Children's Books

Paul Gamble / The Ministry of SUITs (Large Paperback)

 `A zany explosion of hilarity' - Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis FowlSome people are born to work in a secret Ministry hidden away in the far reaches of an old museum, and 12-year-old Jack is one of those people.The Ministry of Strange, Unusual and...

Vincent McDonnell / Titanic Tragedy (Large Paperback)

  Since it sank on a cold April night in 1912, the Titanic has held a special mystery and fascination. It is the most famous sea tragedy, in which over 1500 lives were lost. This book deals with why the ship was built and the dreams and arrogance...

Gregory Maguire / What-the-Dickens : The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy

 A fairy tale with a difference from the bestselling author of Wicked.When ten-year-old Dinah and her two siblings are trapped by a terrible storm, Cousin Gage keeps their spirits up with an unlikely story - tooth fairies live in warring colonies...

J. Minter / Take It Off : An Insiders Novel

  Jonathan, Mickey, David, Arno, and Patch have it all: they've got rich parents, live in Manhattan's trendiest neighborhoods, and attend the best schools. But when the five friends enroll in a School-at-Sea program, how far will good looks,...

William Osborne / Hitler's Angel

 Otto and Leni have escaped to England from Nazi Germany.They thought they were safe, but now the British want them to goback.Dropped behind enemy lines, they embark on a secret operation codenamedWolfsangel. Their mission is to find and kidnap a...

Ali Sparkes / The Shapeshifter 1 Finding the Fox

  Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy ...until something extraordinary happens one day. Whilst frightened for his life, he inexplicably changes into a fox! Before long, both a government agent and an ambitious young journalist are on his tail. The...

Mark Walden / Escape Velocity

  Pupils and staff at HIVE are horrified to discover that Dr Nero has been captured by the forces of HOPE, the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive, the world's newest and most ruthlessly efficient security force. Three months pass without any...

Paul Magrs / Exchange

  Following the death of his parents, 16-year-old Simon moves into his grandparents' claustrophobic bungalow, which quickly becomes a refuge from his bullying peers. United by their voracious appetite for books, Simon and his grandmother stumble...

Cathy Hopkins / White Lies

  Cat's always been the perfect girl next door. Thoughtful friend. Supportive girlfriend. Surrogate mother to her three younger siblings, a great help to her dad since her mum died. But now Cat's facing some major dilemmas. A game of Truth, Dare,...

Robin Stevens / Jolly Foul Play ( Murder Most Unladylike Series - Book 4 )

 Join Daisy and Hazel on their fourth murder mystery!'Ripping good fun' The Times'Thrilling' Guardian-----As they return to Deepdean for a new school term, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are faced with some big changes.For one, there's a new Head Girl,...

J Minter / Hold on Tight : An Insiders Novel

  When it's time to start thinking about college, which campuses do New York City's five hottest guys visit first? Ones where the girls outnumber the guys, obviously. On a road trip to Vassar, Jonathan is astonished to discover that his brother,...

Dan Smith / Big Game movie tie-in

 13-year-old Oskari is sent intothe cold wilderness on anancient test of manhood. Hemust survive armed only witha bow and arrow. But instead,he stumbles upon an escapepod from a burning airliner:Air Force One. Terrorists haveshot down the President...

Paul Adam / Escape from Shadow Island - Max Cassidy 1

  Max is an ordinary north London schoolboy by day, but at night he performs sell-out public shows as an escapologist - nicknamed The Half-Pint Houdini by the tabloid press. His father, Alexander, was also a world-renowned escapologist, who...

Eve Garnett / The Family from One End Street

 This is the story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. The father is a dustman and the mother a washerwoman, but because they are poor the children find even greater opportunities for adventure in...

S. J. Kincaid / Insignia

 What if playing computer games could save the world...and the Government's secret weapon was you?Tom Raines is suddenly recruited into the US Army to train as a virtual reality Combatant to see if he is good enough to help fight World War Three...

Marissa Meyer / Cress (The Lunar Chronicles Book 3)

 Cress is the third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, following Cinder and Scarlet.Incarcerated in a satellite, an expert hacker and out to save the world - Cress isn't your usual damsel in distress.CRESS grew-up as a prisoner. With...

