General Children's

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 doorstep and Katie's expected to take care of her...

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

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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 murky water, a world of living dead girls...

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 his adventures. Befriending Molly, he...

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 ball is the place to be for the Young,...

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 drawn into it. She discovers that Dowdie is an...

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 has Tourette's. Being sixteen is...

S.F. Said / Varjak Paw

    Mesopotamian Blue cat Varjak Paw has never been outside before, but Varjak is forced out into the city when the sinister gentleman and his two menacing cats take over his home. With help from a mystical ancestor, he manages to overcome...

Joelle Charbonneau / The Testing 3

   The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. Testing survivor Cia Vale knows that she alone can lead the rebellion against the government, but to do so she must risk the lives of those she loves, and gamble on the...

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 Darklands and leader of great armies of orcs and...

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 join the circus,...

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 snake? This is what happens to Miranda, Semi and...

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 Nigeria. Their mother is killed and they are sent...

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 a face to face encounter with a real crook -...

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 world and the only one she's ever known. But...

Grace Cavendish / The Lady Grace Mysteries: Deception

   Everyone at the Royal Court was so excited today - the marvellous Frost Fair has come to London, and we all went ice skating! But there was a terrible discovery when the body of a man was found at the edge of the frozen river. Why was...

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 said.' When David arrives at Wayward...

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 ruthlessly efficient security force. Three months pass...

Roddy Doyle / Rover and the Big Fat Baby (Hardback)

 The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing! Can Rover the wonder dog and his little nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down? While Rover and co. are hot on the trail of the BFB, via Granny Mack's backpack, the post lady's basket and a plane...

Annabel Pitcher / My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

   Winner of the 2012 Branford Boase Award, this is Annabel Pitcher's stunning debut about ten-year-old Jamie, and the way his life and his family are shaped by the sister in an urn on the mantelpiece. Five years ago, Jamie's sister,...

Megan Rix / A Soldier's Friend

   SAMMY is a football crazy rescue puppy.MOUSER is a fearless grey tabby.Together they make an unlikely pair that won't be parted, not even by the First World War.As the war rages in Europe, Londoners are sending brave animals to help the...

Steve Barlow / Friend or Foe?

 Jack thought he'd do anything for a computer of his own-nothing fancy, just something he could use to get on the net. Unfortunately, he didn't realize just what anything would mean...Yes, he now has a very cool laptop. But he also has two...

Fergus Lyons / Muckeen the Pig

 Panda number 1 Muckeen loves being dirty and muddy. And he loves his food. He is a very happy little pig. But when he is taken to market Muckeen does not like it at all! Still, Muckeen is a smart pig too and he finds a way out!     All...

P. J. Denton / Sleeping Over

 Taylor has exciting news for her best friends, Emily, Jo, and Kara. She's inviting them to a party to celebrate the end of term! And this is no ordinary party - it's going to be their first sleepover party! The girls can't wait to stay up late,...

Patrice Aggs / Ooh La Booga Bomp

 On the farm, some very strange noises are keeping the farmer awake. The ducks are having fun singing and banging `instruments'-- what a racket! But their noise is keeping someone else awake too, wily Mr Fox. There's trouble on the way ... Panda...

Gwyneth Rees / My Mum's from Planet Pluto

 Daniel knows that his mum was very ill once - mentally ill. She's fine now, and she's even landed a big new job as a head teacher. The problem is, she's head of his new school! It's so embarrassing - everyone is going to tease him. But then things...

Darcey Bussell / Jade and the Silver Flute

 Dance your way to the magical world of Enchantia in the delightful fourth series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey Bussell! Precious things have been going missing in Enchantia in the lead up to a very special ceremony. Is someone trying to thwart the...

Amelia Cobb / Heartland Special Amy's Journal

 When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum, the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. She's good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to...

Andrew Lane / Death Cloud ( Young Sherlock Holmes)

   The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education - the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With...

Marc Brown / Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest

   Arthur the aardvark has writer's block. He needs to come up with a jingle to enter the Crunch cereal contest, but his mind's gone completely blank. Then he hears his sassy little sister, D.W., singing to herself, and decides to claim her...

Steve Barlow / Whizzard!

 Comedy fantasy series with a Pratchetteque/Carry On Blackadder twist, but written for children. A slightly more sophisticated read than the Lost Diaries, with a bit more edge. The Dark Forest is a world. Cities, towns and villages exist like...

