General Children's

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...

Grace Cavendish / The Lady Grace Mysteries: Deception

   Everyone at the Royal Court was so excited today - the marvellous Frost Fair has come to London, and we all went ice skating! But there was a terrible discovery when the body of a man was found at the edge of the frozen river. Why was...

Chris D'Lacey / The Fire Within

   'David ran a hand through his mop of brown hair. Dragons. It was certainly different from his last set of lodgings, where all you got were spiders and the occasional mouse. "It's perfect," he said.' When David arrives at Wayward...

Joss Stirling / Finding Sky

   You have half our gifts, I have the other . . . When English girl Sky catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she can't get him out of her head. He talks to her with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the...

Alyssa B. Sheinmel / Faceless

   When Maisie is struck by lightning, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant, but how do you live your life when you can't even recognize yourself any more? She was a runner, a girlfriend,...

Annabel Pitcher / My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

   Winner of the 2012 Branford Boase Award, this is Annabel Pitcher's stunning debut about ten-year-old Jamie, and the way his life and his family are shaped by the sister in an urn on the mantelpiece. Five years ago, Jamie's sister,...

Steve Barlow / Friend or Foe?

 Jack thought he'd do anything for a computer of his own-nothing fancy, just something he could use to get on the net. Unfortunately, he didn't realize just what anything would mean...Yes, he now has a very cool laptop. But he also has two...

Andrew Lane / Death Cloud ( Young Sherlock Holmes)

   The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education - the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With...

Marc Brown / Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest

   Arthur the aardvark has writer's block. He needs to come up with a jingle to enter the Crunch cereal contest, but his mind's gone completely blank. Then he hears his sassy little sister, D.W., singing to herself, and decides to claim her...

Steve Barlow / Whizzard!

 Comedy fantasy series with a Pratchetteque/Carry On Blackadder twist, but written for children. A slightly more sophisticated read than the Lost Diaries, with a bit more edge. The Dark Forest is a world. Cities, towns and villages exist like...

Dan Jerris / Death Diamond : Book 1

 Jack and Al are lucky to be rescued by pirates when they find themselves in the middle of a mysterious ocean. But will the pirates be their friends or foes as they hunt for the Dragon Blood Sabre?     All of our books are second hand,...

Rick Bundschuh / Burned : A Novel

 It took real faith and courage to get Bethany back on a surfboard after losing her arm to a shark. In this new four-book fiction series based on the life of surfer star Bethany Hamilton, Bethany and her friends discover God's love and guidance as...

Peter Dickinson / The Kin: Suth's Story Bk.1

 The Moonhawk Kin, a prehistoric band of nomadic hunters, have been driven form the African lands by murderous strangers. Young Suth leads the children on a perilous journey to find a new home. They find a strange Kin, but find danger and death as...

Michelle Zink / Prophecy Of The Sisters

   Without the Keys, something terrible will happen. Something that cannot be undone. And with them, I might bring an end to the riddle of the Prophecy and my strange part in it. If Alice and I are on conflicting sides of the...

Morris Gleitzman / Give Peas A Chance

 Give fun a chance! Surprise your mum with a chainsaw, be a bigger star than Tom Cruise, save the world with a plate of vegetables, start your new life in a taxi, rescue your family with a tomato, send your dad into a panic with a tractor, do a good...

Colin Bateman / The Seagulls Have Landed

    You would think Eddie Malone - hero, warrior, gang leader, intent on world domination - would have had enough of babies. And you would be right... But losing a baby is not good. And if it belongs to your mum, well - it's a disaster...

Caroline Lawrence / The Roman Mysteries: The Assassins of Rome : Book 4

 Jonathan goes on a secret quest to Rome, and Flavia, Nubia and Lupus set out to find him. Their dangerous mission takes them to the Golden House of Nero where a deadly assassin is rumoured to be at work - and they learn what happened to Jonathan's...

B. Strange / Terror in Cubicle Four

 St Sebastian's School in Grimesford is the pits. No, really it is. Built on the boggy remains of a medieval plague pit, this once proud school's dodgy nineteenth-century foundations are causing it to slowly subside. Every year it sinks a little...