Sara Holland / Sara Holland

 THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERTime is a prison. She is the key. Packed with danger, temptation and desire - a perfect read for fans of The Red Queen.In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything - even time. Ever since the age of alchemy and sorcery,...

Philip Reeve / Goblins Vs Dwarves

 Another fantastically exciting novel set in a land of magic fromthe award-winning Philip Reeve. The heroes of GOBLINS continue theiradventures outside the walls of Clovenstone castle. AwaitingSkarper and Henwyn are powerful dark forces that must be...

Melissa De La Cruz / Keys To The Repository : Blue Bloods

 Lavish parties. Passionate meetings in the night. Bone-chilling murders. Exams. The day-to-day life of Schuyler Van Alen and her Blue Bloods friends (and enemies) is never boring. But there's oh-so-much more to know about the beautiful and...

Sarah Sky / Catwalk Criminal

 Models, spies and lipstick gadgets in this fast-paced teen series. Jessica Cole has been recruited to Westwood, MI6's secret divisionof supermodel spies. Her first official mission seems simple atfirst, until it turns into the biggest cyber-attack...

Tom Watson / Stick Dog

 Meet Stick Dog - a new breed of hero! In his first adventure, Stick Dog and his friends embark on an epic quest to steal a hamburger. With hilarious illustrations and pitch-perfect humour, Stick Dog is a must-have for fans of WIMPY KID and BIG NATE...

Jon Robinson / Anywhere (Nowhere Book 2)

 'We're miles from anywhere, and we don't have a clue where we're going' Deep in a snow-covered forest Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa have escaped from prison. Now they're being hunted.They quickly realise they have a special talent - they can control...

Dietlof Reiche / Ghost Ship

  Twelve-year-old Vicki is facing another long, boring summer waitressing at her father's seaside restaurant. But everything changes when the bay goes dry and a mysterious ship appears - an eighteenth-century square-rigger called the Storm...

P. B. Kerr / Children of the Lamp: #1 Akhenaten Adventure

  John and Philippa Gaunt are young djinns, and can grant wishes and make themselves disappear. They go to stay with their eccentric uncle Nimrod to perfect their fledgling magical abilities and end up on a desperate quest to locate the tomb of...

Fiona Dunbar / Kitty Slade: Divine Freaks : Book 1

 "Hey, I'm Kitty Slade. Just your average, normal girl, doing, you know, normal stuff. Got a brother (annoying), a sister (quite annoying) and a grandma (she's awesome).Oh yeah, and one more thing. I can see dead people."When a ghost turns up in her...

Cathryn Constable / The White Tower

 When Livy's accepted at TempleCollege, a school for the verybrightest, no one is moresurprised than her, though shehas always felt different.Recently, Livy's been drawnto the roof, where, among itstowering stone angels, she hasthe strangest desire...

Michael Carroll / Absolute Power

 Ordinary kids with superhero powers in a thrilling comic-book style adventure.With Colin moving grief-stricken and alone, can Victor Cross bring Colin into the Trutopian fold? And as Danny and Renata become increasingly disenchanted with the orders...

Mal Peet / The Penalty

  As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage football prodigy El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without trace. Paul Faustino, South America's top sports journalist, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery. As a...

Judith Kerr / Bombs on Aunt Dainty

 Partly autobiographical, this is the second title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past...It is hard...

Chris Wooding / Poison

  Taken! Poison must travel to the end of the world to outwit the Phaerie Lord and get her sister back. But are those she meets on the way trying to help her \- or lead her into a trap? This is no fairy tale...       All of...

Jamie Thomson / Dark Lord: A Fiend in Need : Book 2

 Dirk Lloyd, the Dark Lord trapped in the body of a weedy schoolboy, returns in another darkly hilarious adventure... Brilliantly funny and subversive, this is the Funny Prize-winning Jamie Thomson at his best.Sooz, a 13 yr old girl from Surrey has...

Matthew J. Kirby / The Clockwork Three

  When Giuseppe finds a green violin washed up in New York docks, somehow he knows it will change his life. But how? The very same day, Hannah, a maid at a local hotel, gets a strange new mistress. Why are Madame X and her mysterious Russian...

Debi Gliori / Pure Dead Brilliant

  There's trouble brewing at StregaSchloss! When Signora Strega-Borgia invites some would-be witches to stay, weird things begin to happen. Pandora can't resist the temptation of time travel - and Titus picks up a strange and deadly computer...

