General Children's

Darcey Bussell / Jade and the Carnival

 Dance your way to the magical world of Enchantia in the delightful fourth series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey Bussell!It's carnival time! But not everyone is enjoying the dancing - the poor toymaker has lost his favourite puppet, Peter. Is the evil...

Rosie Banks / Secret Princesses: Starlight Sleepover : Book 3

 A gorgeous new series about best friends and magical princesses!Charlotte and Mia have a special secret - they're training to be Secret Princesses, magical princesses who grant wishes! But horrid Princess Poison is determined to steal their wishing...

Kate Petty / Holly

  The daughter of a teacher and half Welsh, Holly has long black hair and brown eyes. When she visits the rich boy she met on holiday, at his country home, she's more than a little thrown by his lifestyle. Will she be able to hold her own, or...

Sam Gayton / The Last Zoo

 Pia lives in a zoo in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with her parents (both ghosts), several old and cranky genies, a devil, and two young angels. She spends her days trimming genie-beards, trying to avoid being tricked into selling her soul, and...

Gareth Russell / Popular

  This is a fabulously witty and entertaining teen read, perfect for fans of "Gossip Girl" and "The Gallagher Girls". Meredith Harper is rich, popular, manipulative and almost unnaturally beautiful. At the age of sixteen, she's already a social...

Kate Petty / Charlotte

  Four girls, four lives, one summer. It was Maddy's idea that all four of them should have holiday romances and report back at the end of the summer. This is the story of Charlotte, who hopes that Josh, whom she has loved from afar, will finally...

Amber Aitken / It Takes Two

 Best friends Coral and Nicks play cupid with hilarious results in this cute and quirky summer read!Twelve year-old Coral believes that with a little bit of help from cupid, everyone can find their One True Love. So with her best friend Nicks (and...

Philip Caveney / Alec Devlin : The Eye of the Serpent

  This book is set in Egypt in the year 1923. Fifteen-year-old Alec Devlin is on his way to the Valley of the Kings. Accompanied by his faithful valet, Coates, Alec is to spend his summer holidays working on his Uncle Will's archaeological dig...

John Brindley / Starry Eyed and Screaming

 Sixteen-year-old Amy Peppercorn has a lot to scream about. She's struggling with her A-Levels and coping with her two-year-old sisters while her parents tear each other apart. Her best friend is being lured away from her.Then Amy falls under the...

Cathy Cole / A Date With Fate

 Life, love and everything in between - gripping soap opera dramathat will make teen readers desperate for more...Eve seems to have the perfect life, but she has a very big secret,one that's tearing her apart. What's happening to her? Ignoringher...

Emily Diamand / Reavers Ransom

  Lilly Melkun is out fishing with her sea-cat when the bloodthirsty Reavers come raiding and steal the Prime Minister's daughter. Her village blamed, Lilly decides to find the girl. Off she sails in secret with a ransom - an extraordinary...

Jasper Fforde / The Song of the Quarkbeast : Last Dragonslayer Book 2

 A long time ago Magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that keeps bicycles from falling over.Things are about to change. Magical power is on the rise and King Snodd IV...

Linda Newbery / Sisterland

 Following the success of The Shell House, Linda Newbery again demonstrates her brilliance at weaving thought-provoking subjects into a wholly satisfying and sensitively drawn novel.Hilly's German grandmother, HeidiGran, comes to live with her...

Anne Cassidy / Heart Burn

  Years ago, local bad boy, Tyler Harrington did a favour for Ashley. Now Tyler has been beaten-up and hospitalized and he's calling that favour in. She must hide an envelope for him, but under no circumstances is she to look inside. Then Tyler...

Amber Deckers / Liberty Belle: Liberty Belle I Love You, Goodbye

  Torn between her separated parents -- who live at opposite ends of the country -- Liberty Belle is struggling to find a bit of life to call her own. Then she meets Sam, and as their friendship grows, Liberty realises the most important things...