Susan Cooper / The Dark Is Rising : Modern Classic

 The perfect book for the Christmas season. It is Midwinter's Eve, the night before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. Will is about to make a shocking discovery - that he is the last...

Cora Harrison / Dark Days at Drumshee ( Drumshee Timeline Series - Book 12)

      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...

Annie Dalton / Afterdark: Midnight Museum No. 3

      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...

Brian Gallagher / Pawns : Ireland's War of Independence

 In a time of war, how much would you risk to help a friend? Young Johnny Dunne works hard at Balbriggan's Mill Hotel, but still finds time to enjoy life with his friends, Alice and Stella. Though the three come from different backgrounds - Johnny...

Cathy Cassidy / Love from Lexie (The Lost and Found)

 Ever since Lexie's mum vanished, her world hasn't stopped spinning. A new home, a new school - even a new family but Lexie never gives up hope that her mum will come back and writes her letters every day to tell her all about her new life. There's...

Josh Lacey / The Dragonsitter's Party

 It's Eddie's birthday and he's looking forward to a birthday party filled with fun, games and . . . dragons? Ziggy and Arthur are the unexpected guests, but their idea of a good time involves eating everything in sight and ruining the party...

Peter Gethers / Norton, The Loveable Cat Who Travelled the World

 Peter Gethers hates cats. That is until he meets Norton, a very cute, very friendly Scottish Fold kitten. Soon Peter and Norton are inseparable, travelling together on trains and boats, in planes and cars all over the world! Eating at restaurants,...

Catherine Coe / The Owls of Blossom Wood: Lost and Found

 A gorgeous animal series set in the beautiful BlossomWood - where children turn into magical creatures. Katie, Eva and Alex know a secret - whenthey hide inside a hollow tree trunk at the bottom of Katie's garden,they find themselves whisked...

Conor Mchale / Jigsaw Stew

 Jack MacAnoolie is stuck in a snow storm with his little sister. The freezing weather has left their family without food. Eating the furniture keeps them going. But when Jack's mother makes a stew out of a jigsaw, strange things start to happen...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Puppy and the Sausage

      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...

Rupert Christiansen / William Shakespeare

 Everyone has heard of plays like "Macbeth" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". But why do we know so little about the man who wrote them? Who exactly was William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon, and why do so many people believe that he was not...

Michaela Clark / Tiger Thief

 A debut novel that will amaze and delight everyone who loves an absorbing story beautifully told. Sharat and his majestic white tiger, Emira, are two halves of the same soul. The thought of being separated is unbearable. So when Emira mysteriously...

Moira McNamara / Barry's New Bed

      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...

Rosie Banks / Secret Princesses: The Magic Necklace - Bumper Special Book! : Book 1

 A gorgeous new series about magical princesses and best friends. Book one is a special long adventure for even more magical fun! Best friends Charlotte and Mia can't bear it when Charlotte's family moves far away. But when they're given magic...

Susan P. Gates / Toffs and Toshers

 It's Victorian Day at the local museum, and Dad wants the whole family to get involved. Sadly, he appears to be wearing a dead weasel under his nose. Rupert is ecstatic-the Victorians seem to have been obsessed with poo. Even Rae is excited-her...

Ian Whybrow / Meerkat Madness

 The first book in the hilarious Awesome Animals series - awesome adventures with the wildest wildlife. Told in Ian Whybrow's unique style, this hilarious animal adventure starring ever-popular meerkats is a funny, fast-paced, sure-fire hit. Meerkat...

Sara Vogler / Knight Frights : Little Terrors Book 4

 George meets a new ghost at Little Frightley Manor, Sir Arnold de Ghoulstone, who got stuck and died in his suit of armour on the way to the Battle of Agincourt. But when more amoured spooks turn up, George and the Little Terrors - and Sir Arnold -...

Holly Webb / Sam the Stolen Puppy

 Sam, a golden Labrador puppy, is Emily's best present ever! The two become great friends and Emily is sad to leave him at home when she starts back at school. When Sam is stolen from the back garden one afternoon, Emily is desperate with worry. She...

Malcolm Rose / The Secrets of the Dead

    Four bodies have been found in the Peak District. They're rotting fast and vital evidence needs to be taken from the corpses. Lawless is going to pursue a theory which could cost him his job. This is the first book in a mini-series...