Children's and Young Adult Fiction We've Read and Loved
By Quinns Bookshop
Children's and Young Adult Fiction We've Read and Loved
By Quinns Bookshop
Here's a little selection of our favourite children's and Young Adult picture books and novels. Enjoy!
Looking for Emily
Fiona Longmuir
£7.99 £7.59Thriller set in a sleepy seaside town. Will Lily solve the mystery of the missing Emily? Read it to find out!
Two Weeks with the Queen
Morris Gleitzman
£7.99 £7.59Heart wrenchingly beautiful and funny, 12 year old Colin is shipped off to London to live with his aunt and uncle whilst his younger brother is in hospital with terminal cancer. But surely the Queen of England has the best doctors in the world - maybe they can help...
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
Emma Carroll and Lauren Child
£12.99 £12.34A rousing and empowering twist on the original, beautifully illustrated by Lauren Child (Charlie and Lola). Magic matches and fighting for their rights; all it takes is one strike.
Murder At Snowfall
Fleur Hitchcock
£7.99 £7.59Murder mystery for kids (definitely aged 10+), tense and exciting, a pacy read!
Augustus and His Smile
Catherine Rayner
£7.99 £7.59Gorgeous picture book about a sad tiger who has lost his smile and goes looking for it in the nature surrounding him. A beautiful book about finding happiness in the little things.
Good Little Wolf
Nadia Shireen
£7.99 £7.59Good little wolf meets big bad wolf... Can he convince him not to eat Granny?!
Tiptoe Tiger
Jane Clarke and Britta Teckentrup
£6.99 £6.64Gorgeous illustrations and neon colours, with actions to get the kiddies joining in. A fun book for storytime.
A Flying Visit
Nick Butterworth
£8.99Percy park keeper books are quaint and funny, following Percy's antics with the wildlife in the park he tends. Wholesome reading.
The Koala Who Could
Rachel Bright and Jim Field
£7.99 £7.59About a koala who finds his confidence. Great for children who need a self-esteem boost!
Please Mr Panda
Steve Antony
£7.99 £7.59Panda has some donuts to give away, but will any of the animals earn them by remembering their manners? A brilliant book about the importance of saying please.
There's a Witch in Your Book
Tom Fletcher and Greg Abbott
£6.99 £6.64Have you got your wand finger ready to help the hapless witch who's stuck in this book? I hope s0 - she needs all the help she can get to tidy your messy room!
The Duck Who Didn't Like Water
Steve Small
£7.99 £7.59A frog and a duck become circumstantial friends with contrary tastes. But when frog manages to find his way back home, duck misses his company. A sweet book about blossoming friendship.
I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen
£8.99 £8.54The moral of the story is that if someone steals your hat, you should eat them and lie about it. Utterly hilarious, ideal for reading aloud.
Barbara Throws a Wobbler
Nadia Shireen
£7.99 £7.59Barbara was in a bad mood. "I am not!" she said. But she was. Great for adults and children alike, the story follows Barbara, a little girl who has had a bad morning, and dropping her ice-cream on the floor is the final straw. Her 'wobbler' manifests as a big red jelly cloud that follows her around and is mean and rude to her friends; but how will she make it go away?
Perfectly Norman: A Big Bright Feelings Book
Tom Percival
£7.99 £7.59This book made me cry! All about the fear of being different, and the relief of being accepted for who you are. One of the Big Bright Feelings books by Tom Percival, which are all equally spectacular.
You Choose: A new story every time – what will YOU choose?
Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt
£7.99 £7.59Light on text, heavy on pictures, the You Choose books encourage you to decide on your own story and adventure, and encourage imagination and storytelling.
Poo! Is That You?
Clare Helen Welsh and Nicola O'Byrne
£7.99 £7.59Lenny the Lemur can smell something whiffy, but which of the fragrant flora and fauna he meets along the way is causing the stink? With a fact file about less-than-fresh animals and their smells on the back page, this is as informative as it is amusing.
The Huge Bag of Worries
Virginia Ironside and Frank Rodgers
£7.99 £7.59A book about worries and how children can deal with them, tenderly written. A must-read for anxious kiddies and parents.
