Something Invisible

Something Invisible is the stunning new novel from bestselling Irish author Siobhán Parkinson.

Siobhán Parkinson is one of Ireland's leading authors for children and teenagers, and she has won numerous awards for her writing. Her books have been translated into many languages, from Danish to Thai - even ones where they translate your name as well as your book, so somewhere in Central Europe are books by a person called Šivena Parkinsona. She is joint editor of Bookbird, an international journal on children's literature, and when she is not writing stories or pretending to be Šivena Parkinsona, she visits schools and works with children on their writing projects. Siobhán lives in Dublin with her husband and grown-up son.

Jake likes thinking, talking, football and encyclopedias. And fish. But he's not so sure about everything else - especially girls, or little sisters, or stepdads. And most of all, he's not sure if he really likes himself. 
 
 
Then Jake meets a girl called Stella and old Mrs Kennedy next door, and he begins to find that he likes a lot more things than he thought. After all, as Mrs Kennedy says: Life isn't a bowl of cherries, but a bowl of cherries is still a bowl of cherries. 
 
But it takes a tragedy to force Jake to look at himself and see that, really, he isn't so bad after all.

Second Fiddle

A funny, charming summer story from a new writer to the Puffin list, Siobhán Parkinson

Siobhán Parkinson is one of Ireland's leading authors for children and teenagers, and she has won numerous awards for her writing. Her books have been translated into many languages, from Danish to Thai - even ones where they translate your name as well as your book, so somewhere in Central Europe are books by someone called Šivena Parkinsona. 
 
She is joint editor of Bookbird, an international journal on children's literature, and when she is not writing stories or pretending to be Šivena Parkinsona, she visits schools and works with children on their writing projects. Siobhán lives in Dublin with her husband and grown-up son.

Aspiring writer, Mags Clarke has just moved with her mother to a new area after the death of her father. One day she stumbles across a girl who appears to be floating above the trees while playing her violin in the woods. Mags, clever, funny and opinionated, usually has her feet firmly on the ground so she's not sure that she and this girl are going to get on, but an unlikely friendship develops.

Siobhán Parkinson

To Hal, Fridays are blue, and tangy, like blue lemon sherbert. Olivia thinks he's crazy. Friday is just Friday, isn't it? 
 
Olivia is pretty sure that Hal's mysterious plan to get rid of his not-quite-stepfather, Alec, is even weirder. But things don't go quite as either Hal or Olivia expect. Maybe the real problem is even closer to home than anyone ever imagined . . . 
 
This gorgeously written voyage of self-discovery will entrance boys and girls aged 9+.

Siobhán Parkinson

Books by Siobhán Parkinson

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