torn Clara button has a very clever idea! To fix it, she suggests a magical hat day. With her mother and brother, Clara sets off for the Victoria & Albert Museum where she can...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Clare Beaton
Classic bedtime rhymes for small children, including favourites like ‘I See the Moon’, ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ and ‘Brahms’ Lullaby’. Soothing poems have been chosen to develop language and learning skills, while also encouraging peaceful and relaxing bedtimes. Click here for more by Clare...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month
Format: Board book - Released: 01/01/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices 2)
Cassandra Clare
May 2012 Book of the Month. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, while her desire for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Clockwork Princess
Cassandra Clare
April 2013 Book of the Month  Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment.  Danger intensifies for the Shadowhunters as the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy comes to a close. Clockwork Princess is the third in the brilliant Infernal Devices series which began...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/03/2013
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Closer: Tunnels Book 4
Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
This is the eagerly-anticipated fourth instalment of the internationally bestselling Tunnels series. This series continues to live up to the hype that started with Tunnels and continued with Deeper and Freefall. In Closer, at the centre of the...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Come to School Too, Blue Kangaroo!
Emma Chichester Clark
Best-selling Emma Chichester Clark has created a perfect story for all children about to start a new school. Lily is nervous about starting a new school but luckily she has Blue Kangaroo to help her! Blue Kangaroo is really looking...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Conker And Nudge
Adria Meserve
Full of the warmth of brotherly love, Conker and Nudge tells how two anteaters play together - and survive together - but only because of Nudge's absolute devotion to his older brother.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2008
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Constable and Toop
Gareth P. Jones
Funny, gruesome and scary, with the great setting of a funeral parlour, this is an action packed adventure full of the darker and dirtier details of life in Victorian...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Corvus: Oath of Vengeance
James Thomson
An epic, action-packed tale of bravery, honour and revenge, particularly suitable for reluctant boy readers. It is the first title in an action-packed new series featuring a young Viking boy who returns home to discover his family have been murdered....
Featured in: 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Crescendo
Becca Fitzpatrick
This is the stunning sequel to Hush, Hush, one of the most talked about and read teen novels of the last year featuring feisty protagonist Nora Grey.  Like Hush, Hush this is a real rollercoaster of twists and turns...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Crescendo
Becca Fitzpatrick
This is the stunning sequel to Hush, Hush, one of the most talked about and read teen novels of the last year featuring feisty protagonist Nora Grey.  Like Hush, Hush this is a real rollercoaster of twists and turns...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Crossed
Ally Condie
A welcome return to the world first encountered in Matched. It’s a world in which society decides who you should love – and everything else about your life. When Cassia broke the rules because she found her own true...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/11/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dancing Jax
Robin Jarvis
There’s a dark power lurking in the empty house set down a long, lonely track. When a group of teenagers break in, they find a box of children’s books. Not any old books. There is something special about one book....
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dark Parallel (The Joshua Files book 4)
M. G. Harris
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 A headlong new title in this best-selling series, Joshua narrates a new adventure with his trademark sharpness and familiar cool.  Joshua is in danger as soon as he begins the quest to find...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Other book format - Released: 07/04/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Daughter of Fire and Ice
Marie-Louise Jensen
Highly Commended for the Teenage Book Prize 2010. 15 year old Thora is a slave to Bjorn, a brutish Viking chieftain, but she’s also a healer and has visions of the future - a future that involves death, lies, hardship...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

David
Mary Hoffman
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Art, politics and romance are brilliantly explored in this enthalling story of how a young man’s face became one of the most famous in the world. Country boy Gabriele arrives in...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Day of Deliverance (A Jack Christie Adventure)
Johnny O'Brien
The exciting second installment of the Jack Christie adventures (following Day of the Assassins) sees time-travelling Jack and Angus back in the fray of history – this time they must save Queen Elizabeth I from an early death!
Featured in: 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Day of the Assassins
Johnny O'Brien
A thrilling war-time adventure that is a perfect mix of historical fact and fictional adventure, in which two boys are swept back in time and thrown into the real event of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Day of the Assassins (A Jack Christie Adventure)
Johnny O'Brien
A thrilling war-time adventure that is a perfect mix of historical fact and fictional adventure, in which two boys are swept back in time and thrown into the real event of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, the catalyst...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Day of Vengeance (A Jack Christie Adventure)
Johnny O'Brien
This is action and adventure time travel at its best and great for boys too.  Schoolboy time-traveller Jack Christie is thrown back to 1940s Nazi-occupied France. With spitfire dogfights, jeep races and thrilling chases Jack and his best friend Angus...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dead Beautiful
Yvonne Woon
Dark romance meets haunting murder mystery in this captivating tale of love, death and destiny.  At Gottfried Academy, just one kiss will take your breath away. After Renee discovers her parents dead in what appears to be a strange double...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dead Romantic
C.J. Skuse
February 2013 Book of the Month  Very funny and touching, this is a refreshingly original teen novel which stirs traditional themes into a thought provoking mix of science and more. Newly into sixth form college, Camille - unfortunately named after...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2013
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dead Time
Anne Cassidy
May 2012 Book of the Month. Award-winning Anne Cassidy grips her readers in this thrilling crime novel. Everywhere she turns, Rose’s life seems to be haunted by disaster. Her mother has been missing for five years after mysteriously vanishing with her...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dear Dylan
Siobhan Curham
April 2012 Book of the Month. Winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2010. This was a self-publishing YA phenomenon in 2010 and winner of the above award beating the likes of Julia Donaldson and Bali Rai.  Then it was bought by Egmont...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dear Scarlett
Fleur Hitchcock
February 2013 Book of the Month  This refreshingly original story unravels an intriguing mystery surrounding a girl’s father. When she turns eleven, Scarlett receives a box of ‘tools’ – the kind used for picking locks  - from her dead father,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Dear Zoo Animal Shapes Buggy Book
Rod Campbell
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. A new edition to the Dear Zoo stable for even the smallest hands.  Use the handy strap and clip to attach this sturdy board book to your buggy and take it...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month
Format: Board book - Released: 01/04/2011
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Department 19: Battle Lines
Will Hill
April 2013 Book of the Month  Book 3 from the talent behind the bestselling hardback YA debut of 2011. Dracula is on the verge of coming into his full power. Department 19 is on the back foot. Department 19 faces...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/03/2013
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney
Take a peek into Greg’s diary and find out the story of his life – and especially about his relationship with his older brother Rodrick. Wittily told in words and pictures, this diary charts the trials and tribulations of a...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: The Last Straw
Jeff Kinney
The ups and downs of Greg’s life are wittily exposed in his diary entries, which entertainingly capture the details of interactions with his family, his schools friends and, above all, his dad who is determined that Greg should improve himself...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth
Jeff Kinney
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid continues to be a worldwide phenomenon with global sales of over 27 million so if you know of a 7+ year old who has yet to meet the hapless Greg Heffley as he navigates...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/11/2010
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy