General Children's

Leila Sales / This Song Will Save Your Life

   All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider. Starting a new school, she dreams of fitting in at last - but when her best attempts at popularity fail, she almost gives up. In a cry for...

Libba Bray / Beauty Queens

   From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a desert island classic. Survival. Of the fittest. The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a...

F.E. Higgins / The Black Book of Secrets

   When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses...

Melinda Salisbury / The Sin Eater's Daughter

   Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she'sengaged to the prince, Twylla isn't exactly a member of the court.She's the executioner.As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly...

Helen Cresswell / Mystery Stories

    This compilation features writers as diverse as Joan Aiken, Emily Bronte and Carl Jung. The stories included are mysterious and full of intrigue, with occasional hints of the supernatural...

Hans Richter / Friedrich

   Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the early 1930s. At first, Friedrich seemed to be the more fortunate, but when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich...

Julie Chibbaro / Redemption

    Lily and her mother are devout followers of Frere Lanther, a man of God who shuns the corrupt ways of the Catholic Church. Persecuted by the other villagers on the Baron's estate where they...

David Levithan / Invisibility

   Stephen is used to invisibility. He was born that way. Invisible. Cursed.Elizabeth sometimes wishes for invisibility. When you're invisible, no one can hurt you. So when her mother decides to...

N.M. Browne / Warriors of Camlann

    "Riveting adventures in a story which is also crammed full of historical interest." - "Independent". When the thick fog of the Veil descends again, Dan and Ursula expect to return to present...

Lauren Child / Take Your Last Breath

   Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out of boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child, and meet your new favourite heroine... Ruby Redfort: detective, secret...

Melissa Kantor / Maybe One Day

   Two best friends face the hardest future of all - a future without each other.In the tradition of `The Fault in Our Stars', critically acclaimed author Melissa Kantor masterfully captures the joy...

Tone Almhjell / The Twistrose Key

   Something is wrong in the house that Lin's family has rented; Lin is sure of it. The clocks tick too slowly. Frost covers the flower bed, even in a rain storm. And when a secret key marked...

Harriet Reuter Hapgood / The Square Root of Summer

   My heart is a kaleidoscope, and when we kiss it makes my world unravel . . .Last summer, Gottie's life fell apart. Her beloved grandfather Grey died and Jason, the boy to whom she lost her heart...

Laurie Halse Anderson / Twisted

   Seventeen-year-old Tyler is totally enjoying his position as highschool Alpha male after years of being "the geek". But then Bethany- rich, blonde, beautiful and the girl Tyler wants - is the...

Ruth Eastham / Jaguar Trials

    Thirteen-year-old Ben finds himself in Central America with his parents - and stumbling into an ancient mystery. Along with two local kids, he is determined to solve the ancient trials of El...

Joan Lingard / The File on Fraulein Berg

      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...

Gill Lobel / Hazel. Not A Nut

    This is the funny, funky story of Hazel Anne Mooney, told by the girl herself. Hazel is fourteen, smart, funny and fed up. How could anyone whose initials spell HAM, who only manages set one...

Elizabeth Laird / Jake's Tower

   'It's good that I've found this secret place. I can come here and make plans. My main plan for the future is my dream house. It's very tall and thin. A tower really. There'll be a lift to whiz me...

Keren David / When I Was Joe

    When Ty witnesses a stabbing, his own life is in danger from the criminals he's named, and he and his mum have to go into police protection. Ty has a new name, a new look and a cool new image...

Dave Barry / Peter And The Shadow Thieves

    A ship draws near Mollusk Island, bringing an eerie passenger - a cloaked stranger who makes even the desperate pirate crew shake in fear. Lord Ombra is coming for Peter and the Lost Boys.....

Shawn K. Stout / Penelope Crumb Finds Her Lucky Stars

   Awful Vera Bogg is Patsy's new best friend!Penelope is determined to win Patsy back. When the girls are chosen to paint a mural at Portwaller's Home for the Aged, it's Penelope's chance to show...

K.K. Beck / Fake

    Danny'd already figured out that his mom and stepdad were majorly stupid, but now he's decided they're actually evil. They're sending him on a two-week "wilderness survival experience" for...

Caragh M. O'Brien / Prized

   Having escaped from the corrupt Enclave, Gaia ventures into the wasteland with her baby sister, Maya, hoping to find a settlement that's rumoured to lie in the Dead Forest. After days of...

Teri Terry / Shattered

   Kyla's memory was erased,her personality wiped blank,her memories lost for ever.Or so she thought.After the shocking events of SLATED and FRACTURED, we return to Kyla's oppressive world as she...

Kathryn Erskine / Mockingbird

    Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when...

Josephine Feeney / Truth, Lies and Homework

    Miss Sanders sets the class a history project to find out about their grandparents' lives during Word War II. Claire's questions to her Irish grandfather uncover a terrible secret in his past...

Julia Golding / Young Knights of the Round Table

   HUMANS ARE THE ENEMY!That's what Rick's been taught to believe by the Fey Folk who stole him. Taken to the magical realm of Avalon, he's been trained, alongside other kids like him, into an elite...

