The Daring Reef Rescue: MerTales 2

The Daring Reef Rescue: MerTales 2
Author: Rebecca Timmis
Publisher: Albert Street Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-04
Genre: Best friends
ISBN: 9781911679295

Tomorrow is the Fancy-Fins Dress-up Party, and the MerTales crew are very excited! Pearl, Sandy and Coral are extra thrilled to be testing out their mer-mazing new magic powers. But what about Shell? She doesn't seem to have any powers, and is feeling a bit left out. Then a giant turtle blunders into Cockleshell Cover, and Shell is worried that she is too much of a scaredy fish to help. Together the girls must find a way to save the turtle, rescue Cockleshell Cover and have the best dress-up party ever! Welcome back to Cockleshell Cove, MerFriends!

The Daring Reef Rescue: MerTales 2

The Daring Reef Rescue: MerTales 2
Author: Rebecca Timmis
Publisher: Albert Street Books
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781760526566

Galloping Guppies! It's Book 2 in the sea-sational MerTales series, packed with mer-magical adventure.

The Best Friend Promise: MerTales 1

The Best Friend Promise: MerTales 1
Author: Rebecca Timmis
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-07-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1761062131

Today is Pearl's ninth birthday, and she is planning a sea-sational day with her best friends. But when Pearl takes a shortcut on the way to merschool and sees a shooting star fall into the ocean, things begin to drift off course... Suddenly, her mermaid tail begins to shimmer and sparkle. What could it mean? Well for a start, Pearl discovers she can now talk to animals, which comes in very handy when one of her friends is cornered by a hungry reef dragon! It's time for a mermazing adventure in Cockleshell Cove!

Mermaid Holidays 4: The Reef Rescue

Mermaid Holidays 4: The Reef Rescue
Author: Delphine Davis
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2021-02
Genre: Australian fiction
ISBN: 014379647X

It's time for summer camp adventures and Olivia can't wait for sea-cumcumber sizzles, exploring, and camping under the waves. But she and her friends end up on the wrong side of the reef and things go downhill from there.

Reggie Red

Reggie Red
Author: Josie Layton
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1499489617

Reggie hears other girls in her class talk about dyeing their hair and wearing makeup for their class picture. This makes her feel bad about her own appearance, with her big, red mane and freckles. But try as she might, Reggie can’t seem to cover up her hair or features. Her mom passes down some family wisdom about inner beauty, which helps Reggie not only feel better, but also help another girl feel better too. This book about self-love and inner beauty will speak to young readers who might feel self-conscious as they compare themselves to peers.

The Memory Thief

The Memory Thief
Author: Leonie Agnew
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-07-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143775731

A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up. For as long as Seth can remember he’s been trapped behind the iron bars of the public gardens, desperate to explore the world outside. By day he’s frozen in a stone skin as a statue of a shepherd boy. As soon as the sun sets he’s free to roam the park, ravenously hungry. He’s a troll, and the food he seeks is human memories. But somehow he’s yearning for something more than an endless cycle of hunting and loneliness. Then he meets Stella, who has just moved to live with her grandfather in a house neighbouring the park. Her mind is sharp and quick and there’s something so different about her — she’s the only human Seth has met whose memories make his insides burn. He doesn’t want to feed off her. He simply wants to talk to her. Maybe she can help him find another way to live? Engrossing, spine-chilling and surprising, this is a novel that grabs the reader and holds them spellbound. What terrible memory is Stella trying to escape? What are the fragments of memory that Seth is trying to put together? And is there any possibility that Seth could escape the lonely garden and start truly living?

The Cardboard Kingdom #2: Roar of the Beast

The Cardboard Kingdom #2: Roar of the Beast
Author: Chad Sell
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593125541

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and All's Faire in Middle School, this sequel to the Eisner Award-nominated The Cardboard Kingdom follows the kids as they solve the mystery of a new neighborhood monster. A mystery is afoot in the Cardboard Kingdom. Vijay, the Beast, renounces his title after being bullied by neighborhood teenagers. No one--not his big sister Shikha or his friends--can seem to draw him back out of his shell. That very night is when it starts. At first, no one believes Nate, who breaks his leg trying to pursue what he saw from his bedroom window. But then there's another, and another. An unknown monster has been spotted roaming the Kingdom after dark. It's ghastly, it's quick, and it might even have giant tentacles. Or claws. Or wings. Okay, there might be some varied testimonies on what exactly this monster looks like. Forget Halloween--the newly minted Monster Mashers will go to any lengths to protect the Kingdom and uncover this mystery. But how did the monster get here? What does it want? And mostly importantly, who is behind its creation? The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast was created, organized, and drawn by Chad Sell with writing from nine other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez.

Dungeon Critters

Dungeon Critters
Author: Natalie Riess
Publisher: First Second
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250808189

Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter's Dungeon Critters is a middle-grade graphic novel about a gang of adorable animal friends on a D&D style dungeon crawl. Quests! Plots! Evil Plants! Magic and mayhem! Join the Dungeon Critters—a tight-knit squad of animal companions—on a wild adventure investigating a sinister botanical conspiracy among the furry nobility. As they risk their lives traveling through haunted dungeons, swamps, and high society balls—they also come closer together as friends. Motivated by rivalries, ideals, and a lust for adventure, these critters navigate not only perils and dangers of the natural world, but also perils and dangers...of the heart!

Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues

Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues
Author: H.S. Valley
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1743587813

What happens when your enemy becomes your friend … with benefits? Red, White and Royal Blue meets The Magicians in this surprising, wildly original and joyously funny LGBTQ YA novel set in a magical boarding school. Tim Te Maro and Elliott Parker – classmates at Fox Glacier High School for the Magically Adept – have never gotten along. But when they both get dumped the day before the big egg-baby assignment, they reluctantly decide to ditch their exes and work together. When the two boys start to bond over their magically enchanted egg-baby, they realise that beneath their animosity is something like friendship … or physical attraction. Soon, a no-strings-attached hook-up seems like a good idea. Just for the duration of the assignment. After all, they don’t have feelings for each other … so what could possibly go wrong? From debut Kiwi author H.S. Valley, the latest winner of the Ampersand Prize, comes this gleefully addictive romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell and David Levithan. In a word – it’s magic.

BatKiwi

BatKiwi
Author: Melinda Szymanik
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Bats
ISBN: 9781775437116

"Can Kiwi become the hero of the forest that he longs to be? Kiwi lives in a the forest amongst the kākāpō, kunekune pigs, ruru, wētā and kerurū. He longs to be fast enough to come to the aid of his friends when they are in need. There is just one problem, Kiwi is pretty fast... but his sturdy legs are just not fast enough... and they can't carry him up trees!"--Publisher information.