Dan Jerris / Death Diamond : Book 1

 Jack and Al are lucky to be rescued by pirates when they find themselves in the middle of a mysterious ocean. But will the pirates be their friends or foes as they hunt for the Dragon Blood Sabre?     All of our books are second hand,...

Damon Burnard / Bullysaurus The Gladiator

 Bullysaurus has been chosen as official gladiator for the two-legged Nuks tribe. His opponent - fighting for the Unks tribe - seems big, ferocious and strangely familiar to Bully. No wonder, he's Bully's long-lost brother! The two gladiators manage...

Wendelin Van Draanen / Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf

 Sammy Keyes has got two mysteries to solve. Unless she finds scary Mrs Landvogt's dog in a matter of days, she and Grams are going to be out of a home when Mrs Landvogt shops them to the authorities. Sammy needs to be concentrating on getting yappy...

Rick Bundschuh / Burned : A Novel

 It took real faith and courage to get Bethany back on a surfboard after losing her arm to a shark. In this new four-book fiction series based on the life of surfer star Bethany Hamilton, Bethany and her friends discover God's love and guidance as...

Peter Dickinson / The Kin: Suth's Story Bk.1

 The Moonhawk Kin, a prehistoric band of nomadic hunters, have been driven form the African lands by murderous strangers. Young Suth leads the children on a perilous journey to find a new home. They find a strange Kin, but find danger and death as...

Ingrid Lee / Dog Lost

 Cash is the puppy nobody wants. A pit-bull. A throwaway dog. A shivering wet bundle, Cash arrives in the life of twelve-year-old Mackenzie. And from that moment boy and dog share a love neither has ever known before. But when Cash is kicked out by...

Sue Wallman / Lying About Last Summer

   Skye is looking for an escape from the reality of last summer when her sister died in a tragic accident. Her parents think that a camp for troubled teenagers might help her process her grief. All of the kids at the summer...

Michelle Zink / Prophecy Of The Sisters

   Without the Keys, something terrible will happen. Something that cannot be undone. And with them, I might bring an end to the riddle of the Prophecy and my strange part in it. If Alice and I are on conflicting sides of the...

Jesse Andrews / Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

   **Now a major motion picture** It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it...

Lauren St. John / The One Dollar Horse

    A thriller set in the equestrian world about making the impossible possible, about reaching the top on a one dollar horse. Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school,...

Geraldine McCaughrean / Show Stopper!

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Narinder Dhami / The Beautiful Game: 01: Hannah's Secret

 Hi, I'm Hannah, and I'm the future captain of the England women's football team! Ha ha - only kidding. Although my dad seriously thinks so, which is embarrassing with a capital E. He's always yelling at me when I play - it's a nightmare! At least...

Colin Fletcher / The Worst Class in the School

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Anne Fine / The More the Merrier

 Christmas comes but once a year. Luckily ...The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time when families gather together. In Ralph's case this means ten or more relatives coming to stay, including assorted aunts and uncles, nutty Great-Aunt Ida...

N. M. Browne / Shadow Web

    Jessica Allendon is bored and Googles her name. Weirdly, she finds another girl, same age, same name, also living in London. They arrange to meet. At the designated time and place, Jess sees the girl, shock registering on both their...

John Foster / Paddington and the Marmalade Maze

 In this engrossing selection of puzzle poems you will find anagrams, anagriddles, crosswords, inside-out words, hidden words and much, much more. This book will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys puzzling and word-games, as well...

R. W. Alley / Paddington and the Marmalade Maze

      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...

Caroline Lawrence / The Roman Mysteries: The Assassins of Rome : Book 4

 Jonathan goes on a secret quest to Rome, and Flavia, Nubia and Lupus set out to find him. Their dangerous mission takes them to the Golden House of Nero where a deadly assassin is rumoured to be at work - and they learn what happened to Jonathan's...

B. Strange / Terror in Cubicle Four

 St Sebastian's School in Grimesford is the pits. No, really it is. Built on the boggy remains of a medieval plague pit, this once proud school's dodgy nineteenth-century foundations are causing it to slowly subside. Every year it sinks a little...

Cora Harrison / Dark Days at Drumshee ( Drumshee Timeline Series - Book 12)

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Sally Gardner / The Countess's Calamity : The Box

 When a box of toys is left, abandoned in the park, the toys really don't know what to make of it! Should they wait to be rescued and taken back to the 'land of lounge' or should they all scramble out and try to save themselves. Fortunately for them...