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Handle With Care
‘Heartbreaking, visceral, and powerful’ Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in PiecesA stunningly powerful YA novel from a master storyteller told in both prose and verse.No one knows Ruby is pregnant – not even Ruby herself. So when she gives birth at school on a miserable February morning, her world is thrown into chaos. Keeping the baby isn’t an option, but keeping quiet about who the father of her child definitely is; because if Ruby’s best friend Ashley finds out the truth, then she’ll lose her too.When Ruby finally realises…
Knight Sir Louis and the Cauldron of Chaos
The Brothers McLeod are back with their funniest spookiest adventure about Knight Sir Louis yet!
Help! The Cauldron of Chaos is greedily chomping up all the riches it can find in Squirrel Helm. Poor Knight Sir Louis has had to find a new sword after Dave had a run-in with some evil diamonds. So when ambitious witch Cilla Da Spell joins forces with the wicked cauldron, Louis, Inspector Catalogue and Pearlin must come up with their most ingenious plan yet!
Louie Stowell, author of LOKI A BAD GOD’S GUIDE
Pizza Pete and the Missing Magic
Pizza Pete is back in his second pizzatastic story! Pete and his dad return to Accringham to see Anna, Archie and Useless the dog after a glorious summer selling pizzas from their van. He’s worried about starting the school term and seeing his friends after such a long time. But when the magical potions go missing, and Pete discovers one of his friends is behind the theft, he has to summon all his courage to save the day – plus making use of some magic! Pete is back…
BIGG SCHOOL: Secret Crush
The third story in the Bigg School series, stories about a class of Year Sevens starting out at the Henry Bigg Academy. Each book tells the story from a different character – and now it’s Astrid’s turn!
Astrid likes being different. Who cares if most of her classmates think she’s a bit odd? She’s happy being exactly who she is.
When new boy Teddy joins the school, Astrid discovers that they have loads in common – he loves reading the same fantasy books and joins the Scribble Society too. But…
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Guppy Open Submission Shortlist announcement!
Well, it has been extremely difficult but finally we have whittled down the longlist to a shortlist of nine fabulous young adult stories. Thank you so much to all who…
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Revealing the 23 writers on the Guppy Open Submission YA longlist 2024!
Thank you so much for sending in your entry for Guppy’s open submission window. We were so impressed with the standard of writing, the original ideas and the incredible energy…
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Guppy Open Submission Competition 2024 update
We are really enjoying reading all the fantastic YA submissions we received last month – what a lot of talent there is out there! Thank you all for your patience.…
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What it means to win the Guppy Open Submission Award! OR Sorrel spills the beans.
Every day, I still wake up completely baffled that I won the Guppy Open Submission in 2022. It’s especially bizarre that because I won the Guppy Open Submission, I now…
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