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A unique verse novel using YA vampire tropes to explore queer desire and identity. From the award-winning author of The Deepest Breath and The Space Between.

A fictionalised exploration of the childhood of C.S Lewis

Welcome to the Nightmare Club, the sleepover that is definitely not for wimps. Annie Graves is your host, and she only invites guests who can tell really creepy stories. Jessie was nuts about her cute little Wolfling toy. But her brother had heard rumours about Wolflings: they could move without being switched on. They could turn nasty. He even heard that they could bite. Read it, if you dare - and hang onto your nose!

Did you ever hear that telling a nightmare makes it fade away? It doesn't. Not here anyway. Welcome to the Nightmare Club's Halloween Sleepover. You might not last till morning. This is the story Jack told. His older brother Stephen was a great friend ... until he started to change. His smell. His face. His friends. His diet.

An interactive picture book by a rugby legend, a bestselling author and an award-winning illustrator.

A new adventure from the award-winning author of Wolfstongue and The Fox's Tower

A delightful tale by a Traveller storyteller, co-published by Irish presses Little Island and Skein Press.

>Once the trigger is touched you can't tell who to trust An unflinching verse novel about a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted in an attack he struggles to remember. By the award-winning author of Gut Feelings >Jay wakes in a park, beaten and bruised. He can't remember what happened the night before. But he has suspicions.Jay realises he has been raped -- and that his ex-boyfriend may have been involved.Counselling sessions cause Jay to question everything. His new friend Rain encourages his pursuit of justice. Jay wants answers, but his search will lead him down a perilous path.

A fully illustrated collection of Irish poems, ranging from medieval to modern poems in English and Irish, edited by Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko. This includes old favourites and new voices.

The story of a girl growing up with dwarfism, told by Ireland's leading children's author.

"Aria lives on a well-ordered planet whose people have eradicated illness and even death. Earth is their 'shadow planet' which they populated with humans centuries ago so they could study them and learn from their experiences. Now the experiment is coming to an end and Aria must go to Earth with her scientist father to set off a train of events which will destroy its people. Brought up to believe that humans are inferior, Aria is shocked to discover that she is herself half human, and amazed to find that Earth-dwellers live life to the full and feel love for each other, even though they are mortal. But once she understands this, how can she save them, and herself, from destruction?"--

When Meg Lewis agrees to free the ghost of a young boy, she uncovers mysteries spanning time and space. Soon she must decide whether she wants to save herself, or the world.

"When Queen Maeve's army marches north to steal the Brown Bull of Cooley, the leaders of Ulster are cast under a sleeping spell. Just one boy comes out to face the warrior queen and her invading Connacht horde. A lad who has sworn to protect his homeland like a guard dog: the hero Câuchulainn. He's only a beardless youth against an army of men, but when he twists into his war-form, Câuchulainn is the fiercest fighter in Ireland."--Provided by publisher.

A fast-paced and quirky, supernatural YA pageturner about werewolves, vampires, and loving the monster inside you

"The Fox's Tower takes everything you knew, or thought you knew, about nature and the animal kingdom, and turns it on its head." - Piers Torday, author of The Last Wild trilogy

Gripping and funny middle-grade adventure about found families, trust and truth. And chameleons.

"Saoirse can't wait to leave school--but just before the Leaving Cert her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse, and her rumbling anxieties spiral out of control. Saoirse feels herself flailing in swirling waters that threaten to suck her into the depths. No one can save her--not her lovely man; not the gorgeous boy who tries hard to love her; not her fabulous best friend; and certainly not her cheap-wisdom counselor. Can Saoirse, against all odds, rescue the self she used to know?"--

A children's book exploring Direct Provision, Ireland's inhumane asylum-seeker detention system

Another adventure for Libby and her magical wolfish best friend!

Christmas is coming and Evie is wishing, wishing ...

A suspenseful teen fantasy about young love, dark mystery and magic. Something is menacing Mundham Farm. Does it come from outside - or within?

Another adventure for Libby and her magical wolfish best friend!

The latest funny adventure for a young girl and her wolfish best friend! Aunt Ilda is coming to visit, and that means big trouble for Libby and her adorable purple best friend, Wulfie. Ilda will do anything to win the top dog show prize on live TV. Anything. Including kidnapping Wulfie! But Wulfie, of course, isn't a dog at all. He talks, he shrinks and grows, and when he sneezes - time freezes. He's the sweetest best friend Libby could hope for - and now he needs her help. Can Libby rescue Wulfie and humiliate Aunt Ilda on TV? Well, with a best friend like Wulfie, anything can happen.

Absurdly enjoyable dark adventure about a boy's mission to stop his evil sisters terrorising the town