Not Now, Bernard
David McKee
£7.99 £7.59Bernard has found an actual monster in his back garden which is threatening to eat him up. But his parents are far too busy with their own concerns to listen to listen to Bernard's whittling, with disastrous and extremely funny consequences!
Dogger: the much-loved children’s classic
Shirley Hughes
£7.99 £7.59A story of a lost favourite toy and the power of sibling love. Relatable, heart-warming and classic.
Quick Quack Quentin
Kes Gray and Jim Field
£6.99 £6.64Quentin is a duck who says 'Quck'. On a mission to fix his quick quack, he borrows vowels from other animals with funny results. A witty book that plays with language. Brilliant for reading aloud.
Three Epic Adventures of Supertato
SUE HENDRA and Paul Linnet
£9.99 £9.49A superhero potato with an evil pea nemesis... funny, silly and cleverly written. Particularly enjoyable if you like giving the characters daft voices! In my rendition, Mystic Mango sounds like Dylan from Magic Roundabout...
The Dinosaur that Pooped a Pirate!
Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, et al.
£7.99 £7.59Dinosaurs, adventure, poop and rhythmic rhyming schemes... what more could you want from a book?!
Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush
Patrice Lawrence and Camilla Sucre
£7.99 £7.59A beautiful story of a grandaughter and grandmother sharing the story of her move to the UK to join the fledgling NHS.
MONSTER! HUNGRY! PHONE!
Sean Taylor and Fred Benaglia
£7.99 £7.59Completely silly, this book is about a hungry monster who is having some trouble getting through to a takeaway to order some food. What will he end up eating in his desperation? There's only one way to find out!
Storm
Sam Usher
£6.99 £6.64Richly illustrated and imaginative books about a boy's adventure with his grandfather on a stormy day.
A Bit Lost
Chris Haughton
£7.99 £7.59A sleepy owl falls out of his nest and loses his mummy. With the help of squirrel, he describes what she looks like and they try to find her with some amusing results.
Oh No, George!
Chris Haughton
£7.99 £7.59George is left alone in the house and is trying to be good. Will he be able to resist eating the cake, chasing the cat and digging the soil? A book about self-restraint and compulsion with a delicious cliff hanger ending.
A Kind of Spark
Elle McNicoll
£7.99 £7.59Addie is on a mission to get a plaque installed in the town of Juniper where she lives to pardon the women they historically burned as witches. Addie is autistic and is not being heard, but her tenacity means she won't give up. Normalising and illuminating the experience of life through an autistic lens, this is an important and current book.
Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue
Paula Harrison and Jenny Løvlie
£6.99 £6.64Kitty is a little girl with a big power - the ability to talk to cats! With her feline friends she sets out to solve mysteries. Great for fans of Isadora Moon and Mirabelle.
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good
Louie Stowell
£7.99 £7.59Cheeky and clever, Loki is Percy Jackson meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Trickster God Loki is banished to the body of a school aged boy and forced to live on Midgard until he can prove his virtue. But that's not so easy when there are frost giants and pain-in-the-neck brothers, and the general difficulties of school life, making things tricky...
Grimwood: Laugh your head off with the funniest new series of the year
Nadia Shireen
£7.99 £7.59Animals of Farthing Wood as if Monty Python had written it... Fred and Nancy are sibling foxes who anger the local fluffy cat mafia boss and have to flee the city for the countryside, where they meet a colourful array of other animals including Pamela the conspiracy theorist eagle. Will they fit in in their new home? And will they find their missing parents?
Tyger
SF Said and Dave McKean
£8.99 £8.54My FAVOURITE book of 2023. Covering topics such as racism, immigration, uneven distribution of wealth and power and slavery, this book is, at it's heart, a thrilling alternate reality fantasy book, geniusly written. Adam and Zadie, children who live in a version of London where slavery was never abolished, find an immortal in the body of a wounded tiger, and the race is on to save him (and themselves).
Guardians of Magic
Chris Riddell
£7.99Lord of the Rings meets Harry Potter, this fantasy novel has magic, heroic children, evil robot overlords and giants. A story of good vs evil, and rebellion and revolt. Illustrated with line drawings by Chris Riddell which adds to the rich world building of the story.
