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About The O’Brien Press Founded in 1974, The O’Brien Press is Ireland’s leading independent publisher of books for readers big and small. We are family-owned and committed to putting the best writing and illustration in to the hands of readers everywhere. Our books for children have won many awards and been translated into many languages. www.obrien.ie has loads of information about all of our titles (and previews of most of them), information on international rights sold, sales and distribution, our authors and more. www.obrien.ie/schools has hundreds of classroom resources available for free The front cover image is download. from Finn’s First Song Our books are available from www.obrien.ie, and wherever good books are sold. by Gerry Daly. See page 4. A GUIDE TO READING LEVELS Using O’Brien flags to select books for your home or classroom

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and Scotland England and Wales Black flag Usable throughout the Usable throughout the school Usable throughout the Picture books school (but especially (but especially Year 1 [P1]) school (but especially Junior Infants) Reception) Purple flag First Class (also Senior Year 2 [P2]. Key Stage 1 Year 1. Key Stage 1 Reading level 5+ Infants, Second Class) Yellow flag Second Class (also Year 3 [P3]. Key Stage 1 Year 2. Key Stage 1 Reading level 6+ First Class, Third Class) Red flag Third Class, Fourth Class Year 4, Year 5 [P4, P5]. Year 3, Year 4. Reading level 8+ Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2 Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2 Blue flag Fifth Class, Sixth Class Year 6, Year 7 [P6, P7]. Year 5, Year 6. Key Stage 2 Reading level 10+ Key Stage 2 Green Flag First Year, Second Year Year 8, Year 9, Year 10 (sec- Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 (sec- Reading level 12+ (second-level schools) ondary school). Key Stage 3 ondary school). Key Stage 3 Young Adult Older and more confident Older and more confident Older and more confident readers readers readers This is a general guide to reading levels. It will help you to choose suitable books for children and their abilities. As children start school at different ages under the various educational systems listed here, and also begin formal reading at different stages, this suggested guide to suitability for various ages differs for each system. Black Flag: Picture Books My First Book of Irish Vehicles Take the Lead How to Look After Your My First Book of GAA Dog – A Fun & Practical Guide My First Book of Irish Wildlife By Elena Browne, Illustrated by Jennifer Farley From exercise and play to comfort and care My First Book of Ireland this book is an ideal guide for children who Four great board books, full of the Irish way of already have a dog, would like a dog or love life! Bright, colourful pages with photographs of learning about dogs. all the things that make Ireland special.! ISBN 978-1-78849-081-8 ISBN Vehicles 978-1-78849-126-6 €11.99/£10.99/Paperback GAA 978-1-78849-063-4 224x167 mm/48 pages Wildlife 978-1-78849-165-5 Ireland: 978-1-78849-188-4 The Great Big Book of Irish €8.99/£7.99/Board book Wildlife Through the Seasons 160x160 mm/18 pages By Juanita Browne, Illus. Barry Reynolds Track nature through the seasons in Ireland and explore nature in your back garden as well as weird and wonderful natural phenomena, such as metamorphosis from Tadpole to Frog or a starling flock in winter. Literacy Association of Ireland Award Winner ISBN 978-1-84717-915-9 Where's Larry? €19.99/£17.99/Hardback 285x225 mm/80 pages By Philip BarrettI Follow Larry the Leprechaun around Ireland, Let's See Ireland! and see if you can find him in Newgrange, at By Sarah Bowie The Rock of Cashel and in Dublin's St Pat- Follow Molly's journey around the country. Will rick's Day Parade! But it won't be easy: he is Mipsy the cat miss her too much while she’s hiding in the middle of Irish dancers, traditional gone? A gorgeous picture book for all ages. musicians, climbers, tourists, hurlers and many ISBN 978-1-84717-731-5 others. Great fun for all the family. €12.99/£11.99/Hardback ISBN 978-1-84717-276-1 261x215 mm/32 pages €9.99/£8.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-78849-132-7 300x216 mm/32 pages €9.99/£8.99 Paperback Where's Larry This Time? We're Going to the Zoo! By Philip Barrett By Sarah Bowie Follow Larry the Leprechaun around Ireland, Kitty’s excited to be going to the zoo. Her big and see if you can find him in Belfast, the sister Clara thinks it will be boring! But when Skelligs or viking Dublin! they get there, there’s so much going on! ISBN 978-1-84717-745-2 Follow the sisters as they meet the cheeky €9.99/£8.99/Paperback giraffe, the swimming tiger and lots, lots more. 300x216 mm/32 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-949-4 €12.99/£11.99/Hardback Where's Larry? The Colouring 261x215 mm/32 pages Book P is for Poetry By Philip Barrett Poems from Irish Poets Follow Larry the Leprechaun around Ireland, Compiled by Seamus Cashman, Illus. Corrina and see if you can find him in Newgrange, at Askin, Alan Clarke, Emma Byrne the Cliffs of Moher and in Dublin's St Patrick's Selected poems from bestselling Something Day Parade. With this new colouring book you Beginning with P in a beautiful new format - can find Larry as you colour! a perfect gift book for Irish children at home ISBN 978-1-78849-007-8 and abroad. €7.99/£7.50/Paperback ISBN 978-1-78849-178-5 300x216 mm/32 pages €12.99/£11.99/Paperback 235x195 mm/64 pages 3 Black flag: Picture Books A Dublin Fairytale Irish Farm Animals By Nicola Colton By Glyn Evans & Bex Sheridan Once upon a time there was a little Dublin girl A fun family adventure to meet Ireland’s farm called Fiona. The city is full of colourful char- animals! From cows, sheep, donkeys, goats acters and creatures from the fairytale realm. and chickens to a whole range of more unusual Often not seen or heard, they reside in some of animals, such as alpacas, rhea and rare-breed Dublin’s most famous locations and landmarks! pigs. Discover fascinating facts about everyday ISBN 978-1-84717-774-2 life on the farm. €12.99/£11.99/Hardback (also in paperback) ISBN 978-1-78849-121-1 260x215 mm/32 pages €14.99/£13.99/Hardback Where Are You, Puffling? 261x215 mm/48 pages An IrishAdventure NEW Scout’s Best Day Ever! By Gerry Daly & Erika McGann A Doggy Adventure Around Ireland A puffling has gone in search of adventure – By Jennifer Farley now her parents can’t find her anywhere! Scout sends Cat a series of postcards all about Can the animals of Skellig help them find their his travels around Ireland. But which will be the little puffling? BEST. DAY. EVER? ISBN 978-1-78849-050-4 ISBN 978-1-78849-174-7 €12.99/£11.99/Hardback €12.99/£11.99/Hardback 215x260 mm/32 pages 260x215 mm/32 pages ISBN 978-1-78849-145-7 €9.99/£8.99/Paperback Island of Adventures ISBN 978-1-78849-187-7 €9.99/£8.99/Paperback: Irish language, Fun things to do all around Ireland By Jennifer Farley translated by Muireann ní Chíobháin Ireland is full of adventures! Fun and ex- NEW Where Are You, Puffling? citement wait around every corner – surf an Colouring Book Atlantic wave, go horse-trekking through the By Gerry Daly wilderness or dance to Irish music. A brand new colouring book for fans of Where ISBN 978-1-84717-971-5 Are You, Puffling? Gorgeous black and white €16.99/£14.99/Hardback illustrations from the original picture book for 280x220 mm/48 pages children to colour in. A perfect gift! Socks for Mr Wolf ISBN 978-1-78849-234-8 A Woolly Adventure Around Ireland € 5.99/£4.99/Paperback By Tatyana Feeney 260x215 mm/32 pages Mr Wolf loves looking good. Mr Wolf loves to Wee Donkey’s Treasure Hunt dance. But more than anything in the world Mr An Adventure All Around Ireland Wolf loves his beautiful socks. Until one day, a By Erika McGann, Illus. Gerry Daly hole appears in one … WHAT can he do? Wee Donkey travels Ireland trying to find the ISBN 978-1-84717-906-7 perfect souvenir for her Grandad. €14.99/£13.99/Hardback ISBN 978-1-78849-180-8 261x215 mm/32 pages €12.99/£11.99/Hardback Eva and the Perfect Rain 260x215 mm/32 pages A Rainy Irish Tale By Tatyana Feeney NEW Finn’s First Song Eva spends the day searching and hoping for A Whaley Big Adventure the perfect umbrella rain that’s not too windy, By Gerry Daly too thundery or too drizzly. Finally, she finds it Squeeeak ... Thwop ... Thwop ... Dwoooooerr- in a sun shower and a rainbow shines making it rp! Dad sings his magical whale songs to Mum the most perfect rain of all. and baby Finn, far, far away across the huge Embrace rainy Ireland with Eva in this beautiful ocean. and delightful picture book! When Finn gets lost, can the other sea crea- ISBN 978-1-84717-978-4 tures help him to send a message of his own? €12.99/£11.99/Hardback ISBN 978-1-78849-191-4 261x215 mm/32 pages €12.99/£11.99/Hardback 260x215 mm/32 pages Black flag: Picture Books 4 The Sleeping Giant The O'Brien Book of Irish Fairy By Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Tales and Legends Off the coast of Ireland there lies an island. It By Una Leavy, Illus. Susan Field looks just like a giant sleeping in the sea. Irish fairy tales and legends are full of enchant- But what if it really is a giant – and what if, one ment, brave deeds and lost loves. Told from day, the sleeping giant wakes up? generation to generation, they are as fascinat- ISBN 978-1-78849-089-4 ing now as they were to their original listeners. €9.99/£8.99/Paperback With stunning illustrations to draw the reader 275x210 mm/32 pages back to a time of heroes and myth. The Day Henry Met ... a dog ISBN 978-1-84717-313-3 By Gilly €12.99/£11.99/Paperback One day Henry meets a dog. Dog is sad 265x205 mm/96 pages because she doesn’t have a best friend. This Magical Celtic Tales gives Henry a great idea! Join Henry and Dog By Una Leavy, Illus. Fergal O'Connor as they embark on their adventures to find a Magical Celtic Tales is a collection of ten won- best friend for Dog! Maybe, they don't need to derful stories - some well known, others almost look that far. forgotten - from Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, The ISBN 978-1-84717-999-9 Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales. €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-84717-546-5 256x205 mm/32 pages €14.99/£13.99/Hardback Ulster Fairytales and Legends 265x205 mm/96 pages By Peter & Nicola Heaney, Illus. Conor Busuttil The Children of Lir Evocatively illustrated by Conor Busuttil, this Ireland’s Favourite Legend collection of myths from Ireland’s northern By Laura Ruth Maher, Illus. Conor Busuttil province will enthrall readers young and old. This charming rhyming story tells the legend ISBN 978-1-78849-217-1 of The Children of Lir, who were turned into €14.99/£12.99/Hardback swans by their wicked stepmother and forced 280x220 mm/64 pages to wander across Ireland for 900 years. Eggcorns ISBN 978-1-78849-106-8 From Bumbum Bees to Jellycopters €12.99/£11.99/Hardback By Chris Judge 261x216 mm/32 pages Have you ever seen a Bumbum bee, or an Reindeer Down! Elelamp? Does your pet wear Doggles? These An Irish Christmas Tale are all Eggcorns, where a child’s mispronunci- By Natasha Mac a’Bháird, Illus. Audrey Dowling ation can add a whole other level of meaning! Santa’s sleigh is flying over Ireland, delivering Illustrator Chris Judge has brought his bizarre presents to all the boys and girls. But then sense of humour to imagine them for us all. Dancer hurts her leg and can’t pull the sleigh. ISBN 978-1-78849-192-1 ISBN 978-1-78849-099-3 €9.99/£8.99/Hardback €14.99/£13.99/Hardback 160x160 mm/48 pages 256x205 mm/32 pages Brian and the Vikings Dublin By Chris Judge & Mark Wickham My Ireland Activity Book When the dangerous Vikings arrive it's up By Natasha Mac a’Bháird, Illus. Alan Nolan to Brian to save the day with the help of his A bright and fun-filled activity book. Puzzles, friends and his cleverest invention yet. games, colouring, stories and tons of facts. ISBN 978-1-84717-687-5 ISBN 978-1-84717-892-3 €4.99/£4.99/Paperback Brian and the Giant 270x215 mm/24 pages Strange things are happening in Brian’s village The Wild Atlantic Way – horrible smells, no water in the river – and My Ireland Activity Book Brian wants to find out why. ISBN 978-1-84717-834-3 ISBN 978-1-84717-773-5 Cliffs of Moher and the Both titles €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Burren 220x280 mm/32 pages My Ireland Activity Book ISBN 978-1-84717-770-4 5 Black flag: Picture Books The Pooka Party Irish Legends: Newgrange, Tara & By Shona Shirley Macdonald the Boyne Valley A madcap tale of what to do if you feel sad and By Eithne Massey, Illus. Lisa Jackson lonely, starring one shapeshifting hero with Legends from the heart of ancient Ireland, with some musical monsters, flying cakes and a 'The Origin of the Boyne', 'The Foster-child of guest appearance by the Moon. Aonghus' and 'The Salmon of Knowledge'. ISBN 978-1-78849-000-9 ISBN 978-1-84717-683-7 €14.99/£13.99/Hardback €9.99/£8.99/Hardback 280x220 mm/32 pages 280x220 mm/64 pages The Night-time Cat and the Plump, A Rosette for Maeve? Grey Mouse By Anna McQuinn, Illus. Paul Young A Trinity College Tale Join Lisa as she prepares her calf Maeve to By Erika McGann, Illus. Lauren O’Neill compete at the local agricultural show with, and Follow Pangur Bán as she searches Trinity find out how she does! College for the plump grey mouse. Along the ISBN 978-1-84717-340-9 way she meets Oscar Wilde, Count Dracula €7.99/£7.50/Paperback/190x240 mm/32 pages and others. Will Pangur Bán get her prize or The Story of Ireland will the mischievous mouse evade capture? By Brendan O’Brien, Illus. Cartoon Saloon ISBN 978-1-84717-945-6 An award-winning, spectacular tour of Ireland’s € 14.99/£13.99/Hardback history, from the ice age to the present day. 260x215 mm/32 pages Beautifully illustrated and a great read. Ancient Ireland Colouring Book 96 pages From Newgrange to the Vikings ISBN 978-0-86278-881-0 By Conor McHale €19.95/£17.99/Hardback/285x225 mm Choose to colour from over sixty drawings of ISBN 978-1-84717-184-9 famous ancient Irish people and landmarks, €9.99/£8.99/Hardback (mini)/210x148 mm historic battles, figures from mythology. ISBN 978-1-78849-149-5 ISBN 978-1-84717-629-5 €12.99/£11.99/Paperback /250x197 mm €6.99/£6.50/Paperback My Book of Kells Colouring Book 297x210 mm/32 pages Illus. Eoin O’Brien, David Rooney Aim High Irish sports stars, The Book of Kells is one of the world’s most trailblazers and mavericks famous illuminated manuscripts. Now you By Donny Mahoney, Illus. Eoin Coveney can colour it in yourself, with this selection of Meet the Irish men & women who topped the pictures big and small from this beautiful book. Sporting world. From heavyweight boxing ISBN 978-1-84717-274-7 champion Dan Donnelly to our greatest runner, €6.99/£6.50/Paperback Sonia O’Sullivan. From Brian O’Driscoll’s 297x210 mm/32 pages amazing rugby performances to Rosemary Smyth’s rally driving brilliance. Inspiring words NEW Flossie McFluff and pictures for children of all ages. An Irish Fairy ISBN 978-1-78849-208-9 By Eoin O’Brien, Illus. Audrey Dowling €16.99/£14.99/Hardback Three stories in rhyme about little fairy Flossie 242x180 mm/64 pages McFluff. Flossie may be tiny and shiny, but she Best-Loved Irish Legends is tough and smart, whether it’s helping to deal By Eithne Massey, Illus. Lisa Jackson with litter louts in her precious forest, or helping Simple retellings of some of Ireland’s greatest a leprechaun to find his missing gold. Beautiful- legends, brightly illustrated. ly and magically illustrated. ISBN 978-1-78849-030-6 ISBN 978-1-78849-218-8 €12.99/£11.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 280x220 mm/64 pages 256x205 mm/32 pages Mini hardback ed./€4.99/£4.99/149x114 mm English language: ISBN 978-1-84717-237-2 French language: ISBN 978-1-84717-357-7 German language: ISBN 978-1-84717-358-4 Italian language: ISBN 978-1-78849-024-5 Spanish language: ISBN 978-1-84717-924-1 Black flag: Picture Books 6 Bright Sparks Amazing Discoveries, The Little Black Sheep of Inventions and Designs by Women Connemara By Owen O'Doherty By Elizabeth Shaw Fifty extraordinary discoveries, inventions and This charming book tells the adventures of an designs by inspirational women from around outcast little black sheep: A story about being the world. Learn learn how inventions happen different, and being a hero. from this beautifully illustrated guide. ISBN 978-1-78849-179-2 Literacy Association of Ireland Award Winner €9.99/£8.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-78849-054-2 242x180 mm/32 pages €14.99/£13.99/Hardback/ 197x260 mm/48 pages Go To Sleep, Hoglet By Bex Sheridan The Story of Croke Park A baby hedgehog decides that he doesn’t want By Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Illus. Graham to hibernate, and goes searching for Christ- Corcoran mas magic in the world of humans. A perfect Gaelic sports icon Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh bedtime story for animal lovers. shares his lifelong passion for the GAA with ISBN 978-1-78849-143-3 young readers, as he guides them through its €12.99/£11.99/Hardback history, and its most iconic stadium. 260x215 mm/32 pages ISBN 978-1-78849-206-5 €16.99/£15.99/Hardback Gulliver 280x220 mm/48 pages By Jonathan Swift, Retold by Mary Webb, Illus. Lauren O'Neill Lost in a land of small people, Gulliver has to Shooting for the Stars: My Journey learn their ways and avoid starving! A beauti- to Become Ireland’s First Astronaut fully illustrated retelling of Swift’s classic story. By Norah Patten, Illus. Jennifer Farley ISBN 978-1-84717-676-9 Travel high into space and learn about space €14.99/£13.99/Hardback travel, astronaut training & life without gravity. 193x252 mm/80 pages Irish Book Awards Winner: Irish Children’s Barney Goose Book of the Year (Senior) ISBN 978-1-78849-100-6 A Wild Atlantic Way Adventure €16.99/£14.99/Hardback By Carol Ann Treacy 242x180 mm/44 pages Join Barney Goose as he travels from West Cork all the way to Donegal. See the sights My Ireland Counting Book and meet new friends in each new location. Illus. Eoin Ryan ISBN 978-1-78849-142-6 One Stone Castle.... Two Irish Wolfhounds ... €12.99/£11.99/Hardback Add some Hurleys, Thatched Cottages, Tin 261x215 mm/32 pages Whistles, Bodhráns, Connemara Ponies and Irish Dancers for lots of counting fun! Brendan and the Blarney Stone ISBN 978-1-84717-931-9 By Stephen Walsh & Marita €7.99/£7.50/Paperback O’Donovan, Illus. Diane Le Feyer 215x270 mm/32 pages When Brendan the leprechaun plays the tin whistle, the sound is sweeter than the sweetest songbird. But if only he could speak as well as My Little Album of Dublin he plays! An English / Irish Word Book ISBN 978-1-84717-723-0 By Juliette Saumande, Illus. Tarsila Krüse Oscar Wilde - Stories for Children Takes the youngest of readers on a fun filled By Oscar Wilde, Illus. Charles Robinson tour of the Fair City. Along the way, they will A beautifully illustrated collection of Oscar build up their vocabulary in English and Irish. Wilde’s favourite children’s tales. It includes: ISBN 978-1-84717-998-2 The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, The €12.99/£11.99/Hardback Nightingale and the Rose. Brings Wilde’s magi- 261x215 mm/32 pages cal stories to a whole new generation. ISBN 978-1-84717-589-2 €14.99/£13.99/Hardback 252x193 mm/80 pages

