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THE SEEKER AND THE SHADE is a GUPPY BOOK Manufacturer: First published in Great Britain in 2026 by Guppy Publishing Ltd, Bracken Hill, Cotswold Road, Oxford OX2 9JG guppybooks.co.uk Represented by: Authorised Rep Compliance Ltd, Ground Floor, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin D02 P593, Ireland www.arccompliance.com Text copyright © Ellen Osborne, 2026 Map copyright © JoJo Elliott, 2026 Lantern image copyright © Kiuyan Ran, 2026 ISBN: 9781916558724 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Th

“Leave me alone!” A lone wolf. A wolf that was lonely – but disguising it well with harrumphs and snarls. Living in a tangle of trees, well away from everyone and everything else. Time had put frost on his whiskers and ice in his heart. I couldn’t stop thinking about him. I was writing during the pandemic, so there was a lot of alone-ness going on. I wanted to write a proper adventure for this wolf, that thawed his heart and found him love. But I wasn’t quite sure w

Undercover angel Phoebe Speedwell is more than just a grumpy tween on a seemingly impossible mission - she’s also my way of trying to help young readers understand what makes people tick. After experiencing the first two years of modern secondary school through the eyes of my daughter and her friends, I observed the default human reaction (from children and parents alike) of labelling anyone who behaves badly towards us as ‘mean’ or even ‘evil’. Encouraged by some really insp