The Worst Class in the World
Joanna Nadin and Rikin Parekh
£6.99 £6.64A group of classmates take the fate of their school on their shoulders and come up with plans to fight injustice, even if that means putting bugs in the new head dinner lady's salad...
Fledgling
Lucy Hope
£7.99 £7.59A Bavarian steampunk fantasy novel about angels and cherubs being stalked by evil undead falcons. Can Cassie save the cherub before the falcons get the better of them? And what secret is her best friend hiding? This book was heartbreaking and atmospheric.
My Life on Fire
Cath Howe
£7.99 £7.59Ren's house burns to the ground whilst her and her family are at a friend's house for dinner. Ren is completely traumatised and finds a less than ethical way to cope with her feelings. Her classmate Casper knows her secret, and has to think hard about how best to help her. A moving story with multifaceted relationships and characters. Extremely well written.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)
Rick Riordan
£8.99 £8.54Percy Jackson discovers he is a Demigod and sets out with his friends, Annabeth and Grover the satyr, to settle a feud between the Olympian Gods before they start all-out war. But all is not as it seems... Monsters, bravery, adventure and enduring friendship fill these novels and they're a thrilling read!
Finding Bear
Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold
£12.99 £12.34Bear is back, and he's not alone! And he needs April's help again. This sequel to The Last Bear is just as good, if not better.
The Last Bear
Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold
£7.99 £7.59April goes to Bear Island with her dad, who is a meteorologist. Alone together for 6 months, April goes out to explore the far reaches of the island and finds an injured, unexpected and potentially very dangerous friend who needs her help (and her peanut butter). With her pleas for help falling on deaf ears, April takes matters into her own hands.
Lottie Luna and the Bloom Garden
Vivian French and Nathan Reed
£6.99 £6.64Lottie Luna is a young werewolf learning the ways of the world at their werewolf school. With all the usual school drama (with some magic thrown in for good measure), Lottie and her friends have to get to the bottom of who is destroying their bloom garden and why. Great for fans of The Worst Witch, and anyone who loved Mirabelle and Isadora but wants to move on to a more challenging read.
Escape Room
Christopher Edge
£7.99 £7.59This is a VERY exciting story full of peril and mystery. Following Ami and a group of other children through a set of escape rooms, each with a different theme and message, you are lead to a climactic and shocking conclusion. This book had the feel of Jumanji about it. It also has a strong ecological message, and the plot twist is exquisite.
The Secret School Invasion
Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham
£7.99 £7.59A group of primary school students take it upon themselves to solve some strange mysteries that befall their school. But are things really as bizarre as they seem?
Ember Shadows and the Fates of Mount Never: Book 1
Rebecca King
£7.99 £7.59Ember Shadow is waiting to receive her fate card; the magical note that will tell her her destiny. But when it arrives, it is completely blank. This leads her to a quest to find who decides the fates and deals the cards. With her fate, and her little sister's life, in the balance, Ember needs to be brave.
The Beasts of Knobbly Bottom: Attack of the Vampire Sheep!
Emily-Jane Clark and Jeff Crowther
£7.99 £7.59Maggie is fed up that she's had to leave her life in the city to live in the boring village of Knobbly Bottom. But when something strange starts happening with the sheep at the end of her garden she realises there might be more to her new hometown than meets the eye. Can she save the village? And who is the weird grandma with the stinky garlic lollipops... Like Hot Fuzz for kids, this is laugh-out-loud funny.
Bad Influence
Tamsin Winter
£7.99 £7.59Amelia is a model student, but also the victim of the school bullies. When a new boy moves to town she is eager to impress him, but will she go too far, and what will be the consequences of her actions? Affecting, relatable and poignant, with vivid characters and of-the-moment themes.
Daisy and the Trouble with Nature
Kes Gray
£7.99 £7.59the school install a ‘nature garden’ which the children are disappointed to find it just a huge patch of mud. They are told they need to wait for the nature to come naturally but, being impatient and excited, they decide to give the nature a helping hand, stopping just short of smuggling a neighbour’s cat into school in a backpack.