General Children's

Enid Blyton / Up The Faraway Tree

 The fourth and final book in the extraordinary Magic Faraway Tree series, published as a stand-alone edition for the first time in more than three decades. Now with extra bonus Magic Faraway Tree chapters!Come on a journey full of magic and...

Jerry Spindelli / Wringer

   Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he's supposed to become a wringer.In Palmer's hometown of Waymer, a boy's tenth birthday is the biggest event of his life...

Allan Stratton / Life, Above All

   Like any girl, sixteen-year-old Chanda Kabelo has secrets. She isdetermined to be loyal to her rebellious friend Esther, she worriesabout passing her exams, and she wishes she didn't have to spendso much time listening to her Mama chat with...

Don Calame / Call The Shots

   Since his girlfriend broke up with him last summer, Sean's been on a starvation diet where girls are concerned. However, he's got other things on his mind. Like how to stop the soon-to-be-born family addition from stealing his room and...

Sarra Manning / Fashionistas: Candy

    Candy Careless is the daughter of punk royalty and the acid-tongued star of the reality show that's boosted her eccentric family's flagging fortunes. When Candy gets her heart broken she heads for London to escape the pressure of...

Catherine Fisher / Conjurers Game

    A novel which was shortlisted for the 1990 Smarties Award. Alick wonders where Luke Ferris gets his healing powers, why he has six fingers and what his connections are with the sinister goings-on in Halcombe Great Wood. Unwittingly,...

Laurie Halse Anderson / Prom

   Everyone's excited about the prom except Ashley, who couldn't careless. She's too busy worrying about her crazy family and TJ herflaky boyfriend, who wants them to move in together after graduationbut just doesn't seem to be around when she...

Henrietta Branford / Dimanche Diller

   New edition of the Smarties-Prize-winning story of escape and adventure, with wicked guardians, evil plots and a lively young female heroine. Now published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers.When...

Dan Lee / The Silver Shadow

    The Tangshan Tigers are back in training and ready for a break from solving crimes. But when their head teacher, Mr Wu, starts acting suspiciously, the Tigers smell a rat and know it's up to them to solve the sinister case. Can they...

Jean Ure / A Bottled Cherry Angel

      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...

Jenny Sullivan / Nowhere Again!

      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...

Steve Cole / Young Bond: Heads You Die

   BEFORE THE MAN BECAME THE LEGEND.BEFORE THE BOY BECAME THE MAN.The explosive action continues in Steve Cole's second Young Bond adventure . . .James's Cuban holiday has become a nightmare mission to save an old friend from a villain who has...

P. B. Kerr / One Small Step

   It's 1969 and 11-year-old Scott is doing all the things that normal boys do - as well as flying planes with his Air Force flight instructor dad. But when Scott successfully crash lands a training plane, NASA come to call. They are...

Vince Cross / Princess of Egypt : An Egyptian Girl's Diary, 1490 BC

    In 1490 BC Asha, daughter of King Tuthmosis lives a carefree life at the royal court in Thebes. But when a prophecy foretells that 'a young woman will prove to be the best man in the Two Kingdom', she's caught up in a world of plots and...

Padraig O Siocfhradha / Jimeen : An Irish Comic Classic

   Jimeen can't seem to stay out of trouble - he just can't resist it, whether it's tormenting his sister, Cait, a night out 'on the Wren', trying to steal lobsters, or scouring the countryside for spies.A drowned cat, a drunken goose, the...

Kimberly Greene / I'm So Not a Pop Star

    This is the fantastically funny follow-up to "My Sister's A Pop Star", starring straight-talking, super-klutzy Sam.Just when Sam has got used to her sister Danni's pop-star status, and being constantly followed around by a reality TV...

Anne-Marie Conway / Butterfly Summer

    Some secrets last a lifetime. When Becky and her mum move to the tiny village of Oakbridge, Mum is hoping for a new beginning. But when Becky discovers an old photo of her mum in hospital clutching a baby, twelve years before Becky was...

