Enter the world of Olympic hopeful Tom Daley

Now available in the LRC!

The Olympics by Richard Brassey

The quirkiest guide you will ever read on the history of the world's most famous celebration of sport. From the story of how ideas from the games of ancient Greece have been carried down and into the twenty-first century, to the individual tales of heroes and heroines, this is a witty and entertaining guide.

Carnegie and Greenaway Winner Announced

A Monster Calls (Walker Books) written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay, has become the first book ever to win both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals.
Ness is also only the second author to win the award in consecutive years (the first being Peter Dickinson in 1979 and 1980), having won in 2011 for Monsters of Men.

 This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth....

Enter the Morris Gleitzman short story writing competition

Top author Morris Gleitzman will be judging a summer short story competition for 7-14-year-olds - get writing and enter now!  Details at www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site

Tiger Wars

Deadly TV presenter and wildlife specialist Steve Backshall's first novel introduces Saker and Sinter on a quest to right some of the horrific wrongs done to wildlife around the planet.

Trash by Andy Mulligan

 Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.

Headlong and heart-stopping, this is an adventure you just can’t put down. From the squalor of a rubbish dump to the grandeur of some of the finest houses in the city, this is a thrilling adventure. Three boys who live on a dump and spend their lives sorting rubbish find something so precious, so valuable and so wanted by someone else that their whole lives are turned upside down. How can they keep their find – and themselves safe? From the pathos of deprivation to the hope of a miracle this is a story full of emotion as well as vivid drama.

Trash is to be made into a film.

Butterfly Summer is an intriguing tale of friendship, secrets and discoveries. Try the trailer

Dystopian Fiction

If you enjoyed The Hunger Games, here are some other books that are set in a nightmare world...

Love Harry Potter?

Horrible History!

Travel back in time and experience history in all its gory glory. If you have enjoyed the Horrible Histories books and the TV series, have a look at this website!

www.horrible-histories.co.uk