7 Black flag: Picture Books Sarah Webb Inspiring Irish Lives Animal Crackers Blazing a Trail Fantastic Facts About Your Favourite Irish Women Who Changed the World Animals Illus. Lauren O’Neill With Alan Nolan Salute the remarkable Irish women who A book of animal facts that will appeal strongly changed history, both at home and worldwide. to children, illustrated with black & white animal From adventurers to inventors; explorers to art/doodles, activities and quiz pages – interac- warriors; rebel leaders to presidents. tive, fun and informative. Irish Book Awards Winner: Irish Children’s ISBN 978-1-78849-065-8 Book of the Year (Senior) €11.99/£10.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-78849-004-7 190x153 mm/176 pages Dare to Dream: Irish People Who Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood Took on the World (and Won!) lllus. Graham Corcoran Sally Go Round The Stars Adventurers, explorers, inventors, dreamers: With Claire Ranson, Illus. Steve McCarthy Irish people who had a huge impact interna- A major, beautifully-illustrated collection of tionally, from helping street children in India, to favourite nursery rhymes known and loved saving Jewish children during World War II. throughout Ireland. It includes favourite inter- ISBN 978-1-78849-127-3 national, British and Irish rhymes. Both titles €16.99/£14.99/Hardback ISBN 978-1-84717-211-2 242x180 mm/64 pages €14.99/£13.99/Hardback ISBN 978-1-84717-675-2 Have You Seen the Dublin NEW EDITION €14.99/£13.99/Paperback Vampire? 280x220 mm/64 pages By Una Woods Now available as a board book. A funny, warm picture book set in Dublin, ISBN 978-1-78849-246-1 home to Dracula’s creator, Bram Stoker. €8.99/£7.99/Boardbook ISBN 978-1-78849-119-8 160x160 mm/18 pages €12.99/£11.99/Hardback 260x215 mm/32 pages A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea Illus.Steve McCarthy Owls and pussycats, cockles and mussels, golden stockings, wiggly worms and rattlin’ bogs – they’re all here, and more. Another wonderful collection of delightful rhymes. Irish Book Awards Winner: Irish Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) The Moon Spun Round ISBN 978-1-84717-794-0 W. B. Yeats for Children €16.99/£14.99/Hardback By W. B. Yeats, Edited by Noreen 280x220 mm/64 pages Doody, Illus. Shona Shirley Macdonald Take children of all ages on an imaginative The One With The Waggly Tail journey through W.B. Yeats’s poetry, folktales Illus. Steve McCarthy and childhood writing. Beautifully illustrated. From spiders and fleas to pirates at sea; from ISBN 978-1-84717-738-4 grasshoppers and worms to houses in trees – €19.99/£17.99/Hardback discover old and new favourites within these 280x214 mm/64 pages pages. . ISBN 978-1-78849-151-8 The Fridge in a Denim Jacket! €16.99/£14.99/Hardback By Zig & Zag 280x220 mm/64 pages Take a trip down memory lane, back to when Zig and Zig filled the airwaves with their irrev- erent humour! Their first book, back at last! ISBN 978-1-84717-694-3 €12.99/£11.99/Paperback 297x210 mm/64 pages

Black flag: Picture Books 8 Purple Flaga Books:nd All titles 64 pages, B&W, €6.99, paperback p as The perfect way to introduce the beginner reader to Readingfor Beginner Age Readers 5+ the wonderful world of books. Exciting stories with lots of illustration and simple text. Muckeen the Pig The Little Black Sheep By Fergus Lyons By Elizabeth Shaw Muckeen loves being dirty and muddy. And he This charming book tells the adventures of an loves his food. But when he is taken to market outcast little black sheep: how he saved the Muckeen does not like it at all! Still, Muckeen whole flock in a snowstorm, put Polo the bossy is a smart pig too and he finds a way out! sheepdog in his place - and gave the shepherd Panda 1 a great idea! ISBN 978-0-86278-528-4 A story about being different, and becoming a hero. No Shoes for Tom Panda 6 ISBN 978-0-86278-463-8 By Una Leavy, Illustrated by Margaret Suggs Tom just HATES wearing shoes! He has such A Garden for Tom fun with his bare toes. But then the snow By Una Leavy, Illustrated by Margaret Suggs comes … Panda 2 Tom would love to have his very own gar- ISBN 978-0-86278-526-0 den and Dad arranges it for him. But Tom is impatient. Things are not growing fast enough for him … Panda 7 Ribbit, Ribbit ISBN 978-0-86278-568-0 By Anne Marie Herron, Illustrated by Stephen Hall Sinead the Dancer Freddy loves being a frog! 'Ribbit, ribbit,' he By Anna Donovan, Illustrated by Susan Cooper says when anyone talks to him. It's great fun Sinead wants to learn dancing, but what type? for a while, then everyone gets tired of Freddy Irish dancing? Ballet? Sinead just doesn't fit in. and his antics. But he will not give it up. He is What can she do? Panda 8 a frog and he will stay a frog. Until Polly comes ISBN 978-0-86278-571-0 up with a good idea … Panda 3 ISBN 978-0-86278-527-7 Fireman Sinead By Anna Donovan, Illustrated by Susan Katie's Caterpillars Cooper By Stephanie Dagg, Illustrated by Stephen Hall Sinead has decided what she will be when Katie just loves her pet caterpillars. Then she she's big – a fireman. There are no women goes on holiday and can't wait to greet them on fireman everyone tells her, but Sinead doesn't her return. To her dismay they have changed! listen … Panda 4 Who wants silly old butterflies as pets? Not our ISBN 978-0-86278-529-1 Katie …Panda 9 ISBN 978-0-86278-572-7 Amy's Wonderful Nest By Gordon Snell, Illustrated by Fergus Lyons Katie's Cake Amy, a little robin, is alone and has to fend for By Stephanie Dagg, Illustrated by Stephen Hall herself. She decides to build a nest, but she Katie finds that it's not easy to replace icing doesn't know how! Panda 5 once you've licked it all off the cake. ISBN 978-0-86278-530-7 Panda 12 ISBN 978-0-86278-617-5

9 Purple flag books: Reading Age 5+ Granny Makes a Mess My Dog Lively By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated By Patrick Deeley, Illustrated by Martin Fagan by Michael Connor Jenny finally gets the puppy she has always Why does everyone blame Danny for the longed for, but she soon realises that pets can mess, when Granny did it? Panda 13 be a lot of hard work. Panda 19 ISBN 978-0-86278-612-0 ISBN 978-0-86278-723-3

Barry's New Bed Ducks in Trouble By Una Leavy, Illustrated by Moira McNamara By Patrice Aggs, Illustrated by Patrice Aggs Your first real bed is a big adventure – but a On the farm, some very strange noises are little scary too! Panda 14 keeping the farmer awake! Pandad 20 ISBN 978-0-86278-644-1 ISBN 978-1-84717-154-2

Danny's Sick Trick Bad Hair Day By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated By Catherine Doolan, Illustrated by Maeve by Michael Connor Kelly Danny hates Auntie Bessie's dinners so much Finn is trying desperately to be cool, but noth- that he decides to get sick so that he won't ing works. Until he tackles his hair...Panda 22 have to visit her! Another hilarious Danny ISBN 978-0-86278-748-6 story. Panda 15 ISBN 978-0-86278-689-2

Spotty Sally Conor's Cowboy Suit By Anne Marie Herron, Illustrated by Stephen By Gillian Perdue, Illustrated by Michael Hall Connor Sally ADORES spots and dots and she'll nev- When Conor's parents give him a present of a er, ever get tired of them! Or will she? Panda cowboy suit he wants to wear it all the time - 16 even to school! Panda 23 ISBN 978-0-86278-640-3 ISBN 978-0-86278-778-3

Danny and Baby Do It All The Big Brother By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated By Stephanie Dagg, Illustrated by Alan Clarke by Michael Connor Dara will soon be a big brother! But what does Why does Danny Brown want his baby sister a big brother do for a little baby?Panda 24 Susie's Baby Do-it-all? It can only mean more ISBN 978-0-86278-779-0 TROUBLE for poor Danny! Panda 17 ISBN 978-0-86278-690-8

Snip Snip! Conor's Concert By Creina Mansfield, Illustrated by Maeve Kelly By Gillian Perdue, Illustrated by Michael Erin loves to cut things with her scissors, but Connor cutting things can cause lots of trouble. Panda Conor is learning the piano. He makes up his 18 own very special music. But will it do for the ISBN 978-0-86278-722-6 concert? Panda 26 ISBN 978-0-86278-847-6

Purple flag books: Reading Age 5+ 10 Strawberry Squirt Pageboy Danny By Patrice Aggs By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated Strawberry Squirt is a great game, but the by Michael Connor rabbits don't want Short Legs to play.Panda 27 Uncle Ted is getting married and Danny will ISBN 978-0-86278-805-6 play a special part at the wedding. But, as usual, Danny has other ideas... Panda 34 ISBN 978-0-86278-950-3

Muckeen and the UFO Conor's Canvas By Fergus Lyons By Gillian Perdue, Illustrated by Michael A big silver spaceship beams Muckeen up into Connor the sky! Panda 28 Conor’s class are all painting special pictures ISBN 978-0-86278-832-2 for a show. Will Conor's painting be chosen to hang in a real gallery? Panda 35 ISBN 978-1-84717-875-6

Helpful Hannah Where's Murphy? By Marie Burlington By Anna Donovan, Illustrated by Tatyana Hannah is amazing.She can fix anything. Feeney Granny would prefer her to knit and sew and Murphy is Rory’s best friend. cook. Every day they play together. But Granny is in for a surprise one stormy, But one day Rory cannot find Murphy ... Panda snowy morning...Panda 29 36 ISBN 978-0-86278-837-7 ISBN 978-1-84717-081-1

Shoestring Soup Danny's Crazy Christmas By Fergus Lyons By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated The poor man is TIRED of shoestring soup. He by Michael Connor tries eating a cookerybook sandwich -- yuck! Danny decides to dispose of some unwanted He even tries being a duck -- Quack Quack! presents in order to make room for more of his -- to get some nice crusts of bread. But nothing own, with hilarious consequences...Panda 37 works. What can he do? ISBN 978-1-84717-124-5 Panda 30 ISBN 978-0-86278-871-1 Tina and the Tooth Fairy Emma the Penguin By Gordon Snell, Illustrated by Peter Blodau By Sarah Webb, Illustrated by Anne O'Hara Tina is always in trouble! And the tooth fairy? Emma has to be a penguin in the school play, She is never in trouble. Oh dear! How will but she is NOT happy about it. these two get on? Can they ever have fun Panda 38 together? Panda 31 ISBN 978-1-84717-195-5 ISBN 978-0-86278-601-4

Lighthouse Joey Muckeen and the Big Freeze By Marie Burlington By Fergus Lyons, Lighthouse Joey and his friend Danny find a It's snowing and Muckeen is looking forward to pair of strange boots. Could they belong to the lots of fun! But - Oh! - trapped in his shed, he is old pirate Jumping Jack? Panda 33 not happy at all. ISBN 978-0-86278-945-9 Then Mr and Mrs Farmer dug their way to his shed, bringing with them a duvet! And they have a plan to help keep Muckeen and all the other animals warm and comfy! Panda 39 ISBN 978-1-84717-243-3

11 Purple flag books: Reading Age 5+ A new look for Danny Brown: full colour throughout, with speech bubbles for added fun!

