General Children's

Kelly McKain / Fantasy Fashion

 A fun and funky new series charting the hopes, dreams and schemes of the lively, loveable Lucy - wannabe fashion designer and Stand Up Babe. Girls everywhere will identify with her bra-size embarrassment, parent troubles, best-friend dilemmas and...

Laurence Anholt / Seriously Silly Stories: Little Red Riding Wolf

 The Big Bad Girl is always teasing Little Wolfie. She thinks her naughty tricks are funny - but who's going to get the last laugh?      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Anthony Horowitz / Burnt

   Uncle Nigel is determined to get a sun tan. But Tim is sure there is something sinister going on, when his uncle's skin starts to frazzle and his brain begins to fry. When Bart buys a magical monkey's ear in a market in Marrakesh, he...

Anthony Horowitz / Killer Camera

 Two spine-chilling short stories by Anthony Horowitz, a master-storyteller and the best-selling author of the Alex Rider series. Jamie is pleased with the camera he finds at a car boot sale - that is until he realises everything he photographs...

Anthony Horowitz / The Night Bus

   Three terrifying short stories by Anthony Horowitz, a master storyteller and the bestselling author of the Alex Rider series. It's Hallowe'en, but the living dead on the Night Bus aren't trick or treaters. And when Nick and Jeremy get on...

Anthony Horowitz / Scared

 Three sinister and creepy tales by Anthony Horowitz, a master-storyteller and the best-selling author of the Alex Rider series. Gary hates the countryside - why did his mum have to bring him here to stay with his gran. It's boring and prickly and...

Jonny Zucker / Max Flash: Mission 1 : Game on

   Max Flash is an explosive hybrid of Harry Houdini and Derren Brown! He's an ace at escaping perilous predicaments - and the Department for Extraordinary Affairs wants to harness his skills to battle increasingly sinister paranormal activity...

Adam Blade / Beast Quest: Wardok the Sky Terror

   Unlock your exclusive Battle Shield in the Beast Quest game - this book contains a secret code. An old enemy seeks revenge on Avantia's heroes, and the safety of the kingdom of Tangala is also under threat. Tom must find the Crown...

Jo Nesbo / Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The Great Gold Robbery

 When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it's up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa to get the trophy and save Norway. But with a failed break-in...

Andrew Matthews / Shakespeare Stories: Twelfth Night

 Twins cause trouble in this classic Shakespeare comedy! With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Appearance in Twefth Night. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help of Tony Ross's engaging black-and-white...

Gillian Cross / Roscoe's Leap

 Roscoe's Leap - that's the name of the strange old house where Stephen and Hannah had grown up. For Hannah, it was a place where the heating was always breaking down and she was the one who had to fix it. But for Stephen, it was a place of secrets,...

Gillian Cross / Chartbreak

 When Janis Finch storms out of a family row, it starts a chain of events which transforms her whole life. For it's in the motorway cafe, minutes later, that she meets the unknown rock band, Kelp, who talk her into coming to their gig that night...

Poppy Harper / Maisie Mae: No Boys Allowed

   Maisie Mae and her best friend Bethany-next-door like pink, unicorns and heart-shaped cushions. Maisie Mae's five stinky brothers like worms, football and CHAOS!Join eight-year-old Maisie as she holds her own in a boisterous family where...

Dave Lambert / Trouble Times Ten

   Ten-year-old Ben has many fears as he witnesses Moses call down a series of plagues on Egypt; then, when the Israelites follow Moses out of Egypt, their escape through the parted Red Sea forces Ben to confront his greatest fear, water. ...

Hilary McKay / Caddy Ever After

   It's Valentines Day and everything's changing in the Casson household. Indigo sets out to do something special to win over Sarah and ends up organising the Valentines Day disco and playing cupid. Saffy has a strange new boyfriend who...

Holly Webb / Jess the Lonely Puppy

 When Chloe's big brother Will breaks his leg, he's stuck in hospital for weeks. Mum and Dad are frantic, and there's no one to look after Will's Border Collie puppy, Jess. Jess is miserable and lonely, and so is Chloe. But Chloe doesn't really like...

Hilary McKay / Indigo's Star

 Indigo's going back to school after a long bout of glandular fever. He's not looking forward to it, as he knows the bullies will be waiting for him. But he's determined to stand on his own two feet - so when Saffy and Sarah break up a fight in the...

Tiffany Mandrake / Mal the Mischievous Mermaid

 Mal the Mischievous Mermaid' is one of two titles in a new series from Tiffany Mandrake with fabulously mischievous creature illustrations from the renowned Martin Chatterton.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Karen McCombie / Summer Special Sunshine Sunburn and Not-So-Sweet Nothings

 Ally's back, and this time she's on holiday! The Love household depart en masse for some summer fun - bringing merry mayhem in their wake.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Frank Cottrell Boyce / Cosmic

 Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or be offered the chance to...

Karen McCombie / Boys, Brothers and Jelly-belly Dancing

 Boys are weird things...and just lately, the boys in my life have been acting even MORE weird. Take Billy, for example. He's been behaving like a total muppet and what's worse is I've been having unexplained feelings for the big dweeb. Not only...

