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Emma Carroll
An introduction to: Dracula & Daughters: School for Slayers
Suitable for ages 7-11
Catherine Doyle
An introduction to: Scare B’n’B: Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun
Suitable for ages 7-11
Ted McKenley is done managing the mayhem of Tartarus Hotel’s ghostly residents alone. Fortunately, the holidays are here and Frankie Stark is finally back from boarding school. But there’s no rest for the stepsiblings as a pop megastar has chosen the hotel as the venue for her latest celebrity wedding.
Not to be outshone, the Duke of Snoring – Tartarus’s most notorious (and obnoxious) ghost – has decided to host his 363rd birthday party on the exact same day. As high profile guests, both living and spectral, descend on the hotel, Ted and Frankie can’t catch a break. Will they manage to save the (wedding) day before the duke steals the spotlight?
Jasbinder Bilan
An introduction to: Girl with a Sabretooth Tiger
Suitable for ages 7-11
Eleven-year-old Swallow lives with her tribe in prehistoric England. Storytelling by the fireside is part of life, and she loves listening to ancient tales of courage and adventure. When Swallow’s baby sister falls ill, she sets off with her friend Ishi on a dangerous journey to find the cure: a precious jadeite stone of legend. Across seas and mountains, Swallow’s quest leads her through wonder and terror – all the while guided by a starlight path and the spirit of a sabretooth tiger. Can she find the stone and save her sister?
A breathtaking fantasy world from the award-winning author of The Last Wild. In this spellbinding follow-up to Midnight Treasure, adventure with Tibor and Roza into an empire of vampirs and werwolves. For readers who loved Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures or S.F. Said’s Tyger.
Harriet Muncaster
An introduction to: Isadora Moon and Friends Story Collection
Suitable for ages 5-7
A special gift edition with shiny silver foil and sprayed edges, celebrating 10 years of everyone’s favourite half fairy half vampire, Isadora Moon! This collection brings together brand-new stories from Isadora Moon, Mirabelle, and Emerald, each illustrated in their iconic two-colour style. Perfect for early readers who love chapter books filled with humour, friendship, and adventure.
Born of stitches and lightning, Frankenkitty wanders the halls of the darketty dark castle. Everyone trembles at the sight of him. But is he really such a foul and loathsome creature? And can anyone save him before it’s too late? Packed with deliciously dramatic narration from bestselling author Maudie Powell-Tuck and freakishly fun illustrations from Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Mini Grey, this spine-tingling tale serves as a mischievous reminder that looks can be very, very misleading.
Guy Bass
An introduction to: Stitch Head: The Ghost of Grotteskew graphic novel
Suitable for ages 7-11
The third book in the best-selling, laugh-out-loud STITCH HEAD series, by award-winning author Guy Bass, with illustrations by Pete Williamson, brought to almost-life again in this monstrously magnificent graphic novel edition. The first STITCH HEAD book is now a major motion picture.
Welcome back to Colin’s Castle – where Colin and Duck have noticed a VERY strange noise! They search from top to bottom, finding rooms they have never been in before – and rooms they will never go in again. Soon there is only one place left to look … the DUNGEON!
Uh-oh! Colin and Duck have never been inside the dungeon. What – or who – is making the noise … and why?!