Joanne Harris / Runemarks

  Seven o'clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again...Maddy Smith was born with a rusty-coloured runemark on her hand - a symbol of the old gods and definitely cause for...

Damian Dibben / The History Keepers: Nightship to China

 When shocking news reaches the History Keepers' headquarters, Jake Djones is sent head-first into a new adventure. The time-travelling agents voyage from Shakespeare's England to Imperial China in pursuit of their most villainous foe yet, Xi Xiang,...

Julie Bertagna / Exodus

  It is 2099 - and the world is gradually drowning, as mighty Arctic ice floes melt, the seas rise, and land disappears forever beneath storm-tossed waves. For 15-year-old Mara, her family and community, huddled on the fast-disappearing island of...

John Singleton / Skinny B, Skaz and Me

  Lee's sister, Skinny B, has always been a sickly child, but Lee thinks it's a con. First rule of the family: what Skinny wanted, Skinny got. Lee has plenty of problems of his own, what with trying to get off with Alison, coping with having a...

Anne Cassidy / Tough Love

  What would you do if someone you loved committed a crime? Tony is everything Gina wants from a boy - he's charming, sensitive and attentive. It's nice to be bought presents and fussed over, even if Tony's 'business deals' aren't all strictly...

Willis Hall / The Return of the "Antelope"

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Sue Townsend / True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend

 These further writings take Adrian Mole from the ages of 16 to 21, describing the young diarist's first job as a librarian, and his later role at the Department of the Environment, where he struggles manfully to preserve the Earth's ozone layer...

Michelle Magorian / A Cuckoo in the Nest

 As an evacuee, Ralph received a good education, but after the war Ralph's working-class father resents his education and his ambition to be an actor, and is furious when Ralph is sacked from the paper mill. The story traces Ralph's struggle to...

Alyssa Brugman / Walking Naked

 'Every school has one. They are ugly or fat. They have scars or acne or birthmarks. We are mean to them. We ridicule them. We don't want to stand near them or sit next to them. Perdita was one of those.' Megan is one of the leaders of the in-group...

Jeanne Rayan / Nerve

 Black Mirror meets Pretty Little Liars in this novel full of action, suspense and hot romance. Also a major motion picture starring Emma Roberts! Are you playing the game, or is the game playing you?A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly...

Jahnna N. Malcolm / The Lucky Stone (Scrambled Legs S.)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Kathy Reichs / Terminal : (Virals 5)

 A terrifying new adventure for Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals as they come face to face with their greatest enemy.Tory Brennan and the Virals pack are forced to confront the existence of a rival pack - The...

Michael Winerip / Adam Canfield Of The Dash

  Fast-paced and suspenseful story about two young reporters on a school newspaper. Adam and Jennifer have just become co-editors of their school newspaper, The Slash. It's the first issue...and already there's the smell of a scandal! One squeaky...

John Stephens / The Emerald Atlas:The Books of Beginning 1

 The first thrilling book in the most exciting children's fantasy series since Harry Potter.They were taken from their beds one frozen night, when the world was covered in snow. The silhouette of a tall, thin man has haunted Kate ever since.Ten...

Terry Deary / Break Out!

  Part of the CLASSIFIED series, the tale of two young Americans who, having hacked into top secret Washington files, are caught selling the secrets to the Russians. Yet how did these teenagers manage to hack into one of the most sophisticated...

Thomas the Tank Engine Book Club (25 Book Collection) by The Rev. W. Awdry & Co

Thomas the Tank Engine Book Club (25 Book Collection) by The Rev. W. Awdry & Co Contains:   Henry and the Elephant Edward and Gordon Hullo Twins Thomas the Tank Engine Off the Rails Henry the Green Engine Thomas and Gordon Thomas and...

Joan Lingard / Between Two Worlds

  Continues the story of the Petersons family, first begun in "Tug of War". After fleeing from the advancing Russian Army and leaving their family home in Latvia forever, the Petersons arrive in Canada in 1948. But their problems are not over...

Mark Haddon / Boom!

  "Boom!" is a roller-coaster read with spaceships, spies and mortal danger! Jim and his best friend Charlie weren't looking for adventure, when they decided to bug the staffroom ...But then they overhear their teachers speaking in a secret...

Noel Streatfeild / White Boots

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...