Debuts of the Month
This Month's Featured Books
Kick
Mitch Johnson
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2018 | October 2017
Debut of the Month | In a nutshell: serious issues in a
fast-moving, vividly told football story Like lots of kids
in this country, Budi lives for football, training with...
Featured in: 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/09/2017
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Riddle of the Runes
Janina Ramirez
July 2018 Debut of the Month | In a nutshell: exciting
Viking set crime mystery recommended for brave girls and
boys Historian Janina Ramirez's TV programmes are as
inspiring as they are informative. Her passion for Viking history
comes through...
Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 05/07/2018
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The Truth About Lies
Tracy Darnton
July 2018 Debut of the Month | In a Nutshell:
Mystery, memory, manipulation | A feisty thriller
that fizzes with intrigue, paranoia and a cast of fascinatingly
flawed characters. For Jess “every waking moment is a
flashbulb moment. I recall...
Featured in: YA readers | 13+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 12/07/2018
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The Girls
Lauren Ace
July 2018 Debut of the Month | The
Girls is a glorious and uplifting description of female
friendship. It stars four girls and simply but beautifully
describes in words and pictures their enduring friendship as they
grow from little children...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 12/07/2018
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The Storm Keeper's Island
Catherine Doyle
July 2018 Debut of the Month | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of
the Month July 2018 Swept along by the wind and sea and
suffused with magic and mystery this is an ebullient adventure
story that compels its readers to...
Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/07/2018
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Undercover Princess
Connie Glynn
July 2018 Debut of the Month | In a nutshell: Cinderella
story made for summer reading | An unusual friendship, a
chance to live as a princess, mystery, romance and intrigue, all
set in the luxurious surroundings of a top...
Featured in: 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 28/06/2018
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Mud
Emily Thomas
July 2018 Debut of the Month | Based on the
author's own unconventional upbringing on a Thames Barge,
Mud is an unusual and touching roman a clef. Lydia
tells her father he is ruining her life when he announces that...
Featured in: 13+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 05/07/2018
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Last Month's Featured Books
Boy Underwater
Adam Baron
June 2018 Debut of the Month | In a nutshell: boy untangles
his family story of loss and love | Boy
Underwater is one of those rare books that...
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Ash Princess
Laura Sebastian
June 2018 Debut of the Month | In a Nutshell: Rebellion,
romance and an imprisoned princess set on revenge This
ambitiously epic fantasy debut sees a captive princess rise...
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If All the World Were...
Joseph Coelho
June 2018 Debut of the Month | Joseph Coelho
dedicates this lovely picture book to ‘everyone who misses
someone' and it's particularly apposite for any child who has
recently lost...
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All of This Is True
Lygia Day Penaflor
June 2018 Debut of the Month | In a
Nutshell: Heroine-worship | Manipulation | Betrayal | This
cool concept, genre-subverting page-turner sees a group of affluent
teenagers enmesh themselves...
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More Featured Books
The House with Chicken Legs
Sophie Anderson
May 2018 Debut of the Month | This sparkling debut
weaves the captivating folklore of Baba Yaga with the thrills of a
classic venturing-out-into-the-world quest, replete with primal
conflicts, tantalising...
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I Stop Somewhere
T. E. Carter
May 2018 Debut of the Month | In a Nutshell: Intense
exposé of extreme misogyny and male privilege An
unflinching novel about brutally toxic masculinity, male collusion
and how justice systems...
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A Boy Called Bat
Elana K. Arnold
The first book in a funny, heartfelt, and irresistible young middle
grade series starring an unforgettable young boy on the autism
spectrum, from acclaimed author Elana K. The Lovereading Comment...
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Dear Martin
Nic Stone
May 2018 Debut of the Month | In a Nutshell: Striving for
goodness when the world has you down as bad Picture this.
You're an honors student with a top...
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Cannonball Coralie and the Lion
Grace Easton
May 2018 Debut of the Month Funky and thoroughly
contemporary in feel, though simultaneously acknowledging classic
children's illustration, Cannonball Coralie and the
Lion is an exciting story, beautifully told. Coralie...
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Gaspard The Fox
Zeb Soanes
May 2018 Debut of the Month | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of
the Month May 2018 A wonderfully warm-hearted animal
adventure based on Zeb Soanes observation of a local urban...
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