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Gillian Cross / Roscoe's Leap

 Roscoe's Leap - that's the name of the strange old house where Stephen and Hannah had grown up. For Hannah, it was a place where the heating was always breaking down and she was the one who had to...

Karen McCombie / Rainbows Rowan and True True Romance

 Alfie, Alfie, Alfie...how deeply cool can one boy be? And not only is he drop-dead yum, but he's sweet and kind and has single-handedly turned Rowan into a local celeb! So why is Linn less than...

Gillian Cross / Chartbreak

 When Janis Finch storms out of a family row, it starts a chain of events which transforms her whole life. For it's in the motorway cafe, minutes later, that she meets the unknown rock band, Kelp,...

Benjamin Zephaniah / Funky Chickens

 A second irreverent collection of poetry for children touching on anything from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. There's plenty of humour as well as poems on racism, pollution and...

Dave Lambert / Trouble Times Ten

   Ten-year-old Ben has many fears as he witnesses Moses call down a series of plagues on Egypt; then, when the Israelites follow Moses out of Egypt, their escape through the parted Red Sea forces...

Pat Thomson / A Chest Of Stories For 9 Year Olds

 Featuring classic, mythological and humorous tales, this is a collection of stories especially selected for children aged nine     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Megan McDonald / Stink And The Ultimate Thumb-Wrestling Smackdown

 Stink needs a sport, fast! Can his alter-ego, Shark Hammersmash, wrestle a win at thumb wars? Or will a perfect karate kick lead him to vistory? Crackdown! Smackdown! Thmackdown! Stink Moody, family...

Colin McNaughton / Captain Abdul's Pirate School

   Fabulous new title in the Sprinters series relauneh; a rumbustious pirate romp, featuring the same pirates as the award-winning Jolly Roger. Written in diary form, this is the swashbuckling story...

Christopher Edge / Twelve Minutes to Midnight

 Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine, The Penny Dreadful. Her masterly tales of the macabre are gripping Victorian Britain, even if no one...

Hilary McKay / Caddy Ever After

   It's Valentines Day and everything's changing in the Casson household. Indigo sets out to do something special to win over Sarah and ends up organising the Valentines Day disco and playing cupid...

Holly Webb / Jess the Lonely Puppy

 When Chloe's big brother Will breaks his leg, he's stuck in hospital for weeks. Mum and Dad are frantic, and there's no one to look after Will's Border Collie puppy, Jess. Jess is miserable and...

John Ryan / Captain Pugwash and the Midnight Feast and Pugwash and the Wreckers

 Captain Pugwash and his crew are tucking into a delicious midnight feast when they are rudely interrupted by Cut-Throat Jake and his buccaneers who briefly take over. There's more in store when Jake...

Karen McCombie / Meet the Real World Rachel

 Stella's new life in Portbay is going well. The only hassle is Rachel and her gang, who still manage to make Stella feel like she doesn't belong...Then all this weird stuff happens to Rachel and her...

Jeremy Strong / My Brother's Famous Bottom Goes Camping

 Nicholas's dad has had an idea - always a cue for disaster! This time he's planning to take the whole family camping. Sounds great, but Tomato is taking her pet carrot (don't ask) and Cheese is...

Natasha May / Poppy Love Faces the Music

 Samba, quickstep, tango and waltz - Poppy loves to dance them all! Poppy Love, her dance partner, Zack, and Zack's cousin, Anna, attend a tea dance and dance the waltz for everyone; Poppy turns her...

Hilary McKay / Indigo's Star

 Indigo's going back to school after a long bout of glandular fever. He's not looking forward to it, as he knows the bullies will be waiting for him. But he's determined to stand on his own two feet...

Karen McCombie / Candy Girl

 Dixie's landed a dream work experience placement at Candy magazine. But rather than interviewing celebs and mingling with models, Dixie spends all her time making tea! And then the problem page...

Vivian French / The Bag of Bones

   The good witches of Wadingburn are worried - there's a new witch in town with a bag of magic bones, and she's so evil she makes their toes ache... Another fun-filled fantasty in the Tales from the...

Mary Arrigan / Maeve and the Long Arm Polly

 Maeve and cousin Leo go with Jamie to County Kildare where his grandfather is buying horses. Their hostess introduces them to David and his mother who have come to Ireland to trace their roots...

Tiffany Mandrake / Mal the Mischievous Mermaid

 Mal the Mischievous Mermaid' is one of two titles in a new series from Tiffany Mandrake with fabulously mischievous creature illustrations from the renowned Martin Chatterton.      All of our books...

Alf Proysen / Mrs Pepperpot Stories

   A fantastic collection of much-loved, classic stories for all the family! Mrs Pepperpot can't choose when she will shrink to the size of a pepperpot - it just happens! But whatever she encounters,...

Patricia Leitch / Night of the Red Horse

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Keith Brumpton / The Mystery of the Missing Moggie

 Who stole Alison Hitmarsh's cat? Help Police Dog 99 solve the mystery! This book is part of a series of easy-to-read texts with integrated drawings, maps, clues, brainteasers, wacky jokes, speech...

Linda Chapman / The Goblin King

 Exciting new 6 book character-led series for 7+ girls who love adventure! Very few people ever enter the Shadow Woods, for these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is the Gateway to...

