Girls

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOK Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history.On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend. But how far would you go to save your best friend's life? Would you risk your own?

From the author-illustrator of The Weather Girls and The Nature Girls comes a new picture book starring an adorable troupe of girls exploring the city and taking in all the diversity of life it has to

***ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*** THE EIGHTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES!‘Emotional and gripping’ Take a Break______________________________Sunderland, 1943: With the future of Britain unce

Detective Lottie Parker is back again in another serial killer thriller as girl after girl goes missing just to turn up dead. Can she find the latest victims before it is too late?The young woman standing on Lottie's step was a stranger. She was clutching the hand of a young boy. Help me, she said to Lottie. Please help me.One Monday morning, the body of a young pregnant woman is found. The same day, a mother and her son visit the house of Detective Lottie Parker, begging for help to find a lost friend.Could this be the same girl?When a second victim is discovered by the same man, with the murder bearing all the same hallmarks as the first, Lottie needs to work fast to discover how else the two were linked. Then two more girls go missing.Detective Lottie Parker is a woman on the edge, haunted by her tragic past and struggling to keep her family together through difficult times. Can she fight her own demons and catch the killer before he claims another victim?

'Your new favourite book' CosmopolitanAn instant New York Times bestseller, Wilder Girls is Rory Power's visceral and unputdownable YA debut. The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before - but like Let's Be Modest About It. Tosh and Lou.

What happens when your father is the prime suspect in a murder case?'Full of surprises you truly don't see coming' HARLAN COBEN'Instantly gripping and compulsively readable' RILEY SAGER***************

An Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Banker's Wife, worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island that raises

After the loss of war, can there be hope for the future?Manchester, 1922.Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, with the death of h

The California sunshine's not quite so bright for three sisters who get dumped in the same week…Finola, a popular LA morning show host, is famously upbeat until she's blindsided on live TV by news tha

Primo primate artist Anthony Browne is at the top of his form with a simple — and simply fascinating — array of creatures for kids to count.What better attention-getter for small children than primate

Olivia Foster hasn't felt alive since her little brother drowned in the backyard pool three years ago. Then Kara Hallas moves in across the street with her mother and grandmother, and Olivia is immedi

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist and romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut.

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, darkly provoking and deeply romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her m

Moxie meets Exit, Pursued by a Bear in Elizabeth Keenan’s debut YA novel Rebel Girls, a story of two sisters on opposite sides of the abortion issue who must join forces to combat the effects of a ter

`Enjoyably twisty ... with a killer ending' i`I couldn't put it down' Sophie HannahIt's been nineteen years since ten-year-old Laurel was given a life sentence and six-year-old Rosie was given a new i

Four brave girls from around the world use their wits, courage, and strength to deal with terrifying dangers and disasters in four exciting and empowering folk tales.Penguin Readers is a series of the