



Sophie Cameron - our Author of the Month.Best kids books for getting children walking for National Walking Month and Walk to School Week.Shortlist announced for the 2023 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration.They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate… But she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying figure of myth and legend who takes girls as gifts. On the eve of her divining, the day she’ll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community.įorced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn’t understand.

They say the thirst for blood is like a madness – they must sate it. Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, darkly provoking and deeply romantic – this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. Shortlisted for the Foyles Children’s Book of the Year, the YA Book Prize 2020, and the Diverse Book Awards 2020.
