Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award.
A remarkable tale of confusion and betrayal - and a very special girl called Sophie.
'Some stories are hard to tell.
Even to your very best friend.
And some words are hard to get out of your mouth. Because they spell out secrets that are too huge to be spoken out loud.
But if you bottle them up, you might burst.
So here's my story. Told the only way I dare tell it.'
Sophie Nieuwenleven is sort of English and sort of Belgian. Sophie and her family came to live in Belgium when she was only four or five years old, but she's fourteen now and has never been quite sure why they left England in the first place. Then, one day, Sophie makes a startling discovery. Finally Sophie can unlock the mystery of who she really is. This is a story about identity and confusion - and feeling so utterly freaked out that you just can't put it into words. But it's also about hope. And the belief that, somehow, everything will work out OK.
SOPHIE SOMEONE is a tale of well-intentioned but stupid parenting, shock, acceptance and, ultimately, forgiveness, written in a brave, memorable and unique language all of its own.
The funniest kid in fiction is back!
Hi there,
My name is Harry Riddles, and I live with my mum, my dad and my EVIL sister Charlotte. But now my mum is having TWINS so either me or Charlotte are gonna lose our bedroom. ALSO, Dad’s moaning that I should do more sport and not be just a gamer (which shows what he knows cos I’m actually the BEST gamer World of Zombies has ever seen). But I’ve joined the school football team to keep him happy although if we win anything it will be a miracle cos we suck. I’ve written to some stars of the football world to see if they wanna help out, and also a bunch of people who might take Charlotte off our hands – oh and Brad Pitt’s wife to see if she wants to adopt a couple more kids, but who knows if they will write back. We’ll see.
Good luck and have fun.
Harry Riddles
Follow Harry’s hilarious ups and downs told through laugh-out-loud letters, emails, texts and more!
Tells the story of fourteen-year-old Ellie and her horse Spirit. Even though Ellie and her beloved horse Spirit are no longer together, the special bond between them remains strong. Ellie still communicates with Spirit, but she's frantically busy with stable work and shows. She's also spending more time than usual with Luke, the handsome groom.
Bill gets a scary backpack for his birthday. He puts it on and sets off to school, forgetting all about it...and he just can't think why he is so scary! The Leapfrog series is perfect for children who are reading on their own, with fun stories of no more than 180 words.
A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies…
SPUD has set up a secret base under the school pond and is using radio-controlled duck-cameras to gather information. But the chief SPUD agent has made the mistake of having his weekly edition of SPUD's Nasty Newsletter redirected to his new base - by Alfie's dad, the local postman! It doesn't take long for the gang to work out what SPUD are up to.
Can Alfie and his friends find a way of turning the SPUD infiltration to their advantage? Of course they can - and soon the school is teaching the pupils using even more bizarre methods than usual, all for SPUD's benefit. Will the evil organisation really believe in assassination by daffodil? Or that trained hamsters are used to infiltrate their bases? Of course they will…
Return to Frances Hodgson Burnett's timeless classic, The Secret
Garden, in this magical sequel by bestselling author Holly Webb.
It's 1939 and a group of children have been evacuated to Misselthwaite
Manor.
Emmie is far from happy to have been separated from her cat and sent
to a huge old mansion. But soon she starts discovering the secrets
of the house - a boy crying at night, a diary written by a
girl named Mary, and a garden. A very secret garden...
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...
