Malorie Blackman
Cloud Busting

Davey is a new boy and Sam can't stand him. He thinks Davey is a first-class, grade A, top-of-the-dung-heap moron. But when the two are thrown together, Sam discovers that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more exciting. Until something terrible happens ... A beautiful, funny and sad story, told completely in verse.

David Roberts & Alan MacDonald
Dirty Bertie: Pants! & Burp!

Dirty Bertie's facing the shame of losing a dare with Know-All Nick and having to wear his pants to school, playing the part of the dog in the local amateur dramatic society's production of Oliver! and taking Whiffer to Royston Rich's birthday party, where Whiffer leaves a very unwelcome present ... Bertie drags a reluctant Whiffer to dog training classes, stink-bombs his sister's sleepover and rebels against Miss Beansprout's all-new healthy school dinners. More revolting stories about the world's grubbiest trouble magnet.

Once again, award.winning author, Geraldine McCaughrean, brings a literary classic to life retelling The Faerie Queen in an accessible and compelling way. The original was written in 1596 for Elizabeth I, but now McCaughrean introduces a whole new generation of readers to Edmund Spenser's exciting adventures of knights and dragons, sorcerers and hermits, princesses and sea nymphs.