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THE END IS BREWING ...Love, lattes, and world-ending drama – life just got a lot less cosy for Lydie, teenage daughter of Death. The cosy romcom/fantasy obsession you didn’t know you needed.Come for the cinnamon rolls, stay for the apocalypse.Lydie, the daughter of Death, a retired Rider of the Apocalypse, is obsessed with ‘cosy’; cosy books, cosy job in the family café, cosy low-drama life.But then secretive, attractive, and above all annoying, Kai, bursts into the café in a flurry of autumn leaves, with secrets that threaten to change everything.Big, un-cosy things are coming for Lydie whether she likes it or not, and working with Kai might be the only way to protect her town. Provided she doesn't fall for him first ...TROPES FOR THE CAFÉ AT THE END OF THE WORLD¤ Grumpy/sunshine¤ Forced Proximity¤ Enemies to ... well, that would be telling¤ Brooding ML who just needs a hug¤ ‘I totally have to kiss you right now or else we’ll blow our cover’PRAISE FOR THE CAFÉ AT THE END OF THE WORLD‘With timeless yearning, apocalyptic stakes and a cosy setting, this is a delicious treat of a book’ - Niyla Farook, award-winning author of Murder for Two'A comforting, cozy hug set against world-ending stakes and heart-pounding adventure. After reading, you'll never want to leave the Snug' - Ann Sei Lin, author of Rebel Skies‘The perfect balance of cosy, coffee-shop vibes with thrilling, world-saving stakes’ - Zeena Gosrani, author of This Dark Heart

School has finished for the day, but Ashwin, Naya, Jo and her younger brother, Eddie, find themselves trapped inside as it transforms. Things get worse when Eddie is swept over a waterfall. The children realise some strange magic is at play as they search for Eddie in a jungle, through space and in a fairytale land. Will they find Eddie and figure out how to escape from school? Trapped in School is a fiction adventure with theatrical elements that readers can perform. Trapped in School is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 8-9 years

A swoony, speculative and Carnegie-nominated YA debut with a hilarious and electric take on the conventions of the superhero-verse. For fans of Michelle Quach’s Not Here To Be Liked and the Marvel Universe.Seventeen-year-old Jenna Ray has just been saved by the world's newest superhero, Blaze. And, in the eyes of the public, that means one thing: Jenna Ray has been cast as the Love Interest.No. Not happening. Not if Jenna has anything to say about it. (Even if Blaze is actually quite sweet and cute.)But before she can turn down this new role, the mysterious Villains contact her to offer a life-changing proposition: become Blaze's Love Interest, while avoiding catching feelings for him, to uncover the HPA's secret plans and find her missing mum.To make matters even more complicated, just as Jenna starts to embrace her new-found career, she discovers she might be on the side of the superheroes more than she ever imagined …SWOONY | SUBVERSIVE | SUPER

Expect even more swoon, outrageous humour and epic battles in The Hero Complex, the sequel to Helen Comerford’s Carnegie-nominated YA debut The Love Interest.Jenna Ray was the Love Interest, but now she's the HERO. Unfortunately, as it turns out, having actual superpowers doesn't make life any easier.For starters, being an official superhero means Jenna and Blaze can work together but not be together, no matter how much they are drawn to each other.Jenna knows she can make it work. She can be 'just friends' with Blaze while handling intensive hero-training exercises, a world-ending prophecy and her own power-triggering panic attacks … She can be the perfect hero.As the pressure builds, what more will Jenna have to give up in order to save the world?SWOONY | SUBVERSIVE | SUPER