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New For You - Children's - December 2024

A selection of new fiction and nonfiction for older readers.

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  • 1,000 Curious Questions

    and 1,000 Amazing Answers

    Children ask the best questions - and this book has the answers.
    BookLondon : Dorling Kindersley, 2024. — J 032.02 ONE
  • The Moomins

    the World of Moominvalley

    Ardagh, Philip, 1961-
    Step into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful book filled with illustrated maps, fun facts and everything you'd love to know about the characters from the original Moomin stories.
    BookLondon : MacMillan Children's Books, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • Follow a flock of swallows and see what they see in this nature book of things to spot and talk about. Fly with the birds through the cities, coasts and countryside and over mountains and markets, farms, towns, open sea, rainforests,…
    BookLondon : Bloomsbury Childrens Books, 2024. — J 793.73 BRE
  • A favourite for animal lovers, nature enthusiasts, and budding wildlife experts everywhere.
    BookLondon : Dorling Kindersley, 2024. — J 508 EXP
  • Return to the world of INKHEART! Arch-villain Orpheus has found an unexpected way to wreak his revenge on the Inkworld.
    BookFrome : Chicken House, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • This a novel about a young nonbinary person searching for family and finding it with a sweet rescue dog.
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • Ysolda is on the run, travelling with a rebellious princess to the wilds of the Drakken Peak - on the back of a huge sea wolf. Second in this exciting series.
    BookLondon : Orion, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • A hilarious and moving story about coping with anxiety on a day when everything is going wrong.
    BookNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • Discover some of the most exquisite birds on our planet.
    BookLondon : Dorling Kindersley, 2024. — J 598 HOA
  • When We Flew Away

    a Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

    Hoffman, Alice, 1952-
    In the midst of impossible danger, Anne, audacious and creative and fearless, discovers who she truly is.
    BookAustralia : Scholastic Australia, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • After living in the public library for the last eleven years, Essie must learn to adapt to a world that's not as perfect as the stories she's grown up with.
    BookNew York : Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House, [2024] — OLDER FICTION
  • First in a new fantasy series from Anna James, filled with seasonal magic and irresistible adventure.
    BookLondon : Harper Collins Children's Book, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • Professor Carolyn King explains how long isolation in a remote corner of the prehuman South Pacific has nurtured the evolution of a native mammal fauna like no other.
    BookAuckland, New Zealand : Upstart Press Ltd, 2024. — J 599 KIN
  • This cookbook aims to give enthusiastic young chefs the opportunity to further their knowledge in the kitchen and whip up meals that are sure to impress.
    BookLondon : Dorling Kindersley, 2024. — J 641.5 MCE
  • Find one of New Zealand's heaviest spiders, a beetle once thought to be extinct, and many more interesting insects, as Kahukura plays hide and seek with her Chatham Island friends.
    BookAuckland, New Zealand : David Bateman Ltd, 2024. — J 595.7 PRE
  • Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times - battling monsters, Titans, even death himself - so graduating high school should be a breeze, right? Wrong.
    BookLondon : Puffin, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • Derry knows no other life than that of a captive on Cram's Rock, shunned by the other young prisoners for being Cram's poison taster. Until the day everything changes, when a traveller arrives, on the run from the sinister El executioners.…
    BookCrows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • Curiosity Shop

    Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve

    Wick, Walter
    In this search-and-find adventure, inquisitive readers will explore all the tantalizing collections in the Curiosity Shop.
    BookNew York : Cartwheel Books, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2024] — J 793.73 WIC
  • There may be daring rescues, secret missions and adventures galore, but best of all are the true friendships to be made at Fernside.
    BookDublin, Ireland : The O'Brien Press, 2024. — OLDER FICTION
  • Cloud Atlas

    Everything You Need to Know About Clouds

    Zambello, Sarah
    A first introduction for children to the natural phenomena of clouds, weaving scientific fact with literary, historical and artistic notes along the way.
    BookCremorne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2024. — J 551.57 ZAM