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Addy Farmer / Grandad's Bench

 This is a beautiful, sensitively told story of love and loss and of a special relationship between grandfather and grandson. Jake loves playing in Grandad's workshop. One autumn day, Grandad teaches...

Mary Murphy / Parrot Park

 One of an innovative new series of linked stories designed to build reader confidence. The Murphys live at 53 Parrot Park, Dublin. There's Mammy, Rory, Anna and Mary (the twins), Cormac, Catherine...

Emily Jenkins / Sticks and Stones

 The second book in a hilarious and heartfelt new series about a groupof magical misfits!Nory Horace is nine years old. She's resourceful, she's brave, shelikes peanut butter cookies. Also, like most...

Noel Langley / The Land of Green Ginger

 When Prince Abu Ali, son of Aladdin, is born his destiny has already been foretold: he is the one who has been chosen to break the spell of the mysterious Land of Green Ginger. His quest brings him...

Michelle Cuevas / Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

 Jacques Papier thinks that everyone hates him. After all, teachers ignore him when he raises his hand in class, nobody ever picks him for sports teams, and his sister, Fleur, keeps having to remind...

Paddington 2: The Story of the Movie

 Paddington returns for another fun-filled instalment of marmalade and mishaps in the star-studded new movie!Join the irresistible Brown family and their adopted bear, plus a whole new cast of...

Emily Bearn / Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Circus Adventure

 It's The Borrowers meets The Wind in the Willows. Enter the world of Tumtum and Nutmeg for a wonderfully enchanting story full of warmth and humour. Suddenly the General looked up and saw the most...

Sam McBartney / The Lough Neagh Monster

 When NESSIE arrives from Scotland to visit her monster cousin NOBLETT there is bound to be trouble. Noblett loves his peaceful secret garden and has little time for his troublesome cousin from Loch...

Jan Stardling / The Lost Treasure

   Ahoy there! It's a new Walker Story with a fun pirate theme. Pirate Pete is a bad pirate who loves taking treasure while Pirate Ruby is a good pirate who loves helping people. When they discover...

Elizabeth Clark / Country Tales

 This collection of 11 country stories is drawn from the rich traditions of folk tales and legends and includes stories such as "The Old Woman who lived in a Vinegar Bottle" and "The Tale of Brave...

Nora Clarke / A Treasury of Bedtime Stories

 A collection of stories chosen for bedtime reading. They include fairy stories and folk tales as well as stories from contemporary children's writers. Favourite characters featured include Snow...

Veronica Bennett / Monkey

 By teenager Harry Pritchard's own admission, he's a dork. At school he's taunted and bullied, at home he's weighed down by chores. Harry's mum volunteers him to visit a severely disabled patient,...

Josh Lacey / The Dragonsitter to the Rescue

 Dear Uncle Morton I have to tell you some bad news. We have lost Arthur. He's somewhere in London, but I don't know where. Eddie takes the dragons with him on his half-term trip to London, but it's...

Tommy Donbavand / Scream Street 12: Secret of the Changeling

 The twelfth crazy adventure in this hugely popular comedy horror series for ghouls and girls! Just as Luke, Resus and Cleo are working out how to return the fifth relic, a whole new problem presents...

Tommy Donbavand / Scream Street 8: Attack of the Trolls

 The eighth crazy adventure in this hugely popular comedy horror series for ghouls and girls! Now that Luke, Resus and Cleo have worked out how to rid Scream Street of invading normals, they're keen...

Lauren St John / The White Giraffe

 The first of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series, featuring the adventures of a young orphan girl and a magical white giraffe in exotic Africa. When she is eleven years old, Martine...

Wendy Constance / Brave

 13,000 years ago. Wild Horse has been sent to prove his bravery by bringing a runaway girl back to her tribe before she's taken by wolves. But Blue Bird doesn't want to be found, and persuades<

Barbara Allen / Spark Files 5: Dog Run

   This is one of a series which takes an experiment-based approach to science and is designed to fit directly with the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2. The books feature episodes in the life of...

Terrance Dicks / Harvey on Holiday

   Harvey the St Bernard, recently retired from the Mountain Rescue, really misses his beloved Alps. His ne w family try to cheer him up by taking him to some other mou ntains - the Highlands of...

Ellen Miles / Buddy

 A new puppy to love in every story. Lizzie and Jack are fostering a whole family of dogs, but then little Buddy falls ill. He's so sweet and helpless! How will the poorly puppy find a...

Jackie Andrews / Blood Feud

 One-time street urchin and Ellanoi firemage, Silke, has kick-started her new career as private investigator by landing a plum job finding out who is threatening to bump off Veelya, princess of...

Ian Whybrow / Sniff

 Large, slobbery and lost, Sniff picks up Ben in the playground - and after that, there's never a dull moment for the Moore family. He's nuts! He's adorable! He's hopeless! Well, OK, he might save...

Ross Montgomery / Alex the Dog and the Unopenable Door

 Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem.His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the history of the Cusp, has escaped from hospital again,...

Holly Webb / Looking for Bear

 A beautiful story about imagination from bestselling author Holly Webb. Ben and Cassie have just moved into a new home, but it's not quite what they expected as they have to share a room until the...

Eileen Browne / Handa's Surprising Day

 Featuring Handa, star of Handa's Hen and Handa's Surprise, this innovative storybook contains three linked stories and is designed to build reader confidence. Join the ever popular Handa, a young...

