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83-83 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8RT. 0207 430 2800. [email protected]. www.usborne.com Contents Age 5-8 years TEACUP HOUSE by Hayley Scott THE TRAVELS OF ERMINE by Jennifer Gray FAIRY UNICORNS by Zanna Davidson BILLY AND THE MINI MONSTERS by Zanna Davidson TANGLEWOOD ANIMAL PARK by Tamsyn Murray Age 9-11 years KICK by Mitch Johnson COGHEART by Peter Bunzl S.C.R.E.A.M. by Andrew Beasley A PLACE CALLED PERFECT by Helena Duggan Age 12+ years THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF BEING HUMAN by Linni Ingemundsen INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SECOND-HAND HEART by Tamsyn Murray BROKEN SKY by L.A. Weatherly Backlist Highlights TEACUP HOUSE series Key points: By Hayley Scott • Child-friendly, charming and classic – qualities central to the Usborne ethos • Sylvanian Families meets Toy Story Meet the Twitches, a family of rabbits who live in a house shaped like a teacup, and Stevie, the little girl who looks after them. • Up-and-coming illustrator, Pippa Curnick

Synopsis Book One – Meet the Twitches: Stevie doesn’t want to the move to the country - she loves her family’s flat in the city, her school and her friends. However, a gift from her grandma helps to take her mind off the move: a beautiful big teacup with a house inside! There is a giant saucer that serves as a garden, lots of little pieces of furniture, and a family of four toy rabbits called the Twitches to live inside. What Stevie doesn’t realise is that, when humans aren’t around, the Twitches have adventures of their own - especially when one of them is dropped in the big garden of Stevie’s new home.

Rights available: World all languages inc. US Author biography: Large Print, Educational Hayley Scott grew up near Watership Down, UK publication dates: where one of her favourite things to do was visit the big hill to watch the rabbits hopping Books 1 – February 2018 in and out of their burrows. When she was Books 2 – June 2018 little she used to make tiny furniture for fairy Books 3 – October 2018 houses, setting them out in scooped out Extent: 128pp hollows in her back garden. To this day she’s Readership: UK age 5+ sure the fairies used them... Material available: Hayley lives in Norfolk with her daughter. Final layout for book one Teacup House is her debut series for young readers. THE TRAVELS OF ERMINE series Key points: By Jennifer Gray • A brand-new series from the author of Atticus Claw and Guinea Pigs Online

Meet Ermine: a small stoat on a BIG world adventure. Filled with • A new take on ever-popular animal Paddington trouble and fun! adventures, in the tradition of , Squishy McFluff and Claude Synopsis Book One – Trouble in New York!: • Gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Elisa Paganelli Ermine is on a world tour and determined to fill her scrapbook with tales of adventure. Armed with her toolkit and feathered hat, Ermine arrives in New York to stay with Michael Megabucks and his son – and is soon fighting off alligators at Central Park Zoo and outwitting bungling diamond thieves! The first in a brand-new series in the best traditions of Paddington and Squishy McFluff, Ermine’s travels are full to the brim with adventure, derring-do and a whole host of fabulous characters.

Rights available: World all languages inc. US Large Print, Educational Rights sold: Audio Author biography: UK publication dates: Jennifer Gray lives in London and Scotland Book 1 – January 2018 with her husband, four children and friendly Book 2 – 2018 but enigmatic cat, Henry. She has written the Extent: 160pp Atticus Claw series, the Chicken Mission series and the Guinea Pigs Online series, co-written Readership: UK age 6+ with Amanda Swift. The first book in the Atticus series, Atticus Claw Breaks the Law, was Material available: shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Manuscript for book one Prize and won the Red House Children’s Book Award - Younger Readers Category. FAIRY UNICORNS series Key points: • Irresistible combination of ever-popular By Zanna Davidson unicorns, fairies and a magical secret world • With stylish, two-colour illustrations by Original stories, full of magic and adventure, about a secret world of Nuno Alexandre Vieira fairy unicorns and a little girl called Zoe. • Highly collectable series of six books set in the same magical world as the hugely Synopsis Book One – Magic Forest: popular Fairy Ponies series Zoe is staying with her great-aunt when she discovers a magical world full of fairy unicorns. But Zoe soon finds out that Unicorn Island is in terrible danger. The trees are dying! Can Zoe and her new friend Astra, a beautiful fairy unicorn with silver stars on her coat, find the magical flower that will save the trees – and the island?