Susan Price / Hauntings

  A collection of short stories about ghosts - including a practical joker who finds a ghost with a better sense of humour, and the ghost of a first love ...       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Will Ferguson / Happiness TM

 When one of those irritating self-help books actually gets it right, then unnatural and worrying times are just around the corner . . .While the rest of the country is joining the new HappinessTM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor...

Michelle Harrison / The Thirteen Secrets

 Red's past won't stay hidden.She's now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name, Rowan, and trying to put her terrible adventures behind her. But staying out of trouble isn't as easy as she'd hoped.Haunted by awful dreams of Hedgewitch's...

Robin Stevens / Mistletoe and Murder ( Murder Most Unladylike Series - Book 5 )

 The fabulously festive fifth Murder Most Unladylike mystery... The Detective Society never rests- even at Christmas...It's Christmas, the snow is falling in Cambridge where the detective duo Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the festive...

Lauren Child / Catch Your Death (Hardback)

  Super-special bubblegum-scented hardback! Ruby Redfort: Undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius - there's nothing average about her. Only this time it's an adventure in the wild, and it'll take all Ruby's got just to survive...

Lemony Snicket / When Did You See Her Last? (Hardback)

 Before he wrote 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', before the Baudelaires became orphans, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket asked all the wrong questions. Four to be exact. This is the account of the second question. In the...

Jason Byrne / The Accidental Adventures of Onion O'Brien : The Head of Ned Belly (Hardback)

 Onion O'Brien is in trouble, again. This time he and the rest of the Five O's are trying to stop the destruction of the Valley, the local wasteland where they hang out. But Mayor Ronald Bump has other ideas - he wants to build new apartments there,...

Eoin Colfer / The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth (Hardback)

  Will and his brothers are on holiday in a cramped caravan on the wild Irish coast. All the boys love ghost stories, but one dark night Will's older brother, Marty, tells the bloodcurdling tale of the cutthroat pirate, Captain Crow. Will is...

Jacqueline Wilson / Clean Break (Hardback)

  Em adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real emerald ring for his little...

Marita Conlon-McKenna / A Girl Called Blue (Large Paperback)

 Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out several times, Blue finds it difficult to fit in. Is...

Eileen O'Hely / Penny the Athlete

 A new adventure for Penny! It is Health Awareness Month in Ralph's school. The new arrival in the pencil case, Baron de Couberpen, is whipping the pencils into shape for the inaugural Pencilympics. But even before the Pencilympic flame is lit, the...

Cathy Hopkins / Starting Over

 New term, new school - but India Jane isn't looking forward to being the new girl in Year Eleven when most of the friendships have already been established. At least there's best friend Erin's visit from Ireland to look forward to, and also Joe,...

Stephanie Dagg / Bags of Trouble

      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...

Colin Dann / The Animals of Farthing Wood

 Farthing Wood is invaded by men with bulldozers and the animals and birds know they have to flee. They must escape to a far-off nature reserve. But the journey is long and hard and not even Fox, their brave and intelligent leader, is prepared for...

Berlie Doherty / Spellhorn

 A blind girl and a unicorn in a world where magic and reality merge together. Can Laura save the Wild Ones and take them to the safety of the Bright Wilderness? Laura is blind, but though she cannot see, she is an acutely perceptive child. As soon...

C. J. Flood / Infinite Sky

 Winner of the Branford Boase award 2014: a truly beautiful book about the summer that changed one girl's life - one in which her mum leaves home, travellers set up camp in the family's field, her older brother goes off the rails, and she falls in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gill Lewis / Scarlet Ibis

 Longlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal.Red asks, 'Will we always be together?''Always,' I say. 'Just you and me in that little boat, watching the scarlet ibis flying back to the Caroni Swamp.'Scarlet's used to looking after her brother, Red. He's...

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...

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...

Emmy Laybourne / Monument 14

 Fourteen kids stranded inside a superstore. Inside they have everything they could ever need. There's junk food and clothes, computer games and books, drugs and alcohol ... and without adult supervision they can do whatever they want. Sounds like...

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...