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Dick King Smith / The Witch of Blackberry Bottom

Miss Slade is a recluse who lives in an old caravan in Blackberry Bottom. When newcomers move into the nearest house, she gradually starts to rejoin the village community. But what no one knows is that Miss Slade keeps all her money buried in a milk...

Elizabeth Shaw / The Little Black Sheep

This charming book tells the adventures of an outcast little black sheep: how he saved the whole flock in a snowstorm, put Polo the bossy sheepdog in his place - and gave the shepherd a great idea! Fine line drawings illustrate this simple and memorable...

Jenny Nimmo / The Snow Spider

On his ninth birthday Gwyn is given some strange gifts by his grandmother. They lead him to the snow spider and a series of encounters with strange other worlds of snow and silver, finally revealing the fate of his lost elder sister.All of our books are...

Phoebe Bright / Lucky Stars 4: the Birthday Wish

One night Cassie is gazing at the twinkling sky, when suddenly a shooting star zooms into her bedroom and transforms, into Stella Starkeeper. Stella and Cassie fly to the secret world of the stars, and Cassie discovers she is destined to be a Lucky Star...

Ellen Miles / Rascal

I'm small, but I'm trouble! Rascal may be small, but he's full of mischief! Lizzie and Jack are in for a challenge. Will they be able to find someone who can care for this pesky little puppy?All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Paul Jennings / The Gizmo Again

The girl sucks Jack's eye. Her tongue is huge and spongy and dribbly. The tip of it goes up one nostril. Jack did something awful with an ice-cream-now it's his turn to get licked. A second gizmo tale from Australia'a multi award-winning...

Patrice Aggs / Strawberry Squirt

Strawberry Squirt is a great game, but the rabbits don't want Short Legs to play. 'You have a big red spot on your back,' they tell him. 'It's against the rules.' Oh dear! What can Short Legs do?All of our books are second hand,...

Gordon Snell / The Case of the Mystery Graves

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 price sticker on a...

Betty G. Birney / The World According to Humphrey

The time had arrived to put my Plan into action. I was in grave danger and I had no choice. I only had one weapon: a rubber band. It had taken me a long time to get it hooked around the edge of my food dish. Now I carefully pulled it back as far as I...

Sarah Webb / Sunny Days and Moon Cakes

The second book in Sarah Webb's heartwarming series about friendship and family, set on an island. Perfect for readers aged 9 years and up. Perfect for fans of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson. The second book in The Songbird Cafe Girls series...

Jo Cotterill / Electrigirl and the Deadly Swarm

Fully charged and ready for action. The second title in an explosive new series, with a unique mix of stunning comic book style visuals, and action-packed prose. Holly Sparkes was just your average 12-year-old, that was, until a bolt of lightning crashed...

Joe O'Brien / Alfie Green and the Monkey Puzzler

The circus has come to town. But it's no ordinary circus, it's Monty's Marvellous Monkey Circus and all the performers are monkeys! All the kids from Budsville are really excited, except for Alfie who suspects all is not what it seems ...All...

Darcey Bussell / Delphie and the Magic Spell

Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell takes you on a captivating journey to a faraway land of ballet and magic, the wonderful world of Enchantia! The second of sparkly new series for all young girls who dream of being a ballerina, or simply love to dance!...

Gwyneth Rees / The Mum Mystery

Esmie has always longed for a new mum, since her real mother died when she was a baby. So when Lizzie moves in, Esmie is delighted. Surely it can only be a matter of time before Dad proposes and Lizzie becomes an official mum. So why does Matty,...

Don Conroy / The Witches Go on Vacation

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 price sticker on a...

Terry Hassett Henry / Witch at Batsford Castle

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 price sticker on a...

Pippa Goodhart / The House with No Name

When Jamie's father buys a house that has been empty for thirty-five years, a secret from the past is revealed. A touching ghost story. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexicAll of our books are second hand, and...

Lauren Tarshis / I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916

Based on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek? In the summer of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by the...

Felice Arena / Bird Crazy

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 price sticker on a...

Anne Digby / Summer Camp at Trebizon

This is another story in the Trebizon series about a modern boarding school. It features Rebecca and her adventures at the end of the summer term in the third, when she suddenly finds herself back at school looking after a little boy called Tommy Carter...

Philip Ardagh / Dreadful Acts

Eddie Dickens continues his hilarious adventures in the second book in this best-selling trilogy, hailed by the Guardian as 'a scrumptious cross between Dickens and Monty Python.' Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids an explosion, a hot-air balloon and...

Vic Parker / Girls Only! All About Periods and Growing-up Stuff

he essential girl guide to growing up! Girls Only! focuses on the practicalities, social and personal implications of starting your period, and the physical and emotional developments in puberty. It tells you what happens and when, what you need to know...

Frances Thomas / Polly's Running Away Book

Polly is not happy. Her mother is pregnant and can't stop talking about the "new baby". Her little sister is exceptionally annoying. Her hamster has gone missing. And she is no longer friends with her best friend! So Polly decides that her...

Hazel Townson / 3 in 1 Hazel Townson Bind Up

A revived version of this tale, which has been written especially for today's children. It is one of a number of stories within a series, that have been rewritten and re-illustrated by a selection of award-winning authors and illustrators to...

Leon McAuley / Albert and the Magician

When Mr Curry the headmaster announces The Great Gazebo is coming to visit the school, Albert's big sister Fionnuala tells him awful tales of the powers of magicians, especially over seven-year-old boys. 'They appear in a cloud of smoke and red...