Danny Brown and the Talking Danny Brown and the Big Surprise Teeth By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated by Michael Connor by Michael Connor Danny’s back! And he’s in trouble with Gran- Danny Brown is always in trouble. ny - again! This time he has to keep Granny’s Why did he take Granny’s teeth to school? secret until Mum’s birthday, but Danny isn’t Just WHAT was he thinking? very good at being good. Can he keep the Now Mum is cross, teacher is cross, secret without getting into trouble? What do and Granny is VERY cross. you think? But Danny was only having fun, wasn’t he? ISBN 978-1-78849-010-8 ISBN 978-1-84717-879-4 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/64 pages 196x130 mm/64 pages Danny Brown and his Daft Dog Danny Brown and the Monster By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated by Michael Connor, Toothbrush It’s freezing at the park! Granny has warm By Brianóg Brady Dawson, Illustrated socks. Baby Susie has a warm hat. Poor by Michael Connor Keeno has nothing to keep him warm. Not Danny hates brushing his teeth, so when he to worry... Danny has a plan. What could go gets a new toothbrush he wants to get rid of it! wrong? He tries flushing it down the toilet, burying it in ISBN 978-1-78849-011-5 the garden and throwing it for Keano, his dog, €6.99/£6.50/Paperback but it keeps coming back! 196x130 mm/64 pages A fun story about a boy who can’t help getting into trouble. Illustrated in colour throughout. ISBN 978-1-84717-880-0 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/64 pages

Purple flag books: Reading Age 5+ 12 Yellow Flag Books: Reading Age 6+

Trouble for Tuffy Don't Open that Box By Ann Bermingham, By Marie Burlington By Conor McHale Katie and Ted get into serious trouble while Belzoni the cat and Greta the chicken try to get Mum is out – but Tuffy the dog saves the day. to grips with a hungry crocodile that has just ISBN 978-0-86278-554-3 eaten Granny. €6.99/£6.50/Paperback ISBN 978-0-86278-705-9 130x196 mm/64 pages €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/64 pages

The Big Fight Fishbum and Splat! By Frank Murphy, Ill. Kieron Black By Conor McHale The hero Cúchulainn is forced to fight his Fishbum and Splat are two demons whose friend Ferdia in this epic story of Queen Maeve fondest wish is to stargaze. But there are no and the Brown Bull of Cooley. A simple retell- stars where they live! A trip to Heaven gives ing for younger readers. them the chance to collect a star. ISBN 978-0-86278-451-5 ISBN 978-0-86278-735-6 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/64 pages 130x196 mm/64 pages Ed's Funny Feet Blue, Where Are You? By Eoin Colfer, Illustrated by Woody Fox By Wes Magee, Ill. Margaret Suggs Ed Cooper has a problem with his big toes. On their first evening in their new home, Josh Even his DIY foot-straighteners don't work and and Jo's cat Blue is nowhere to be found. Will he has to wear very uncool 'correction shoes'. Josh and Jo find their missing cat? ISBN 978-0-86278-650-2 ISBN 978-1-84717-009-5 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/64 pages 130x196 mm/64 pages

Anna's Secret Granny The Little Witch Who Can't Spell By Stephanie Dagg, Illustrated by Phillip By Marie Burlington Morrison Little Willow Witch can’t spell. Her magic spells Anna doesn't have a real granny, so she draws are all mixed up. Then she finds a wand, a herself one. Then her Granny steps out of the powerful wizard’s wand... picture and comes to life! Flyer 5 ISBN 978-0-86278-982-4 ISBN 978-0-86278-686-1 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/64 pages 130x196 mm/64 pages Jigsaw Stew Mad Grandad's Doppelganger By Conor McHale By Oisín McGann Jack MacAnoolie tries to save his family when Grandad has lost his car and Lenny is helping they eat stew made from a jigsaw! him look for it. But Grandad is acting strange… ISBN 978-0-86278-688-5 ISBN 978-1-84717-197-9 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/64 pages 130x196 mm/64 pages

Ed's Bed By Eoin Colfer, Illustrated by Woody Fox Ed Cooper's life is never dull. He has started to wet his bed and he can't learn his time-tables. ISBN 978-0-86278-679-3 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/64 pages

13 Yellow flag books: Reading Age 6+ Mad Grandad Alfie Green Mad Grandad and the Robot By Joe O’Brien, Illus. Jean Texier Garden Alfie Green and the Magical Gift By Oisín McGann The first book in an enchanting series of ad- A Mad Grandad story: the new robot gardener ventures featuring a boy whose life every child looks like a great way to cut down on boring will want to have. work: but the robot has other plans! ISBN 978-1-84717-041-5 ISBN 978-1-84717-869-5 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/80 pages 130x196 mm/64 pages Mad Grandad and the Flying Alfie Green and a Sink Full of Saucer Frogs By Oisín McGann The second book in an enchanting new series Lenny and Mad Grandad take their new flying of adventures featuring a boy whose life every saucer for its first flight. Getting into space is child will want to have. easy: getting home alive might be harder! ISBN 978-1-84717-079-8 ISBN 978-1-84717-870-1 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/80 pages 130x196 mm/64 pages Mad Grandad and the Mutant Alfie Green and the Bee-Bottle River Gang By Oisín McGann The third book in an enchanting new series of Lenny goes fishing with his grandad, and he is adventures featuring a boy whose life every amazed when they drag up a mermaid in her child will want to have. car! But then they find there is much, much ISBN 978-1-84717-054-5 worse waiting for them in the deep and dirty €7.99/£7.50/Paperback river ... 130x196 mm/80 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-960-9 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback Alfie Green and the Fly-Trapper 130x196 mm/64 pages Alfie Green is back, this time grappling with a Mad Grandad and the Wicked giant Venus Fly-Trap which threatens to eat everything in his house. Pictures ISBN 978-1-84717-072-9 By Oisín McGann €7.99/£7.50/Paperback Grandad and Lenny are trying to paint the 130x196 mm/80 pages living-room. But Grandad's paint is very old and it's gone all strange. Everything they paint comes alive. And the pictures are evil …and Alfie Green and the Monkey very hungry! ISBN 978-1-84717-961-6 Puzzler €6.99/£6.50/Paperback The circus has come to town. But it's no 130x196 mm/64 pages ordinary circus. All the kids from Budsville are really excited, except for Alfie who suspects all Mad Grandad and the Kleptoes is not what it seems ... By Oisín McGann ISBN 978-1-84717-174-0 Things keep disappearing down the back of €7.99/£7.50/Paperback Grandad's sofa -- who, or what, has taken 130x196 mm/80 pages them? When Lenny and Grandad discover the Kleptoes and their hideout, things turn nasty. Alfie Green and the Conker King ISBN 978-1-78849-046-7 It’s time for the Budsville Primary School €6.99/£6.50/Paperback Conker Championship, and Alfie needs to find 130x196 mm/64 pages a special conker. Alfie Green Book 6 ISBN 978-1-84717-283-9 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 130x196 mm/80 pages

Yellow flag books: Reading Age 6+ 14 Alfie Green and the Supersonic Marco: Moonwalker Subway In their latest escapade, Marco Moonwalker, When the Emerald Cactus in the Desert of Patrick discovers that Marco can play the Doom explodes, Budsville is covered in spar- trombone, banjo and even dance like Michael kling green sand ... Soon the evil Desert Elves Jackson! But disaster strikes when he is spot- will arrive on their Scorpion Chariots. How can ted without his mask: how will Patrick and Mum Alfie stop them? get him out of the Zoo again? ISBN 978-1-84717-592-2 ISBN 978-1-84717-301-0 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback €7.99/£7.50/Hardback 130x196 mm/80 pages 142x210 mm/64 pages Alfie Green and the Chocolate The Lough Neagh Monster Cosmos By Sam McBratney, Illus. Donald Teskey Budsville’s chocolate fair cancelled? No way, When NESSIE arrives from Scotland to visit Alfie decides. Chocolate seeds from Arcania her monster cousin NOBLETT there is bound are the answer, but only if he can survive the to be trouble. Roaring Rainforest, the vicious Spider Plant Noblett loves his peaceful secret garden and and the Forest Ogre. has little time for his troublesome cousin from ISBN 978-1-84717-196-2 Loch Ness. €7.99/£7.50/Hardback ISBN 978-0-86278-375-4 130x177 mm/76 pages €6.99/£6.50/Paperback Alfie Green and the Snowdrop 130x196 mm/80 pages Queen The Most Beautiful Letter in the It’s Christmas Eve in Budsville and Alfie Green World wishes it would snow. Only the Snowdrop By Karl O'Neill, Illus. Emma Byrne Queen can help his wish come true. Poppy finds a mysterious red envelope in the ISBN 978-1-84717-120-7 park - where did it come from and who is it for? €7.99/£7.50/Hardback An extraordinary gift book - as seen on a park 130x177 mm/76 pages bench near you! ISBN 978-1-84717-011-8 A Rather Remarkable €9.99/£8.99/Paperback Grizzly Bear 140x196 mm/64 pages By Gerry Boland, Illus. Áine McGuinness The Leprechaun Who Wished He Marco Moves In Wasn't ‘A grizzly bear walked all the way from the zoo By Siobhán Parkinson, Illus. Donald Teskey to my front door and not a single person no- Laurence is a leprechaun who has been small ticed him. I suppose it helped that it was night, for 1100 years and is sick of it! He wants to and that he was wearing a big black duffle be TALL. He wants to be cool. Then he meet coat.’ Patrick welcomes his unexpected guest Phoebe, a large girl who wants to be small. and keeps him hidden from the neighbours, ISBN 978-0-86278-334-1 police and his very distractable mum! €5.99/£5.50/Paperback ISBN 978-1-84717-229-7 130x196 mm/80 pages €7.99/£7.50/Hardback Here, There and Everywhere 142x210 mm/64 pages Stories from Many Lands Marco: Master of Disguise By Liz Weir, Illus. Tomm Moore ‘Most of my class class had a pet of some sort. Why do skunks have an awful smell? What But no one I knew had a grizzly bear sleeping would the sky taste like? Was the snow always in their garden shed. Marco wasn't a pet, of white? course. He was my friend. My best friend.’ ISBN 978-0-86278-869-8 Can Patrick stop Marco being sent back to €5.95/£5.50/Paperback the zoo? An absurd and hilarious tale of real 130x196 mm/80 pages friendship. ISBN 978-1-84717-273-0 €7.99/£7.50/Hardback 142x210 mm/64 pages

15 Yellow flag books: Reading Age 6+ Red Flag Books: Reading Age 8+

Demon from the Deep End Diabolic Downloads By James Allison, Illus. Dani Cruz By Jim Halligan, Illus. Fabian Erlinghäuser When Liam Brodie, his sister Sophie and We all like to get something for free ... right? horror-movie fan Evan are offered a free trip But some gifts come with strings attached. to Spain they jump at the chance. They’re not ISBN 978-1-84717-065-1 expecting to star in their own real-life horror €6.99/£6.50/Paperback story… 196x130 mm/80 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-134-4 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/80 pages Juliet's Story The Milo Adventures By William Trevor, Illus. Alan Clarke William Trevor's only book for children. Juliet loves stories, but she doesn't have any of her own. ISBN 978-0-86278-823-0 €6.50/£5.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/128 pages

By Mary Arrigan Milo and One Dead Angry Druid When Shane’s gran digs up a weird ancient stone, best buddies Milo and Shane find them- selves face to face with its owner − one dead angry druid. ISBN 978-1-84717-351-5 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/112 pages

Milo and The Raging Chieftains Wolfgran Two days before the Grand Opening of the By Finbar O'Connor, Illus. Martin Fagan local restored Castle, Milo is whooshed back A sequel to Little Red Riding Hood, Wolfgran through time to sort out an ancient battle and is a wonderfully irreverent take on the world save nice Miss Lee who has been abducted of fairy tales. Disguised as a little old lady, the because she is descended from Macanbhaird, Wolf is causing mayhem as he prowls the city. the Chieftain of the Castle. ISBN 978-0-86278-730-1 ISBN 978-1-84717-561-8 €6.50/£5.99/Paperback €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/80 pages 196x130 mm/176 pages Milo and the Pirate Sisters The Poison Factory When ghostly Mr Lewis has to leave his cosy By Oisín McGann home in the castle, Milo and Shane help set When Gaz loses his football and his little him up in a local ruined mill. Little do they brother there's nothing for it but to go into the know the danger this puts him in, and the spooky chemical factory to get them back! But trouble it will cause for themselves –and this Kanker & Byle is no ordinary factory... time Mr Lewis can’t help them. ISBN 978-0-86278-941-1 ISBN 978-1-84717-562-5 €6.95/£6.50/Paperback €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/96 pages 196x130 mm/176 pages

