Fantastic New Fiction Books for your holiday reading!

The Extincts by Veronica Cossanteli

George loves to help out at hidden Wormestall Farm, even though it’s full of extinctly scary creatures, like the dodo in the dog bed and the dinosaurs in the duck pond. When Mortifer the giant basilisk goes missing, it’s up to George to find him before wicked taxidermist Diamond Pye can add to her stuffed animal collection …

 

 

Danny, who fell in a hole by Cary Fagan

When Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, he makes use of the items in his backpack to get through the next few days and befriends a poetry-spouting mole.

 

 

 

Space Blasters by Philip Caveney

The mysterious Mr Lazarus has helped Kip and his father completely change the fortunes of the small local cinema they own and run – but now Stephanie a local journalist is sniffing around, wanting to know how he’s done it…With the launch party for the huge space adventure movie, “Space Blasters”, approaching, Kip is desperate to keep Stephanie away. But when Mr Lazarus himself ends up stuck inside the film at the mercy of the evil Emperor Zarkan, Kip has no choice. He has to go in after him – to a galaxy far, far away.

 

 

The Crystal Mirror by Paula Harrison

Laney’s thinks the summer’s going to be boring but how wrong she is! From the moment she sees a blood-red moon, things take a turn for the magical. For Laney is a faerie, a member of the Mist Tribe, and things are about to get exciting, and mysterious, and dangerous. Laney and her faerie friends must stop an evil Shadow Faerie finding the magical objects he needs to become all-powerful. (from Goodreads).

 

 

The Eye of Neptune By Jon Mayhew

Prince Dakkar, heir to an Indian Kingdom, has been expelled from the best schools in England.  Now he;s stuck with the mysterious Count Oginski, genius inventor of a top secret machine; the world’s first submersible.  But in a dangerous world of spies and secrecy, someone would do anything to capture Oganski’s invention.  When the count is kidnapped, Dakkar escares in the submarine, only to face  horrifying creatures of the deep, lethal giant squid, and, above all, the sinister Cryptos, who is hell-bent on taking over the world… (from book cover).