Growing up is never easy - especially with a well-meaning and eccentric mum like Kate's. She has a knack of embarrassing Kate in front of her friends, including Chas, the only good-looking boy in her class. After one really bad day, Kate decides to take up her Dad's advice to ""get it off her chest""
Read the series that inspired the smash-hit Disney film, starring Anne Hathaway!
Mia and Michael are finally an item! Royally Obsessed is the fourth entry in the Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
Now that they're together, Mia and Michael have a hot first date planned – she can barely sleep, dreaming of the dress she will wear to impress him.
But, just before the date, an unmissable royal engagement turns up. And, as Grandmère starts laying on the relationship advice, could it be that she has another, more esteemed suitor in mind for Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo?
Continue the royal fun with Prom Princess, the fifth book in the series.
Previously published as Mia Goes Fourth, and in the US as Princess in Waiting.
When her best friend Eden doesn't turn up for school one morning, Jess's world is turned upside down. The police say Eden's missing, and her boyfriend Liam is the prime suspect. So Jess starts retracing her steps. She looks back over the summer they spent together. She starts to notice new things. She questions everything she thought Eden's summer had been about. And as the truth is revealed, she realises she needs to find Eden before the unthinkable happens . . .
A thrilling journey through friendship, loss, betrayal and self-discovery.
The enchanting debut novel from the immensely popular SCHOOL FOR STARS series, written by sisters Holly and Kelly Willoughby. This book is for every girl who has ever danced in front of the mirror, sung into a hairbrush, or dreamed of becoming a star.
We are the Willoughby sisters and we have a story to share with you about one of the most important things in the world - friendship.
On the first day of term at L'Etoile, School for Stars, twins Maria and Molly Fitzfoster meet Pippa Burrows who's won a song-writing scholarship to the school. The talented trio share the same dreams of super-stardom and become best friends. But will their friendship stand up against Lucifette Marciano's plans to wreck their chances and claim fame for herself?
This book is GLEE for 9+ and is perfect for fans of BALLET SHOES and MALLORY TOWERS.
Jake Atlas - tomb robber, treasure hunter, troublemaker!
When Jake's parents vanish, Jake and his sister team up with shady tomb robbers to find them in the Egyptian desert in this riveting page-turning adventure by award-winning author Rob Lloyd Jones. The Atlas family is in trouble: Jake hides an addiction to stealing; his twin sister, Pan, has to conceal her genius, for fear of bullies. The siblings can't stop fighting – with each other and with their parents, stuffy professors of Ancient History. But Jake's and Pan's lives take a dramatic turn the day they discover the truth about their boring mum and dad. When the family go to Cairo on holiday, and Jake and Pan's parents mysteriously vanish, it's up to the twins to find them. They team up with shady tomb robbers, master high-tech gadgets and locate a lost tomb in this story of a family that finds itself in the deserts of Egypt.
With more than 10 million books sold, My Weird School really gets kids reading! In this fourth book in the new My Weirdest School series, the students of Ella Mentry School are learning about fire safety. Mrs. Meyer of the local fire department has been brought in to teach the students, but she is the weirdest safety expert in the world. She likes fire just a little too much. Will Mrs. Meyer catch on fire? Will she retire? What will transpire? Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman's hugely popular My Weird School series has something for everyone. Don't miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang.
The perfect gift: a spellbinding story from the Sunday
Times-bestselling author of The Girl of Ink & Stars, winner
of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.'A story
bursting with imagination, sparkle and tender heart ... I adored
it!' JASBINDER BILAN
'Both souful poetry and thrilling adventure; powerful and
delicate, chilling and comforting' SOPHIE ANDERSON
'Ripping propulsive plot, gorgeous imagery, floating fairytale
prose ... absolutely loved it' ROSS MONTGOMERY
In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia's mother carves beautiful
mementoes from the bones of loved ones. But one day, she
doesn't return home. Did her work lead her into danger?
Sofia and her little brother Ermin are sent to the convent orphanage
but soon escape, led by an enigmatic new friend and their
pet crow, Corvith.
Together they cross the city underground, following clues in bones
up to the towers of Siena, where - circled by magpies - the
children find the terrible truth ...
The fourth children's novel by Times number
one bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of the Waterstones
Children's Book Prize and the British Book Awards Children's
Book of the Year
From the author of The Island at the End of Everything,
The Way Past Winter, Julia and the Shark
and The Mercies - chosen for the Richard & Judy Book
Club
A darkly beautiful historical novel featuring Kiran's
trademark magical realism and an enthralling mystery
Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021
