Bridge Street Books childrens books

Bridge Street Books

Wicklow

Great reads for Children of all ages

Please click on the links below to access a selection of our favourite kids books at the moment. Unfortunately, we do not yet have the facility to order on-line, so if you wish to know more about a book, the books we have in stock or even place an order, please do not hesitate to contact us. We love seeing children enjoy books - the favourite part of my job, is reading the kids books - so please ask for our help

World Book Day

World Book Day is March 1st. You should get your voucher from your teacher, and this voucher is worth a WBD book, or €1.50 off a book. The vouchers are valid from 27th Feb, right the way through to 25th March - SO MAKE SURE TO SPEND YOURS!

We will be doing Children's book readings all day on WBD, so pop down for a listen & spend YOUR voucher...

Remember all the €1.50 tokens are a gift from your local booksellers. Shop local and support your local bookshops

Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 won by: Cats Ahoy (6) & The Brilliant World of Tom Gates (7-14). Read more here

EXCITING BOOKS OUT NOW.....

Books we are excited about......

	Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein 12+	2 young women become unlikely best friends during WWII, until one is captured by the Gestapo. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted to each other. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in "Verity's" own words, as she writes her account for her captors. Truth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they've ever believed in is put to the test
	Girl, Stolen April Henry teen	How do you escape when you can't see the way out? Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mother fills her prescription. Before Cheyenne realizes what has happened, the car is being stolen from the car park. Cheyenne is not only sick with pneumonia - she is also blind. Griffin, the teenage driver, hadn't meant to kidnap her - he was just stealing a car for the gang. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne's father is the president of Nike, everything changes - now there's a reason to keep her. Will Cheyenne be able to survive this harrowing ordeal, and escape? And if so, at what price? This is a fast-paced thriller full of nail-biting suspense
	Ingo Chronicles - Stormswept Helen Dumore	An atmospheric and beautifully written adventure, from the award-winning author of the Ingo series. Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall. As Morveren and Jenna's relationship shifts and changes, like driftwood on the tide, Morveren finds a beautiful teenage boy in a rock pool after a storm. Going to his rescue, she is shocked to see that he is not human but a Mer boy. With Jenna refusing to face the truth, Morveren finds herself alone at the worst possible time. Because when the worlds of Air and Mer meet, the consequences can be terrible
COSTA Award Winner 2012	Blood Red Road Moira Young teen	A fast-paced adventure thriller, for fans of 'The Hunger Games' & Michael Grant's '*Gone Series'...* Every step of Saba's journey sizzles with danger... In a lawless land, where life is cheap and survival is hard, Saba has been brought up in isolated Silverlake. She never sees theangers of the destructive society outside. When her twin brother is snatched by mysterious black-robed riders, she sets out on an epic quest to rescue him
	Diary of a Wimpy Kid - The Ugly Truth Jeff Kinney	Number 5 in the best-selling series now in paperback
	Henderson Boys: Prisoner Robert Muchamore teen	One of Henderson's best agents is being held captive in Frankfurt. A set of forged record cards could be his ticket to freedom, but might just as easily become his death warrant. A vital mission awaits him in France - if he can find a way to escape
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 Winners		Cats Ahoy! Peter Bently A swashbuckling tale of pirate plunder, derring do, a huge haul of haddock and cutless-waving cats.
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 Winners		The Brilliant World of Tom Gates Liz Pichon When my teacher, Mr Fullerman, doesn't have his beady eyes on me, I like to draw pictures and write stories about stuff, like when we had the worst holiday ever (camping sucks), and when my parents came to school for parents' evening (groan). All I want to do is get tickets to see the best band ever, DUDE3, when they come to town. A book written in the form of a battered homework diary, crammed with the scribbles and stories of Tom Gates, a kind of Adrian-Mole-younger-brother-figure, or 'Wimpy Kid'. True-to-life, honest, silly and very funny in a standout format with illustrations and doodles, this is perfectly pitched particularly for boys, aged 9+
Cold Hands, Warm Heart Jill Wolfson 12+		Fourteen-year-old Amanda is a competitive gymnast, sleek-muscled and in perfect health. Fifteen-year-old Dani was born with her heart on the wrong side of her body; she's been in and out of hospital all her life. The two girls don't know each other - and never will. Yet their lives are about to collide. A fantastic story that will break your heart, but at the same time make you happy.
Into the Grey Celine Kiernan 12+		By the fantastic author of the 'Poison Throne' trilogy, comes a ghost story with a difference. Set in Skerries, in North County Dublin, this is a fantastic read. One you really don't want to put down. Get it now
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever Jeff Kinney		Wimpy Kid 6 due 16.11.11
Hunger Games Trilogy Suzanne Collins teen		With the film due in 2012, get the books read now. Seriously, they are so worth it!
*Inheritance* Christopher Paolini (9+)		The 4th part of the 'Inheritance Trilogy' OUT NOW
Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer Derek Landy		out now!
Scorpia Rising Anthony Horowitz		the last ever Alex Rider adventure.
Trash Andy Mulligan		Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything. Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat are running for their lives. Wanted by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking, fast-talking to stay ahead. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man's mission to put right a terrible wrong. It's three street-boys against the world. The Christmas bestseller is now in paperback 10+
Prince of Mist Carlos Ruiz Zafon		Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the coast, to an old house that once belonged to a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann. But the house holds many secrets and stories of its own. Behind it is an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star. When he goes to investigate, Max finds that the statues seem to consist of a kind of circus troop with the large statue of a clown at its centre. Max has the curious sensation that the statue is beckoning to him. As the family settles in they grow increasingly uneasy: they discover a box of old films belonging to the Fleischmanns; his sister has disturbing dreams and his other sister hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. They also discover the wreck of a boat that sank many years ago in a terrible storm. Everyone on board perished except for one man - an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach. During the dive, Max sees something that leaves him cold - on the old mast floats a tattered flag with the symbol of the six-pointed star. As they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of the Prince of the Mists begins to emerge The first book Zafon ever wrote - a fantastic book. teen
Department 19 Will Hill		In a secret supernatural battle that's been raging for over a century, the stakes have just been raised -- and they're not wooden anymore. When Jamie Carpenter's mother is kidnapped by strange creatures, he finds himself dragged into Department 19, the government's most secret agency. Fortunately for Jamie, Department 19 can provide the tools he needs to find his mother, and to kill the vampires who want him dead. But unfortunately for everyone, something much older is stirring, something even Department 19 can't stand up against! This book is based on the theory that Dracula really existed - a very scary, teen vampire novel that grips you from the first page
When you Reach Me Rebecca Stead		Miranda's life is starting to unravel. Her best friend, Sal, gets punched by a kid on the street for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The key that Miranda's mum keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. 11+
*London Eye Mystery* Siobhan Dowd		Winner of the Bisto Childrens' Books Awards 2008 Monday 24th May 11.32am: Ted & Kat watch their cousim Salim get on board the London Eye. The pod rises from the ground. Monday 24th May 12.02pm: The pod lands and the doors open. People exit - but where is Salim? Has he spontaneously combusted? Has he been kidnapped? Is he even still alive? Even the police are baffled. Ted, whose brain runs on it's own unique operating system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners. They follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin, while the time ticks dangerously by...... A must-read for anyone aged 9+