Synopsis Book Two – Cloud Castle: Zoe and her friend Astra, the fairy unicorn, can’t wait for the Midsummer Festival on Unicorn Island. But the island is growing hotter by the minute and the flowers are all wilting… Has Shadow, the evil fairy unicorn, stolen Rights available: the clouds? World all languages inc. US Audio, Large Print, Educational, Film Rights sold: Danish, Hebrew, Lithuanian Author biography: UK publication dates: Zanna Davidson has written over 50 books for Books 1 & 2 – April 2017 children, including fiction and non-fiction titles. Books 3 & 4 – July 2017 She lives in the countryside with her two boys, Books 5 & 6 – November 2017 a bearded dragon and a tortoise. Extent: 112pp Readership: UK age 6+ Material available: Finished copies BILLY AND THE MINI MONSTERS series Key points: • Highly engaging and fabulous full-colour By Zanna Davidson illustrations by Melanie Williamson • Eye-catching comic strips at the end of each Billy’s amazed to discover there are five MINI MONSTERS living in his chapter sock drawer… • Introducing children to original, illustrated fiction with easy reading texts Synopsis Book One – Monsters in the Dark: • Collectable series of six books Billy is scared of the DARK. And to make things worse, there’s something scary going on in his room at night. Something that has a squeaky little voice. And likes eating cheese. AND school ties… But what could it be?