Red flag books: Reading Age 8+ 16 Cass and the Bubble Charlie Harte and his Two- Wheeled Tiger Street Gang By Frank Murphy, Illus. Celine Kiernan By Erika McGann, Illus. Vince Reid Charlie makes a strange-looking bike from old The Clubhouse Mystery bits and pieces - not exactly cool, but full of There’s an intruder in the clubhouse! character - which changes his life! The gang find the door left open, crumbs on ISBN 978-0-86278-532-1 the table and hairs on the floor. Someone has €6.50/£5.99/Paperback been sneaking in when nobody’s home. But 196x130 mm/96 pages who? Join Cass and the Bubble Street Gang as they investigate. Adam's Starling ISBN 978-1-84717-920-3 By Gillian Perdue, Illus. Barry Reynolds € 7.99/£7.50/Paperback Winner of the Eilís Dillon Memorial Award. 196x130 mm/160 pages Adam's Starling tells the story of nine-year-old Making Millions Adam who is finding life very diffficult. At home The gang need money and quick, and they no-one has any time for him and at school have some super-genius ideas on how to bullies pick on him. make it! Like Operation Start a Company, ISBN 978-0-86278-685-4 Make Loads of Money for Nicholas’s Project €6.95/£6.50/Paperback and Probably Also Become Millionaires! 196x130 mm/160 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-921-0 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback Tommy the Theatre Cat 196x130 mm/192 pages By Maureen Potter, Illus. David Rooney Diary Detectives Tommy lives an adventurous life, full of variety While helping with a car boot sale, Cass finds and fun. He gets entangled in events both a very old diary. It talks about picking on the onstage and offstage. He even co-stars in the drama kids on the bus, and a horrible prank show! played during their end-of-year show. Who ISBN 978-0-86278-919-0 wrote the diary? Can the Bubble Street Gang €6.95/£6.50/Paperback unmask the wicked writer? 196x130 mm/80 pages Cass and the Bubble Street Gang Book 3 ISBN 978-1-78849-022-1 The Supermarket Ghost € 7.99/£7.50/Paperback By Gordon Snell 196x130 mm/192 pages Maria thinks it is going to be a dull summer Scavenger Hunt until she meets a strange boy with an unusual When an elderly woman called Carmella loses request. An exciting and unpredictable ghost her locket, Cass must put her detective skills story for younger readers that's a little scary, to the test to solve the mystery of golden but not too scary! locket. CBI Cover competition-winning cover ISBN 978-1-78849-093-1 ISBN 978-1-78849-212-6 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback €7.95/£6.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/224 pages 196x130 mm/80 pages Ice Dreams By Grace Wells, Illus. Lisa Jackson The Great Pig Escape Twins Nina and Alex Popadopolus live on the By Linda Moller beautiful island of Naxos. One day their blind Runtling the pig and his siblings narrowly grandfather senses something terrible is com- escape the terrible fate of being sold at the ing ...This delightful story reminds us that when market. While making their way across coun- people work together anything is possible! try, they learn all sorts of new things about ISBN 978-1-84717-045-3 themselves, about humans and about the €7.99/£7.50/Paperback world outside the farmyard. 196x130 mm/128 page ISBN 978-0-86278-667-0 €6.99/£6.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/144 pages

17 Red flag books: Reading Age 8+ Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ Sheila Agnew Marita Conlon-McKenna Probably Ireland’s favourite children’s author. Marooned in Manhattan Marita’s first book, Under the Hawthorn Tree, After Evie Brooks’ mother dies, she is forced to was published in 1990 and became an instant go live with her uncle Scott, a vet in New York classic. Translated into a dozen languages City: between the pets, their owners, Scott worldwide, it set the scene for an explosion and his lawyer girlfriend, the Summer quickly of Irish children’s literature in the years that becomes a whirlwind of change and activity! followed. ISBN 978-1-84717-558-8 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/224 pages Under the Hawthorn Tree The first book in the famine trilogy Central Park Showdown Under the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top With the arrival of her father from Australia, selling children's book and a classic for young Evie’s life is thrown into turmoil. Not only has readers worldwide. Set during the Irish famine, she to contend with a new woman in Scott’s it follows three children as they travel across life, but now she has to face the prospect of a the country to find their family. custody battle between her uncle and her fa- ISBN 978-0-86278-206-1 ther. Can Evie’s friends rally and convince her €9.99/£8.99/Paperback father to withdraw his application for custody? 196x130 mm/160 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-559-5 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback Wildflower Girl 196x130 mm/240 pages The second book in the famine trilogy At seven, Peggy made a terrifying journey through famine-stricken Ireland. Now thirteen, Anna Carey and determined to make a new life for herself, The Boldness of Betty she sets off alone to America … It’s summer 1913 and Betty Rafferty has had ISBN 978-0-86278-283-2 to leave school aged 14. She is lucky to gets €9.99/£8.99/Paperback a job in a sweet shop, but is bored and looks 196x130 mm/176 pages with envy at her customers who attend the Fields of Home nearby posh girls school. But life in Dublin The final book in the famine trilogy becomes anything but boring when industrial For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the unrest brings the city to a halt. famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily's first ISBN 978-1-78849-123-5 child, has the future to look forward to. What €9.99/£8.99/Paperback kind of future is it? 196x130 mm/416 pages ISBN 978-0-86278-509-3 The Making of Mollie €9.99/£8.99/Paperback Mollie Carberry’s life seems pretty dull until 196x130 mm/192 pages she discovers her older sister Phyllis is a The Blue Horse suffragette! When she and her friend Nora get Katie's whole world is turned upside down involved they must face the question of how far when her family's home is destroyed by fire. a girl should go for her beliefs. Everything they had is gone, and instead of ISBN 978-1-84717-847-3 pulling together it seems as though her family €8.99/£7.99/Paperback is falling apart. 196x130 mm/304 pages ISBN 978-0-86278-305-1 Mollie On The March €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Mollie Carberry is a suffragette! Well, sort of. 196x130 mm/176 pages Mollie and her best friend Nora have been No Goodbye bravely fighting for women’s rights – even It's hard to pretend that everything is normal though no one else really knows about it. But when your whole life has been turned upside when they hear a big protest is being planned, down … Four children come to terms with their they know they have to take part. mother's sudden departure. ISBN 978-1-78849-008-5 ISBN 978-0-86278-362-4 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/352 pages 196x130 mm/176 pages Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ 18 A Girl Called Blue The Wish List The orphanage is the only home Blue has ever Meg Finn dies after a botched attempt to rob known. She is desperate to find out who she a pensioner, Lowry: her soul is up for grabs as really is. The closed file in stern Sister Regina's the divine and demonic each want her! How office holds the secret of her identity. And that can she tip the scales in her favour to save her is forbidden territory ... soul? A tale of life, death and an unexpected ISBN 978-0-86278-887-2 hereafter. €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-0-86278-894-0 196x130 mm/224 pages €7.95/£7.50/Paperback Safe Harbour 196x130 mm/224 pages Sophie and Hugh are left homeless when their house is bombed during the London Blitz. Judi Curtin Their mother is seriously injured and their Dad is away fighting, so the children are sent to Lily at Lissadell The time has come for Lily and her friends to their grandfather in Ireland. leave school and find work; some are emigrat- ISBN 978-0-86278-422-5 ing to America, some going to work in shops. €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Lily is going into service in the Big House – 196x130 mm/176 pages Lissadell. A warm and engaging story about In Deep Dark Wood friendship, life in the early 20th century and When Bella Blackwell moves in next door, life how the political world affects everyone. takes a frightening and thrilling turn for Mia. ISBN 978-1-78849-197-6 Her brother and granny don't trust "The Bird €8.99/£7.99/Paperbac Woman", and when she disappears their fear 196x130 mm/288 pages become real. A thrilling adventure story. NEW EDITION ISBN 978-0-86278-615-1 Lily Steps Up €8.99/£7.99/Paperback A Lissadell Story 196x130 mm/208 pages Nellie is overjoyed when Lily and Maeve man- age to track down her sister, Johanna, and fix it so she comes to Lissadell. But when a valua- Eoin Colfer ble locket goes missing, Johanna is the chief Benny and Omar suspect; should Lily take the blame, so that the Moving to Tunisia is a real eye-opener for a sisters can stay together? young Wexford hurling fan. Eoin Colfer's hilari- ISBN 978-1-78849-255-3 ous debut novel. €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-78849-082-5 196x130 mm/320 pages €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/240 pages Alice and Megan series All titles €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ‘Hilarious -- there is hardly a page which will 196x130 mm not have a reader laughing aloud’ The Irish Times Alice Next Door Best friends NEED to be together. Don't they? Megan's best friend Alice has moved away Benny and Babe -- but the two friends hatch a risky plot to get Benny suffers a severe blow to his pride when back together. he meets Babe. He may be a wise guy, but ISBN 978-1-84717-669-1//208 pages she is at least three steps ahead of him, and they are on her territory. ISBN 978-0-86278-603-8 €7.95/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/240 pages Alice Again ‘there is a sequence ... of about twenty pages Alice and Megan are back! [that] is one of the most sustained pieces of While enjoying spring mid-term together they comic writing that I have come across in an plot to get rid of Alice's Mum's new boyfriend. adult or children’s book. It’s brilliant.’ More fun with Alice and Megan! Robert Dunbar - Today with Pat Kenny ISBN 978-1-84717-670-7/240 pages

19 Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ The Eva series All titles €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm Eva's Journey Eva is the girl with everything. Her parents throw her lavish parties in their luxury home, and her friends admire her designer clothes and manicured nails. But Eva’s world is turned Don't Ask Alice upside down when her father loses his job. Alice and Megan are back, and that can only mean one thing: ISBN 978-1-84717-224-2/272 pages trouble! Alice decides to try and get her parents back together, but things don't go according to plan... ISBN 978-1-84717-672-1/256 pages Eva's Holiday Alice in the Middle Eva Gordon likes fashion, fun and hanging out Megan can’t wait to go away to Summer Camp with her best friend with friends, so she can't believe she is stuck Alice. But when Alice makes friends with Hazel, Megan begins to all summer with Kate, who doesn't care about feel left out. ISBN 978-1-84717-673-8/256 pages being cool. But when the girls have to pull together to solve a problem, Eva finds out that Bonjour Alice there's more to life than having the right hair or Megan’s really looking forward to the summer holidays – her whole clothes and sometimes 'weird' girls can make family is going to France, and best of all Alice is coming! the best friends. ISBN 978-1-84717-689-9/256 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-280-8/272 pages Leave it to Eva Fun, feisty Eva Gordon always tries to help her friends, but this time she might have a problem that’s too big even for her … ISBN 978-1-84717-347-8/256 pages

Alice & Megan Forever Megan and Alice are starting secondary school; with new subjects, Eva and the Hidden Diary new teachers and new friends, it’s going to take a bit of getting When Eva and Kate find an old diary, they end used to. up determined to right old wrongs! But they ISBN 978-1-84717-690-5/288 pages can’t spend all their time living in the past as the present, too, is throwing all sorts of chal- Alice to the Rescue, lenges at them … Everyone in first year is really excited about the big prize in the But when the girls get together they can handle English essay competition - but it causes huge problems for Alice anything! and Megan's friendship. ISBN 978-1-84717-588-5/240 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-691-2/272 pages Viva Alice!, Only Eva Alice and Megan go to Lanzarote with Grace, for some fun in the Eva Gordon doesn't like mysteries – so when sun. But life's never simple when Alice is around, and now she new girl Aretta hurries away after school every wants to fix Grace’s brother’s love life! day Eva's determined to find out why. And ISBN 978-1-84717-665-3/240 pages Aretta's not the only person Eva's interested in – her friend's granny has been parted from her Alice & Megan's Cookbook beloved dog, so Eva decides to cheer her up. A fun-filled cookbook, packed with brilliant But can she? recipes: Brilliant Breakfasts . Lucky Lunchbox- ISBN 978-1-84717-666-0/272 pages es . Super Snacks . Marvellous Main Courses . Delicious Desserts . Cakes & Cookies. ISBN 978-1-84717-215-0 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 142x210 mm/160 pages Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ 20 Molly and Beth series John Farrelly All titles €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm Deadly Irish History - The Celts The Celts arrived in Ireland around 700BCE Time After Time and dominated the bronze and iron ages. Even Molly and Beth are best friends but they aren't after Christianity, Irish Celts retained many too happy when their families move in togeth- of their unique culture. Accessible, anarchic er. But when the two are accidently transported and crammed to the rafters with cartoons and back to the past, they have a chance to see wacky illustrations, this book is as deadly as the world through their parents’ eyes ... Irish history gets! ISBN 978-1-84717-929-6/288 pages ISBN 978-1-78849-130-3 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/144 pages

