General Children's

Sue Limb / Zoe and Chloe: On the Prowl

    Zoe and Chloe. Chloe and Zoe. The two girls are inseparable. Even though they often drive each other crazy, they are best of friends. And just at present, they have an immediate problem. Who...

R. J. Palacio / Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

   WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.Auggie & Me is a new...

Dyan Sheldon / Bursting Bubbles

   Three over-privileged teens discover what life is like on the other side of the tracks.Marigold Liotta, Asher Grossman and Giorgiana Shiller have got it all - money, looks and good grades. Life...

William Corlett / Tunnel Behind The Waterfall

    It's summertime and the children are back at Golden House, enjoying the sun and relaxing on the banks of the lake, Golden Water. But news of development plans for Golden Water send worries...

Sue Limb / Zoe and Chloe: Out to Lunch Bk. 2

 Zoe and Chloe have already survived one threat to their friendship in the form of the devilish Beast, who toyed cruelly with Chloe's affections. Now the girls are back on track and hatching a plan...

Cathy Cassidy / Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream

   The next scrumptious story in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series, following Cherry Crush and Marshmallow Skye. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.Summer has always dreamed of dancing,...

Rachel van Kooij / Bartolome: The Infanta's Pet

   17th-century Madrid is not a kind place for a dwarf like Bartolome, and his family has to keep him hidden in a small back room. His dream is to be able to read and write, and when he hears that a...

Paul May / Rain

   'They're not going to like me whatever I do . . .'Rain has always lived on the road with her artist mum, Max, in their colourful old bus. She's never been that bothered about fitting in, or about...

Kate Cann / Fiesta

    Being trapped inside a small Astra with the most obnoxious bloke in the world is not Laura's idea of a holiday. Has she really saved for months to watch Spain whizz past the windows? But when...

Pete Johnson / Eyes Of The Alien

    Sam and Freddie, both fostered with the same family, are best friends. Sam even laughs at Freddie's jokes! But after Sam has an accident and knocks herself unconscious, she begins to have...

Dillon Khan / The Intern

   'As I stood soaking it all in, my nerves were momentarily replaced by a rush of excitement: I was at the heartbeat of music.'Jay Merchant has landed an internship for the best job in music...

Chris Wooding / Catchman

    What with the ongoing gang fights between Davey's lot and the Abbey Cross crew, and the rumours about a serial killer stalking the city streets, Davey's already pretty edgy. So when one night...

Mary Hogan / Susanna Hits Hollywood

    Following her success as work experience girl at a celebrity news magazine, Susanna's been asked to help out with the juiciest job of all - covering the Oscars, live from LA! She can hardly...

K. M. Peyton / Blind Beauty

   Every once in a while a great race horse is born that will become famous throughout the land. Buffoon is such a horse Tess senses something special in him, a hunger for success as great as her...

F. E. Higgins / The Bone Magician

   Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak. Then Pin encounters...

Penelope Farmer / Charlotte Sometimes

 It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. And the new building outside her window...

Jim Carrington / In the Bag

 Joe and Ash are best friends. Ash is the leader, Joe the one who follows. Then one night after a party, Joe and Ash come across a holdall, seemingly abandoned by the side of the road. They open it...

Justin Richards / The Wolfstone Curse

   Welcome to the historic town of Wolfstone, where dark secrets lurk in the shadows and strange beasts stalk the land.When Peter joins his archaeologist father in the strange village of Wolfstone,...

Carolyn Mackler / Love And Other Four Letter Words

    "Mom and I have been talking a lot these past few weeks..." Dad's voice trailed off. "And we've decided to get a trial separation." Sammie Davis never expected sweet sixteen to be perfect...

Melissa de La Cruz / Disney The Isle of the Lost : A Descendants Novel

    Twenty years ago, all the evil villains were banished to the Isle of the Lost - a dark and dreary place impossible to leave. But hidden in the Forbidden Fortress is a Dragon's Eye: the...

Narinder Dhami / Superstar Babes

   Amber, Jazz and Geena are three sisters on a mission. They really want to have something to act as a memorial to their mum, but what could go for? They eventually settle on a great idea - they'll...

Amy Plum / Die For Me

   My life had always been blissfully, wonderfully normal. But it only took one moment to change everything.Suddenly, my sister, Georgia and I were orphans. We put our lives into storage and moved...

Geraldine Mccaughrean / A Pack of Lies

   Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques, and his stories persuade the customers to buy...

Leila Sales / This Song Will Save Your Life

   All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider. Starting a new school, she dreams of fitting in at last - but when her best attempts at popularity fail, she almost gives up. In a cry for...

Libba Bray / Beauty Queens

   From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a desert island classic. Survival. Of the fittest. The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a...

F.E. Higgins / The Black Book of Secrets

   When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses...

Melinda Salisbury / The Sin Eater's Daughter

   Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she'sengaged to the prince, Twylla isn't exactly a member of the court.She's the executioner.As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly...