Synopsis Book Two – Monsters on the Loose: Billy’s pet Mini Monsters have decided it would be fun to go to school. Billy thinks this is a TERRIBLE IDEA, but he doesn’t realize they’ve snuck into his school bag until it’s too late… Now there are monsters on the loose. There are monsters in the classroom and monsters in the playground. Will Billy ever be able to catch them again? Rights available: World all languages inc. US Audio, Large Print, Educational, Film Rights sold: Hebrew, Italian Author biography: UK publication dates: Zanna Davidson has written over 50 books Books 1 & 2 – May 2017 for children, including fiction and non-fiction Books 3 & 4 – August 2017 titles. She lives in the countryside with her Books 5 & 6 – November 2017 two boys, a bearded dragon and a tortoise. Extent: 80pp Readership: UK age 4+ Material available: Finished copies TANGLEWOOD ANIMAL PARK series Key points: • Hugely commercial, contemporary series for By Tamsyn Murray 7+ readers • Child-centered, aspirational animal Join Zoe for exciting and exotic animal adventures when her family adventures at the heart of every story move to Tanglewood Animal Park. • Animal Ark for a new generation Synopsis Book One – Baby Zebra Rescue: • Meticulously researched by the author at Paradise Wildlife Park, Hertfordshire Zoe’s dreams of becoming an animal-keeper look set to come true when her family take over the running of Tanglewood Animal Park! But Oliver, • Third title in the series, Elephant Emergency, the park vet’s son, is used to having Tanglewood to himself, and he’s coming in summer 2017 not happy to be sharing it. Then disaster strikes when the park’s newest arrival, baby zebra, Flash, escapes from his paddock just before the park’s grand reopening. Can Oliver and Zoe join forces and rescue the missing Reviews: baby zebra so Tanglewood can open in time? “Readers will love imagining themselves in Zoe’s Wild animal adventures await inside the gates of Tanglewood in this shoes and the book is full of tips too on animals and animal care. This is the first in a series and brand-new series bursting with furry, feathery fun! the next one can’t come soon enough.” - LoveReading4Kids Rights available: World all languages Large Print, Educational Rights sold: Audio, Hebrew, Slovak, US “This gorgeous new Author biography: UK publication dates: adventure series is Tamsyn Murray is the author of the Completely Book 1 – July 2016 guaranteed to win the Cassidy series, the Stunt Bunny series (Simon Book 2 – February 2017 hearts and minds of animal and Schuster), and YA supernatural romance Book 3 – August 2017 lovers of series My So-Called Afterlife (Piccadilly). Extent: 160 -176pp every age.” Outgoing, vivacious, and full of personality, Readership: UK age 8+ - Lancashire Evening Post Tamsyn blogs for Girls Heart Books, is a prolific tweeter, and has her own website at www. Material available: tamsynmurray.co.uk. Finished copies KICK Key points: • Hugely talented author who is set to be a By Mitch Johnson star of the future; this is our lead debut for 2017 An extraordinary story of family, friendship and football, set in the • Combines beautiful writing with commercial slums of Jakarta. appeal • Ever-popular football theme Synopsis: • Sensitively deals with timely issues of child Budi’s plan is simple: make it from the desolate, deprived and dusty labour, ethical consumerism and human streets of Jakarta to the pristine pitch of Bernabéu, the home of Real trafficking Madrid football club. The only thing standing in his way is everything. • Competed with three other UK publishers to Budi works for ten hours a day in a backstreet sweatshop making football acquire boots – the very boots he sees the Real Madrid footballers wear when he watches matches with his friend, Rochy, on the only neighbourhood Praise: television. But it’s more than the threat of the foreman’s rotan that keeps Budi going, for Budi believes every pair of boots he makes could be “Quite simply brilliant. Original, thought- provoking and important - I love it and want to worn to score the life-changing, winning goal, and that one day he’ll be a share it with everyone.” football star too. - Rebecca Hill, Usborne Fiction Director Rights available: But when the Dragon, the sirih-chewing gang lord who owns and runs the World all languages exc. US town, gives Budi an ultimatum to steal a pair of shoes from the factory “This is an important book that I want my sons Audio, Large Print, Educational or lose his family, reality threatens to destroy Budi’s world of dreams. to read. It is relevant, compelling and beautifully written.” Rights sold: Danish, Polish Torn between his childhood fantasies and violent reality, Budi is forced to confront the world around him. - Nicola Usborne, Deputy MD of Usborne UK publication date: September 2017 Author biography: “Kick is a brilliant debut. Mitch Johnson writes of ambition, poverty Extent: 304pp Mitch Johnson is a bookseller at Waterstones, and friendship with great skill and wit. I was cheering on Budi to the Readership: UK age 11+ Norwich. He graduated with first class honours final whistle.” and the prize for the Best Critical Dissertation Material available: Finished copies - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas from the University of East Anglia in English Agent: Literature with Creative Writing, and has written Felicity Trew at Caroline Sheldon for The Huffington Post. Kick is his first novel. COGHEART ADVENTURES Key points: • Hugely talented debut author – BAFTA- By Peter Bunzl winning animator, film-maker and writer • Strong boy and girl characters with appeal Exhilarating adventures of astonishing imagination, these are modern for all readers; a future classic classics to capture the hearts of readers. • Selected as Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month August 2016 Synopsis Book One – Cogheart: • The Bookseller Top 20 Children’s Bestseller When thirteen-year-old Lily’s inventor father disappears after a routine Zeppelin flight, Lily’s determined to find out the truth behind his • Nominated for twelve awards including disappearance. But she’s not the only one searching for her father; there Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Year, are men in the shadows who will stop at nothing to find him. With Robert, the Leeds Book Award, and the Branford the local clockmaker’s son, Lily travels to London, where they discover Boase Award that she holds the key to the mystery... a mystery closer to Lily’s heart • Over 35,000 copies sold to date than she could have ever imagined. Reviews: Synopsis Book Two – Moonlocket: “Vivid and gripping…a beautifully-drawn world When infamous escapologist Jack Door breaks out from Pentonville Prison, and delicate detailing, as finely wrought as a he sets out for the town of Brackenbridge, determined to find his missing watch’s workings.” Rights available: World all languages treasure – the Moonlocket. But when Lily and Robert unwittingly find excl. US, Large Print, Educational - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of Girl of Ink themselves caught up in Jack Door’s search, they discover that Robert’s and Stars Rights sold: Audio, Danish, Georgian, history holds the secret to the Moonlocket’s Latvian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese whereabouts… So begins an adventure full of UK publication dates: “One of my favourite debuts of the year. Murder, danger, daring, family secrets and long-buried mystery and mayhem in a thrilling Victorian Book 1 – September 2016 treasure. adventure.” Book 2 – May 2017 Book 3 – 2018 - Fiona Noble, The Bookseller Extent: 368 - 384pp “WONDERFUL… a blend of Philip Pullman, Joan Aiken and Katherine Rundell. Don’t miss!” Author biography: Readership: UK age 9+ Peter Bunzl grew up in London and lives there Material available: Finished copies of - Amanda Craig books one and two with his partner. He is a BAFTA-award-winning animator, as well as a writer and filmmaker. Agent: Jo Williamson at Antony Cogheart is Peter’s debut novel. Harwood S.C.R.E.A.M. series Key points: • New series from the author of the thrilling By Andrew Beasley Battles of Ben Kingdom books • Victorian X Files/Goosebumps with a First in a funny, fast-paced and action-packed Victorian paranormal Scooby-Doo-sized dose of comedy crimes series with an Egyptian mummy at the heart of the mystery. • S.C.R.E.A.M. = Supernatural Crimes, Rescues, Emergencies and Mysteries Synopsis Book One – The Mummy’s Revenge: • Selected for Book Buzz 2017 Meet Billy Flint and Charley Steel, detectives with S.C.R.E.A.M.: the Supernatural Crimes, Rescues, Emergencies And Mysteries squad. With Praise for The Battles of Ben Kingdom: Billy’s unique ability to communicate with supernatural forces, plus “A thrilling fantasy with fascinating characters Charley’s expertise as a gifted scientist and historian, they make the and a compelling plot.” perfect team. - Booktrust An ancient Egyptian mummy is terrorizing the Scottish gentry, stealing their jewels and valuables, and it’s Billy and Charley’s job to stop it. But “A great urban fantasy story full of well-depicted the mummy is controlled by the mysterious Sandman, who plans to characters... an enthralling start to a series for create an evil potion - using a human heart! the 9+ age range.” - Mr. Ripley’s Enchanted Books blog

