It's the summer holidays, but for nine-year-old Steve life in his home town is full of hidden menace. There was that trip to the dentist for a start - and that Thing in the crinkle-cut chips freezer compartment...Steve believes he must protect his family from a dangerous, unpredictable world. But he can't solve all the problems on his own. He's just not quite big enough. Then the mysterious Library of Dreams comes calling and things start to get weird. Steve finds himself an unlikely hero on an impossible mission to outwit flesh-eaters and sabretooth tigers ― and save the human race.
The tiny Tindims are like the Borrowers-on-Sea, who turn our everyday rubbish into treasure. A world of characters and adventures to inspire conservation and inventive ways to recycle.
Amy feels like everything is going wrong when she has to move in with Gran and Pops for the holidays. But then she discovers that Jay lives over the road, and Amy realizes that friendship isn't always about who talks the loudest. But when outside pressures start to creep back in, can Amy hang on to her summer of silver linings?
FEVER CRUMB is the stunning prequel to Philip Reeve's brilliant science
fantasy quartet. It is set many generations before the events
of Mortal Engines, in whose dazzling world huge, predatory cities
chase and devour each other. Now, London is a riot-torn, ruinous
town, clinging to a devastated landscape and hiding an explosive
secret. Is Fever, adopted daughter of Dr Crumb, the strange
key that will unlock its dangerous mysteries?
Eddie's little brother Billy is terrified of everything! Snakes, the dark, toilets, orange peel, moustaches and even soggy toast. When they move to the seaside, Billy finds a new thing to be scared of - seagulls! They swoop down in the playground and pick at leftover crisp packets - and Billy thinks they are the scariest thing he has ever seen. Can Eddie and his stepfather try to work out ways to help Billy get over his fears?
Andrew has decided he never needs to go pee ever again, but his parents aren’t too sure. Only one minute into the drive to his grandparents’ house, Andrew changes his mind.
A new look for the Classic Munsch picture books brings all of the urgency and fun of I Have to Go! to a new generation of young readers.
'But we don't know the first thing about looking after babies.'
Phoebe's mum and dad are foster parents, and they're having a tough time. Her dad's moved out for bit, and her little foster brothers are playing up. So when Phoebe and her brother Adam find a baby abandoned in their den, they decide to try and look after her themselves . . .
The brand new novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Snow Foal and Otters' Moon.
Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson and Gill Lewis.
‘A mesmerising voice’ – Joanna Nadin
A brand new novel from Susanna Bailey – the bestselling author of Snow Foal and a new star of middle grade contemporary fiction.
Ever since Billie’s kind and nature-loving dad went to prison, her life has lost its shine. And now, Mum’s new boyfriend has moved in and home is full of sharp-glass silences. Billie’s never felt more alone.
Until one day she discovers an injured young raven and in nursing him back to life, Billie finds friendship, hope and a letter that might bring her one step closer to reuniting with Dad.
Raven Winter is the story of friendship, family and the belief in a very special relationship with a young raven set against the beautiful and the wintery backdrop of the Yorkshire Dales.
Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good.
Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down . . .
A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson.
