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Fro LOST a sarah odedina book WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU a sarah odedina book ELE FOUNTAIN MANGOES KEREEN GETTEN A powerful, heart-stopping novel from an award-winning author An affecting, deeply atmospheric middle-grade debut set in Jamaica Lola’s life is about to become Nothing much happens in Sycamore, unrecognisable. So is Lola. the small village where Clara lives – at least, that’s how it looks. She loves eating Everything used to be comfortable. ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running She lived in a big house with her family, outside in the rainy season and escaping where her biggest problems were arguing to her secret hideout with her best friend with her little brother or being told she Gaynah. There’s only one problem – she couldn’t have a new phone. But as one can’t remember anything that happened disaster follows another, the threads of last summer. her home and family begin to unravel. When a quirky girl called Rudy arrives Cut off from everything she has known from England, everything starts to change. before, Lola must find a new way to Gaynah stops acting like a best friend, survive. while Rudy and Clara roam across the island and uncover an old family secret. Now, an ordinary girl must become As the summer reaches its peak and the extraordinary. island storms begin, Clara’s memory starts to return and she must finally face the ele fountain is a writer and former truth of what happened last year. editor in children’s publishing. Her debut novel, Boy 87, won three awards and was kereen getten grew up in Jamaica where ‘This book will arouse compassion for nominated for nine more, including the ‘A wonderful story with great heart, she would climb fruit trees in the family society’s lost, reminding readers how Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Ele mystery, and insight. Kereen Getten is garden and eat as much mango, guinep and small the difference may be between lives in Hampshire with her husband and a bright new voice’ Clare Vanderpool, pear as she could without being caught. them and us’ Nicolette Jones, Sunday two daughters and works full-time as a author of Moon Over Manifest She now lives in Birmingham with her Times Children’s Book of the Week novelist. family and writes stories about her childhood experiences. dimensions: 198 x 129mm format: B-format Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm format: B-format Paperback extent: 256pp price: £7.99 extent: 224pp price: £7.99 territory: UK & Comm. ex isbn: 9781782692645 territory: UK & Comm. ex Can isbn: 9781782692553 Can and Ind publication: October 2020 reading age: 9+ years publication: March 2020 reading age: 9+ years pushkin children’s 2020 pushkin children’s 2020 SCHOOL FOR NOBODIES a sarah odedina book SPLINTERS OF SCARLET a sarah odedina book SUSIE BOWER EMILY BAIN MURPHY A girl goes in search of her past in this hilarious, captivating debut Magic, murder and a hunt for the truth: a thrilling fantasy adventure Until she was 10, Flynn didn’t even know Marit doesn’t like to use magic too often; her real name. Her adoptive parents have it always exacts a heavy price. When her always kept her past a secret, but one best friend is adopted by legendary mysterious note transforms her world and former dancer Helena Vestergaard, Marit sets her on a path to discover who she draws upon her powers to secure a really is. How did she get the burn that seamstress job with the wealthy family so covers most of her face? And could she that she can watch over Eve. But Marit has really have a twin? another, secret motivation: her father died while working in the Vestergaards’ mines, Packed off to a boarding school for misfits, and she has reason to believe he was Flynn tries to adjust to the unfair rules and murdered. stomach-churning soup while making friends with her unusual classmates. All While she adapts to her glittering new life the while, she receives more cryptic in Copenhagen, Marit starts to investigate messages that slowly bring her closer to her father’s death in earnest. With every her true identity. step she takes to get closer to the truth, she and everyone she loves is put in susie bower has been a teacher, a greater danger. tour-guide, a typist, a workshop facilitator, a PA and a painter. She formerly wrote and emily bain murphy grew up in Indiana, directed TV programmes for children at Also available from Pushkin Children’s: Hong Kong, and Tokyo. She is a long-time the BBC and Channel 4, for which she won volunteer with Love146, a non-profit that a BAFTA Award. School for Nobodies is her fights child trafficking. Her debut novel, debut novel. Susie lives in Bristol. The Disappearances, was published by Pushkin Children’s Books