Rights available: “Beasley’s novel is the sort to make not‐so‐ “This accomplished debut novel is jam-packed World all languages inc. US little horrors aged 10‐plus sit up and take with danger and excitement. The story races Audio, Large Print, Educational, Film notice, or indeed sit up in bed, unable to along at breakneck speed, introducing and UK publication dates: sleep at night. [...] If only all of us mummies dispensing with a brilliant array of well-drawn could command as much deference as the characters as it goes.” Book 1 – April 2017 Book 2 – October 2017 bandaged variety.” - An Awfully Big Blog Adventure - Evening Echo Extent: 240pp Author biography: Readership: As a child, adventure was everywhere for UK age 10+ Andrew Beasley; he went exploring Scunge Island and had an underground base made out Material available: of a sunken coal bunker. Now that he’s grown Finished copies up, Andrew works as a primary school teacher in Cornwall. A PLACE CALLED PERFECT Key points: • An original and spookily fun concept from a By Helena Duggan hugely imaginative debut author • Strong girl and boy main characters for Welcome to Perfect, where nothing is quite as it seems... widespread appeal. • A quirky adventure story with echoes of Synopsis: Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton Violet is not keen to move to Perfect for her dad’s prestigious new job • A sequel has been signed up as an optician, and her first impressions of the town don’t make things any better. Firstly, there are Dad’s employers, the creepy Archer brothers. Then she and her parents lose their eyesight overnight and have to be fitted with special Perfect glasses so they can see again. ThenMum Success so far: turns into some strange brainwashed Mum-bot... and Dad disappears completely. • Over 16,000 copies sold Luckily, the mysterious Boy is on hand to show Violet the truth behind • Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month August 2017 the Perfect facade, and reveals that her Dad is not the only person who’s been stolen away. But if they’re going to return normality to Perfect, • Reached 7th place in the Children and YA they’ve got a fight on their hands. Book Chart • Selected for Tom Fletcher’s first Children’s Rights available: Book Club World all languages inc. US Anne Finnis, Usborne’s Fiction Deputy Director says: “What I love about Large Print, Educational, Film this spooky adventure is that Violet and Boy refuse to be duped by the Rights sold: Audio, Polish villains who rule over Perfect and courageously set about uncovering a perfectly creepy plot. The story is hugely inventive, child-friendly and UK publication date: Author biography: eyenormously fun, but at its heart is a pertinent message about the Book 1: August 2017 power in all of us to resist the bullies who would have us follow the herd.” Helena Duggan is from Kilkenny, a medieval, haunted city in the south of Ireland, which Book 2: September 2018 was the inspiration for Perfect. She writes Extent: 352pp stories full of adventure, and is also a graphic Readership: UK age 9+ designer and illustrator. A Place Called Perfect is her first book. Material available: Finished copies THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF BEING HUMAN Key points By Linni Ingemundsen • From the publisher of Holly Bourne comes a new talent in the world of YA fiction A story for the outsider in every one of us. • Touching, funny and original • The Perks of Being a Wallflowerfor Generation Z If 14-year-old Malin was God for a day, she wouldn’t change much. Her dad would still yell; her brother Sigve would still get in trouble all the time, and Mum would still think a glass of wine is good for the heart. And she’d What we think: still be friends with Hanna, even if they did meet when the most popular “Effortless and nuanced, this book sings girls in school told Malin to shoplift. Because stuff’s okay, mostly. And if with wry wit and a profound, compassionate you could fix world peace and world hunger, wouldn’t God have done that understanding of how banal, bizarre, brutal already? and brilliant life can be.” – Stephanie King, Commissioning Editor

