Item category 1: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general -- also known as her tough-as-talons mother -- has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: drago...

Deciding to illustrate a disturbing, secret handwritten manuscript from her late Pulitzer Prize-winning father, aspiring artist Haven Marbury is plunged into a nightmarish world when a monstrous creature appears, forcing her to uncover dark, otherworldly family secrets to rewrite everything she t...

Mary Firth is a Stormsinger: a woman whose voice can still hurricanes and shatter armadas. Faced with servitude to pirate lord Silvanus Lirr, Mary offers her skills to his arch-rival in exchange for protection - and, more importantly, his help sending Lirr to a watery grave. But her new ally has ...

England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness-a man made of smoke. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a fo...

When Nerra's great-grandmother passes away, she leaves a box of artefacts to Nerra. Nerra is drawn to the clapsticks which glow red hot, and when she picks them up, she is transported back in time. Dreaming is out of balance and a hero needs to help. Bineal and Pirnbial, husband and wife of the r...

While trying to figure out which of their brain parts is exciting enough for the Monster High talent show, Frankie Stein discovers they are the product of a disgraced scientist accused of unethical experiments and teams up with Draculaura and Clawdeen to discover the truth.

On the day of the spirits festival, the old woman who lives in the forest appears in Abeni's village with a terrible message: You ignored my warnings. It's too late to run. They are coming. The old woman hasn't come to save them, only to collect one child as payment for her years of service and p...

Wally is an eleven-year-old whizz-kid who builds robots that perform everyday tasks like weeding and ironing. Word of his talent spreads, and when the sinister Dr Criplash offers him a small fortune to build a special robot, it looks like an opportunity too good to refuse - his family needs the m...

In this instalment, The Timekeepers are whirled back in time to 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. An exhausted Orville and Wilbur Wright are desperately trying to fix their aeroplane. Their initial tests had been so promising, but all of a sudden the Wright Flyer's propeller has gone missing! T...

Bella Gossi just moved from New York City to the Massachusetts beach town of Shiver-by-the-Sea to live with her Uncle Van. Bella's excited about helping her mom fix up the old movie theater, but she's already missing her old home and her old friends, and just driving through downtown, it's pretty...

Tangled's Eugene Fitzherbert goes on a life-altering adventure that leads to his transformation into the one and only Flynn Rider.

Abandoned at birth and shuffled through the System all her life, Cinder is on the verge of being expelled from yet another school. Despite high test scores and uncanny talents in gym class, Cinder's records show a penchant for fighting, defiance, impulsivity, and an "unwillingness to develop appr...

Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.

Ben doesn't feel chosen by anybody -- not by his friends, who haven't kept in touch since he moved after his parents' divorce, or by his mom, who's so busy he barely sees her. He spends all his time living in fantasy worlds and writing extensively planned adventure campaigns in his role-playing-g...

AUSTRALIAN. One fateful afternoon, classmates Luca, Yazmine and Zane stumble upon a strange-looking rock called a geode in one of the rooms at school. To their surprise, a touch of this geode transports them to a magical land named Imperia. The geode is actually a dragon egg! It's one of three Th...

Beastheart is set in a fantastical world run by a complex hierarchy of Beasts called the new-Kind, which have magical or elemental powers. Humans have become the oppressed underclass, but rebellion is brewing as enemies struggle for power, and the truth about the origins of the Kind could tip the...

A rusting ocean liner. Thirty students learning to resurrect the dead. A murderous monster on the loose. Just a typical day at Prometheus High. Athena Strange's first semester at Prometheus High starts with a bang. But when her lessons in reanimation, robotics and skulkers move too slowly and she...

The evil wizard Malvel has banished four young adventurers to the mysterious Netherworld! Now the most dangerous quest yet begins. Can anyone defeat Ossiron, a monstrous skeleton jackal?

Yesterday Crumb has always felt cursed by the fox ears she was born with. Forced to work in a circus, her origins are a complete mystery. But when she is rescued by Miss Dumpling and her magical walking teashop, Yesterday learns she's a strangeling who's lost her magic. Surrounded by fantastical ...

Exiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while imprisoned in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin. The secrets of the Hirana call to Priya. ...

Greenwich, London, 15th February 1894. Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt's butterfly club sounds deathly boring. But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, is not at all as Luna expects. The Butterfly Club is a society with an unusual secret....

Returning to Brooklyn, where his magician-father disappeared years before, twelve-year-old Kingston learns that magic is real and that if he enters the Realm, he might get his father back.

Cassie Morgan has run away. After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return, she flees her dreary boarding school and sets out to find her. But the world outside her school is full of hidden magic and children have been going missing. With the help of a talking cat and a flying broom, Ca...

When the Kingdom of Alez decides it doesn't want a royal family any more, Princess Olivia is delighted - she never liked princess lessons anyway! But descending from the palace in the mountains to the city by the sea, Olivia is unprepared for the world that awaits her. Dark clouds hang low, river...

Emrael Ire wants nothing more than to test to be a weapons master. His final exam will be a bloody insurrection, staged by corrupt nobles and priests, that enslaves his brother. With the aid of his War Master tutor, herself an undercover mage, Imrael discovers his own latent and powerful talents....

Shinji Takahashi is just an ordinary kid. An ordinary, home-schooled, smart-alecky, orphan kid being raised by his globe-trotting aunt, Yui. But when a magical guardian decides to use him as a conduit to awaken its power, Shinji's life takes a turn for the anything-but-ordinary. Captured by the m...

Drake never thought dragons were real. But he soon learns that dragons are real - and that he is a Dragon Master! The magic Dragon Stone has chosen Drake and three others - Ana, Rori and Bo - to train dragons. Will Drake be able to connect with his dragon? Does he have what it takes to become a t...

Raised in rival colonies on Mars, each long ago abandoned by Earth, Dee and Holt have been brought up to hate even the idea of each other. But when a mysterious object crash-lands on a far-flung plain, they are both sent to investigate. Stranded in a hostile landscape, Dee and Holt must work toge...

Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it. Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a hu...