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This month, we have strange islands, invisible animals and tantalising mysteries abound! Our February books are a wonderful mix of edge-of-your-seat thrilling, ethereally magical and code-crackingly adventurous. Here's a round-up of what's out this month! 
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TOP 5 kid detectives

Detectives have to be more than just plain nosy – only the truly tough, steely and determined will get to the bottom of the crime. As Humphrey Bogart says in ‘The Big Sleep’ (when asked why he keeps on investigating):  ‘Too many people told me to stop.’  (more…)

Sarah Rubin grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, spending most of her childhood dressing up, reading and trying to get lost in the woods.

Sarah earned her BA in Creative Writing and History from Skidmore College, New York, and after teaching dance and drama for a year, she moved to Winchester in England. Her first novel, Dreamer Ballerina, published in 2011, while the two books in her Alice Jones mystery series, Alice Jones: the Impossible Clue and Alice Jones: the Ghost Light, are both out now.