INSIDE A ROUNDHOUSE oundhouses lasted about 10 years and were home Stand By Me Rto about 12-14 people. Smaller animals were taken into the house at night for warmth and protection. Geese acted as guard dogs. They had great eyesight, were very What if something happened long ago that still noisy and territorial and couldn’t be bribed Meat and fish hanging in smoke with meat like dogs could. makes you sad? Graham is Molly and Beth’s for preservation Thatch of river DEADLY MEDLEY! reed and hazel Can you find these things? favourite uncle, so they really want to help Two woven willow o Goat and sheepskins wattle walls with (hint: on floor) straw filling and the outside covered in o Cauldrons him fix the past – and since the girls know of daub (mix of mud, o Fidchell board game straw and dung) o Leather tanning frame a mysterious door that can take them back in o Child minding the fire o Slave gathering dung for time, maybe they can! manure and daub No smoke hole. o Goose guard Smoke went out ‘dog’ through thatch Irish Book Awards Winner: Irish Children’s o Animal pens o Oven o Quern (hint: two Book of the Year (Senior) stones that were used for grinding ISBN 978-1-78849-009-2/256 pages corn) o Butter churn You’ve Got A Friend Answers on pages 142–3 34 35 Families are so complicated! Molly’s dad seems so lonely. He lives on his own, he won’t Deadly Irish History - The Vikings get a pet, he doesn’t get on with his brother … Nobody was more DEADLY than the Vikings Best friends Molly and Beth suspect his prob- who attacked Ireland in the 8th century: DEAD- lems lie in his past, but what can two thirteen- LY! Viking warriors! DEADLY Viking ships! year-olds do about that? DEADLY Viking weapons! ISBN 978-1-78849-094-8/240 pages But were they really just marauding, murder- ing maniacs? Learn while you laugh with this See If I Care irreverent and entertaining history book. By Judi Curtin and Roisin Meaney ISBN 978-1-78849-103-7 Life is not going well for reluctant penpals Luke €8.99/£7.99/Paperback and Elma, so they invent new, more glamorous 196x130 mm/144 pages lives for themselves in their correspondance, little realising how similar their true lives actu- Aubrey Flegg ally are... ISBN 978-1-84717-021-7 Katie’s War €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Caught in the Irish Civil War, Katie has divided 196x130 mm/192 pages loyalties: her shell-shocked father fought in the First World War and wants peace, but others Bernard Dunne still want to fight for a united Ireland. Champion of the World ISBN 978-0-86278-525-3 € By Bernard Dunne 5.99/£4.99/eBook In this inspirational book, he describes life as a 192 pages boy in Neilstown, the ups and downs of his life and career, and the powerful life lessons and Fugitives! skills that sport can teach a child. A Story of the Flight of the Earls ISBN 978-1-84717-977-7 When young Con disappears, the others must €9.99/£8.99/Paperback find him – and quickly. His father Hugh O’Neill, 196x130 mm/160 pages the great Ulster chieftain, is about to depart Ireland, forever… ISBN 978-1-84717-202-0 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/256 pages 21 Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ Brian Gallagher Stormclouds New Friends. Old Differences. NEW Winds of Change Twins Dylan and Emma Goldman move from Three Children Caught Up In Ireland’s Washington to Belfast when their journalist Land War father is sent to cover the turbulent early days In 1880’s Ireland, with the Land War raging of the civil rights movement. The complicated and evictions and boycotting overturning friendships prove life-threatening when the everyday life, three children from very different simmering tensions in Northern Ireland erupt. background form a secret – and dangerous – ISBN 978-1-84717-579-3 alliance. €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-78849-195-2 196x130 mm/224 pages €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/272 pages Friend or Foe 1916: Which side are you on? Arrivals When Emer Daly saves Jack Madigan from How long can a secret be kept? drowning it seems that the two children will be In 1920s Canada, a summer of fun for three friends for life. Eight months later, however, friends is destroyed by a frightening crime. they are on opposite sides in a life and death Almost a century later, teenager Ciara Farrelly struggle, when Dublin city is torn apart in the visits her dead grandfather’s Ontario home and Easter Rising. What will come first – friendship, tries to solve the mystery surrounding it. family or loyalty to a cause? ISBN 978-1-84717-720-9 ISBN 978-1-84717-631-8 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/240 pages 196x130 mm/240 pages Across the Divide Pawns When Liam, a poor eleven-year-old boy, and Ireland's War of Independence Nora, a rich ten-year-old girl meet at a Feis During the War of Independence, friends Ceol, an unlikely bond is formed - a bond that Johnny, Stella and Alice grapple with conflict- leads to a friendship spanning the deeply ing loyalties – then matters come dramatically divided city that was Dublin in 1913. to a head on the night the Black and Tans set ISBN 978-1-84717-172-6 Balbriggan ablaze during a murderous night of €8.99/£7.99/Paperback vengeance. 196x130 mm/240 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-893-0 Taking Sides €8.99/£7.99/Paperback A Boy. A Girl. A Nation Torn Apart. 196x130 mm/256 pages Dublin, 1922. Working class Annie Reilly wins Spies a scholarship to Eccles Street School. She Ireland’s War of Independence. United meets Peter Scanlon, who sides with the re- friends ... divided loyalties bels in the Civil War and carries messages for As the War of Independence grows more le- them. When Annie’s life is threatened, he has thal, the three friends must decide where their to decide where his loyalties lie. loyalties lie. Then a secret from Johnny’s past ISBN 978-1-84717-279-2 changes everything… €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-84717-980-7 196x130 mm/224 pages €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Secrets and Shadows 196x130 mm/256 pages Two friends in a world at war Resistance When her home is destroyed in the 1941 In a Nazi-Occupied Ireland, Where Luftwaffe bombing, Grace Ryan moves in with Would You Stand? relatives. There she meets Barry Malone, a In Nazi-occupied Ireland, Roisin Tierney hides boy from Liverpool: he suspects their teacher her Jewish heritage. But when the chance aris- Mr Pawlek of spying for the Nazis. What starts es to resist the Nazis, Roisin and her friends as an adventure puts their very lives in danger. face hard choices - that could cost their lives. ISBN 978-1-84717-350-8 ISBN 978-1-78849-080-1 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/224 pages 196x130 mm/272 pages

Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ 22 The Old Country SOS Lusitania By Mordicai Gerstein By Kevin Kiely 'Never look too long into the eyes of a fox''So In May 1915 the Lusitania sails from New York. this is what it's like to have fingers,' the girl It is rumoured to have spies on board. Thir- laughed, and pointed the bow at Gisella. 'How teen-year-old stowaway Finbar Kennedy finds does the world look from the other side of the works as a deck-hand. Then a torpedo from a crossbow?' german submarine hits ... ISBN 978-0-86278-980-0 ISBN 978-1-84717-230-3 €7.95/£7.50/Paperback €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/144 pages 196x130 mm/208 pages Matt Griffin Red Hugh The Kidnap of Hugh O'Donnell A Cage of Roots By Deborah Lisson Magic exists beneath our feet, if we only know In 1857 the old Irish clans struggled desper- where to look … ately to hold on to their lands against Queen Growing up in a New York orphanage, Ayla Elizabeth, who also had the Spanish Armada has no idea she has Irish roots. It is not until to worry about. Could this be Hugh O'Donnell's she comes to Ireland that she finds out just opportunity to escape from Dublin Castle? how deep her roots really are... ISBN 978-0-86278-604-5 ISBN 978-1-84717-681-3 €7.95/£7.50/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/224 pages 196x130 mm/240 pages Storm Weaver Morgan Llywelyn Book Two. Descending into the ancient world of Fal, Ayla discovers she can conjure storms The Young Rebels ... A stirring story set against the background of ISBN 978-1-84717-783-4 the 1916 Rising. John Joe is a pupil in Padraig €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Pearse's school, and gets caught up in the 196x130 mm/256 pages dramatic events of the Rebellion. Compelling and evocative. ISBN 978-0-86278-579-6 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback The Spiral Path 196x130 mm/224 pages The conclusion of the Ayla trilogy. The battle was won but the enemy has escaped and Star Dancer Ayla, Sean, Finny and Benvy know their home From the land of the racehorse, an internation- of Kilnabracka is in serious danger. The town al bestselling author writes a horse story for looks untouched, but the friends are being children. An adventure story about growing up, drawn into a trap. Can they? save themselves filled with thrills and excitement, and a tingle of and the townsfolk. danger. ISBN 978-1-84717-886-2 ISBN 978-0-86278-331-0 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/208 pages 196x130 mm/160 pages

Kicking On Brian Boru By Dave Hannigan Emperor of the Irish Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry An enthralling account of the life of Brian Boru, Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy train- who grew to become High King of Ireland ing for the start of a new season when Shaun before dying in the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. Reedy, ex-American footballer, gets involved ISBN 978-0-86278-230-6 and falls in love with GAA. Then something €8.99/£7.99/Paperback happens that changes all their lives... 196x130 mm/160 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-189-4 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/240 pages

23 Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ Strongbow Liam Mac Uistin The Story of Richard and Aoife The dramatic story of the Norman conquest The Táin of Ireland in the 12th century. Full of battles, Ireland's Epic Adventure warfare and love between an unlikely pair - an The most famous Irish legend of all. Cuchu- Irish princess and a Norman warrior. lainn singlehandedly defends Ulster against ISBN 978-0-86278-274-0 the army of Queen Maeve. War, love, greed, €8.99/£7.99/Paperback fate: all the stuff of which epics are made. 196x130 mm/160 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-288-4 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/112 pages Granuaile: Pirate Queen A story of immense bravery and daring, as Granuaile takes on the great Norman lords, Eithne Massey smuggles weapons and mercenaries for the Michael Collins O'Donnell and O'Neill clans and finally goes to Hero and Rebel confront Elizabeth Tudor herself. Hero and leader. Loyal friend and formidable ISBN 978-0-86278-974-9 enemy. A man with a mission and a legend in €8.99/£7.99/Paperback his lifetime. This is the story of Michael Collins. 196x130 mm/160 pages ISBN 978-1-78849-210-2 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Cave of Secrets 196x130 mm/192 pages Pirates and crooked rulers make seven- Tomi teenth-century Ireland a dangerous place. Tomi Reichental’s Holocaust Story Tom’s whole world is under pressure. Then ‘At the age of six I began to fear for the future. he starts mixing with smugglers and learns all … By the age of nine I was on the run for my about boats, smuggling – and secret treasure. life. … By the time I was ten I had seen all ISBN 978-1-84717-207-5 there was to see.’ The incredible true story €8.99/£7.99/Paperback of how a small boy survived Bergen-Belsen 196x130 mm/272 pages concentration camp. An accessible and honest account of the Holocaust that provides lessons Natasha Mac a’Bháird that are relevant today. Hannah in the Spotlight ISBN 978-1-84717-975-3 €9.99/£8.99/Paperback The summer holidays are here, and Hannah is 196x130 mm/176 pages wishing she could have gone to drama camp. Then she meets Meg, who has just moved in The Silver Stag of Bunratty next door, and together with her friends Ruby In an Ireland full of danger, four children are and Laura they decide to form Star Club – a determined to prevent Richard De Clare, Lord drama club of their own. of Bunratty, from killing the magical Silver Stag ISBN 978-1-84717-845-9 to display his head on the castle walls. Adven- €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ture, conflict and thrills awaits them. 196x130 mm/192 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-206-8 Starring Meg €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/240 pages Summer may be over but the Star Club is definitely not and now it's time to plan their Where the Stones Sing next show! Meg has to get used to a new town As the spectre of the Black Death hovers over and new school. Luckily her Star Club friends medieval Dublin in the fourteenth century, are there to support her. But will other people Kai is plucked from the filthy streets to sing in accept Meg for who she really is? the great Christ Church choir. But Kai has a ISBN 978-1-84717-846-6 secret that must be kept hidden - even from €8.99/£7.99/Paperback new friends Tom and Jack. Kai will need great 196x130 mm/208 pages strength, talent and help from unexpected quarters just to survive. ISBN 978-1-84717-277-8 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/208 pages

Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ 24 Blood Brother, Swan Sister Oisín McGann 1014 Clontarf; A Battle Begins A thrilling tale of magic and warfare in ancient Race the Atlantic Wind Ireland. Three children's lives are drawn The Flight of Alcock and Brown together amidst the intrigue and magic of an By Oisín McGann epic battle. As the First World War comes to an end, ISBN 978-1-84717-567-0 teams of pilots and navigators gather in New- €8.99/£7.99/Paperback foundland. The challenge: to be the first to fly 196x130 mm/208 pages non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. ISBN 978-1-78849-101-3 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Tom McCaughren 196x130 mm/272 pages Run with the Wind The Gods and their Machines ‘Don’t forget’, said the old fox, ‘if danger threat- Two worlds. Two different lives. Divided ens, run with the wind …’ by hate and violence. Thrown together by Hunted, trapped and harried, the foxes of Sin- chance. na search for ‘the secret of survival’ under the ISBN 978-0-86278-833-9 leadership of the elderly and blind Sage Brush. €7.95/£7.50/Paperback ISBN 978-1-84717-837-4 196x130 mm/240 pages €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/208 pages Run for the Hills The Harvest Tide Project All the foxes who lived in Glensinna knew Taya and Lorkrin must try to find a way to about Sionnach, the Great White Fox. But they sabotage the Harvest Tide Project and avert had never seen him. ... the disaster it will unleash. ISBN 978-1-84717-876-3 ISBN 978-0-86278-834-6 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €7.95/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/256 pages 196x130 mm/320 pages

Donn McClean Under Fragile Stone Volume II of The Archisan Tales. Taya and All to Play For Lorkrin's parents are trapped when a mine Thirteen year old Anna is struggling to cope tunnel collapses in a haunted mountain. Can with the recent loss of her father, when she they rescue them before it is too late? discovers a forgotten gift from him - a pair of ISBN 978-0-86278-835-3 bright orange football socks. With the help €7.95/£7.50/Paperback of these brightly coloured good-luck charms, 196x130 mm/384 pages Anna slowly begins to gain confidence both on and off the pitch. ISBN 978-1-78849-183-9 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/240 pages Chill Factor By Vincent McDonnell An American billionaire is forcing a team of scientists to work on a genetic project that could have horrendous consequences for mankind. Can Sean rescue his father and thwart the evil plan? ISBN 978-0-86278-888-9 €7.95/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/224 pages

25 Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ Erika McGann Jan Michael The Demon Notebook The Rock Boy Grace and her four best friends, Jenny, Ra- When Josephine finds an injured boy in the chel, Adie and Una, are failed witches. But one water at the mouth of a small cove in St Thom- night, they stumble upon real magical powers as Bay, Malta, some instinct warns her not to – and their notebook takes on a diabolical life tell her family. Perhaps he is a smuggler, or a of its own. Can Grace and her friends stem refugee ... the wave of powerful magic … before tragedy ISBN 978-0-86278-721-9 strikes?. €7.99/£7.50/Paperback ISBN 978-1-84717-295-2 196x130 mm/192 pages €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Just Joshua 196x130 mm/208 pages Until the whispers began, Joshua was like The Broken Spell all the other village boys, helping out at the Trainee witch Grace and her four best friends market, making a little money from the tourists, love to have fun with spells. But the daring getting up to mischief. But is it true that he and friends make a magical mistake that drags the his family are different? A heart-warming story past into the present. Suddenly Grace has to of one boy’s search for identity. work out who she can really trust ... ISBN 978-0-86278-818-6 ISBN 978-1-84717-296-9 €6.95/£6.50/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 127x196 mm/192 pages 196x130 mm/256 pages The Watching Wood Frank Murphy When Grace and her five best friends are Lockie and Dadge forced to take part in the Witch Trials, they risk Lockie is a bit of a misfit. Orphaned, he is life and limb to compete against other trainee placed in foster home after foster home, but witches in magical, death-defying stunts. But somehow he never settles in. He runs away when they are discovered to be mere humans, and meets up with some eccentric characters, this supernatural world turns against them, like himself, an outsider. For the first time, and the real nightmare begins. Lockie belongs to a real family ISBN 978-1-84717-682-0 ISBN 978-0-86278-424-9 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €6.95/£6.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/272 pages 196x130 mm/192 pages The Midnight Carnival Step right up, don't be shy Ann Murtagh Book four in the magical series. Under cover NEW of darkness a carnival arrives on the green The Kidds of Summerhill in the centre of Dunbridge. It doesn't take By Ann Murtagh long for Grace and her friends to discover it is When Ma dies, Nancy is determined to keep cursed... her family together in their Dublin tenement ISBN 978-1-84717-740-7 and not in the industrial schools where the €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Cruelty Men believe they should be. Will she 196x130 mm/320 pages succeed? ISBN 978-1-78849-231-7 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Roisin Meaney 196x130 mm/288 pages Don't Even Think About It The Sound of Freedom Anyone who opens my journal will die a slow Will Colm stay in Ireland and join the Volun- and horrible death teers or will he fulfil his dream of working as a Liz doesn't want her dad or big-bum Marjorie musician in America? A long-held family secret to know everything she's thinking, so she tells comes to light, rocks Colm’s world and shows her journal instead. him the way to go. ISBN 978-0-86278-984-8 ISBN 978-1-78849-125-9 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/192 pages 196x130 mm/240 pages

Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ 26 Elisabeth Navratil Fintan’s Fifteen Ireland’s Worst Hurling Team Wants Survivors You! A True-Life Titanic Storyi Ray is tired of losing every match he plays Based on the true story of the author's with his team, the Ballybreen Terriers. He father and uncle, who survived the Titanic persuades Fintan Heffernan, ex-star player disaster as children, but could not be of U10’s, to leave his early retirement and identified because they had been travelling lead them to the victory they deserve. under false names. ISBN 978-1-84717-253-2 ISBN 978-1-78849-057-3 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x125 mm/128 pages 196x130 mm/224 pages Sam Hannigan's Woof Week Animal lover and champion Irish dancer Alan Nolan Samantha Hannigan is having a truly woof Six Million Ways to Die week. She and her best friend Ajay were Rex 'Thunderclap' Aldrin, bionically rebuilt messing around with the Brain Swap 3000, after a failed motorcycle stunt, solves an one of her grandad’s crackpot inventions, intriguing time-travel mystery. and now Sam is stuck inside the body of A graphic novel detective story unlike any her neighbours’ dog – how can they can other ... except for the rest of the Murder change her back? Can Be Fatal series! ISBN 978-1-84717-919-7 ISBN 978-1-84717-255-6 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 196x130 mm/160 pages 150x230 mm/80 pages Sam Hannigan & the Last Dodo And The Blood Flowed Green When a mysterious package arrives on the Marion Mulligan is a down-at-hell pri- doorstep of Hannigan’s Haven on a stormy vate investigator abducted by aliens and night, Sam and the gang are astonished to abandoned on a distant planet with only a discover that it contains a living, breathing robotic Remote Universal Translator Unit (and long believed extinct) Dodo bird! (RUNT) for company. But he needs to call ISBN 978-1-78849-086-3 on all of his skills when a murderer strikes. €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-84717-257-0 128x196 mm/160 pages €7.99/£7.50/Paperback 150x230 mm/80 pages Joe O’Brien Destination: Homicide! Little Croker Loose cannon New York Homicide detec- Danny Wilde wants one thing more than tives Ricky Nixon and Eddie Ribbs, with the anything else in the world and that’s to get help of their snitch, funky Snugg Fitt, thwart his GAA team, Littlestown Crokes, to the kingpin Mister Fogg's plans to take over top of the League. the New York mafia. Hilarious, gag-filled But when things go horribly wrong, can graphic novel for young readers. they make it after all? ISBN 978-1-84717-256-3 ISBN 978-1-84717-046-0 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 150x230 mm/80 pages 196x130 mm/192 pages Conor’s Caveman Feile Fever The Amazing Adventures of Ogg Danny Wilde and his teammates are Conor and Charlie accidentally uncover a finding the Under-14s Division tough going. prehistoric man who was flash-frozen in a Could Todd, the new Australian kid, help block of ice, and life suddenly gets a bit too them become winners? interesting!. ISBN 978-1-84717-173-3 ISBN 978-1-84717-732-2 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/208 pages 196x128 mm/144 pages

27 Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ Tiger Boots Sisters ... No Way! The Crokes are playing great football this Cindy, a with-it and cynical young teen, still season, but Danny's life is complicated! traumatised by her mother's recent death, Between training, school and a fundraising is appalled when her father falls in love football marathon, it will be a season to with one of her teachers, a woman with two remember! teenage daughters of her own ... ISBN 978-1-78849-012-2 ISBN 978-0-86278-495-9 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/208 pages 196x130 mm/224 pages Legends' Lair Amelia Charlie Stubbs has one passion in life It is 1914 and Amelia Pim will soon be thir- – playing football. Everything seems to teen. Amid rumours of war and rebellion, be going really well for him until tragedy Dublin holds its breath for major, dramatic strikes and turns his world upside down. events. But all that matters to Amelia is ISBN 978-1-84717-826-8 what she will wear to her birthday party ... €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-0-86278-352-5 196x130 mm/192 pages €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/208 pages Beyond the Cherry Tree No Peace for Amelia Josh Bloom’s school field trip to Cherry It's 1916 but Amelia Pim's thoughts are on Tree Manor is unusual – there's something Frederick Goodbody and not on the war spooky about the manor, but none of the in Europe. Then Frederick enlists. The other kids feel it. A quest full of danger, pacifist Quaker community is shocked but discovery and magic awaits. Amelia is secretly proud of her hero … ISBN 978-1-84717-212-9 ISBN 978-0-86278-378-5 €7.99/£7.50/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/224 pages 196x130 mm/224 pages Pádraig O Siocfhradha Nicola Pierce Jimeen: An Irish Comic Classic Chasing Ghosts Jimeen is Ireland's favourite rogue, a An Arctic Adventure classic character loved by generations of Francis Crozier, second-in-command to Sir children. He is always in trouble - he simply John Franklin, is arctic-bound with HMS cannot resist it. But it is never his fault! Erebus and Terror, in search of the fabled ISBN 978-0-86278-680-9 North-West Passage. In Derry, Ann and €6.95/£6.50/Paperback brother William are convinced that the 196x130 mm/128 pages spirit of their dead sister Weesy is haunting them. An enthralling novel based on real Siobhán Parkinson events. ISBN 978-1-78849-017-7 Kate €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Set in the competitive world of Irish danc- 196x130 mm/320 pages ing, Siobhán Parkinson's latest book will delight girls from aged 10 upwards. Spirit of the Titanic ISBN 978-0-86278-993-0 The ghost of fifteen-year-old Samuel Scott €8.99/£7.99/Paperback moves restlessly aboard the Titanic as she 196x130 mm/160 pages sails to her doom in 1912. An eyewitness to the final days in the lives of rich and poor, crew and passengers, this is Samu- The Moon King el’s story … A young boy creates his own world to try to ISBN 978-1-84717-190-0 cope with his traumatic past. €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-0-86278-573-4 196x130 mm/240 pages €8.99/£6.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/176 pages

Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ 28 Behind the Walls Rugby Rebel Derry. 1689. The city’s inhabitants resist all at- Discovering History - Uncovering tempts by the King James’s men to storm their Mystery gates. Outside, the soldiers reckon the only Eoin is now training with the Junior Cup team, effective weapon they have left is to starve but there are ghostly goings-on in Castlerock them out... school – what’s the link between Eoin’s history ISBN 978-1-84717-646-2 lessons and the new spirit he’s spotted wear- €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ing a Belvedere rugby jersey? Historical and 196x130 mm/368 pages modern mysteries combine in this intriguing tale of rugby, rebellion and ghosts. Kings of the Boyne ISBN 978-1-84717-677-6/176 pages Two kings, three young soldiers, one battle to Rugby Flyer end all battles. Haunting history, thrilling tries As King James and King William prepare to Eoin and his new friends are taken on a trip to meet at the Boyne in battle, three young men Twickenham to play & watch rugby. There, he face the horrors of war. meets a ghost: Prince Obolensky, a Russian ISBN 978-1-84717-627-1 who played rugby for England, scored a world €8.99/£7.99/Paperback famous try against New Zealand in Twick- 196x130 mm/336 pages enham and later joined the RAF and died in City of Fate WW2. Sunday 23 August 1942 is an important day for ISBN 978-1-84717-819-0/176 pages Yuri. It is his fourteenth birthday and also the Rugby Runner day that the Nazis began their carpet-bombing Ancient Roots, Modern Boots campaign of Stalingrad, which continued every Eoin Madden is captain of the Junior Cup day for the next two weeks. Facing overwhelm- team, training with Leinster and aiming for ing odds, it will take all his determination and Ireland’s Under 16 World Cup team. He also wits to survive. has to deal with grumpy friends, teachers piling ISBN 978-1-84717-337-9 on the homework – AND a ghost on a mission €8.99/£7.99/Paperback that goes back to the very origins of the game 196x130 mm/272 pages of rugby. ISBN 978-1-84717-913-5/208 pages Gerard Siggins Rugby Heroes Rugby Spirit series Ghostly Ground, Deadly Danger All titles €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Take a dive into history – with some help from 196x130 mm rugby legends of the past! Eoin Madden is Castlerock College’s star play- Rugby Spirit er and he’s been called up for Ireland in the A new school, a new sport, an old Under 16 Four Nations! When his oldest and mystery... best ghostly friend calls for help, can Eoin and Eoin has just started a new school … and a his band of heroes their deadliest mystery yet? new sport. Everyone there is mad about rugby, ISBN 978-1-84717-997-5/208 pages but Eoin hasn’t even held a rugby ball before! And why does everybody seem to know more Gaelic Spirit about his own grandad than he does? Field of Dreams ... Home of History ISBN 978-1-84717-333-1/192 pages With no rugby over the summer, sports-mad Eoin Madden and his friends head to Ormond- Rugby Warrior stown GAA club to get involved in hurling and Back in school. Back in sport. Back in football. Some local bullies spoil things a bit time. -- but when the ghosts of Brian Hanrahan Eoin Madden is now captain of the Under 14s and Michael Hogan appear, it’s clear there is team and has to deal with friction between his something more sinister brewing. friend Rory and new boy Dylan as they battle ‘a brilliant story for the sports-mad young for a place as scrum-half. Fast-paced action, ones in our lives as we set off on another mysterious spirits and feuding friends – it’s a Eoin Madden Adventure … Sports and history season to remember! are woven together in what is, simply a great ISBN 978-1-84717-591-5/176 pages adventure’ Fallen Star Stories ISBN 978-1-78849-185-3/192 pages 29 Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ Sports Academy series Great Irish Sports Stars All titles €8.99/£7.99/Paperback All titles €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm 196x130 mm Football Fiesta Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper Sports Academy Book 1 By Donny Mahoney By Gerard Siggins Follow Colm from his days as a tiny, freck- Five kids with one dream: to become the great- le-faced kid – the youngest of seven in a est sports stars in the world! GAA-mad family from Killarney – all the way Joe knows he has no chance of catching the to Croke Park, where he won five All-Ireland mysterious scout’s eye – he loves football, but titles. They all said was too small and weak he’s by far the worst player in his club. Despite to play for Kerry, but he became one of the this, he’s whisked away to a remote island and greatest Gaelic footballers ever. teamed up with four other kids: Kim, Craig, Ajit ISBN 978-1-78849-085-6/176 pages and Jess. Cora Staunton ISBN 978-1-78849-095-5/256 pages By Eimear Ryan Rugby Redzone Cora Staunton is an elite sportswoman: a Sports Academy Book 2 trailblazer in the Australian Football League, By Gerard Siggins and a hero in her native Mayo for her gaelic Five kids with one dream: to become the great- football skills. But it’s been a long and eventful est sports stars in the world! road for Cora. Discover how a girl playing with Read all about Kim and her friends at Sports under-12 boys became a living legend. Academy where, with the help of eccentric, ISBN 978-1-78849-105-1/192 pages genius coaches, they are transformed into serious players in their own sports. Sonia O’Sullivan ISBN 978-1-78849-141-9/272 pages By Natasha Mac a’Bháird Follow Sonia O’Sullivan through the highs and Megan Wynne lows of a running career that took her all the way to the Olympic Games. The story of one of The House on Hawthorn Road Ireland’s greatest ever athletes. Two children, from different centuries – Rob- ISBN 978-1-78849-207-2/192 pages bie, a trouble maker from the 1950’s and Beth from modern day – time travel through the walls of a magical house in Dublin. ISBN 978-1-78849-090-0 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/304 pages

Blue flag books: Reading Age 10+ 30 Green Flag Books: Reading Age 12+ Anna Carey The Real Rebecca Rebecca Rocks Rebecca’s mum Rosie writes books for adults, Holidays mean no school for THREE months! but when she writes a novel for teens, every- Rebecca’s band Hey Dollface are going to a one thinks it’s based on her daughter! summer camp to become total rock stars. But Rebecca is horrified and vows to prove that there’s another band, the Crack Parrots, and she is different. But how will she show the they’re going to be trouble. As for romance, world the real Rebecca? Cass’s love life is complicated, while Rebec- Irish Book Awards Winner: Irish Children’s ca’s doesn’t really exist at all … Book of the Year (Senior) ISBN 978-1-84717-564-9 ISBN 978-1-84717-132-0 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/256 pages 196x130 mm/256 pages Rebecca is Always Righty Rebecca’s Rules Rebecca isn’t looking forward to school after Rebecca’s back and life is not quite working a summer full of music and excitement. Throw out. Her boyfriend has moved to Canada. in a dad who is trying to take over his amateur She has annoyed my best friends Cass and musical, a mum who keeps reminding her that Alice by moping. Things have got to change. it’s a big exam year, and an English teacher So she’s made some new rules. The most who has decided to become a novelist, and it’s important one is: find something exciting to do. another eventful term for Rebecca. Something fun. Something new. Something ISBN 978-1-84717-565-6 like joining the school musical … €8.99/£7.99/Paperback ISBN 978-1-84717-344-7 196x130 mm/304 pages €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/288 pages See page 18 for Anna’s books for younger readers, including her new book The Boldness of Betty.