Kami Gracia / Beautiful Redemption

   Beautiful Redemption is the much-anticipated finale of the spellbinding love story that began with Beautiful Creatures - a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere.One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his...

Ian McEwan / The Daydreamer

    In these seven interlinked stories the grown-up Peter reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses and adventures of his childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality Peter experiences magical transformations when he swaps bodies...

Ana Maria Machado / The History Mystery

   Sonia, Pedro and their classmates are baffled. Mysterious messages keep popping up on their computers, on their mobile phones, on websites they visit, even on a radio programme they listen to. It is a voice from the past - but who is trying...

Erin Jade Lange / Dead Ends

   Dane Washington and Billy D couldn't be more different. Dane is clever and popular, but he's also a violent rebel. Billy D has Down's Syndrome, plays by the rules and hangs out with teachers in his lunch break.But Dane and Billy have more...

Denis Bond / Avenue

 7.30 Run For Your Life Davina Roslin presents the hilarious game show in which two families risk life and limb for a week in Benidorm. (456636) 8.00 Avenue CHOICE (("Choice" in a shaded box)) Steve makes a life changing decision just as Kirsty...

Lesley Howarth / Mister Spaceman

 An intriguing rites-of-passage tale about a space-obsessed boy. Thomas Moon is a space freak, he sends daily e-mails to Junior NASA and hunts the web sites for space news and stories. Imagine his excitement when he recieves a mysterious e-mail,...

Theresa Tomlinson / The Secret Place

      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...

Carol Lynch Williams / The Chosen One

   Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in her isolated community without ever questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters; without ever questioning the strict rules imposed by 'the Prophet who...

Chris Higgins / Tapas and Tears

   Jaime never wanted to go on the school exchange trip to Spain in the first place. She finds life awkward enough as it is and, because of her embarrassing blushing habit, she tries to avoid drawing attention to herself. Living in someone...

Patricia John / Rainbow Garden

    For Elaine, packed off to Wales from London, it's only the little garden she finds at the end of the rainbow that makes her stay worthwhile.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Jane Mitchell / A Dangerous Crossing

    Ghalib doesn't want to leave his home in Syria. But the city has become too dangerous, and his family has no choice but to flee. Together they make their way through Syria to the Turkish border, where Ghalib gets separated from his...

Ben Bo / The Edge

 Written in short, episodic bursts awash with snarling dialogue this pacily energetic first novel is highly readable." - "Book for Keeps" magazine. Declan Murray has made mistakes. Caught up in a downward spiral of graffiti-spraying and theft, and...

John McNally / The Forbidden City

   Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero!Infinity Drake - Finn for short - is STILL only 9mm tall. But before his crazy scientist uncle can figure out a way to...

Judith Clarke / Al Capsella and the Watchdogs

   Al is nearly sixteen - a very dangerous age according to Mrs Capsella and the other mothers. Known to Al and his friends as the Watchdogs, they stalk the suburbs, ever alert to the perils of parties and other suspect activities. It's a very...

Sharon Creech / The Great Unexpected

 In the little town of Blackbird Tree a series of curious events unfold when Naomi and Lizzie, two spirited orphan girls, meet the strangely charming new boy, Finn. Three locked trunks, the mysterious Dingle Dangle man, a pair of rooks, a crooked...

Emery Lord / The Names They Gave Us

   From the acclaimed author of When We Collided comes a vibrant, compelling story of love, loss, faith, and friendship.Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake and...

Matt Whyman / A Toolkit for Life

    Top agony uncle Matt Whyman provides frank information on subjects of vital interest to teenage boys: puberty and private parts, sex and smoking, girls, mates and home life. He answers all the questions they're dying to ask, but daren't...

Garth Nix / Troubletwisters

    An action-packed fantasy adventure series from the authors behind Sabriel, The Keys to the Kingdom and The Fixers. Portland might seem like a quiet coastal town, and their grandmother is perhaps no dottier than anyone else's, but it...

