Mad and Roo's world turns upside down when their bird-freak dad goes
to the jungle and doesn't come back. When they receive a Very
Strange and Incredibly Creepy Letter, which Roo swears is in code,
they know that something has happened to him.
Determined to find him, the girls set out into the Costa Rican jungle
to investigate. With the help of a golden-eyed boy, a rare and
valuable bird and some weird jungle flowers that grow between
Roo's toes, they fight to rescue their father.
When two little girls are given a sunflower seed, they argue and the little plant grows very badly. ""That sunflower is not happy,"" says the teacher. So the children decide to make an angel to help the plant grow. A friendship develops between the two girls and, as they learn to like each other, the little plant grows bigger and bigger...
Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain’s best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart and Shane Hegarty’s Darkmouth.
An Academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy.
Charlie Bone awakes one morning to find the city covered with snow and all the animals gone. Could the discovery of an ancient mirror, and the movement of the shadow in the Red King's portrait have something to do with it? Then a strange girl appears outside Charlie's house. Can he trust her, and will she perhaps lead him to find someone he lost long before the animals?
The fifth instalment of the international best-selling series from Jenny Nimmo starring Charlie Bone.
Have you collected all of the Charlie Bone series?
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf
Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock
Charlie Bone and the Red Knight
Also look out for The Snow Spider trilogy.
‘Dark, funny, crackling with magic’ – author Artemis Cooper on Midnight for Charlie Bone
‘A fast moving, dialogue driven romp with plenty of cliff-hangers for those first hooked into reading by Harry Potter’ – Bookseller on Midnight for Charlie Bone
Jenny Nimmo is the acclaimed author of the Charlie Bone series. She has won several significant awards for her children’s fiction, including the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Tir na n-Og Welsh Arts Council award for The Snow Spider. She lives in Wales with her husband, David.
Girls FC: the best team for football and friendship
In book 10, Eve's story, ten-year-old Eve Akboh is devastated when her friend Gemma drops out of the team. Playing isn't nearly as much fun without her. Plus, Eve’s widowed mum is run ragged trying to get her and her two brothers to and from fixtures every weekend. Maybe Eve should quit too – unless there's a way to persuade Gemma to come back...
In SHIVER, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in LINGER, they must
fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents
and keeping dangerous secrets. For Sam, it means grappling with
his werewolf past ... and figuring out a way to survive the future.
But just when they manage to find happiness, Grace finds herself
changing in ways she could never have expected...
Sometimes I get that feeling like everyone can see right through me. Like all my secrets and thoughts and things I don't want anyone to see are hanging all over me.
My mum has exiled me; sent me halfway across the world to live with her sister in Kansas. Have you ever been to Kansas? The emptiness is overwhelming.
Everyone thinks I'm a failure. But then he sees me. The coyote, eyes golden and wild. And I guess it's because someone's watching me, but I start to dance.
With hauntingly-beautiful writing from Mimi Thebo, author of Dreaming the Bear, Coyote Summer will stay with you long after you put the book down.
A heart-wrenching exploration of grief from a bestselling YA author, set in a landscape corrupted by fame and the scrutiny that comes from living in the shadow of a star.
""Raw and brilliant."" Holly Bourne
“A powerful, devastating exploration of grief and loss and fame.” Louise O'Neill
""An important, timely, and flat-out beautiful book about family, grief, and the lies and truths that both bind and unravel us."" Kathleen Glasgow
To the world, Lizzie Beck is a superstar: famous, talented and beloved.
To Emmy, she is simply Beth: her brilliant older sister, her idol.
But then Beth takes her own life, and all the light in the world disappears.
Now Emmy is lost. Amidst the media storm and overwhelming public grief, she must fight to save her own memories of her sister – and find out who she is without her.
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017.
Perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. This novel reminds us all of the importance of freedom, hope, and the power of a story to speak for anyone who's ever struggled to find a safe home.
'...a special book' - Morris Gleitzman, author of the acclaimed ONCE series
Born in a refugee camp, all Subhi knows of the world is that he's at least 19 fence diamonds high, the nice Jackets never stay long, and at night he dreams that the sea finds its way to his tent, bringing with it unusual treasures. And one day it brings him Jimmie.
Carrying a notebook that she's unable to read and wearing a sparrow made out of bone around her neck - both talismans of her family's past and the mother she's lost - Jimmie strikes up an unlikely friendship with Subhi beyond the fence.
As he reads aloud the tale of how Jimmie's family came to be, both children discover the importance of their own stories in writing their futures.
WINNER! The English Association 4–11 Picture Book Award 2024
WINNER! Oxfordshire Book Awards Best Picture Book 2025
LONGLISTED! UKLA Book Awards 3-6 Category 2026
NOMINATED! Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025
A Children's Book Club pick for Spooky Halloween Books – BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
When a vegetarian vampire moves into his dream castle, he soon discovers he has an unwanted house guest …
Colin’s new castle is perfect in every way – apart from the DUCK.
The duck pops up when Colin’s in the bath. When he’s watching telly. When he’s ON THE LOO. QUACK!
But where there’s a will, there’s a way. Colin has a PLAN. Will he succeed in banishing Duck from his castle and leading the bird-free life that he dreams of?
• The perfect book to share or gift during spooky season!
• A brilliantly funny readaloud story that will have kids hooked.
• Fun-filled artwork is packed with detail and humour.
In the sixth book in Stephan Pastis’s New York Times bestselling series, Timmy is being threatened and must rely on his new partner to solve the mystery – and possibly save his life!
Everyone's favourite best worst detective is back in Timmy Failure: The Cat Stole My Pants, the sixth book in the bestselling series that's perfect for fans of Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates.
Timmy is in Key West, Florida, ostensibly for the honeymoon of his mother and Doorman Dave – if they even got married, which Timmy doubts. Unfortunately for Timmy, crime doesn’t take a holiday. And because Total has fled to Cuba, Timmy must rely on a new partner for help: Doorman Dave’s nephew Emilio. Meanwhile, a surprise newcomer shows up in Timmy’s life and, as if things couldn’t get more hectic, Timmy’s pants have been stolen by a six-toed cat.
Hilarious series of wacky stories from a US boarding school where naughty pranks and mischief rate much more highly than education. From bestselling US author, R.L. Stine. Welcome to Rotten School, founded 100 years ago by I. B. Rotten as a boarding school where students would grow and succeed intellectually, morally and physically as they prepared for a productive and happy future. However, today our standards are a little less rigorous -- we are simply happy if the students are still alive at the end of each day! We think rivalry is healthy for our pupils, thus, Rotten School is divided into two warring groups: Bernie Bridges and his friends in Rotten House vs. Sherman Oaks and his friends in Nyce House. From washing his dirty underwear to walking his smelly dog, Belzer makes sure that Bernie Bridges is taken care of. So when Belzer's parents want to take Belzer out of Rotten School, Bernie must cook up a plan to make Belzer stay! Belzer's only chance is winning the Heinie Prize for Most Outstanding Student -- no small feat for the worst student in school!
Pudding Bag school is an ordinary kind of a school. But this year class 4b has the rather magical and mysterious Miss Gilhoolie teaching them and suddenly school isn't as boring as it used to be.
