New in the library this week is a twisty little mystery by Jenny Valentine…
The blurb says:
I didn’t choose to be him. I didn’t pick Cassiel Roadnight out of a line-up of possible people who looked just like me. I just let it happen. I just wanted it to be true. That’s all I did wrong, at the beginning.
A fugitive teenager takes on the identity of another missing boy. But everyone has their secrets. Who will get to the truth first?
Book details taken from HarperCollins Publishers website.
We’ve got new books in the library – just look! We will be unpacking them today, and sharing them from tomorrow.
Although we might just take some home to read ourselves first…
Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy’s glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for her birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing Uncle Felix. But it soon becomes clear that this party isn’t about Daisy at all. (Naturally Daisy is furious.)
Then one of their guests falls seriously, mysteriously, fatally ill – and everything points to poison.
Suddenly Fallingford feels like a very dangerous place to be. And when somone close to Daisy looks suspicious, the girls must reveal the truth… no matter the consequences.
Arsenic for Tea is the second book in the Wells and Wong series by Robin Stevens – we have the first three books in the library.
When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up a secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they can’t find a truly exciting mystery to investigate. (Unless you count The Case of Lavinia’s Missing Tie. Which they don’t.)
Then Hazel discovers the body of the Science Mistress, Miss Bell – but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls have to solve a murder, and prove a murder happened in the first place, before the killer strikes again (and before the police get there first, naturally).
But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test?
Murder Most Ladylike is the first in the Wells and Wong series by Robin Stevens – we have the first three books in the library.
This is a story that drags you in with tentacles! Harrison’s new school is very strange, and the students are a bit weird – they all look alike and they talk with their fingers. The teachers are even more frightening. And then there’s the strange green-skinned boy Harrison sees running into the woods…
Harrison is a lonely teenager, terrified of the ocean since a childhood sailing accident took his father – and his right leg. One of the “sensitives” who are attuned to the supernatural world, Harrison and his marine biologist mother have just moved to the worst possible place for a boy like him: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town perched on rocks above the Atlantic, where monsters lurk under the waves, and peculiar teachers run the local school.
When Harrison’s mother disappears at sea, his attempts to find her put him in conflict with a strange church, a knife-wielding killer, and the Deep Ones… It will take all his resources – and an unusual host of allies – to defeat the danger and find his mother.
The Nowhere Emporium won the North East Book Award and was shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards.
The shop from nowhere can appear at any time, in any city. Its labyrinth of rooms contains wonders beyond belief. But to enter you must pay a price. The Nowhere Emporium is open for business. Bring your imagination.
When Daniel stumbles into the mysterious Nowhere Emporium in Glasgow, he opens the door to a world of breathtaking magic and looming danger.
Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for her father, Lars Christensen – the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before.
The journey will be long – and dangerous for a young girl travelling alone. As Marianne boards the fishing boat that will carry her across the North Sea, she wonders: will Denmark be the fairy-tale land she has dreamt of? Will she find happiness there? Will the father she has never met welcome the arrival of his illegitimate child?
And why didn’t he return for her mother, as he promised he would?
‘We didn’t ask him to come back,’ Robert said.
‘Didn’t we?’ Jane replied. ‘All the other times, the Psammead turned up because something was wrong. Well, the war counts as something wrong, doesn’t it?’
They were all silent for a moment.
‘I have a ghastly feeling you may be right,’ Cyril said. ‘In which case, we’re honour-bound to help him. Eat quickly, chaps-or I’ll be late for the war.’
My name is Eleanor Kerchner.
You can call me the Queen.
I died in 1895.
Now it’s time to play.
A chilling ghost story from bestselling author Holly Black.