Felice Arena / Race Car Dreamers

      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...

Julia Green / Tilly's Moonlight Fox

 The fox called again. Its eerie cry echoed into the night. The sound wove in and out of the night garden, and into Tilly's dreams.' One night, awoken by a strange noise, Tilly looks out of her bedroom window and sees a wild fox watching her from...

Patricia Leitch / A Devil to Ride

      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...

Jim Eldridge / Disgusting Dave and the Farting Dog

   Meet Dave. He's disgusting - everyone says so. Even his mum is fed up with him examining his nose pickings. So now Dave's got a challenge: if he can avoid doing anything disgusting for a week, he gets a GBP20 reward. He thinks he can do...

Geri Halliwell / Ugenia Lavender

 Thoughtful, brave and sassy, Ugenia Lavender is one amazing kid. With loads of energy, tons of attitude and brainwaves like thunderbolts of lightning, Ugenia leaps into adventures that are as packed with personality as their creator, Geri Halliwell...

Janet Foxley / Muncle Trogg

   Giants live on top of Mount Grumble, hidden from humans below.But not all of them are big. Muncle Trogg is so small that he's laughedat by the others for being human-sized.Fed up, he decides to take a look at the 'Smallings' that he's...

Alan Nolan / Conor's Caveman : The Amazing Adventures of Ogg

 Life could be better for Conor Corcoran. Class bully Damian Deegan is always teasing him about being small and having no friends - when in fact Conor has the only friend he needs in Charlotte `Charlie' Finch, the toughest girl in school.But when...

Andrew Norriss / Aquila

 Two schoolboys discover a spaceship when out on a school-trip. The boys learn to fly the spaceship and talk in Latin, because this is the only language Aquila understands. But the more fun and adventures the boys have, the more they seem to grow...

Rose Doyle / The Invisible Monk

      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...

Arthur Rackham / English Fairy Tales

 This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little...

Hilary McKay / Permanent Rose

   It's a long hot summer - to Permanent Rose it seems never ending. Rose misses Tom, Indigo's friend who went back to America, and new friend David is no replacement. Caddy's fiancee, Michael, tries to cheer her up by delivering a rose every...

Kody Keplinger / Shut Out

   The girls of Hamilton High School are going on strike. Sick of the rivalry between their boyfriends' American football and soccer teams, Lissa and her friends are determined that the boys won't see any action from them until they put an end...

Gillian Cross / Wolf

 Cassy lives with her granny, until the night that she hears strange footsteps coming into their flat. The next morning, she is packed off to her mum's - a squat in London that her beautiful, simple mother shares with a couple of actors. Cassy does...

Sarra Manning / Irina

   Irina used to steal designer clothes from Moscow's best stores. Now she's living in London and modelling them in the pages of glossy fashion magazines. Nothing and no one is going to stop her from becoming the world's most famous supermodel...

Owen Jones / The Establishment : And how they get away with it

   Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of...

Siobhan Dowd / A Swift Pure Cry

 After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual...

Malorie Blackman / Chasing the Stars

 Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out the rest of their crew, and their family, in its entirety.Nathan's ship is heading in the opposite direction. But on the journey it is...

Susie Day / BIG WOO: My not-so-secret teenage blog

Laugh-out-loud funny, stunningly authentic and totally original, this is the online story of serafina67's so-called life. Writing in her daily blog, serafina's deliciously sarky voice and hilarious, spot-on observations about her everyteen...

Michael Morpurgo / Friend or Foe

The Germans are bombing London and every day people are dying in the Blitz. Everyone hates them, especially David because they killed his father and caused him to be sent to the country to live with strangers. So when a German soldier rescues David and...

Sylvia Waugh / The Mennyms

The Mennyms are a devoted family living together at No 5, Brocklehurst Grove. It is a big household in which the five children are fussed over by their mother and the father worries about his job. Any normal family, you might think - but you would be...

Cathy Hopkins / All Mates Together

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 price sticker on a...

Niall & Pauline Bracken / The Dalkey Persuaders

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 price sticker on a...

John Quinn / Bill and Fred?

Katie Lynch and her family are invited to tumbledown Walburley Hall to meet the new owners. They are astonished to discover that their hosts, Bill and Fred, are women -- sisters who have spent all their lives in East Africa. More surprises are revealed...

Edgar J. Hyde / Creepers: The Wishing Well

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 price sticker on a...

Andrew Cope / Spy Dog

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 price sticker on a...

Cormac MacRaois / It's Pin Bin Dim Dominilli!

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 price sticker on a...

Salamanda Drake / Dragonsdale

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 price sticker on a...

Edgar J. Hyde / Creepers: Soul Harvest

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 price sticker on a...

Margaret Mahy / Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate

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 price sticker on a...

Margot Bosonnet / Up the Red Belly

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 price sticker on a...

Edgar J. Hyde / Creepers: Blood on Tap

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 price sticker on a...