Jeanne Willis / Gabby The Vampire Cabbie

   Crazy Jobs is all about the jobs of different characters in fairytale land. Meet Gabby, who drives a cab carrying all sorts of odd passengers - she's taken Granny Riding Hood to watch Wolves play...

Karen McCombie / Boys, Brothers and Jelly-belly Dancing

 Boys are weird things...and just lately, the boys in my life have been acting even MORE weird. Take Billy, for example. He's been behaving like a total muppet and what's worse is I've been having...

Felice Arena / Race Car Dreamers

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Colin Thompson / Sid the Mosquito

   12 linked stories about the creatures living in a deserted house and garden. After the old lady moves away, her house and garden are left abandoned - but not by the animals. With rats in the...

Patricia Leitch / A Devil to Ride

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Michael Northrop / The Book of the Dead

 For fans of Alex Rider and The History Keepers comes a brand newepic Egyptian adventure!Nothing can save Alex Sennefer's life. That's what all the doctorssay, but his mother knows it's not true. She...

Annie Caulfield / Katie Milk Solves Crimes and so on

 Meet Katie Milk - she's brave, funny, has an active imagination and is about to go off to boarding school for the first time. At first she can't imagine having a worse roommate than Bernadette Kelly...

Jeanne Willis / Bert The Fairies' Fashion Expert

 Meet Bert, fashion designer to the stars of Fairyland! He made Cinderella's wedding gown and new coats for the Seven Dwarfs. But then the Wicked Fairy turns up, and she wants a special magic cloak! ...

Jim Eldridge / Disgusting Dave and the Farting Dog

   Meet Dave. He's disgusting - everyone says so. Even his mum is fed up with him examining his nose pickings. So now Dave's got a challenge: if he can avoid doing anything disgusting for a week, he...

David O'Connell / Monster and Chips

 Meet the amazing monster customers and sample the foul-food served up daily at Fuzzby's diner - the brilliant setting for this innovative series from debut author and illustrator, David O'Connell...

Geri Halliwell / Ugenia Lavender

 Thoughtful, brave and sassy, Ugenia Lavender is one amazing kid. With loads of energy, tons of attitude and brainwaves like thunderbolts of lightning, Ugenia leaps into adventures that are as packed...

Una Leavy / A Garden for Tom

   Panda Number 7 Illustrated by Margaret Suggs. Tom would love to have his very own garden and Dad arranges it for him. But Tom is impatient. Things are not growing fast enough for him ...    All of...

Gordon Snell / Amy's Wonderful Nest

 Amy, a little robin, is alone and has to fend for herself. She decides to build a nest, but she doesn't know how! Amy sets out to find out- with strange results. Her home is an amazing collection of...

Felice Arena / Space Invaders

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Janet Foxley / Muncle Trogg

   Giants live on top of Mount Grumble, hidden from humans below.But not all of them are big. Muncle Trogg is so small that he's laughedat by the others for being human-sized.Fed up, he decides to...

Liz Weir / Boom Chicka Boom

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Alan Nolan / Conor's Caveman : The Amazing Adventures of Ogg

 Life could be better for Conor Corcoran. Class bully Damian Deegan is always teasing him about being small and having no friends - when in fact Conor has the only friend he needs in Charlotte...

Judy Waite / Eerie Encounters

Part of the Literacy World series that provides support to deliver shared reading and writing, guided reading, ICT and speaking and listening at Key Stage 2 and Junior level.      All of our books...

Dermot Milligan / The Donut Diaries

 A British Diary of a Wimpy Kid, featuring Dermot, an overweight eleven-year-old. Hilariously funny and insightful.Dermot Milligan's got problems. He's overweight and hooked on donuts. He has a...

Beverley Naidoo / Journey to Jo'burg

 This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old...

Henry Winkler / Hank Zipzer: The World's Greatest Underachiever The Night I Flunked My Field Trip

   Hank Zipzer wants to be number one, not the one who always gets it wrong. A likeable, struggling hero that readers will adore.When Hank Zipzer's class gets to spend a night on a replica of a...

Andrew Norriss / Aquila

 Two schoolboys discover a spaceship when out on a school-trip. The boys learn to fly the spaceship and talk in Latin, because this is the only language Aquila understands. But the more fun and...

Gordon Snell / Tina and the Tooth Fairy

   Tina is always in trouble! And the tooth fairy? She is never in trouble. Oh dear! How will these two get on? Can they ever have fun together? Panda 31    All of our books are second hand, and...

Arthur Rackham / English Fairy Tales

 This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the...

Dinah Capparucci / Warning! Aliens are Invading the School!

 Three boys, two dogs and a whole lot of trouble! Jordan, Ryan and Boy Dave always get blamed for everything. And ok, most of the times it is their fault - but this is one time it definitely wasn't!...

Sarah Webb / Emma the Penguin

 The school play was Noah's Ark and Emma wanted to be a dog.But the teacher said she was to be a penguin.A penguin!Emma was not pleased.But being a penguin turned out to be good fun, really.

Brady Dawson / Granny's Teeth

 Panda Number 10. Where are granny's teeth? Actually, they're in Danny's schoolbag - where else! Danny is up to NO GOOD, and he has to suffer dire consequences!      All of our books are second hand,...

Hilary McKay / Permanent Rose

   It's a long hot summer - to Permanent Rose it seems never ending. Rose misses Tom, Indigo's friend who went back to America, and new friend David is no replacement. Caddy's fiancee, Michael, tries...