Darkly comic, striking and compassionate, this is a portrait of small-town Norway, a community that sings with pain and humour, told through the Author biography: eyes of a unique teenage girl. Linni Ingemundsen is from Norway and currently works in Malta. She does not know Rights available: how to draw but is somehow also a freelance World all languages inc. US cartoonist. Some of her favourite things in Audio, Large Print, Educational life include chocolate, monsters and her yellow typewriter. Linni has lived in three UK publication date: different countries and will never be done July 2018 exploring the world. She has worked as a Extent: dishwasher in Australia, a volunteer journalist in Tanzania and has approximately 2.5 near- 288pp death experiences behind her. Still, what truly Readership: inspires her writing is her background growing UK age 12+ up in a village on the coast of Norway. Linni began writing her debut novel while on the Material available: Oxford Brookes MA in Creative Writing. Copy-edited manuscript INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SECOND-HAND HEART Key points: • Commercial teen fiction dealing with deeper By Tamsyn Murray themes of mortality, grief and identity, but in a refreshing, accessible way Accessible dual narrative teen fiction, with themes of identity, • Gripping combination of pacy storytelling mortality and grief at its core, and a refreshing romantic twist and deeply moving characterisation and themes Synopsis: • Uplifting tear-jerker with first-love at its Meet Jonny. He’s 15, loves manga, has a hole in his heart and time is heart running out for him. Meet Niamh. She’s 14, snarky, cynical – and just lost • Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award and her twin brother in a tragic accident. But one family’s devastating loss is the Romantic Novel Awards another family’s second chance.