Chris Hoy / Flying Fergus 2: The Great Cycle Challenge

 The second in Sir Chris Hoy's fantastically fun, magical cycling adventure series. Fergus Hamilton lives and dreams bikes and is really excited about training for the Great Cycle Challenge with his...

Cathy Cassidy / Angel Cake

 Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged...

Ripley's Bureau / Running Wild

 Join the Ripley's Bureau of Investigation - a group of teen agents with special gifts - as they embark on a series of action-packed adventures, travelling the world in pursuit of extraordinary...

Witch: The Other Truth

 Build your W.i.t.c.h. library with another gripping adventure! Nerissa is haunting the guardians' nightmares. Can they find a way to end her reign of terror without losing the Heart of Candracar?...

Witch: The Disappearance

 The second instalment of this hit new series sees the girls' powers tested for the first time as people keep disappearing in Heatherfield! Has Irma really caused a boy at school to disappear? And...

RSPCA: Bunny Needs a Friend

 An exciting, inspiring story based on a real-life animal rescue. When Sarah and her family find a box on the side of the road, the last thing they expect to find inside is a bunny! It's all...

RSPCA: Bad Day for Badger

 An exciting, inspiring story based on a real-life animal rescue.Includes facts about badgers, an interview with a real RSPCA inspector,information about the RSPCA children's club and more...

RSPCA: The Abandoned Kitten

 Eight-year-old Lily is always surrounded by animals. Her mum works at an RSPCA centre as an Animal Care Assistant. Lily thinks it's the best job ever. Sometimes Mum has to care for animals at home,...

RSPCA: Puppy Gets Stuck

 Emily's family has a new puppy. Pickle is naughty and loves exploring. But one day, when out for a walk, Pickle goes missing. Emily's family search everywhere - the whole village gets involved...

RSPCA: Little Lost Hedgehog

 Grace is out in the garden feeding her rabbits when she hears a rustle in the flower bed. What could it be? She sits very still by the kitchen door, peering out into the dark. And then she sees...

RSPCA: A Snowy Robin Rescue

 Evan and Hannah have found a robin in the snow. It's not moving, and they soon realize that the tiny robin is stuck! They call the RSPCA and an inspector arrives to help. It's snowing heavily and...

RSPCA: The Lonely Pony

 Mia's mother is a groom at an RSPCA centre so she's used to looking after ponies. But when Polly arrives at the centre, underweight and frightened, Mia knows that this pony is going to need a lot of...

Three Little Pigs (Reading with Phonics)

 Reading with Phonics is a set of new reading books designed to develop the confidence of young children between the ages of five and seven. The books are aimed at children who can read a little, but...

Sherry Ashworth / Paralysed

 It was just like any other Saturday morning for Simon - a rugby match at school, with his girlfriend Emma in the crowd. But then an accident changes everything; leaving Simon paralysed, Emma...

Robin Benway / Audrey Wait

 Audrey Cutler is a normal Southern California girl. OK, her cat is overweight, but her best friend is awesome, and her parents might be hippies, but they adore her - because Audrey is funny,...

Edward Blishen / Children's Classics to Read Aloud

 A collection of 20 excerpts from the classics of children's literature, chosen for reading aloud. Each excerpt has an introduction by Edward Blishen, with further information about the authors and...

Rosemary Sutcliff / The Silver Branch

 Carausias, Emperor of Roman Britain, has been murdered. Inspired by his vision, soldier counsins Justin and Flavius join a tattered band of outlaws and revive the Lost Legion of the Ninth to resist...

Norman Lindsay / The Magic Pudding

 The adventure of those splendid fellows Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff, the penguin bold, and of course their amazing, everlasting, and very cantankerous puddin A very unusual pudding...

Joshua Mowll / Operation Red Jericho

 This work is set in Shanghai, in 1920. While on board the Expedient, Doug and Becca MacKenzie stumble across an amazing secret. What unfolds is a story of two young people caught up in an...

Margaret Mahy / The Tricksters

 The Hamiltons gather at their holiday house for their customary celebration of midsummer Christmas in New Zealand. But with the unexpected arrival of three sinister brothers, the Tricksters, reality...

Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Book of the Film

 Relive the movie with Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Book of the Film featuring eight full-colour frames from the film.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Cliff Mcnish / The Silver Child

 Six children leave the comfort of their homes. They are drawn to Coldharbour - an eerie wasteland of wind, rats, seagulls and rubbish tips. Emily and Freda, the twins, scuttle bright eyed and...

Paul Dowswell / Auslander

 When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to be measured and assessed. They decide that Peter is racially valuable. He is...

Andrew Taylor / The Adjusters

 Welcome to Newton, the perfect town...Where kids get perfect grades...And everyone seems perfectly happy - all the time...Except Newcomer Henry Ward isn't buying it. With a pair of misfit friends,...

Gregory Hughes / Unhooking the Moon

 Meet the Rat: A dancing, football-playing gangster-baiting ten-year-old. When she foresaw her father's death, she picked up her football and decided to head for New York. Meet her older brother Bob:...

Anna Carey / Mollie On The March

 Mollie Carberry is a suffragette! Well, sort of. Mollie and her best friend Nora have been bravely fighting for women's rights - even though no one else really knows about it. But when they hear a...

Megan Rix / The Great Escape

 The Great Escape is a gripping and heartwarming story for 9+ readers about three pets who are separately from their beloved owners in Second World War London, fleeing to the countryside to survive...