Kate Andrews / Friends 4 Ever

    Carrie, Alex and Sky sometimes have their differences, but they've been best friends since the first day of high school. They're always together, always there for each other. So what if they...

Carolyn Mackler / Earth, My Butt And Other Round Things : Ever had a phone call that changes everything?

    Virginia Shreves has a "larger-than-average" body and a medium-sized inferiority complex. Her mum is an exercise fiend, her dad whistles at skinny women, and her siblings are gorgeous,...

Melissa de La Cruz / The Ashleys

   Ashley "Ash" Spencer:The only one who can use her real name. Lives in tunics and grosgrain headbands. Highly allergic to peanuts. Secret: Her Gwyneth-blonde hair is due to a salon first-process...

M.T. Anderson / The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation

    Boston, 1775. Raised by a society of rational philosophers, who call each other by a number, Octavian and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only people in their...

Geraldine McCaughrean / The Kite Rider

    Set in 13th-century China, this is the gripping, adventurous, compulsive story of Haoyou, a boy who makes his way in the world by flying into the air, strapped to a huge kite. The story is...

Siobhan Parkinson / The Thirteenth Room

   It has been nine years since the death of a young girl on the Taggart farm near the quiet Irish village of Dromadden. But memories of the tragedy are vividly and powerfully called up when Niamh...

Jan Mark / The Electric Telepath

    Elijah longs to be a scientist, to follow in the footsteps of his heroes. But as a member of the Horebite church such dreams will never be possible. Instructed by his father and his church to...

Jenny Downham / Unbecoming

    Katie's life is falling apart: her mum's controlling, her dad's run off, she's in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal and now her estranged grandmother's turned up on the...

Melissa de La Cruz / Disney Return to the Isle of the Lost : A Descendants Novel

      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...

Maggie Harcourt / The Last Summer of Us

    Limpet, Steffan and Jared. Three best friends crammed into a clapped-out rust bucket of a car on a whirlwind road trip to forget their troubles and see out the end of the summer. But no...

Brenna Yovanoff / The Replacement

   Everything can be replace. Except human love.Mackie Doyle is not one of us.Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black...

Dave Barry / Peter And The Starcatchers

    Discover the origins of Peter Pan in this swashbuckling tale, full of black and white illustrations! When Peter, along with his fellow orphans, boards the Never Land, it is only the start of...

Melissa de La Cruz / Masquerade

   Preparations are under way for the ball of the century. But as any true Blue Blood knows, it's the after-party that counts. And the cunning Mimi Force is getting ready to make sure her masquerade...

Sarah Singleton / The Amethyst Child

   It's the summer holidays and Amber is bored. So when she meets non-conformist Dowdie, she is bowled over. Dowdie lives in a commune known as the Community, and gradually, Amber finds herself...

Brian Conaghan / When Mr Dog Bites

   Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015 Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon's Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey. . . Dylan Mint...

Jamie Thomson / The Teenage Years

   Thirteen-year-old schoolboy, Dirk Lloyd, has a dark secret - in fact he is a dark secret. Dirk - according to his own account - is the earthly incarnation of a Dark Lord, supreme ruler of the...

Jaclyn Moriarty / Feeling Sorry for Celia

   Dear Ms Clarry, It has come to our attention that you are incredibly bad at being a teenager. Yours sincerely, The Association of Teenagers When Elizabeth Clarry's best friend Celia runs away to...

Ann Halam / Dr Franklin's Island

   What's it like to see your friend transformed into a raven before your very eyes, and to know it's your turn next? How does it feel to morph into a manta ray or slide into the body of a...

Beverley Naidoo / The Other Side of Truth

    This is the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Their father is a political journalist who refuses to stop criticising the military rulers in...

Paul Bajoria / The Printer's Devil

    Convicts, murderers and the shady inhabitants of the London underworld are part of daily life for 12-year-old printer's devil, Mog Winter - after all, Mog prints their 'wanted' posters...But...

Marie Louise Fitzpatrick / Hagwitch

    London, 1596 and 2010. Two lives, four centuries apart, but with a dark secret that ties them together. It's summer, and the vibrant world of the theatre barge is coming to life. It's Lally's...

Chris D'Lacey / The Fire Within

   'David ran a hand through his mop of brown hair. Dragons. It was certainly different from his last set of lodgings, where all you got were spiders and the occasional mouse. "It's perfect," he...

Mark Walden / H.I.V.E. 3: Escape Velocity

   Pupils and staff at H.I.V.E. are horrified to discover that Dr Nero has been captured by the forces of H.O.P.E., the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive, the world's newest and most...

Celia Rees / Truth or Dare

   A room of secrets in a house of lies....When Josh explores his grandmother's house he finds an attic up a closed-off staircase. In it is a collection of strange drawings by his uncle, Patrick,...

Anne Fine / Madame Doubtfire

    Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil and have been torn between their warring parents ever since the divorce. But all that changes when their mother takes on a...