Children's Books

Wes Magee / The Scribblers of Scumbagg School

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Tessa Krailing / Jilly the Kid

Petsitter's Club #1 Sam, Jo, Matthew, and Katie are four animal-loving kids who start up their own neighborhood service -- the Petsitters Club -- as a school-related community service. The kids' petsitting assignments turn out to be funny,...

Elizabeth Lindsay / Hello Nellie and the Dragon

Nellie loves Gertrude the dragon but she's always having to get her out of trouble. What can she do when Gertrude burns her bottom on a hot air balloon, steals a mattress and breaks her stilts?       This book is second hand,...

Paul Stewart / Football Mad

2-1 up in the inter-school cup final, Captain Gary O'Connell finds the net - at the wrong end! The team are gutted. Cup glory now rests on a tricky replay. But that's the least of Gary's worries. Someone is calling him names, in thick red graffiti,...

Peter Beere / Bod's Mum's Knickers

Bod's mum is very big. But the most amazing thing about her is...her enormous knickers. Knickers that are big enough to use as air-brakes for a Jumbo Jet. But these knickers are really put to the test when a whole school gets caught in a hurricane...

Barbara Ireson / Naughtiest Stories

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Wes Magee / Sports Day at Scumbagg School

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Keith Brumpton / The Mystery of the Great Sheepdog Swindle

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Jonathan Allen / BIG Trouble

The second Magician Grimweed story. In this book BIG stands for "babies into giants", a potion, one drop of which makes one particular mouse grow and grow. The author's previous books include "Who's at the Door", "Mucky Mouse", "One With a Bun", "Big...

Michael Coleman / Football Stories

Meet the Redville Rockets, the football team from Redville School, who are after the Junior Inter-Schools Cup. Players include Roly Bentall the football keeper, who can't keep his legs together, Katie Sparks who loses her lucky sock, and the...

Hiawyn Oram / Mona the Vampire and the Tinned Poltergeist

A story featuring Mona the Vampire whose adventure takes place at a school fete which is being threatened by a tinned poltergeist. Illustrated black and white line drawings by Sonia Holleyman. First published in hardback in 1996. A story featuring Mona...

Ann Jungman / Frank N. Stein and the Missing Monster

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Alison Leonard / Marybelle and Her Computer Aunt

Published in hardback in 1996, a title in the COMPUTER WHIZZKIDS series. When Marybelle goes to her aunt's house for Christmas she expects to be bored but when she discovers virtual reality a new world opens up before her. Illustrated in black and...

Jean Ure / Who's for the Zoo

Woodside School #3 This volume is the last title in the six-part "Woodside School" mini-series about a primary school class. It deals with the topical issue of zoos through the story of Catherine, a pupil who does not want to go on the school...

Kent Lorna / The Brain-Blasting Adventures of Norman Thorman

Contains two stories in one volume, featuring the adventures of the sensible, but accident-prone Norman Thorman, from "The Mind Boggling Adventures of Norman Thorman".       This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

John Joyce / Captain Cockle & the Cormorant

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Emma Laybourn / Robopop

When Ben's father has to suddenly go away over the half-term holiday, he has a big surprise for Ben - a very special robot to take his place. The only problem is that like lots of Dad's robots, this one doesn't quite work as well as expected...

Rose Impey / Sleepy Sammy

Sleepy Sammy: The Sleepiest Sloth in the World       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

Rose Impey / Precious Potter

Aimed at the beginner reader, this is the story of Precious, the heaviest cat in the world. The book includes facts and records and a joke page. Rose Impey has also written "Joe's Cafe" and "A Letter to Father Christmas". Shoo Rayner's other books...

Tony Mitton / Royal Raps

A collection of rap rhyme retellings of fairy tales which include the Cinderella Rap, the Rebbit Rap, the Story of Simp and the Golden Goose. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Martin Chatterton.       This book...

Rose Impey / Phew, Sidney!

This picture book for the beginner reader tells the story of Sidney, the skunk who smelt so sweet that no one wanted to be friends with him. Rose Impey has also written "Joe's Cafe", "A Letter to Father Christmas" and "The Revenge of the Rabbit". The...

Geraldine McCaughrean / Wizziwig and the Wacky Weather Machine

Written by a winner of the Guardian's Children's Fiction Award, this story is about Wizziwig and her weather machine. The machine can make the daytime gloriously hot and let it rain at night. But is this such a good idea? This beginner fiction book...

Rose Impey / Too Many Babies

Too Many Babies: The Largest Litter in the World   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second...

Rumer Godden / Great Grandfather's House

When she learns that she is to spend three months at her grandparents' house in rural Japan, Keiko, a spoiled city child, is unhappy, but she soon changes her mind. By the author of Four Dolls.       This book is second hand, and...

Dick King-Smith / Harriet's Hare

Hares don't talk. Everyone knows that. But the hare Harriet meets one morning in a corn circle in her father's wheatfield is a very unusual hare: a visitor from the far-off planet Pars, come to spend his holidays on Earth in the form of a talking...

Vivian French / Jackson's Juniors

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James Berry / Playing A Dazzler

James Berry explores several themes in this collection - most notably the experience of young Afro-Caribbean people in Britain today. Other poems are about universal subjects, such as teenage relationships, ghosts and the experience of living in...

