General Children's

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...

Jacqueline Wilson / Rent a Bridesmaid

 Being a bridesmaid is all I've ever dreamed of . . .Tilly can't believe it when her best friend Matty is asked to be a bridesmaid.In Tilly's favourite daydream, she's wearing the most beautiful bridesmaid dress and walking down the aisle behind a...

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...

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,...

Matt Haig / The Girl Who Saved Christmas (Hardback)

 JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MAGICIf magic has a beginning, can it also have an end?When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask - Father Christmas.But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has...

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...

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...

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...

Mal Peet / The Penalty

  As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage football prodigy El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without trace. Paul Faustino, South America's top sports journalist, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery. As a...

Jamie Thomson / Dark Lord: A Fiend in Need : Book 2

 Dirk Lloyd, the Dark Lord trapped in the body of a weedy schoolboy, returns in another darkly hilarious adventure... Brilliantly funny and subversive, this is the Funny Prize-winning Jamie Thomson at his best.Sooz, a 13 yr old girl from Surrey has...

Matthew J. Kirby / The Clockwork Three

  When Giuseppe finds a green violin washed up in New York docks, somehow he knows it will change his life. But how? The very same day, Hannah, a maid at a local hotel, gets a strange new mistress. Why are Madame X and her mysterious Russian...

Debi Gliori / Pure Dead Brilliant

  There's trouble brewing at StregaSchloss! When Signora Strega-Borgia invites some would-be witches to stay, weird things begin to happen. Pandora can't resist the temptation of time travel - and Titus picks up a strange and deadly computer...

Julie Bertagna / Exodus

  It is 2099 - and the world is gradually drowning, as mighty Arctic ice floes melt, the seas rise, and land disappears forever beneath storm-tossed waves. For 15-year-old Mara, her family and community, huddled on the fast-disappearing island of...

John Singleton / Skinny B, Skaz and Me

  Lee's sister, Skinny B, has always been a sickly child, but Lee thinks it's a con. First rule of the family: what Skinny wanted, Skinny got. Lee has plenty of problems of his own, what with trying to get off with Alison, coping with having a...

Anne Cassidy / Tough Love

  What would you do if someone you loved committed a crime? Tony is everything Gina wants from a boy - he's charming, sensitive and attentive. It's nice to be bought presents and fussed over, even if Tony's 'business deals' aren't all strictly...

Willis Hall / The Return of the "Antelope"

      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...

Michelle Magorian / A Cuckoo in the Nest

 As an evacuee, Ralph received a good education, but after the war Ralph's working-class father resents his education and his ambition to be an actor, and is furious when Ralph is sacked from the paper mill. The story traces Ralph's struggle to...

Alyssa Brugman / Walking Naked

 'Every school has one. They are ugly or fat. They have scars or acne or birthmarks. We are mean to them. We ridicule them. We don't want to stand near them or sit next to them. Perdita was one of those.' Megan is one of the leaders of the in-group...

Jahnna N. Malcolm / The Lucky Stone (Scrambled Legs S.)

      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...

Michael Winerip / Adam Canfield Of The Dash

  Fast-paced and suspenseful story about two young reporters on a school newspaper. Adam and Jennifer have just become co-editors of their school newspaper, The Slash. It's the first issue...and already there's the smell of a scandal! One squeaky...

David Orme / Sports Zone - Level 3 Deep Trouble: Bk.4

  NO description available       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...

John Stephens / The Emerald Atlas:The Books of Beginning 1

 The first thrilling book in the most exciting children's fantasy series since Harry Potter.They were taken from their beds one frozen night, when the world was covered in snow. The silhouette of a tall, thin man has haunted Kate ever since.Ten...