A passionate campaign brings four best friends back together in a fight to save their school library in this heartfelt tale from the bestselling author of Pages & Co. The library is Hettys very favourite place in school, and since falling out with her best friends Ali, Mei and Rocket shes been spending even more time there. So shes absolutely horrified when she learns that her head teacher is planning to close it down, claiming there arent enough funds to keep the library going. Theres no way Hettys going to sit back and let this happen. But can she repair her broken friendships and build support for her library campaign? Let the Battle of the Books commence!

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

This book was published in 2022 by Barrington Stoke Ltd .

Anna James is a writer and journalist living in London. Anna was Book News Editor at The Bookseller magazine and was Literary Editor of ELLE UK. Anna has also written for The Pool, The LA Times, The Financial Times and The Independent, as well as making bookish YouTube videos as A Case For Books. She hosts literary events and panels and is the co-founder and host of the YA Salon in London. She was shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Award for Women in Publishing in 2015, and the London Book Fair Trailblazers Award in 2016. Patricia Brennan Demuth has written several books for children, including Way Down Deep , Gorillas , Snakes , Johnny Appleseed , Mars , Achoo! All about Colds , and Max, the Bad-Talking Parrot . Jez Tuya is a New Zealand-based freelance illustrator, specializing in character design and children's illustration. While he creates his illustrations digitally they are rich in texture, detail and atmosphere which gives them a hand-rendered quality.