Louise Cooper
Mermaid Curse: The Silver Dolphin

For 10-year-old Morag, there's nothing magical about the cellar of her cruel foster parents' home. But that's where she meets Aldiss, a talking rat, and his resourceful companion, Bertie the dodo. She jumps at the chance to run away and join them on their race against time to save their homeland from an evil warlock named Devlish, who is intent on destroying it. But first, Bertie and Aldiss will need to stop bickering long enough to free the only guide who knows where to find Devlish: Shona, a dragon who's been turned to stone. Terrifying, touching and funny, Darklsle is a vivid and fast-paced novel of captivating originality.

Pauline Francis
Raven Queen

The life of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen, is all too often remembered as just a line in a history book. This novel reveals the full and tragic story - a tale of treachery, power struggles, and religious turmoil in the Tudor court. It is also a sensitive story of love against all odds.

Delilah Darling - Queen Delilah from the Land of Far, Far Away to you - is desperate to play the part of the gingerbread man in the school play. So when Horrible Charlotte Griggs gets the part instead, Delilah is cross. But she soon discovers that there's lots of fun to be had playing the big, bad fox. And besides, in the Land of Far, Far Away, things always have happy endings....