Helen Cresswell / Mystery Stories

    This compilation features writers as diverse as Joan Aiken, Emily Bronte and Carl Jung. The stories included are mysterious and full of intrigue, with occasional hints of the supernatural...

Hans Richter / Friedrich

   Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the early 1930s. At first, Friedrich seemed to be the more fortunate, but when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich...

Julie Chibbaro / Redemption

    Lily and her mother are devout followers of Frere Lanther, a man of God who shuns the corrupt ways of the Catholic Church. Persecuted by the other villagers on the Baron's estate where they...

David Levithan / Invisibility

   Stephen is used to invisibility. He was born that way. Invisible. Cursed.Elizabeth sometimes wishes for invisibility. When you're invisible, no one can hurt you. So when her mother decides to...

N.M. Browne / Warriors of Camlann

    "Riveting adventures in a story which is also crammed full of historical interest." - "Independent". When the thick fog of the Veil descends again, Dan and Ursula expect to return to present...

Lauren Child / Take Your Last Breath

   Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out of boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child, and meet your new favourite heroine... Ruby Redfort: detective, secret...

Melissa Kantor / Maybe One Day

   Two best friends face the hardest future of all - a future without each other.In the tradition of `The Fault in Our Stars', critically acclaimed author Melissa Kantor masterfully captures the joy...

Tone Almhjell / The Twistrose Key

   Something is wrong in the house that Lin's family has rented; Lin is sure of it. The clocks tick too slowly. Frost covers the flower bed, even in a rain storm. And when a secret key marked...

Harriet Reuter Hapgood / The Square Root of Summer

   My heart is a kaleidoscope, and when we kiss it makes my world unravel . . .Last summer, Gottie's life fell apart. Her beloved grandfather Grey died and Jason, the boy to whom she lost her heart...

Laurie Halse Anderson / Twisted

   Seventeen-year-old Tyler is totally enjoying his position as highschool Alpha male after years of being "the geek". But then Bethany- rich, blonde, beautiful and the girl Tyler wants - is the...

Ruth Eastham / Jaguar Trials

    Thirteen-year-old Ben finds himself in Central America with his parents - and stumbling into an ancient mystery. Along with two local kids, he is determined to solve the ancient trials of El...

Joan Lingard / The File on Fraulein Berg

      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...

Gill Lobel / Hazel. Not A Nut

    This is the funny, funky story of Hazel Anne Mooney, told by the girl herself. Hazel is fourteen, smart, funny and fed up. How could anyone whose initials spell HAM, who only manages set one...

Elizabeth Laird / Jake's Tower

   'It's good that I've found this secret place. I can come here and make plans. My main plan for the future is my dream house. It's very tall and thin. A tower really. There'll be a lift to whiz me...

Keren David / When I Was Joe

    When Ty witnesses a stabbing, his own life is in danger from the criminals he's named, and he and his mum have to go into police protection. Ty has a new name, a new look and a cool new image...

Dave Barry / Peter And The Shadow Thieves

    A ship draws near Mollusk Island, bringing an eerie passenger - a cloaked stranger who makes even the desperate pirate crew shake in fear. Lord Ombra is coming for Peter and the Lost Boys.....

Shawn K. Stout / Penelope Crumb Finds Her Lucky Stars

   Awful Vera Bogg is Patsy's new best friend!Penelope is determined to win Patsy back. When the girls are chosen to paint a mural at Portwaller's Home for the Aged, it's Penelope's chance to show...

K.K. Beck / Fake

    Danny'd already figured out that his mom and stepdad were majorly stupid, but now he's decided they're actually evil. They're sending him on a two-week "wilderness survival experience" for...

Caragh M. O'Brien / Prized

   Having escaped from the corrupt Enclave, Gaia ventures into the wasteland with her baby sister, Maya, hoping to find a settlement that's rumoured to lie in the Dead Forest. After days of...

Teri Terry / Shattered

   Kyla's memory was erased,her personality wiped blank,her memories lost for ever.Or so she thought.After the shocking events of SLATED and FRACTURED, we return to Kyla's oppressive world as she...

Kathryn Erskine / Mockingbird

    Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when...

Josephine Feeney / Truth, Lies and Homework

    Miss Sanders sets the class a history project to find out about their grandparents' lives during Word War II. Claire's questions to her Irish grandfather uncover a terrible secret in his past...

Julia Golding / Young Knights of the Round Table

   HUMANS ARE THE ENEMY!That's what Rick's been taught to believe by the Fey Folk who stole him. Taken to the magical realm of Avalon, he's been trained, alongside other kids like him, into an elite...

Kate Andrews / Friends 4 Ever

    Carrie, Alex and Sky sometimes have their differences, but they've been best friends since the first day of high school. They're always together, always there for each other. So what if they...

Carolyn Mackler / Earth, My Butt And Other Round Things : Ever had a phone call that changes everything?

    Virginia Shreves has a "larger-than-average" body and a medium-sized inferiority complex. Her mum is an exercise fiend, her dad whistles at skinny women, and her siblings are gorgeous,...