General Children's

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...

Rachel Ward / Numbers 2 : The Chaos

   Like his mother, Jem, when he looks in people's eyes, Adam can seethe dates of their deaths. It's hard enough living with this terriblegift, but life is about to get tougher. Adam sees that everyonearound him has the same date - January...

Malcolm Rose / Roll Call

    Imagine a place where technology rules...where London is a slum and the North is a cultural capital...where from the age of five, The Authorities decide your future. In this fascinating parallel world, quick-thinking Luke Harding is the...

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...

Moira Young / Blood Red Road

   Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2011. "I ain't afearedof nuthin." Saba's twin is golden. She is his living shadow. He isstrong and beautiful. She is scrawny and dark. Nothing will separatethem... Raised in isolated Silverlake,...

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...

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...

Joshua Mowll / Operation Typhoon Shore

    Celebes Sea, May 1920: Battered by a typhoon, the Expedient is shipwrecked on a volcanic island. No radio, no rescue, no escape. Doug and Becca MacKenzie's search for their missing parents must wait; but what part did the mysterious...

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...

Blue Balliett / Chasing Vermeer

   A stolen painting. A series of unexpected events. Two smart children.Petra and Calder live in a neighbourhood where strange things havestarted to happen. Seemingly unrelated events connect, a sharpold woman seeks their company - and a...

Anna Day / The Fandom

   'THE FANDOM is an absolute thrill to read ... Highly recommended!'JAMES DASHNER, AUTHOR OF THE MAZE RUNNER'Icannot recommend THE FANDOM highly enough.' LOUISE O'NEILL'Icouldn't put it down, and honestly, I can't wait to pickit back up.'...

H. M. Castor / VIII

    Destined for greatness - tormented by demons. VIII (Eight) is the untold story of Henry VIII, a gripping examination of why he turned from a charismatic teenager to the cruel tyrant he became in later life. Hal is a young, handsome and...

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...

H. L. Dennis / Secret Breakers: The Power of Three

   Introducing an extraordinary series with real codes, real mysteries and real danger. A Da Vinci Code for kids ...Imagine the chance to solve the Voynich Manuscript - a puzzle that has truly defeated adults for centuries.It's an ancient...

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...

Sharon Creech / Chasing Redbird

 To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti - she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It's a journey that leads her to unravel...

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...

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright / Red Riding Hood

   Valerie is in love with the dangerous and unlikable Peter (a woodcutter, of course) but is betrothed to the rich hot blacksmith in town, Henry.Their town has been terrorized by a wolf - a wolf that appears only at the full moon - and when...

Alice Broadway / INK

 The page-turning, heart-in-mouth first book in the bestselling INK trilogy.Every action, every deed, every significant momentistattooed on your skin for ever.When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her fatherremembered forever.She knows...

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...

Claire Merle / The Fall

   London, in the not-so-distant future. Society has been divided into Pures and Crazies according to the results of a DNA test. But seventeen-year-old Ana, whose father invented the Pure test, has uncovered a recording with dangerous evidence...

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...

Margaret Mahy / Memory

   When two worlds collide, life begins to make a different sort of sense...On the fifth anniversary of his sister's death, nineteen-year-old Jonny Dart is still troubled by guilt and an imperfect memory of the accident that took her life. He...

Kieran Mark Crowley / Colm and the Lazarus Key

 Colm thinks that spending a fortnight with his cousin - The Brute - is the worst thing that can happen to him this summer. He's about to find out he's wrong. While driving The Brute home, Colm and his parents stop for the night at a quiet, old...

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...

Gennifer Choldenko / No Passengers Beyond This Point

   After losing their house to foreclosure, three siblings - India, Finn and Mouse - have less than twenty-four hours to pack their belongings and fly, without their mother, to stay with an uncle in Colorado.But when they land, a mysterious...

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...

Randa Abdel-Fattah / Does My Head Look Big in This?

    Don't panic - I'm Islamic| Amal is a 16-year-old Melbourne teen with all the usual obsessions about boys, chocolate and Cosmo magazine. She's also a Muslim, struggling to honour the Islamic faith in a society that doesn't understand 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...

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...

J. Eldridge / Depth-Charge Danger

    The German Warship Tirpitz poses a massive threat to British shipping. All previous attempts to destroy it have failed. A new plan is hatched involving the deployment of midget submarines, sent in to lay depth charges beneath the mighty...

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...

Eleanor Updale / Montmorency

    Fleeing across a roof on a dark night in Victorian London, a thief crashes through a glass skylight to almost certain death. But an ambitious young doctor revives and reconstructs his shattered body, proudly showing off his handiwork at...

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...

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...

Isabel Hoving / Dream Merchant

    Josh Cope is just an average boy. So why is an international corporation so convinced that he is the key to conquering their new market: the past? Drawn into a whirlwind adventure, Josh finds himself in the middle of a nightmare, caught...

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...

Anthony McGowan / The Donut Diaries: Revenge is Sweet

 Dermot Milligan's got problems. He's overweight, and hooked on donuts. His mother has booked him in to see Dr Morlock, a nutritionist who looks like a Dementor. The diary is Dr Morlock's idea. Not only does Dermot have to write down how many donuts...