Helen Corcoran ‘Elegant and clever … a treasure chest of a fantasy debut, as rich in well-drawn characters as it is in treachery, secrets and desire … I couldn’t stop reading.’ Samantha Shannon, Bestselling author of The Bone Sea- son series

a fabulous fantasy novel full of political intrigue & a tender love story Dubray Books

Queen of Coin and Whispers Beautifully written… such fabulous details A kingdom of secrets and a game of lies Elaina Ryan, CEO of Children’s Books Ireland on Ireland AM, Virgin Faced with dangerous plots and hidden ene- mies, can Lia and Xania learn to rely on each ‘a skilfully-done romance, and Corcoran takes advantage another, as they discover that all is not fair in of the fantasy setting to present a world where same-sex love and treason? relationships carry no taboos. This is a book for everyone ISBN 978-1-78849-118-1 (the complexity will satisfy adult readers, too) but I think it €12.99/£11.99/Paperback will find a particular place in the hearts of young LGBTQ 196x130 mm/464 pages readers for being a love story that involves obstacles other than coming-out, and ends (spoilers!) hopefully ever after’ Irish Times 31 Green flag books: Reading Age 12+ Aubrey Flegg Kim Hood Wings over Delft Finding A Voice When her father commissions a famous artist Friendship is a Two-Way Street ... to paint her portrait, Louise Eeden reluctantly Jo can’t tell anyone how hard it is living with agrees. In the studio Louise unexpectedly finds her mentally ill mother. Chris literally has no freedom to be herself. But someone has been way to speak at all. Together, can they finally watching her every move... find their voices? ISBN 978-0-86278-886-5 ISBN 978-1-84717-543-4 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/208 pages 196x130 mm/240 pages The Rainbow Bridge Book 2: The Louise Trilogy Plain Jane In another time and another country, the por- When does being stuck become ... trait of Louise Eeden continues to influence the unstuck? lives of all it touches. At nearly 16, Jane has lived in the shadow of ISBN 978-0-86278-917-6 her little sister Emma’s cancer diagnosis for €8.99/£7.99/Paperback over three years. Nobody really cares that her 196x130 mm/272 pages life is stuck in neutral; she is finding it difficult to care herself ... In the Claws of the Eagle ISBN 978-1-84717-784-1 Book 3: The Louise Trilogy €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Louise's portrait becomes part of a Nazi 196x128 mm/304 pages horde, while its previous owner, Izaac, is interned in Auschwitz. Can Louise reach out Celine Kiernan to save him? The gripping conclusion to this The Poison Thronen multiple-award-winning trilogy. A Friend. A Father. A Kingdom. Which one ISBN 978-0-86278-827-8 would you sacrifice? €8.99/£7.99/Paperback A gothic tale of intrigue, adventure and ro- 196x135 mm/288 pages mance which draws the reader in from the very The Cinnamon Tree first sentence and doesn't loosen its grip until A Novel Set in Africa the last. By Aubrey Flegg Winner: Reading Association of Ireland Award Yola's leg is blown off by a landmine and her ISBN 978-1-84717-110-8 life in Africa is changed forever. She travels to €12.99/£10.99/Paperback Ireland for an artificial limb, and her adventures 196x135 mm/480 pages continue. The Crowded Shadows ISBN 978-0-86278-657-1 Wynter Moorehawke travels alone and unpro- €8.99/£7.99/Paperback tected in bandit-infested forests, searching for 196x130 mm/208 pages the rebel Prince Alberon. But many enemies are lurking in the shadows.New Friends. Old Jarlath Gregory Enemies. Who can you trust? ISBN 978-1-84717-111-5 NEW What Love Looks Like €9.99/£8.99/Paperback Sometimes love turns up where you 196x138 mm/480 pages least expect it Ben Brennan, is 17, gay, and happy most of The Rebel Prince the time. He’s finished school and is on track United Friends. A Divided Kingdom. Who will to a great career – all that’s missing is falling in prevail? love. Can Ben navigate the pitfalls of modern After a joyful reunion, it seems that the years gay dating, with all its expectations, and be of war have left their scars on brothers Alberon true to himself? and Razi, and it is not long before their differ- ISBN 978-1-78849-162-4 ences come between them. Who will survive €9.99/£8.99/Paperback the final battle? 196x130 mm/240 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-112-2 €9.99/£8.99/Paperback 196x135 mm/416 pages Green flag books: Reading Age 12+ 32 Resonance Move Ireland, 1890: two immortals prowl in search What if you could live in a universe where you of food for their ‘Angel’ and they will stop at were always the winner? Pushed to his limits nothing to maintain their grip on life. A seam- by a horrific accident, Liam discovers he has stress, the young man who loves her, and a an amazing ability: he can ‘move’ to parallel magician soon find themselves imprisoned in universes where things always turn out just the the immortals’ country estate. Here, they are way he wants. nothing but food and entertainment. ISBN 978-1-84717-010-1 ISBN 978-1-84717-577-9 €9.99/£8.99/Paperback €9.99/£8.99/Paperback 196x138 mm/208 pages 196x128 mm/464 pages Into the Grey Deborah Lisson "The scream was awful - a horrible desolate Truth Seeker cry…the child led my unresisting brother up the A powerful coming-of-age story, set against the path and out of my sight." A gripping thriller, turbulent background of Viking raids, feudal featuring possession, war and the creeping battles terror of The Grey for Patrick, a fifteen-year-old and the bloody demands of the god Odin. out of his depth. ISBN 978-0-86278-701-1 ISBN 978-1-84717-864-0 €8.99/£5.99/Paperback €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/224 pages 196x130 mm/352 pages Conor Kostick Ruth Frances Long Epic A Crack in Everything #WELCOME TO EPIC: PRESS START TO Welcome to the other side PLAY#. Izzy stumbles upon the secret world of the Sid- On New Earth, Epic is not just a computer he which coexists with the human one, and the game, it's a matter of life and death. If you angels and demons who watch over the affairs lose, you lose everything; if you win, the world of mortals, making their own plans. A pawn in is yours for the taking. this game, it almost costs her everything. Only ISBN 978-0-86278-877-3 by taking matters into her own hands can she €8.99/£7.99/Paperback save her friends and family. 196x130 mm/320 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-635-6 Saga €9.99/£8.99/Paperback Ghost, a fifteen-year-old air-boarding punk 196x130 mm/400 pages lives in a vast dark futuristic metropolis. But A Hollow in the Hills a mysterious stranger appears to break her Try to outrun the fear out of jail, then challenges the whole basis of Sequel to A Crack in Everything, Izzy, who is reality. still coming to terms with her newfound powers, ISBN 978-0-86278-979-4 must prevent a war from engulfing Dublin and €8.99/£7.99/Paperback the fae realm of Dubh Linn. 196x130 mm/320 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-636-3 Edda €9.99/£8.99/Paperback Edda is a ‘virtual’ world ruled by the electronic 196x130 mm/416 pages intelligence of Lord Scanthax. Penelope is a teenager ensnared in Edda. Can she uncover A Darkness at the End the truth about her human past and gain her The shadows know your name ... freedom? And are there other humans still ‘out The final book in the Dubh Linn fantasy trilogy. there’? 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33 Green flag books: Reading Age 12+ Natasha Mac a’Bháird Ian Somers Missing Ellen Million Dollar Gift Ellen and Maggie have been best friends Ross Bentley has the gift of telekinesis but for as long as they can remember. But now has always kept it hidden, even from those Ellen’s not there and Maggie’s left alone closest to him. When he learns of The Mil- and she feels no one understands what lion Dollar Gift, a contest to find people with she is going through. Can Maggie get used superhuman skills, he can’t let the chance to missing Ellen? go by, and enters. But all is not as it seems ISBN 978-1-84717-353-9 and soon he must use his skills to protect €8.99/£7.99/Paperback himself in a dark, dangerous world. 196x130 mm/176 pages ISBN 978-1-84717-307-2 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Sam McBratney 196x130 mm/416 pages The Chieftain's Daughter The Hidden Gift A boy fostered with a remote Irish tribe A sequel to the hugely popular Million 1500 years ago becomes involved with the Dollar Gift. A search for a missing child and fate of his beloved Frann, the Chieftain's the dangers it uncovers takes Ross Bentley daughter. to the darkest place he’s ever been. He ISBN 978-0-86278-338-9 must face danger and great grief and learn €6.95/£5.99/Paperback to harness his powers to face down his 196x130 mm/160 pages greatest nemesis yet. ISBN 978-1-84717-308-9 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback Charlie Pike 196x130 mm/464 pages The Secret Gift Jacob's Ladder Third in in the Ross Bently series, following Prepare to be Born Anew the hugely popular Million Dollar Gift and It's 2203 and earth is dying, scorched by The Hidden Gift. the sun. Initiate Leon is a member of the ISBN 978-1-84717-647-9 True Path warrior culture and preparing €8.99/£7.99/Paperback for his Rising. But when his test comes - to 196x130 mm/368 pages kill in cold blood - he stalls. To redeem himself, he and his resourceful servant, Martha, must journey to find the earth’s fifth and final message from the Saviours. ISBN 978-1-78849-040-5 Maureen White €14.99/£13.99/Paperback The Butterfly Shell 196x150 mm/320 pages Marie is hurting. Between the mean girls tormenting her by day and a ghostly P.R. Prendergast cry waking her at night, her first year at secondary school was far from what she Dancing in the Dark had expected. But Marie is now writing her Part of a dance team who have turned from story, the story of a very strange year and friends to enemies. Dealing with her dead a very special shell which was found in a brother’s ghost -- things sure aren't easy most unexpected place. for Jessie! Her brother James -- sports ISBN 978-1-84717-678-3 star, popular kid, and apple of her parents' €8.99/£7.99/Paperback eyes -- has died in an accident, leaving 196x130 mm/192 pages Jessie to cope with her parents, class- mates and stagefright. ISBN 978-1-84717-185-6 €8.99/£7.99/Paperback 196x130 mm/192 pages

Green flag books: Reading Age 12+ 34 Sailí na Spotaí Leabhair Ghaeilge Anne Marie Herron, Léaráidí Stephen Hall Is breá le Sailí spotaí. Spotaí ar a cuid eadaigh, spotaí ar a breagáin, spotaí ar gach rud! Ni Cá Bhfuil Puifín Beag? bheidh Sailí tuirseach de na spotaí sin go deo Gerry Daly & Erika McGann, Aistrithe go Gaeilge -- nó an mbeidh? ag Muireann ní Chíobháin Sos 5 Tá puifín beag fiosrach ina cónaí ar Sceilg ISBN 978-0-86278-724-0 Mhichíl. Ach níl a tuismitheoirí in ann teacht uirthi ina Fiacla Mhamó bpoll. Cá bhfuil sí? Brianóg Brady Dawson, Léaráidí Michael Connor Is maith an rud é go bhfuil ainmhithe agus éan- Cá bhfuil fiacla Mhamó? Tá siad i mála scoile laithe na Sceilge réidh chun cabhrú. ag Danny! Agus tá siad ar scoil leis, freisin. Tá ISBN 978-1-78849-187-7 Danny i dtrioblóid arís. €9.99/£8.99/Paperback Sos 6 215x196 mm/32 pages ISBN 978-0-86278-741-7

Sraith leabhar do léitheoirí óga Bróga Thomáis atá maisithe go hálainn. Bealach Una Leavy, Léaráidí Margaret Suggs fíorspreagúil í an tsraith seo leis Is fuath le Thomáis bróga a chaitheamh. Is an nGaeilge a shaothrú sa seomra maith leis a bharraicíní beaga. Is breá leis siúl ar an bhféar agus ar na duilleoga. Ach, cad faoin ranga. Áis iontach í freisin do thu- Gach leabhar sneachta? 64 leathanach B&W ismitheoirí ar mhaith leo léamh na Sos 7 Gaeilge a chur chun cinn sa bhaile. ISBN 978-0-86278-782-0 Deirdre agus an Fear Bréige Moncaí Dána Una Leavy, Léaráidí Maeve Kelly Aine Ní Ghlinn, Léaráidí Aileen Caffrey Ba mhaith le Deirdre bheith ina bhanríon sa Is moncaí dána é Colm. Féach cad a tharlaíonn dráma ar scoil. Is iontach an choróin atá aici. Ach do Cholm agus dá chairde! tá an choróin imithe ar maidin. Cad a dhéanfaidh Sos 8 Deirdre? ISBN 978-0-86278-790-5 Sos 1 ISBN 978-0-86278-713-4 Sinéad ag Damhsa Drochlá Gruaige Anna Donovan, Léaráidí Susan Cooper Catherine Doolan, Léaráidí Maeve Kelly Is breá le Sinéad an damhsa. Ach cén saghas Bá bhreá le Finn a bheith 'cúileáilte' -- ach níl sé damhsa? Damhsa Gaelach? Bailé? Ní hea! Tá ar chor ar bith. Sinéad difriúil -- tá a stíl féin ag an gcailín seo. Sos 9 Sos 2 ISBN 978-0-86278-866-7 ISBN 978-0-86278-714-1

Cáitín sa Chistin An tUan Beag Dubh Stephanie Dagg, Léaráidí Stephen Hall Elizabeth ShawElizabeth Shaw 'Ná bain don cáca sin!' arsa Mam le Cáitín. Ach Bíonn an t-uan beag dubh i dtrioblóid i gcónaí, go bhí sé go hálainn! Bhlais Cáitín píosa beag den speisialta le Póló, an madra caorach. reoán: go dtí nach raibh fágtha ach cáca lom. Sos 10 Sos 3 ISBN 978-0-86278-867-4 ISBN 978-0-86278-712-7