Grace Dent / Diary of a Chav: Lost in Ibiza : Book 4

 Shiraz Bailey Wood is back! Having just about recovered from her stint in London with Carrie Draper, Shiraz is prepared to overlook Carrie's totally out of order flaky behaviour because Carrie's just talked her dad into paying for two flights to...

Saci Lloyd / Momentum

    London, the near future. Energy wars are flaring across the globe - oil prices have gone crazy, regular power cuts are a daily occurrence. The cruel Kossak soldiers prowl the streets, keeping the Outsiders - the poor, the...

Jim Eldridge / My Story: Flying Ace

 Jack Fairfax is the 19-year old second son of Lord and Lady Fairfax.The Fairfaxes are steeped in the military tradition, and don'tapprove of Jack's volunteering for the Royal Flying Corps. New-fangledflying machines are nothing to do with 'proper'...

Catherine Sefton / Island of the Strangers

    The children of Ballyhannis do not take kindly to the bus-load from Gobbelier Street School who come to camp on their island. Only Nora refuses to take sides, but after several skirmishes the hostilities between the two sides break into...

Deborah Cooke / Flying Blind

    I will shift shape and I will cast dreams and I will be everything that I am forecast to be. I am the Wyvern. And I will claim my birthright, right here and now. Zoe Sorensson is a perfectly normal teenage girl. That's the problem...

Sharon Creech / The Wanderer

   The ocean has always flowed through Sophie's life. It promises journeys of adventure and discovery - she is drawn to it. And when she gets the chance to cross the Atlantic on board her uncle's boat, The Wanderer, she can't wait to set sail...

Kami Garcia / Beautiful Darkness

   Beautiful Darkness is the second bewitching instalment in the bestselling love story Beautiful Creatures - a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere.Some loves are meant to be. Others are cursed . . .One...

Malorie Blackman / Boys Don't Cry

   In Boys Don't Cry, bestselling author Malorie Blackman explores the unchartered territory of teenage fatherhood.You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future...

Lesley Howarth / Flower King

    The narrator of this story doesn't just see colours, he feels them. At home or slogging away in his parents' garage and store, the colour is mainly panic-button red. But for a short time on Saturdays, visiting old Mrs Pinder - Pinny - a...

Judith Clarke / Friend of my Heart

   Daz is in love with Valentine O'Leary, the biggest pig in Mimosa High School. Her brother William is in love with a girl he's never spoken to.Eleanor Wand, the music teacher, is in love with the headmaster. Everyone is in love with someone...

Rachel Hickman / One Silver Summer

    After losing her mum in an accident, Sass is sent to live with her uncle in England. Far from her native Brooklyn, the rocky shores and crumbling castles of Cornwall seem like the perfect place to hide her grief. And when she stumbles...

Jan Michael / Leaving Home

   Orphaned Sam has to leave behind his affluent life in the city: his computer, his trendy clothing, and his pride, to live with his aunt in his mother's home village, a village at the back of beyond. He has to sleep on the floor in a...

Ridley Pearson / Peter and the Starcatchers

   Don'teven think of starting this bookunless you're sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots of time. Afast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peterand his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the...

Johan Harstad / 172 Hours on the Moon

   Three teenagers are going on the trip of a lifetime. Only one is coming back.It's been more than forty years since NASA sent the first men to the moon, and to grab some much-needed funding and attention, they decide to launch an historic...

R. J. Palacio / Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

   WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.Auggie & Me is a new side to the WONDER story: three new...

Dyan Sheldon / Bursting Bubbles

   Three over-privileged teens discover what life is like on the other side of the tracks.Marigold Liotta, Asher Grossman and Giorgiana Shiller have got it all - money, looks and good grades. Life couldn't get much better ... until their...

Katherine Langrish / Troll Mill

   Sequel to the highly-acclaimed Troll Fell, this is just as exciting, dramatic and atmospheric. But watch out! You never know what sneaky creatures are lurking in the shadows of Troll Mill, waiting to jump out at you..."With a piercing...