Books

When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan's doorstep unable to say much except "I was a rat", the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob...

Orphan Henry's stingy Aunt Agatha likes her boarders short, to fit in the tiny attic space she rents out, and small, so they won't eat more than tw...

Koldo the arctic warrior has been cruelly imprisoned . Tom sets about freezing the good beast , but the shoking arrival of freya , mistresss of the...

'Music teacher? What music teacher?' The sudden arrival of a new music teacher throws St barty's School into confusion. Mysterious smells start co...

In the maze-like dungeons of Castle Grotteskew, the frightfully insane Professor Erasmus conducts his bizarre experiments on living things. His ver...

Mildred's good intentions in the second year are upset when she finds that Miss Hardbroom is to be her form teacher again. She clashes once again w...

Charlie doesn't want to believe it. He can hear people in photographs talking. What's happening to him? his horrible aunts are delighted with his n...

After a serious accident involving a gorse bush, Eddie Dickens finds himself being cared for by monks of the Bertian order, founded by Ethelbert th...

January 1916. Henry Yewbeam's cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. ...

A boy and his eccentric grandparents live near a strange wood, apparently cursed. He longs for a dog - but the dirty ungainly farm creature finally...

Time seemed to collapse.... There was a sharp stabbing sensation in my stomach.... Steve crowed, "Now I have you! Now you're gonna die!" Dead if he...

Muncle Trogg, a young giant, is laughed at for being so small that he's human-sized. Muncle often wonders about the humans he's meant to look like ...

Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan -- Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, faces certain death. Can Darren revers...

Three of Jean Ure’s best-loved stories in a bumper 3-in-1 edition – SKINNY MELON AND ME, BECKY BANANAS and FRUIT AND NUTCASE. The perfect summer re...

The music galloped along, and any second, I would have to start singing. But the lights were too bright and the crowd was too big. Ash is in year...

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 t...

Harriet has a touch life. She is moved from town to town and school to school. She learns to be "wonderfully wicked" so that she can survive in her...

Have you ever put down a drink, gone to do something else, and come back to find the drink is nowhere to be seen? That's the Odds. Mrs Odd, Mr Odd ...

Mum now lives with bill the baboon and his three kids. Dad now lives with carrie and her twins . And where does andy live ? Out of a suitcase . One...

Bertie Fletcher is back! She's happier than a cat who's got the custard when she gets Jaffa, her very own beautiful marmalade kitten. Even Dad seem...

It's Brownie thinking day, and the girls are thinking up ways to celebrate. Katie and her friends have a brilliant idea for making African arts and...

It's the height of World War Two. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting. Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he w...