General Children's

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...

F. E. Higgins / The Bone Magician

   Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak. Then Pin encounters the Bone Magician, a man who can raise corpses...

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...

Justin Richards / The Wolfstone Curse

   Welcome to the historic town of Wolfstone, where dark secrets lurk in the shadows and strange beasts stalk the land.When Peter joins his archaeologist father in the strange village of Wolfstone, he has no idea what dark secrets the village...

Carolyn Mackler / Love And Other Four Letter Words

    "Mom and I have been talking a lot these past few weeks..." Dad's voice trailed off. "And we've decided to get a trial separation." Sammie Davis never expected sweet sixteen to be perfect. But then she didn't expect her parents to...

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...

Jessica Shirvingtom / Embrace

   I felt myself slipping away, losing myself to the senses. 'Kiss me,' I whispered.Violet Eden has only ever wanted to be with Lincoln. But when he reveals a secret so powerful it could tear them apart, her world spins out of control. Then...

Amy Plum / Die For Me

   My life had always been blissfully, wonderfully normal. But it only took one moment to change everything.Suddenly, my sister, Georgia and I were orphans. We put our lives into storage and moved to Paris to live with my grandparents. And I...

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...

Leila Sales / This Song Will Save Your Life

   All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider. Starting a new school, she dreams of fitting in at last - but when her best attempts at popularity fail, she almost gives up. In a cry for help, she self-harms, and when news of that gets...

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...

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...

Aaron Blabey / The Bad Guys:Episodes 1 and 2

   They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the BadGuys... and they even smell like the Bad Guys.But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are aboutto change all of that - whether you want them to or not!Mr Wolf has a daring plan for...

Lauren Child / Take Your Last Breath

   Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out of boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child, and meet your new favourite heroine... Ruby Redfort: detective, secret agent, thirteen-year-old kid.Everyone's...

Melissa Kantor / Maybe One Day

   Two best friends face the hardest future of all - a future without each other.In the tradition of `The Fault in Our Stars', critically acclaimed author Melissa Kantor masterfully captures the joy of friendship and the agony of loss.Zoe and...

Laurie Halse Anderson / Twisted

   Seventeen-year-old Tyler is totally enjoying his position as highschool Alpha male after years of being "the geek". But then Bethany- rich, blonde, beautiful and the girl Tyler wants - is the victimin a teenage sex scandal, and somehow...

Ruth Eastham / Jaguar Trials

    Thirteen-year-old Ben finds himself in Central America with his parents - and stumbling into an ancient mystery. Along with two local kids, he is determined to solve the ancient trials of El Dorado, lift the curse and find the gold. But...

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,...

Thomas E. Sniegoski / The Fallen & Leviathan

   On his eighteenth birthday, Aaron begins to hear strange voices and is convinced he is going insane. But having moved from foster home to foster home, Aaron doesn't know whom he can trust. He wants to confide in the cute girl from class,...

Elizabeth Laird / Jake's Tower

   'It's good that I've found this secret place. I can come here and make plans. My main plan for the future is my dream house. It's very tall and thin. A tower really. There'll be a lift to whiz me up to the top. No one can get to me up there...

Sarra Manning / The Worst Girlfriend in the World

   Alice Jenkins is the worst girlfriend in the world according to the many, many boys who've shimmied up lampposts and shoplifted from New Look to impress her, only to be dumped when she gets bored of them. Alice has a very low boredom...

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...

Shawn K. Stout / Penelope Crumb Finds Her Lucky Stars

   Awful Vera Bogg is Patsy's new best friend!Penelope is determined to win Patsy back. When the girls are chosen to paint a mural at Portwaller's Home for the Aged, it's Penelope's chance to show what a great friend (and talented artist) she...

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...

K.K. Beck / Fake

    Danny'd already figured out that his mom and stepdad were majorly stupid, but now he's decided they're actually evil. They're sending him on a two-week "wilderness survival experience" for teens with "behavioural issues". From what he...

Mark O'Sullivan / White Lies

    Previously published in 1997, O'Sullivan's themes of identity and truth, skilfully explored in "White Lies", are more relevant than ever. Nance, a young black girl, uncovers the true story of her adoption while her boyfriend, OD, has...

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...

Josephine Feeney / Truth, Lies and Homework

    Miss Sanders sets the class a history project to find out about their grandparents' lives during Word War II. Claire's questions to her Irish grandfather uncover a terrible secret in his past - he was sent to prison for avoiding the...

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...

Kate Andrews / Friends 4 Ever

    Carrie, Alex and Sky sometimes have their differences, but they've been best friends since the first day of high school. They're always together, always there for each other. So what if they do the same stuff a lot? And who cares if...

Carolyn Mackler / Earth, My Butt And Other Round Things : Ever had a phone call that changes everything?

    Virginia Shreves has a "larger-than-average" body and a medium-sized inferiority complex. Her mum is an exercise fiend, her dad whistles at skinny women, and her siblings are gorgeous, clever, and impossible to live up to. They're all...

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...

Siobhan Parkinson / The Thirteenth Room

   It has been nine years since the death of a young girl on the Taggart farm near the quiet Irish village of Dromadden. But memories of the tragedy are vividly and powerfully called up when Niamh comes to Planten to nurse the dying Taggart,...

Jan Mark / The Electric Telepath

    Elijah longs to be a scientist, to follow in the footsteps of his heroes. But as a member of the Horebite church such dreams will never be possible. Instructed by his father and his church to listen for The Still, Small Voice which will...

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...

Brian Conaghan / When Mr Dog Bites

   Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015 Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon's Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey. . . Dylan Mint has Tourette's. Being sixteen is...

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...