Sarah Garland's classic series of pre-school books look at every aspect of busy, noisy, muddly family life. In Having a Picnic we join the family as they head to the park, feed the ducks and have a lovely picnic. But who are the uninvited guests..?
Read the series that inspired the smash-hit Disney film, starring Anne Hathaway!
How can she bear it? Mia's one true love has left for college! Royal Rebel is the sixth entry in the Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
Princess Mia seems to have all of life's obstacles thrown at her at once. Michael Moscovitz is leaving for college, Genovia is facing a potential eco-disaster, her new English teacher doesn't understand her and Kenny won't stop talking about his perfect new girlfriend! Plus, Michael wants to get intimate for the first time – and Mia's not so sure.
Will Mia finally put her royal foot down?
Continue the fun with Party Princess, the seventh book in the series.
Previously published as Sixsational, and in the US as Princess in Training.
A beautiful collection of poems about the highs and lows of one week in a secondary school, where everything happens all at once.
Winner of the CLiPPA poetry award.
Zooming in across our cast of characters, we share moments that span everything from hoping to make it to the end of the week, facing it, fitting in, finding friends and falling out, to loving lessons, losing it, and worrying, wearing it well and worshipping from afar.
In Everything All At Once, Steven Camden's poems speak to the kaleidoscope of teen experience and life at secondary school.
'All together. Same place.
Same walls. Same space.
Every emotion
under the sun
Faith lost. Victories won.
It doesn't stop. Until the bell.
Now it's heaven
Now it's hell.
Who knows?
Not me
I just wrote what I can see
So what's it about? Here's my response
It's about everything
All at once.'
When Sanjay gets a bump on his head from the school bully, he wakes up to find that everyone in the playground has turned into an animal! The headmaster's a polar bear and Sanjay's best friend is a sheepdog. Even the ambulance that comes to take him to hospital is driven by a gorilla and the paramedic is a penguin...
Seeing his schoolmates in a new light gives Sanjay a clever idea about how to defeat the bully... Will Sanjay's wily plan work, or has the whole world gone animal crackers?
Meet Pippa Morgan, a small girl with a BIG imagination, and read
her hilarious diary, packed with doodle illustrations.
It's nearly Valentine's Day and Pippa's class have been given a project
all about 'lurve' - blargh! Luckily for Pippa, there are lots
of things she loves - like chicken nuggets and TV detectives,
and her best friend forever, Catie Brown.
Then she decides to start another project - Project Find Mum Love.
Will Pippa be able to find Mum a boyfriend by 14th Feb? And can she
get Catie to taste chicken nuggets for the first time ever?
You'll have to read her super-secret diary to find out!
A bold and brilliant novel about love, lies and redemption, from award-winning author, Jenny Valentine – one of the greatest YA voices of her generation.
Iris's father, Ernest, is at the end of his life and she hasn't even met him. Her best friend, Thurston, is somewhere on the other side of the world. Everything she thought she knew is up in flames.
Now her mother has declared war and means to get her hands on Ernest's priceless art collection. But Ernest has other ideas. There are things he wants Iris to know after he's gone. And the truth has more than one way of coming to light.
Trapped in a mansion with a murderer and a family of liars - how would you survive? A mind-blowing thriller from the author of THIS BOOK KILLS, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus.
When three girls are stranded at the grand Bramble Estate in the middle of a snowstorm, they stumble into a murder plot. Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Vanforte in the middle of a family dinner - which means Devi, Lizzie and Jayne are trapped in the house with a killer and a mystery to solve. With knives under floorboards, vanishing guns and secret passages in the walls, no one is safe and everyone is a suspect. But in a house of liars and corruption, will the girls save themselves...or learn to fit in?
Ally and her mates are tres chuffed when a bunch of French boys turn up at school on an exchange. Only Jen seems a bit distracted, but Ally doesn't have time to get to the bottom of it before Jen's pulled a vanishing act. Somehow Ally doesn't think she's eloped to Calais...Another warm and funny saga about the Love family and their friends.
'The devil walks . . . But the devil can make no headway if he has no help. We must invite him in . . .'
Raised in secrecy by a mother everyone thinks has gone mad, Daniel's only link to his past is the intricately built model of the family home - High Gates. The dolls' house is perfect in every detail.
As Daniel is reunited with the last remaining member of his family - his 'uncle' Severin, who bears an uncanny resemblance to a sinister wooden doll he has found hidden in the house, he begins to suspect that this vicious, haunted puppet of a figure has a chilling influence, bringing cruelty and spite in its wake.
Now Daniel's very life is at risk as his uncle is determined to get his hands on the figure . . .
The menace builds throughout in this deliciously creepy Gothic tale.
Choice is rebellion. Love is an anomaly. And freedom? Freedom is dangerous. The perfect read for fans of Veronica Roth and Beth Revis.
'It is that quick, that strong, that beautiful. And it is also totally impossible.'
Even though she knows it's impossible, Seren longs to have the sunshine on her skin. It's something she feels she needs to stay sane. But when you're hurtling through space at thousands of kilometres an hour, sometimes you have to accept there are things you cannot change.
Except that the arrival of Dom in her life changes everything in ways she can barely comprehend. He becomes the sun for her, and she can't help but stay in his orbit. To lose him would be like losing herself . . .
