Our May 2024 children's and young adult bestsellers

At the top of our bestsellers this month is a big-hearted novel about the places and people we call home.

Coming in second is the next instalment of the beautiful and cosy graphic novel series, Lightfall.

Other highlights are the latest YA thriller by Mike Lucas, our children's picture book of the month, a new release by Morris Gleitzman and a fun new series about a squad of frogs.


1. A Way Home by Emily Brewin

2. Lightfall: The Dark Times by Tim Probert

3. The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man, Book 12) by Dav Pilkey

4. Completely Normal (and Other Lies) by Biffy James

5. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

6. One By One They Disappear by Mike Lucas

7. The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel, Danny Snell (illus.)

8. The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

9. Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox & Judy Horacek (illus.)

10. The Bad Guys Episode 19: The Serpent and the Beast by Aaron Blabey

11. Tweet by Morris Gleitzman

12. The Night War by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

13. Dessert Disaster (Frog Squad, Book 1) by Kate Temple, Jol Temple and Shiloh Gordon (illus.)

14. Country by Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson and Cheryl Davison (illus.)

15. Saturday is Pancake Day by Bernadette Green & Daniel Gray-Barnett (illus.)

16. Into the Mouth of the Wolf by Erin Gough

17. If You Run Out of Words by Felicita Sala

18. What Stars Are For by Margeaux Davis

19. Outlaw Girls by Emily Gale & Nova Weetman

20. Wurrtoo by Tylissa Elisara & Dylan Finney (illus.)


Cover image for A Way Home

A Way Home

Emily Brewin

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