Recommended reads

When nine year old Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House she is delighted when she's asked to watch over four abandoned pale blue duck eggs. Her grandmother's warm kitchen is the perfect place for them to hatch. Soon the ducklings are making mischief as they learn how to waddle and swim. But they can't stay indoors forever. It's up to Tiger to find them a brand new home...

It’s Ella’s first day at her new school and she wants to find a friend. She tries some tips which she finds in a library book but things don’t work out quite as she planned…

Yanka has always felt like an outsider. Found in a bear cave when she was a baby and raised by her foster mother Mamochka, she's always wondered where she came from.

However, when something very unusual begins to happen to her, it's the push she needs to leave her village on a quest to discover her family, her origins and who she really is. It's impossible not to root for Yanka, who is growing and learning as she goes, making some valuable discoveries along the way.

Izzy and Asha need a space to call their own, where they can practise their skateboarding away from the Skull brothers and escape from trouble at home.

But the derelict gasworks where they stake their claim already belongs to something else - a wilderness they never expected to find and an injured wolf that desperately needs their help. Can they reconnect to the wild and save the wolf? Or is their pack too weak to fight much stronger powers?

Our Jacko is a poignant story inspired by the metal helmet worn by soldiers, known as the Brodie helmet. Throughout brothers Michael and Otto’s childhood there was an old metal helmet in their home. Firstly it was a play accessory, then an animal feeder and later a planter. They didn’t know where it came from but it always came in useful.
After the brothers discovered the helmet belonged to their great-grandfather, they uncovered a story and an ancestor, they never knew: Our Jacko is a multi-layered story that can be appreciated by readers young and old.

As the summer holidays approach enjoy Swallows and Amazons, a children's classic adventure story. The Walker children are excited to set sail on their boat Swallow and camp on Wild Cat Island. Camping under the open skies, swimming in the lake and fishing for their dinner would be adventure enough - but then they meet two fierce Amazon pirates who challenge them to a war.

Maxwell helps a squirrel who wants to write a story and solves the mystery of the disappearing zoo animals.

Mazwell Mutt and the Downtown Dogs are ready for another adventure when they meet Ant: an unusually small squirrel in search of a story.

Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives - at least, that's how it looks. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with her best friend Gaynah. There's only one problem - she can't remember anything that happened last summer.

A big performance looms and Maddy knows that the school has a way of weeding out the weakest dancers. Now is her time to shine. But will Maddy and her friends be celebrating at the end of the year?