A second novel for Young Picador from Whitbread-shortlist star! It's a long, hot summer - and a climactic one. For 14-year-old Sapphire it brings the awesome, terrifying realisation that she is pregnant - a discovery that catapults her into the eye of a storm as her body, her future, her life, become a battleground for everyone's needs but her own. Meanwhile, out in the humid urban night, a mysterious firebug is running wild, working out his own anger and confusion with dramatic consequences. Somehow, from this cauldron of emotion and fear, Sapphire must find a way to take control of her life - and make the most agonising and lonely of choices.

The Opposite of Chocolate

Julie Bertagna

Young Picador

Sixteen-year-old Mara and her ship of refugees are tracking the North Star, desperate to find a homeland in the melted ice mountains of Greenland. The vast, floating city of Pomperoy is just one of the shocks that are not in their navigation plans. Unwittingly, the refugees bring catastrophe in their wake for Tuck, a gypsea pirate-boy, and also for Ilira - a land whose inhabitants exist in a state of terror at the top of the world. Back in the drowned ruins at the feet of the towering sky city, Fox is beginning his battle with the cruel, corrupt forces that rule the New World. But separated from Mara, his resolve begins to waver . . .

Zenith

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Picador

<p>Much of Earth is underwater in the high mountains at the top of the world Lily survives with her mother and her people ...but she feels trapped. Elsewhere, beneath the exclusive sky-cities that tower above the waves, Fox has been waiting too. But when Fox and Lily meet on a virtual plane, they realize the time has come to act. The world must be made whole again, even if it means losing each other! The third and final installment in the brilliantly imagined, hugely romantic and poetically told trilogy set in a frighteningly realistic future.</p>

Aurora

Macmillan Children`s Books

<p>Wayne and Wendy’s parents are always coming up with crazy business schemes. Having unsuccessfully tried their hand at goat farming they’ve now bought a bashed up old ice-cream van called Macaroni, and are ready to take to the road selling their extraordinary ice-cream. There’s Marshmallow Squidge, Chocwobble, and Cheesy Peasmint – no ordinary flavours are allowed on board! Wayne and Wendy, and their mischievous pet goat Gina, are soon having great fun with Macaroni - who turns out to be a very unusual, rather magical ice-cream van!</p>

The Ice-cream Machine

Action & Adventure

Pan/Macmillan

Wayne and Wendy's crackpot parents have come up with yet another idea for making money - they're going to sell the most exciting ice-cream ever tasted. It's all thanks to a magical ice-cream van called Macaroni and a naughty goat called Gina.

The Ice-cream Machine (Mammoth Storybooks)

Literature & Fiction

Mammoth

Mam Read - Book People

Jenny, Nimmo

ANDREW MATTHEWS

MICHAEL MORPURGO

Patrick Skene Catling

ROBERT SWINDELLS

Keith Gray

Stephen Potts

Elizabeth, Laird

Egmont Books Ltd.

The Ice-Cream Machine

Sophie Aldred

Chivers North America

Bungee Hero

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Barrington Stoke

A girl discovers a magical world of storytelling beneath a secret trapdoor in Muirhouse library. An ancient piper emerges from the sea at Portobello, to challenge the City Council. Three hapless witches circle above the Old Town, failing to do good deeds. And at school, a bully is tricked into taking the blame for a crime he didn't commit. Familiar and fantastical, comic and thought-provoking, Our City brings together ten of Scotland's top children's writers, with specially commissioned stories inspired by Edinburgh. Our City is published in support of the OneCity Trust, Edinburgh's leading social inclusion charity.

Our City

Birlinn Ltd.

Wildheart

Yosemite Conservancy

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