Brendan O'Carroll / Jimmy's Joke Book

This is a selection of humour from Jimmy, a regular contributor to Ian Dempsey's "Breakfast Show" on 2FM for over ten years. At 8:07 am each morning, he telephones Ian and they chat. Jimmy is always good for a gag or a funny observation on...

Phoebe Bright / Lucky Stars: the Perfect Pony Wish

One night Cassie is gazing at the twinkling sky, when suddenly a shooting star zooms into her bedroom and transforms, into Stella Starkeeper. Stella and Cassie fly to the secret world of the stars, and Cassie discovers she is destined to be a Lucky Star...

John Wood / The W.H.I.F.F.

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 price sticker on a...

Andrew Matthews / The Kingfisher Treasury of Funny Stories

These funny stories all contain favourite characters such as Posy Bates, Dilly the Dinosaur, flying dogs and dancing cows.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...

Jennifer Curry / Family Poems

This title presents brilliant poems to entertain your whole family. In here you'll find rhymes from favourite poets including Michael Rosen, Jack Prelutsky and Kit Wright, as well as some poems written by kids like you. There are happy poems and sad...

Martin Waddell / Star Striker Titch

A fun football story by an award-winning author in this popular series for young readers. It's the school five-a-side World Cup. Titch has new boots and he's ready to score goals. But Bungo's the striker and he doesn't want tinies like Titch in his team...

Jeanne Betancourt / Stolen Ponies (Pony Pals)

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 price sticker on a...

Margot Bosonnet / Red Belly, Yellow Belly

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 price sticker on a...

Robert Swindells / Doodlebug Alley

It's World War II, and doodlebugs, the deadliest bombs yet, are raining down on London. No one is safe, no street intact. The war is tearing Sandy's family apart. Do they stand any chance in Doodlebug Alley?All of our books are second hand, and...

Janet Perkins / Haffertee's First Christmas

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 price sticker on a...

Chloe Ryder / A Unicorn Adventure!

Chevalia is an enchanted island where ponies and horses rule, its magic powered by eight golden horseshoes hanging in the royal castle. But the horseshoes have been stolen and must be found before Midsummer Day or the island will lose its magic ...A...

Pete Johnson / Help! I'm a Classroom Gambler

Harvey thinks school is the most boring place on earth - and so he and his friends devise a way to help relieve their boredom. Lessons are actually quite interesting when you have more at stake than just whether you'll get through it without being...

Lisa Smith / The Forbidden Game: No. 3

The final challenge. Jenny and her friends must enter the Shadow Man's playground and defeat him on his own terms. But there are so few clues, and so much fear.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Cetherine Doolan / Drochla Gruaige

Ba bhrea le Finn a bheith 'cuileailte' -- ach nil se ar chor ar bith. Deanann se a dhicheallach teipeann air ...go dti go n-athraionn se a stil ghruaige! Finn really wants to be cool. He tries very hard, but nothing works. Until he tackles his...

Lee Weatherly / Breakfast at Sadie's

Sadie is fourteen years old and unhappy at school. Her dad died four years ago, and she lives alone with her mum in their seaside bed and breakfast. Her mum thinks Sadie doesn't try hard enough at anything she does, and her teachers think she's...

Niki Daly / Pa's Perfect Pizza

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 price sticker on a...

Redvers Brandling / Spilling the Beans on Robin Hood and other robbers of the copse

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 price sticker on a...

Stephanie Dagg / Oh Mum!

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 price sticker on a...

Jonny Duddle / The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon

Ahoy there shipmates! Climb aboard with a new fiction series from Jonny Duddle featuring the crew from The Pirates Next Door. Join Jim Lad and Matilda as they sail the seven seas (and the coast of Dull-on-Sea) in search of adventure and pirate loot...

Michael Carroll / Moonlight

The perfectly preserved body of a 10,000 year-old headless horse is discovered in a glacier in Norway. In Dublin, a genetic engineer in the employ of a ruthless businessman dreams of creating the fastest racehorse ever. Add an inquisitive young girl and...

Rex Stone / Attack of the Lizard King

When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father he's looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he and his friend, Tom, discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints, it takes them to another world ...a...

Eva Ibbotson / Dial a Ghost

'Get me some ghosts,' said Fulton Snodde-Brittle. 'Frightful and dangerous ghosts!' Fulton has gone to the Dial A Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. The...

Marie Burlington / Dear Me!

Dear Me, Grandad took me to town today and let me buy whatever clothes I wanted. Mum would never have let me off so lightly! Everything's changed for Cathy - she's moved in with Grandad while Mum's in hospital and she has to go to a new...

Jackie Burke / The Secrets of Grindlewood

With Wanda the good witch defeated, all that stands between Worfeus the warlock and ultimate power is just one spell. That is, until the Grindles arrive on the scene. The children and their pets move into an old rambling house and discover a collection...

Emily Smith / Joe v. the Fairies

Joe is sure he's right, but his sisters are obsessed by them. They've turned the climbing frame into a fairy bower, there are fairy cakes for tea and no one wants to do his assault course any more. Then a new neighbour arrives, who loves climbing trees...

Brian Moses / Greetings Earthlings!: Space Poems

I, the moon, would like it known -- I never follow people home. I simply do not have the time. And neither do I ever shine. For what you often see at night is me reflecting solar light. And I'm not cheese! No, none of these: no mozzarellas, cheddars,...

Joe O'Brien / Feile Fever

Danny Wilde and his teammates are finding the Under-14s Division tough going. They've lost one of their best goal-scorers to injury and it looks like they'll have no chance of winning the County Feile! Could Todd, the new Australian kid, be the...