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.
>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.
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.
"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 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
A suspenseful teen fantasy about young love, dark mystery and magic. Something is menacing Mundham Farm. Does it come from outside - or within?
A grandma teaches her granddaughter how to overcome fears by imagining funny situations
Another adventure for Libby and her magical wolfish best friend!
Absurdly enjoyable dark adventure about a boy's mission to stop his evil sisters terrorising the town
"Milo is thrilled to be starting at the country's most prestigious school. But it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on. The headmaster, Dr Pummelcrush, is bent on brainwashing the students and turning them into mindless, unthinking human robots. When Milo stumbles across a bright and colourful secret garden and meets its joyous gardener, he and his friends begin to open their minds to a whole new way of thinking: philosophy. Can the Philosophy Resistance Squad use their new questioning skills to resist Pummelcrush's evil project and save their classmates from being zombified?"
"The best animal adventure since Watership Down" - The TimesA boy who finds speaking difficult enters a hidden world of talking animals, a world where language is power. Can he find his voice to help the wolves outsmart the clever foxes?
Climate Change and how to fight it explained in a hopeful and eco-friendly book. Published in collaboration with Friends of the Earth.
A dark & witchy feminist retelling of the Irish myth of The Children of Lir
Fia longs to visit the mysterious island. One night a moonbeam reaches across the bay and leads her there.
Another hilarious, and yet very serious investigation led by Seamus the private detective. Who said turkeys couldn't solve mysteries?
With a best friend like Wulfie, anything is possible! Wulfie is just like a puppy: fluffy and adorable. But unlike a puppy, he talks. And he's purple. His favourite food is smelly socks. He can be small as a snail or big as a bear. He's sweet and loyal and he's Libby's best friend. Funny and heartwarming tales of a girl and her wolfish best friend.
A collection of thirteen dark, feminist retellings of traditional fairytales from one of Ireland's leading writers for young people.
An Iraq war veteran, a young Iraqi-American man, and a supreme love of John Coltrane. An unlikely friendship brings together the disparate worlds of modern America and traditional Islam.
Dystopian fiction meets classic adventure in this tale of twin brothers travelling to forbidden islands in search of gold.
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