New school year means new children’s fiction to try

We know you’re excited about the new school year school starting, and we reckon you should get excited about these new titles too! Give them a go; try something new!

Sammael’s Wings by Hilton Pashley

“Everything Jonathan loves is threatened. His angel father is wounded and lost, and his demon mother is missing in Hell. When his great-aunt Sammael, an archangel, returns from exile, Jonathan finally has a chance to bring his family back together. But a terrible new enemy wants to create chaos and fear throughout the universe, and he needs Jonathan’s wings to do it. Jonathan must go through Heaven and Hell to save them all…”–Back cover.

 

A Galaxy Too Far Away by Jamie ThomsonImage courtesy of Syndetics

Harry was just an ordinary teenage boy from Croydon when he was abducted by aliens and accidentally became the captain of their starship. His quest to get back home to Earth continues – but now he’s acquired an alien ‘son’ and a new spacecraft, and he’s being pursued by an eight-foot robot bounty hunter.

 

The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela BrownImage courtesy of Syndetics

When seven bored children discover an abandoned chapel in their home town, they decide to renovate it and to form the Blue Door Theatre Company. The talented and resourceful group soon discover that they are serious about their theatrical ambitions, but will their parents stand in their way?

 

The Power of Poppy Pendle by Natasha LoweImage courtesy of Syndetics

Ten-year-old Poppy will do anything to realize her dream of becoming a baker, although her parents insist she attend Ruthersfield, the exclusive girls school for witchcraft, where she excels despite her dislike of magic. Includes baking tips and recipes.

 

 

Pieces of Why by K.L. GoingImage courtesy of Syndetics

Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha–but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.

Happy New Fictionalicious Year!

Happy new year to every Fiction Fabulous Fan! We have lots of new fiction to suggest for the new year : funny, adventurous, creepy or historical stories. Take your pick!

Stan Stinky, by Hannah Shaw

Meet Stan Stinky. The unluckiest rat in the sewer. Whilst his friends are off surfing in the Bahamas, Stan has to spend his summer aboard his crazy uncle’s leaky boat. UNTIL…

Uncle Ratts and his sidekick, Roachy the cockroach disappear. Into a human house. EEK!

Stan must come to their rescue immediately. Suddenly, Stan is an adventurer, surfer and sewer hero! Maybe he is not so unlucky after all…

7 years old and +

 

 

 

Muddle and Win: the battle for Sally Jones, by John Dickinson

Muddle’s a devil. Win is an angel. They’re both on a case. The case is Sally Jones…

Sally Jones is Good. And Muddlespot, newly promoted to demon special agent, is on a mission to make her bad. If he doesn’t, it will be very Bad for him.

Can Muddlespot beat the odds and take down a guardian angel extraordinaire?

Let the battle begin…

9 years old and +

 

 

The Dead men stood together, by Chris Pristley

Home from the sea, a boy’s uncle entrances him with tales of life aboard ship and of foreign lands. Soon the boy decides to join his uncle on his next voyage.

But a violent storm blows the ship off course and the crew find themselves marrooned in a sea of ice. As their despair grows, an albatros seems to befriend the sailors and restore hope. But seized by an evil madness, the uncle kills the great bird with his crossbow, and so condemns all on board to unimaginable horrors in which life in death is the greatest…

10 years old and +

 

 

 

 The amazing tale of Ali Pasha, by Michael Forema

On 6th May 1915, Henry Friston, a 21-year-old sailor, rejoined his battleship, HMS Implacable, after ten days in Hell. Hell was just 180 metres long and seven metres wide and was otherwise known only as “X beach”.

Henry, ferrying the wounded from the battlefield , had not eaten or slept for three days. Then, somehow, in the midst of the bombardments, he befriended a tortoise…

10 and +