As Jonny recovers from his heart transplant, he becomes obsessed with Word from the editor: discovering the identity of his donor. When he tracks down Niamh, twin “A compelling story of loss and hope, with sister of the boy whose heart is keeping him alive, he only intends to find a quirky, unconventional love story at its out a little more about her brother. He doesn’t plan on falling in love. heart. We fell in love with Jonny and Niamh, Niamh is raw with grief and rage when Jonny enters her life. She’s and can’t wait for teen readers to take these gorgeous characters to their heart too.” determined not to let anybody get close to her. Plagued by guilt following her brother’s death, she feels utterly unlovable. - Stephanie King, Commissioning Editor at Rights available: Usborne World all languages inc. US But love, like life, is unpredictable, and Niamh and Jonny are about to let Audio, Large Print, Educational their hearts rule their heads… Author biography: Rights sold: Complex Chinese, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Polish, Tamsyn Murray is the author of the Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, US “Smart, sad, thought-provoking, and full of heart.” Completely Cassidy series and the new - Keris Stainton Tanglewood Animal Park series for younger UK publication date:November 2016 readers, as well as YA supernatural romance Extent: 336pp series My So-Called Afterlife. Her YA titles Readership: UK age 12+ have been shortlisted for awards including the Romantic Novelist Association YA Romantic Material available: Finished copies Novel prize and the Portsmouth Book Award, and Highly Commended in the Booktrust Teenage Prize. The BROKEN Trilogy Key points: • A brand-new YA trilogy with an exhilarating By L. A. Weatherly mix of irresistible romance, breath-taking action and thrilling mystery Welcome to a ‘perfect’ world. Where war is illegal, where harmony • Set in a daring and distorted echo of 1940s rules. And where your date of birth marks your destiny. America, the series effortlessly fuses vintage glamour, noirish intrigue and the drama and Synopsis Book One – Broken Sky: devastation of war Set in a daring and distorted echo of 1940s America, the Broken trilogy is • L.A. Weatherly’s award-winning Angel trilogy an exhilarating epic of deception, heartbreak and rebellion. Broken Sky has sold over 525,000 copies worldwide to follows the dramatic coming-of-age of a teen-girl pilot, Amity, working date, and was sold in 12 languages in a society where dog-fighting is used to settle international conflicts. • Shortlisted for the North East Teen Book However, when our heroine discovers that the organisation she works Award and the Leeds Book Award for is fuelled by blood and corruption, she finds herself questioning her life with devastating consequences. Framed for murder, she’s on the run from Gunnison, the world’s most powerful leader. Gunnison believes he Reviews: can cleanse society of criminals, rebels, troublemakers, in fact, anyone he “A book that will blow you away... From the chooses, based on their birth destiny. Amity is Gunnison’s Most Wanted. palpable atmosphere of the book, to the vivid settings, to the cinematic and heart pounding Now with her closest family and her one true love at risk, Amity must fight scenes, to the world building that brings Rights available: clear her name and stop Gunnison. But in a world of double agents and you entirely in to the book, to the complex World all languages exc. US violent betrayal, who can Amity trust? plot full of shocking twists to the characters Audio, Large Print, Educational you come to love and root for... A fantastic UK publication dates: start to a brilliant new trilogy” Book 1 – March 2016 - Reality’s a Bore Book 2 – October 2016 Book 3 – March 2017 Extent: 496 - 656pp Author biography: Readership: UK age 14+ L.A. Weatherly is the author of the bestselling Material available: Angel series, as well as almost 50 other books for children and teenagers. She is originally Finished copies from Little Rock, Arkansas, and now lives in England with her husband. Backlist Highlights

COMPTON VALANCE series PONY-MAD PRINCESS series 6-8 Years By Matt Brown By Diana Kimpton Rights: Artwork Rights: World all languages ACTION DOGS series Extent: 320-352pp x 4 titles Extent: 96 – 112pp x 13 titles By Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore Age 8+ Age 7+ Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights sold: Audio, German Rights sold: Audio, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Extent: 144pp x 4 titles Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Age 7+ Norwegian, Slovak, Swedish,Turkish, US Rights sold: German, Turkish, Welsh EDDY STONE series By Simon Cherry Rights: Large print, Educational, Artwork SANDY LANE STABLES series BALLET STARS series Extent: 288 – 304pp By Michelle Bates & Susannah Leigh By Jane Lawes Age 8+ Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights sold: Audio, Dutch, German Extent: 128 –132pp x 10 titles Extent: 192 - 224pp x 3 titles Age 8+ Age 8+ Rights sold: French, Slovak, US Rights sold: Audio, Swedish FAIRY PONIES series By Zanna Davidson Rights: World all languages inc. US SEAHORSE STARS series BARNEY THE BOAT DOG series Extent: 96pp x 6 titles By Zuzu Singer (Lee Weatherly) By Linda Newbery Age 7+ Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights sold: Hungarian, Russian, US Extent: 112pp x 6 titles Extent: 112pp x 4 titles Age 7+ Age 7+ Rights sold: Audio PENNY DREADFUL series By Joanna Nadin THE SECRET MERMAID series Rights: World English, artwork By Sue Mongredien CAT TALES series Extent: 144 x 7 titles Rights: World all languages By Linda Newbery Age 7+ Extent: 96pp x 12 titles, Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights sold: Audio, Chinese, Danish, Farsi, Age 7+ Extent: 80pp x 6 titles German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Latvian, Rights sold: Audio, German, Japanese, Swedish, Age 7+ Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazlilian), Turkish, US Rights sold: Turkish Serbian, Swedish, US Backlist Highlights