Daifní Dineasár Lámhainní Glasa Aine Ní Ghlinn, Léaráidí Michael Connor Aine Ní Ghlinn, Léaráidí Martin Fagan Is breá le Niall agus Conall cleasanna a imirt 'Seanlámhainní glasa! Domsa?' Tá an-díomá ar -- go háirithe ar Mhamaí! Ach céard a tharlaíonn Deirdre. Ach taithníonn siad go mór le Fionnán. nuair a thugann Daifní Dineasár cuairt orthu? Agus - cogar - tá rún ag baint leis na lámhainní Sos 4 céanna! ISBN 978-0-86278-745-5 Sos 11 ISBN 978-0-86278-901-5 35 Leabhair Ghaeilge Mo Mhadra Beoga Beirt chailíní agus beirt Patrick Deeley, Léaráidí Martin Fagan bhuachaillí, ceathrar a bhfuil Ba bhreá le Jenny madra dá cuid féin. Ach is misneach, fuinneamh agus trioblóid an madra seo! samhlaíocht acu, sin iad na Bleachtairí­ duit. Níl aon rud is mó Sos 12 a thaitníonn leo ná cás deacair a réiteach! ISBN 978-0-86278-942-8 Taibhse Gabriel Rosenstock, Léaráidí Alan Nolan Tá torann aisteach aerach le cloisteáil i dteach An Buachaill Bó duine de na bleachtairí. Cad atá ann in aon Gillian Perdue, Léaráidí Michael Connor chor? An den saol seo nó den saol eile é? Is breá le Conor a chulaith Buachalla Bó. 'Yee ISBN 978-1-84717-316-4 Haw!' a deir sé. 'Lámha in airde!' Ach an mbeidh sé ábalta í a chaitheamh ar scoil? Sos 13 ISBN 978-1-84717-006-4 Zombaí Gabriel Rosenstock, Léaráidí Alan Nolan An bhfuil a leithéid de rud ann agus zombaí? Tá, An Rún Mór dar le Tomáisín, duine de na bleachtairí. Cás eile Caitríona Ní Mhurchú, Tatyana Feeney le réiteach! Is breá le Mailí cait. ISBN 978-1-84717-317-1 Tá pictiúr de chait ar gach balla ina seomra codlata aici. Ach, faraor, ní féidir léi a cat féin a fháil. Sos 14 Éasca Péasca ISBN 978-1-84717-016-3 Aine Ní Ghlinn Cá bhfuil Murchú? Feighlí? Tá Niamh agus Aonghus rómhór le Anna Donovan, Léaráidí Tatyana Feeney feighlí a bheith acu. Nó sin a cheapann siadsan. Is cairde maithe iad Ruairí agus Murchú. Ach lá Ach té tuairimí eile ag an au pair nua ... agus amháin ní raibh Ruairí ábalta Murchú a fháil in áit cleasanna nua aici freisin! ar bith... ISBN 978-1-84717-047-7 ISBN 978-1-84717-126-9 Thar an Trasnán Aine Ní Ghlinn, Léaráidí Paul Bolger Scuab Fiacal Danny Cluiche peile ag rang a sé. Buachaillí in aghaidh Brianóg Brady Dawson, Léaráidí Michael Connor cailíní. Deir na múinteoirí nach bhfuil ann ach Is fuath le Danny de Brún a chuid fiacla a ghlan- spraoi! Dar le hEoghan, áfach, tá i bhfad níos adh. Cad a dhéanfaidh Danny, mar sin, nuair a mó ná sin i gceist! Bród! Onóir! Stádas na thugann Mamó scuab fiacal nua, bhuí dó? mbuachaillí! ISBN 978-1-84717-128-3 ISBN 978-1-84717-245-7 Faoin Sceach Gheal Marita Conlon-McKenna, Léaráidí Donald Glac Sos Uimhir a hAon Teskey, Aistrithe go Gaeilge ag Máire Nic Anna Donovan, Una Leavy Mhaoláin Thirty minute audio cassette featuring the The bestselling Under the Hawthorn Tree is now stories DEIRDRE AGUS AN FEAR BRÉIGE and available for the first time in Irish. SINÉAD AG DAMHSA. ISBN 978-0-86278-653-3 ISBN 978-0-86278-903-9 Hide and Speak Irish Catherine Bruzzone, Susan Martineau, Léaráidí Louise Comfort, Aistrithe go Gaeilge ag Rachel ní Chuinn Hide and Speak Irish offers an effective and simple way to learn over 130 key Irish words following the tried-and-tested method of 'look, cover and speak'. ISBN 978-1-84717-147-4

Leabhair Ghaeilge 36 A GUIDE TO READING LEVELS Using O’Brien flags to select books for your home or classroom

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and Scotland England and Wales Black flag Usable throughout the school Usable throughout the school Usable throughout the school Picture books (but especially Junior Infants) (but especially Year 1 [P1]) (but especially Reception) Orange flag Senior Infants (also First Class) Year 1 [P1]. Key Stage 1 Reception Reading level 4+ Purple flag First Class (also Senior Infants, Year 2 [P2]. Key Stage 1 Year 1. Key Stage 1 Reading level 5+ Second Class) Yellow flag Second Class (also First Class, Year 3 [P3]. Key Stage 1 Year 2. Key Stage 1 Reading level 6+ Third Class) Red flag Third Class, Fourth Class Year 4, Year 5 [P4, P5]. Year 3, Year 4. Reading level 8+ Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2 Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2 Blue flag Fifth Class, Sixth Class Year 6, Year 7 [P6, P7]. Year 5, Year 6. Key Stage 2 Reading level 10+ Key Stage 2 Green Flag First Year, Second Year (second- Year 8, Year 9, Year 10 Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 Reading level 12+ level schools) (secondary school). (secondary school). Key Stage 3 Key Stage 3 Young Adult Older and more confident readers Older and more confident Older and more confident readers readers

This is a general guide to reading levels. It will help you to choose suitable books for children and their abilities. As children start school at different ages under the various educational systems listed here, and also begin formal reading at differ- ent stages, this suggested guide to suitability for various ages differs for each system.

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Title Index Across the Divide 22 Chill Factor 25 Glac Sos Uimhir a hAon 36 Midnight Carnival, The 26 Sam Hannigan & the Last Dodo Adam’s Starling 17 Cinnamon Tree, The 32 Go To Sleep, Hoglet 7 Million Dollar Gift 34 27 Aim High: 6 City of Fate 29 Gods and their Machines, The 25 Milo and One Dead Angry Druid Sam Hannigan’s Woof Week 27 Alfie Green and a Sink Full of Cliffs of Moher and the Burren 5 Granny Makes a Mess 10 16 Scavenger Hunt 17 Frogs 14 Clubhouse Mystery, The 17 Granuaile: Pirate Queen 24 Milo and the Pirate Sisters 16 Scout’s Best Day Ever! 4 Alfie Green and the Bee-Bottle Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper 30 Great Big Book of Irish Wildlife Milo and The Raging Chieftains Scuab Fiacal Danny 36 Gang 14 Conor’s Caveman 27 Through the Seasons, The 3 16 Secret Gift, The 34 Alfie Green and the Chocolate Conor’s Canvas 11 Great Pig Escape, The 17 Missing Ellen 34 Secrets and Shadows 22 Cosmos 15 Conor’s Concert 10 Gulliver 7 Mo Mhadra Beoga 36 See If I Care 21 Alfie Green and the Conker Conor’s Cowboy Suit 10 Hannah in the Spotlight 24 Mollie On The March 18 Shoestring Soup 11 King 14 Cora Staunton 30 Harvest Tide Project, The 25 Moncaí Dána 35 Silver Stag of Bunratty, The 24 Alfie Green and the Fly-Trapper Crack in Everything, A 33 Have You Seen the Dublin Moon King, The 28 Sinéad ag Damhsa 35 14 Crowded Shadows, The 32 Vampire? 8 Moon Spun Round, The 8 Sinead the Dancer 9 Alfie Green and the Magical Daifní Dineasár 35 Helpful Hannah 11 Most Beautiful Letter in the Sisters ... No Way! 28 Gift 14 Dancing in the Dark 34 Here, There and Everywhere 15 World, The 15 Six Million Ways to Die 27 Alfie Green and the Monkey Danny and Baby Do It All 10 Hidden Gift, The 34 Move 33 Sleeping Giant, The 5 Puzzler 14 Danny Brown and his Daft Dog Hide and Speak Irish 36 Muckeen and the Big Freeze 11 Snip Snip! 10 Alfie Green and the Snowdrop 12 Hollow in the Hills, A 33 Muckeen and the UFO 11 Socks for Mr Wolf 4 Queen 15 Danny Brown and the Big House on Hawthorn Road, Muckeen the Pig 9 Sonia O’Sullivan 30 Alfie Green and the Supersonic Surprise 12 The 30 My Book of Kells Colouring SOS Lusitania 23 Subway 15 Danny Brown and the Monster Ice Dreams 17 Book 6 Sound of Freedom, The 26 Alice & Megan Forever 20 Toothbrush 12 In Deep Dark Wood 19 My Dog Lively 10 Spies 22 Alice & Megan’s Cookbook 20 Danny Brown and the Talking In the Claws of the Eagle 32 My First Book of GAA 3 Spiral Path, The 23 Alice Again 19 Teeth 12 Into the Grey 33 My First Book of Ireland 3 Spirit of the Titanic 28 Alice in the Middle 20 Danny’s Crazy Christmas 11 Irish Farm Animals 4 My First Book of Irish Vehicles 3 Spotty Sally 10 Alice Next Door 19 Danny’s Sick Trick 10 Irish Legends: Newgrange, Tara & My First Book of Irish Wildlife 3 Stand By Me 21 Alice to the Rescue, 20 Dare to Dream: Irish People the Boyne Valley 6 My Ireland Counting Book 7 Star Dancer 23 All to Play For 25 Who Took on the World (and Island of Adventures 4 My Little Album of Dublin 7 Starring Meg 24 Amelia 28 Won!) 8 Jacob’s Ladder 34 Night-time Cat and the Plump, Storm Weaver 23 Amy’s Wonderful Nest 9 Darkness at the End, A 33 Jigsaw Stew 13 Grey Mouse, The 6 Stormclouds 22 Ancient Ireland Colouring Day Henry Met ... a dog, The 5 Jimeen 28 No Goodbye 18 Story of Croke Park, The 7 Book 6 Deadly Irish History - The Celts Judi Curtin 19 No Peace for Amelia 28 Story of Ireland, The 6 And The Blood Flowed Green 21 Juliet’s Story 16 No Shoes for Tom 9 Strawberry Squirt 11 27 Deadly Irish History - The Just Joshua 26 O’Brien Book of Irish Fairy Tales Strongbow 24 Animal Crackers: Fantastic Vikings 21 Kate 28 and Legends, The 5 Supermarket Ghost, The 17 Facts About Your Favourite Deirdre agus an Fear Bréige 35 Katie’s War 21 Old Country, The 23 Survivors 27 Animals 8 Demon from the Deep End 16 Katie’s Cake 9 One With The Waggly Tail, The 8 Taibhse 36 Anna’s Secret Granny 13 Demon Notebook, The 26 Katie’s Caterpillars 9 Only Eva 20 Táin, The 24 Arrivals 22 Destination: Homicide! 27 Kicking On 23 Oscar Wilde - Stories for Take the Lead How to Look Bad Hair Day 10 Diabolic Downloads 16 Kidds of Summerhill, The 26 Children 7 After Your Dog 3 Barney Goose 7 Diary Detectives 17 Kings of the Boyne 29 P is for Poetry 3 Taking Sides 22 Barry’s New Bed 10 Don’t Ask Alice 20 Lámhainní Glasa 35 Pageboy Danny 11 Thar an Trasnán 36 Behind the Walls 29 Don’t Even Think About It 26 Leave it to Eva 20 Pawns 22 Tiger Boots 28 Benny and Babe 19 Don’t Open that Box 13 Legends’ Lair 28 Plain Jane 32 Time After Time 21 Benny and Omar 19 Drochlá Gruaige 35 Leprechaun Who Wished He Poison Factory, The 16 Tina and the Tooth Fairy 11 Bernard Dunne 21 Dublin 5 Wasn’t, The 15 Pooka Party, The 6 Tomi 24 Best-Loved Irish Legends 6 Dublin Fairytale, A 4 Let’s See Ireland! 3 Queen of Coin and Whispers 31 Tommy the Theatre Cat 17 Beyond the Cherry Tree 28 Ducks in Trouble 10 Lighthouse Joey 11 Race the Atlantic Wind 25 Trouble for Tuffy 13 Big Brother, The 10 Éasca Péasca 36 Lily at Lissadell 19 Rainbow Bridge, The 32 Truth Seeker 33 Big Fight, The 13 Edda 33 Lily Steps Up 19 Real Rebecca, The 31 tUan Beag Dubh, An 35 Blazing a Trail 8 Ed’s Bed 13 Little Black Sheep of Rebecca is Always Righty 31 Ulster Fairytales and Legends 5 Blood Brother, Swan Sister 25 Ed’s Funny Feet 13 Connemara, The 7 Rebecca Rocks 31 Under Fragile Stone 25 Blue Horse, The 18 Eggcorns 5 Little Black Sheep, The 9 Rebecca’s Rules 31 Under the Hawthorn Tree 18 Blue, Where Are You? 13 Emma the Penguin 11 Little Croker 27 Rebel Prince, The 32 Viva Alice!, 20 Boldness of Betty, The 18 Epic 33 Little Witch Who Can’t Spell, Red Hugh 23 Watching Wood, The 26 Bonjour Alice 20 Eva and the Hidden Diary 20 The 13 Reindeer Down! 5 Wee Donkey’s Treasure Hunt 4 Brendan and the Blarney Stone 7 Eva and the Perfect Rain 4 Lockie and Dadge 26 Resistance 22 We’re Going to the Zoo! 3 Brian and the Giant 5 Eva’s Holiday 20 Lough Neagh Monster, The 15 Resonance 33 What Love Looks Like 32 Brian and the Vikings 5 Eva’s Journey 20 Mad Grandad and the Flying Ribbit, Ribbit 9 Where Are You, Puffling? 4 Brian Boru 23 Faoin Sceach Gheal 36 Saucer 14 Rock Boy, The 26 Where Are You, Puffling? Bright Sparks 7 Feile Fever 27 Mad Grandad and the Kleptoes Rosette for Maeve?, A 6 Colouring Book 4 Bróga Thomáis 35 Fiacla Mhamó 35 14 Rugby Flyer 29 Where the Stones Sing 24 Broken Spell, The 26 Fields of Home 18 Mad Grandad and the Mutant Rugby Heroes 29 Where’s Larry This Time? 3 Buachaill Bó, An 36 Finding A Voice 32 River 14 Rugby Rebel 29 Where’s Larry? 3 Butterfly Shell, The 34 Finn’s First Song 4 Mad Grandad and the Robot Rugby Redzone 30 Where’s Larry? The Colouring Cá bhfuil Murchú? 36 Fintan’s Fifteen 27 Garden 14 Rugby Runner 29 Book 3 Cá Bhfuil Puifín Beag? 35 Fireman Sinead 9 Mad Grandad and the Wicked Rugby Spirit 29 Where’s Murphy? 11 Cage of Roots, A 23 Fishbum and Splat! 13 Pictures 14 Rugby Warrior 29 Wild Atlantic Way, The 5 Cáitín sa Chistin 35 Flossie McFluff 6 Mad Grandad’s Doppelganger 13 Run for the Hills 25 Wildflower Girl 18 Cave of Secrets 24 Football Fiesta 30 Magical Celtic Tales 5 Rún Mór, An 36 Winds of Change 22 Central Park Showdown 18 Fridge in a Denim Jacket!, The 8 Making Millions 17 Run with the Wind 25 Wings over Delft 32 Charlie Harte and his Two- Friend or Foe 22 Making of Mollie, The 18 Safe Harbour 19 Wish List, The 19 Wheeled Tiger 17 Fugitives! 21 Marco Moves In 15 Saga 33 Wolfgran 16 Chasing Ghosts 28 Gaelic Spirit 29 Marco: Master of Disguise 15 Sailí na Spotaí 35 You’ve Got A Friend 21 Chieftain’s Daughter, The 34 Garden for Tom, A 9 Marco: Moonwalker 15 Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea, A 8 Young Rebels, The 23 Children of Lir, The 5 Girl Called Blue, A 19 Michael Collins 24 Sally Go Round The Stars 8 Zombaí 36 TRADE REPRESENTATION RIGHTS AGENTS

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