and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Murphy currently lives in the St. Louis area with her family. format: B-format Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm format: B-format Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm price: £7.99 extent: 304pp price: £7.99 extent: 400pp isbn: 9781782692713 territory: UK & Comm. ex Can isbn: 9781782692607 territory: UK & Comm. ex Can publication: July 2020 reading age: 10+ years publication: July 2020 reading age: 12+ years pushkin children’s 2020 pushkin children’s 2020 RED STARS DUNCAN VERSUS THE a sarah odedina book DAVIDE MOROSINOTTO GOOGLEYS KATE MILNER A thrilling wartime adventure story of courage, bravery and love A quirky and hilarious debut from an award-winning illustrator Leningrad, 1941. The twins Viktor and Nadya Summer is not looking good for Duncan. are twelve years old when Hitler’s His parents have left him with his Great Germany declares war on the Soviet Aunt Harriet at Arthritis Hall, a retirement Union. All the city’s children are evacuated community of rude old ladies who on trains that are meant to take them to confiscate his games, stuff him in a safety, but first Viktor and Nadya are windowless room and just want him to separated, then disaster befalls them both. keep quiet. So begins a desperate race across snow and ice as one of history’s most terrible When Duncan meets Ursula, the conflicts rages. Can the twins find a path caretaker’s daughter, he begins to discover through the destruction all around, to find the diabolical secrets that lurk in the each other and their family once again? shadows of Arthritis Hall. Soon, the two children find themselves embroiled in a Red Stars is a thrilling tale of courage, plot involving bizarre electronic creatures bravery and love, in the face of the most and acts of ingenious thievery, in an terrifying danger imaginable. attempt to outwit a fiendish group of eldery criminal masterminds. Fully illustrated in two colours throughout kate milner is a writer and illustrator davide morosinotto was born in a based in Bedfordshire. When working at small town in the hills of Northern Italy. her local library, she fell in love with His debut novel La Corsa Della Bilancia children’s books and went on to become won the Mondadori Junior Award, and an illustrator, winning the Klaus Fugge since then he’s written 27 books for Award for her picture book My Name is Not children and young adults. His books have Refugee. Duncan Versus the Googleys is her been translated into 16 languages. first novel. Translated by: Denise Muir format: Demy Trade Paperback dimensions: 216 x 135mm format: B-format Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm price: £12.99 extent: 432pp price: £7.99 extent: 224pp isbn: 9781782692577 territory: UK & Comm. ex Can isbn: 9781782692515 territory: World English publication: September 2020 reading age: 12+ years publication: February 2020 reading age: 9+ years pushkin children’s 2020 pushkin children’s 2020 THE BEAST WARRIOR THE HUNGRY GHOST a sarah odedina book NAHOKO UEHASHI H.S. NORUP The thrilling conclusion to the adventure of The Beast Player A moving story of family change and buried secrets Ten years have passed since the events of Freja arrives in Singapore during the month The Beast Player. Elin and Ialu are married, of the hungry ghost, when old spirits are with a young son, living a quiet, peaceful said to roam the streets and families must life when one day Elin is called upon to make offerings to appease their ancestors. investigate a matter of great urgency: the She’s homesick for Copenhagen and isn’t fearsome Toda are dying and nobody sure she fits in with the ‘happy family’ of knows why. her father, her step-mother and twin step-brothers. As Elin investigates, she uncovers a deadly plot and a brewing invasion. Can she As Freja tries to settle into her new life, a protect her homeland without allowing mysterious girl in a white dress starts to her beloved beasts to be used as weapons appear to her, seeming to beckon her on. of war, or will she have to compromise her Following this figure, Freja begins to principles to save her family? unravel an old family mystery – one that must be solved before the month is over, nahoko uehashi is a Japanese writer of to allow both girls to be freed from fantasy titles, whose books have sold more secrets long buried. than a million copies in her native Japan. She has won numerous awards, including h.s. norup grew up in Denmark and has the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award, since lived in the UK, the US, Austria, Also available from Pushkin Children’s: which she won for her contribution to Also available from Pushkin Children’s: Singapore and Switzerland, where she children’s literature throughout her life.