""My sister Gracie is bigger than me,
because she's nearly six and I am just three.""
Join Gracie and Ava as they play together in their world of imagination.
Jamie is in a lesson at school when he has a surprise visit from Balthazar, his genie friend. It turns out there are huge problems at the Genie Academy and the headmaster is in trouble. He is desperate for Jamie to come back to the genie kingdom to help them out.
Jamie faces evil wishes, undercover missions and death-defying magic carpet races in his most dangerous challenge yet! Still, it's got to beat a spelling test . . .
From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, an addictive mystery that refuses to let you go long after you turn the final page. Can Becks piece the jigsaw together and find her sister before Silva loses herself?
The Join the Dots Detectives: Dot, Beans and McClusky are back on the case in a third, brand-new mystery!
Dot and Beans can’t wait for their school trip to Adventure Camp where they will do lots of exciting activities like zip-wiring, grass tobogganing and roasting marshmallows round a campfire! But once they arrive, strange things start happening. Could mean girl Laura could be up to her old tricks in a bid to win the Adventure Camp Prize…? It’s up to the Join the Dots Detectives to find out!
Meanwhile, TOP DOG McClusky is entered into a local dog show! Will he keep up his training while Dot’s away and win the prize for handsomest pooch?
Meet thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine, and the star of a stylish new detective series.
Agatha Oddlow has been a detective for as long as she can remember – she’s just been waiting for her first big case. And nothing gets bigger than saving the City of London from some strange goings-on.
With a scholarship to the prestigious St Regis School, a cottage in the middle of Hyde Park, a room full of beloved sleuthing novels, and a secret key that gives her access to a whole hidden side of London, Agatha is perfectly poised to solve the mystery of what’s going on. But just who can she trust when no one is quite who they seem…
When Tara steals the school mascot, a goat, in order to make some
friends with the popular crowd, she gets herself in a heap of trouble.
Her parents decide that instead of going on holiday with them
that summer, she must go and stay with her aunt, uncle, and bratty
cousin Emily in Willow Falls.
Tara thinks it's a good time to start over; she'll be turning 13
after all, so she might as well make the best of it and perhaps even
attempt to break out of her shell (in a non-criminal manner).
What Tara doesn't know is that this charmed town has something big
in store for her on her 13th birthday. It's not a typical birthday.
Discover the extraordinary lives of the inspiring girls who have lived throughout history at 6 Chelsea Walk.
Polly longs to become an explorer. But in 1914, women's rights and choices are limited - something twelve-year-old Polly learns when she befriends her new neighbours: two suffragettes, fighting for women's rights to vote.
Polly's parents are appalled, but Polly is intrigued. And the more she thinks about their cause, the more determined she becomes to join the suffragettes' protest march. But will Polly dare to defy her parents and do what she thinks is right?
A gripping story of courage, friendship and speaking up during a time of change, from Carnegie-shortlisted author, Linda Newbery.
Join Judy Moody for a mega-rare, NOT-bummer summer adventure! Megan McDonald’s story – as featured in Judy’s uber-cool movie – is back in a must-have edition illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds.
Roar! It’s bad enough that Mum and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful (er, Opal), but now Judy’s two best friends are going splitsville on her too. Just when it looks like her summer is going to be Bor-ing with a capital B, eureka! Judy (with some help from Aunt Opal) comes up with the most thrill-a-delic plan ever. Get ready for a race – involving tightrope walking, monster-wave-surfing, Scream Monster riding (no hands), an Evil Creature Double Feature and way more! Add in a treasure hunt for Judy’s teacher, a midnight stakeout, a runaway ice-cream truck, a chase scene with a dash of Bigfoot and what have you got? The Judy Moodiest summer ever!
The heart-lifting, heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller.
In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it got there…
When the Bismarck sinks, one of the only German survivors is taken on board a British ship as a prisoner of war. Sent to live with a host family, Walter must adapt to a new way of life, in the heart of an enemy country. Gradually, though, he finds a friend in ten-year-old Grace. So when the time finally comes to go back to Germany, it’s an emotional parting, with Walter leaving Grace with only a carved wooden dog to remember him by. The question is, will Walter and Grace ever meet again? In 1966, with the World Cup coming to Britain, that opportunity may just have come along…
Lily has a stammer. The signal between her brain and her mouth is all messed up - and it's getting worse. When a video of her practicing her class presentation is uploaded onto YouTube - head thrust forward, eyelids fluttering, lips stretched wide - Lily's nightmare begins. Cyberbullying, kids at school whispering, even best friend Mia laughing behind her back. Lily's confidence takes a nose-dive and she can only see one way out: run away to Dad in Scotland and start all over again.
But Lily quickly realises that running away isn't the answer - that her stammer will follow her wherever she goes...
HOW TO BE MORE HEDGEHOG is about friendship and family and finding the courage to speak out.