Brice Avery / A Plug at the Bottom of the Sea

Timothy is on the trip of a lifetime - to the bottom of the ocean! However he discovers a problem there - something is wrong with the plug at the bottom of the sea. So that's why the oceans are rising and the rivers are drying up! Now it's up to...

Stan Cullimore / Tabby's CAT

A young girl named Tabby has an unusual furry pet. It was marooned on Earth when its spaceship crashed into greedy Mr Grabsnatch's shopping centre. Can Tabby help the alien - a CAT - to get home before Grabsnatch can seize it for an evil money-making...

Rob Childs / The Big Goal

Andrew Weston is overjoyed when he wins a SPOT THE BALL competition and gets the chance to form a five-a-side football team and take part in a special weekend tournament. Naming his team the Vikings, Andrew is determined to play well - especially...

Rob Childs / The Big Prize

Chris Weston is excited when he's chosen to be his local club's mascot for an FA Cup match, and also picked to play in goal for his school team on the morning of the same day. But then disaster strikes.       This book is...

Ben Brooks / The Impossible Boy

Believe in the impossible this Christmas - a magical story celebrating the power of imagination, from the bestselling author of STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT.Oleg and Emma entered their den to find a cardboard spaceship standing exactly...

Michael Northrop / Valley of Kings

TOMBQUEST The third book in a brand new epic Egyptian adventure! An ancient evil has been unleashed. Mummies are awakening. New York is overrun with scorpions. . . And, now, Alex and his best friend Ren must head to London, where a blood rain is...

Jean Chapman / Off to School!

Young Hippo School   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we...

Rachel Delahaye / Son of Grim

Jim Reaper #1 You might have heard how the universe began with the Big Bang?Well, the universe as Jim Wimple knows it is about to end. With a Bazoom!Not only are Bazoom! scooters super fast and deadly cool, but fierce (and swoonsome) older girl...

Jon Cramer / The Weather Wizard and the Giant Bread Catastrophe

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Jenny Nimmo / Seth And The Strangers

A dark cloud rains tiny whirling shapes on to the hills. Only Seth knows each spinning silver disc carries something extraordinary. Where have they come from? What do they want?       This book is second hand, and while you may...

Philip Wooderson / Teacher's Pet

When his teacher announces that everyone has to bring a pet into school for Nature Day, Marley doesn''t k now what to do. He hasn''t got a proper pet, only Ken, a cate rpillar he keeps under his bed. Then Marley finds a potion t o double Ken''s size...

Andrew Matthews / The Chocolate Bunny Plot

Four hilarious stories about wicked villains written by best-selling children's author Andrew Matthews. Larger-than-life characters, knockabout humour and strong plots in which the villains' plans are foiled will make these books surefire winners...

Jonathan Allen / The Witch Who Couldn't Spell

The wicked witch of the west, otherwise know n as Elspeth, can''t understand why her spells aren''t working properly. Something is ruining her spells, so she calls in Grimweed to find a solution '       This book is second...

Andrew Matthews / The Great Gold Train Robbery

London's most desperate criminals, Nosher Norris, Hatty Herring, and Shady Samuels, are presented with their greatest challenge they must rob the Bank of England without ever setting foot in it. The plan involves three farmer's smocks, a milkmaid's...

Steve Biddle / The Paint & Print Fun Book

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Shoo Rayner / World Cup Winners

The Ginger Ninja #5 Ginger, Tiddles, Hilda and the Wilson Twins are mad about Pawball. They train hard and win a local five-a-side pawball competition. The tickets for the Catalina World Cup final. Once there, Ginger helps the national team win...

Alex Wheatle / The Humiliations of Welton Blake

Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie - the best-looking girl in school - and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and...

Stephen Moore / Spilling the Magic

Spilling the Magic #1 Spending the summer holidays with boring relatives, life looks bleak for Billy and Mary, until . . . They discover a strange book of spells, stolen from its owner, and find themselves whisked into the mysterious, multi-coloured...

Nina Bawden / The White Horse Gang

To raise money for one of them to join her parents in America, three youngsters plan a kidnapping which fortunately backfires but places them in greater danger.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Marjorie Darke / Comeback

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Paul Jennings / Unbelievable!

A collection of short stories by the author of "Uncanny!", "Unbearable!", "Unreal!" and "Quirky Tales". Why the punk ghost cab't pass his spook exam, where Souperman gets his strength from, and how an old lady grows up to be 16.....

Hilary McKay / Happy and Glorious

The Queen #1 Queens have two birthdays, one on the day they were born and one on the day it would have been most convenient for them to have been born on. It is the convenient one that counts. This Queen is not a happy little Queen. It's her...

Nigel Hinton / The Finders

When Rosie posts a parcel for a frail old man she has no idea that it contains the Djinn Star - Whose evil magic threatens to take her over. But she is tracked down by the Finders, the only ones who know how to save her. Together they set out to find...

William Mayne / Over the Hills and Far Away

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Nigel Hinton / The Dark Dream

Beaver Towers #4 In this fourth Beaver Towers adventure, Philip and old Mr. Edgar set off on their travels so that Philip can learn how to use his powers to fight evil. But while they are away, the island itself is under threat from a strange...