General Children's

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...

William Corlett / Tunnel Behind The Waterfall

    It's summertime and the children are back at Golden House, enjoying the sun and relaxing on the banks of the lake, Golden Water. But news of development plans for Golden Water send worries round the house, and the magician warns that...

A. N. Wilson / Stray

   Pufftail is an independent, resourceful, immensely charming gentleman of the road, whose picaresque experiences - some comic, other sad - should amuse, move, shock and entertain readers.   All of our books are second hand, and while...

Holly Smale / Picture Perfect

   "My name is Harriet Manners, and I'll always be a geek."It's the hilarious third book in the bestselling award-winning GEEK GIRL series! Now in paperback.Harriet Manners knows more facts than most.She knows that New York is the most...

Paul May / Rain

   'They're not going to like me whatever I do . . .'Rain has always lived on the road with her artist mum, Max, in their colourful old bus. She's never been that bothered about fitting in, or about finding the dad she's never known. All that...

R. J. Anderson / Ultraviolet

   Once upon a time there was a girl who was special.This is not her story.Unless you count the part where I killed her.Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular...

Pete Johnson / Eyes Of The Alien

    Sam and Freddie, both fostered with the same family, are best friends. Sam even laughs at Freddie's jokes! But after Sam has an accident and knocks herself unconscious, she begins to have weird nightmares about a sinister figure with...

Dillon Khan / The Intern

   'As I stood soaking it all in, my nerves were momentarily replaced by a rush of excitement: I was at the heartbeat of music.'Jay Merchant has landed an internship for the best job in music television. He has access-all-areas to the biggest...

Chris Wooding / Catchman

    What with the ongoing gang fights between Davey's lot and the Abbey Cross crew, and the rumours about a serial killer stalking the city streets, Davey's already pretty edgy. So when one night he loses Benjy and finds himself alone,...

Mary Hogan / Susanna Hits Hollywood

    Following her success as work experience girl at a celebrity news magazine, Susanna's been asked to help out with the juiciest job of all - covering the Oscars, live from LA! She can hardly believe her luck. This is her ultimate chance...

K. M. Peyton / Blind Beauty

   Every once in a while a great race horse is born that will become famous throughout the land. Buffoon is such a horse Tess senses something special in him, a hunger for success as great as her own. And together, they could go further than...

Geraldine McCaughrean / A Pilgrim's Progress

   I had a dream last night... large enough to fill the rest of my life.' This retelling of John Bunyan's classic story is filled with drama, excitement and adventure. On his journey of a life-time to the City of Gold, Christian meets an...

Robert Louis Stevenson / The Black Arrow

    This is Robert Louis Stevenson's historical romance set during the War of the Roses.     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...

J.J. Howard / Tracers

   Cam is a New York City bike messenger with no family and some dangerousdebts. While on a job a chance meeting with the mysteriousNikki sends him head first into the intense world of parkour. Camjoins the group of underground teens who have...

Narinder Dhami / Superstar Babes

   Amber, Jazz and Geena are three sisters on a mission. They really want to have something to act as a memorial to their mum, but what could go for? They eventually settle on a great idea - they'll get the new library at school named after...

Geraldine Mccaughrean / A Pack of Lies

   Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques, and his stories persuade the customers to buy the items he talks about, but everything he...

Paolo Bacigalupi / Ship Breaker

   Nailer's time is running out. He's getting too big for his work - stripping copper wire from old oil tankers - and once he's off the crew he's on his own, stuck in a shack on the beach with no food, no money and no way of earning his keep...

F.E. Higgins / The Black Book of Secrets

   When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of...

Melinda Salisbury / The Sin Eater's Daughter

   Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she'sengaged to the prince, Twylla isn't exactly a member of the court.She's the executioner.As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly kills anyone she touches.Each month she's...

Helen Cresswell / Mystery Stories

    This compilation features writers as diverse as Joan Aiken, Emily Bronte and Carl Jung. The stories included are mysterious and full of intrigue, with occasional hints of the supernatural.     All of our books are second...

