New November Display - 2019

Including No Fixed Address, Encounters, Secrets Of The Henna Girl, Sweetfreak and more! (Learning Lounge - 04/11/2019)

With Christmas fast approaching make sure you have a book from The Learning Lounge to cosy up with!

All new solo books including 'Sweetfreak', 'The Wild Folk' , 'How To Bee', 'Secrets Of The Henna Girl', 'The Girl Who Speaks Bear' +

Books that follow on from your favourite series, introducing: 'Evolution - Into The Fire' , 'Blood Guard - The Blazing Bridge'.

Edgy new senior-fiction such as 'Encounters', 'Once and Future', and 'All About Mia'.

Brand new Graphic Novel & Manga: 'Heartstopper VOL 2', 'Dragon Ball Z VOL 1', 'Yu-Gi-Oh VOL 1', 'My Hero Academia VOL 2' and 'Scott Pilgrim VOL 5'

Learn more with our new non-fiction: 'Fortnite' and 'The Art Of Being A Brilliant Teenager'.

Where will November's book display take you?

Spotlight Books:

The Girl Who Speaks Bear By Sophie Anderson

Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, Yanka has always wondered about where she is from. She tries to ignore the strange whispers and looks from the villagers, wishing she was as strong on the inside as she is on the outside. But, when she has to flee her house, looking for answers about who she really is, a journey far beyond one that she ever imagined begins: from icy rivers to smouldering mountains meeting an ever-growing herd of extraordinary friends along the way.

Interwoven with traditional stories of bears, princesses and dragons, Yanka's journey is a gorgeously lyrical adventure from the best-selling author of The House With Chicken Legs.

Encounters by Jason Wallace

Zimbabwe, 1994. A group of children spot peculiar lights in the sky over the grounds of their school.
From this moment on, six young people's lives are changed forever.
Gary hides the anguish he feels now his mum's left, acting out in fury and hatred. Chloe has no words for the thing she fears most every day. Karl is the headmaster's son, now fallen from grace. Tendai knows he can never live up to his grieving father's ideals. And Sixpence watches all, knowing he'll never be like these other children. All of them have seen something they can't explain.

In amongst these tangled, tortured lives, comes a group of psychologists to verify the spookily similar claims of every witness. Their daughter, Holly, can tell there's more to it than aliens or mass hysteria – can she reveal the dark truths that haunt them?

No Fixed Address by Susin Nielson

Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia. So far, pretty normal. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van. Astrid promises it’s only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs Felix not to breathe a word about it. So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn’t have enough to eat. When his friends Dylan and Winnie ask to visit, Felix always has an excuse.

But Felix has a plan to turn his and Astrid’s lives around: he’s going to go on his favourite game show Who, What, Where, When and win the cash prize. All he needs is a little luck and a lot of brain power . .