SILVERLAKE FAIRY SCHOOL series FAME SCHOOL series KISS OF DEATH By Elizabeth Lindsay By Cindy Jefferies By Malcolm Rose Rights: World all languages Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights: World all languages inc. US Extent: 128pp x 6 titles Extent: 128pp x 14 titles Extent: 192pp Age 7+ Age 9+ Age 10+ Rights sold: German, Japanese, US Rights sold: Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Rights sold: Audio, Turkish Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil only), RAINBOW BEAUTY series Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish By Kelly McKain TIME TRAIN TO THE BLITZ (Spain & Latin America), Turkish, US, Welsh Rights: World all languages inc. US By Sophie McKenzie Extent: 272 – 336pp x 3 titles Rights: World all languages inc. US THE FANTASTIC DIARIES OF BATHSHEBA Age 10+ Extent: 144pp CLARICE DE TROP series By Leila Rasheed Rights sold: Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish Age 8+ Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights sold: Audio, Large Print, Polish Extent: 304pp x 3 titles RAVEN QUEEN Age 10+ By Pauline Francis Rights sold: French, Greek, Polish, Spanish Rights: World all languages (excluding Spain), US Extent: 256pp Age 11+ 9-11 Years HEART MAGAZINE series Rights sold: Audio, German, US By Cindy Jefferies COMPLETELY CASSIDY series Rights: World rights all languages inc. US ROMAN PONY series By Tamsyn Murray Extent: 192pp x 4 titles By K.M. Peyton Rights: World all languages inc. US Age 9+ Rights: World all languages inc. US Extent: 208 - 256pp x 3 titles Rights sold: Polish, Welsh Extent: 192 – 208pp x 3 titles Age 9+ Age 11+ Rights sold: Arabic, Audio, Finnish, German, HISTORICAL HOUSE series Rights sold: Audio, US Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish By Adèle Geras, Linda Newbery and Ann Turnbull SCHOOL FRIENDS series Rights: World all languages By Ann Bryant Extent: 176pp x 6 titles Rights: World all languages, inc. US Age 9+ Extent: 160pp x 6 titles Rights sold: Polish, Turkish, US Age 9+ Rights sold: Turkish, US Backlist Highlights

SUPERHUMANS series BETTER LEFT BURIED STREET DUTY series By A.G. Taylor By Emma Haughton By Chris Ould Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights: World all languages inc. US Extent: 366 – 544pp x 2 titles Extent: 304pp Extent: 320 – 336pp x 2 titles Age 11+ Age 14+ Age 14+ Rights sold: Audio, Polish, Serbian, Slovene

CRUEL HEART BROKEN By Emma Haughton 12+ Years Rights: World all languages inc. US Extent: 336pp A WORLD AWAY Age 14+ By Pauline Francis Rights: World all languages Extent: 352pp DEEP WATER Age 13+ By Lu Hersey Rights sold: Audio, German, US Rights: World all languages inc. US Extent: 384pp Age 12+ ANGEL series By L.A. Weatherly Rights: World all languages exc. US NOW YOU SEE ME Extent: 512 – 720pp x 3 titles By Emma Haughton Age 14+ Rights: World all languages inc. US Rights sold: Audio, Danish, Dutch, French, Extent: 336pp German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese Age 14+ (Brazil only), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Rights sold: German, Lithuanian, Turkish Turkish