Julie Chibbaro / Redemption

    Lily and her mother are devout followers of Frere Lanther, a man of God who shuns the corrupt ways of the Catholic Church. Persecuted by the other villagers on the Baron's estate where they live, Lily and her mother decide to take...

David Levithan / Invisibility

   Stephen is used to invisibility. He was born that way. Invisible. Cursed.Elizabeth sometimes wishes for invisibility. When you're invisible, no one can hurt you. So when her mother decides to move the family to New York City, Elizabeth is...

Alex Shearer / The Hunted

   Children are very precious . . . because they are so rare.In a future world where people live to be 150, humans have paid the price for their longer lives - the cost being their fertility. Children have become a commodity: they are bought...

Julia Golding / Cat Among the Pigeons

   Julia Golding's award-winning adventure series is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Katherine Woodfine and Robin Jarvis.I am Cat Royal - Orphan, Adventurer, Actress . . .'The Drury Lane Theatre has been my home all the length of my life...

Gill Lobel / Hazel. Not A Nut

    This is the funny, funky story of Hazel Anne Mooney, told by the girl herself. Hazel is fourteen, smart, funny and fed up. How could anyone whose initials spell HAM, who only manages set one at school for English and Food Tech and who,...

Jeanne DuPrau / The City of Ember

    Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through...

N.D. Wilson / 100 Cupboards

    Readers who love Percy Jackson, the Unwanteds, and Beyonders will discover that 100 cupboards mean 100 opportunities for adventure! The bestselling and highly acclaimed 100 Cupboards series starts here. What dangers are locked behind...

Dave Barry / Peter And The Shadow Thieves

    A ship draws near Mollusk Island, bringing an eerie passenger - a cloaked stranger who makes even the desperate pirate crew shake in fear. Lord Ombra is coming for Peter and the Lost Boys...Peter and Tinker Bell must travel to the mean...

Jodi Lynn Anderson / The Moment Collector

   The yard of this house is a graveyard of moments and everything left behind is a clue. And I am here to dig.There's a ghost haunting 208 Water Street. She doesn't know who she was, or why she's still here. She does know that she is drawn to...

Caragh M. O'Brien / Prized

   Having escaped from the corrupt Enclave, Gaia ventures into the wasteland with her baby sister, Maya, hoping to find a settlement that's rumoured to lie in the Dead Forest. After days of travelling, Gaia is close to death when Peter, a...

Hilary Freeman / Lifted

   Shoplifting and blogging . . . now Robyn's a celebrity.Robyn is a compulsive shoplifter - with a difference. Everything she steals, she donates to charity shops, then blogs about it anonymously. She doesn't need to steal, but shoplifting...

Kathryn Erskine / Mockingbird

    Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when colours get mixed up, prefers everything to be...

Yvonne Coppard Quirk / Great! : You've Just Ruined the Rest of My Life

    Everything seems to be going well for Jenny. Then her parents drop the bombshell - the whole family are going to live abroad. Through alternating diary entries of mother and daughter, this work gives an insight into the workings of...

Julia Golding / Young Knights of the Round Table

   HUMANS ARE THE ENEMY!That's what Rick's been taught to believe by the Fey Folk who stole him. Taken to the magical realm of Avalon, he's been trained, alongside other kids like him, into an elite force of warriors.When rumours start that a...

Melissa de La Cruz / The Ashleys

   Ashley "Ash" Spencer:The only one who can use her real name. Lives in tunics and grosgrain headbands. Highly allergic to peanuts. Secret: Her Gwyneth-blonde hair is due to a salon first-process.Ashley "Lili" Li:Fashion-forward Lili won't...

M.T. Anderson / The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation

    Boston, 1775. Raised by a society of rational philosophers, who call each other by a number, Octavian and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only people in their household assigned names. The boy is dressed...

Geraldine McCaughrean / The Kite Rider

    Set in 13th-century China, this is the gripping, adventurous, compulsive story of Haoyou, a boy who makes his way in the world by flying into the air, strapped to a huge kite. The story is full of both incredible adventure and personal...

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

      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...

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...

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,...

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...