General Children's

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...

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...

Alexander Gordon Smith / Furnace: Solitary

    Furnace Prison - Where death is the least of your worries. Escape is just the beginning...We thought we'd made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace. All we did was slip deeper into 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...

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...

Lesley Howarth / Flower King

    The narrator of this story doesn't just see colours, he feels them. At home or slogging away in his parents' garage and store, the colour is mainly panic-button red. But for a short time on Saturdays, visiting old Mrs Pinder - Pinny - a...

Amy Ehrlich / Joyride

    Nina Lewis and her mother, Joyce, are always on the move. They own nothing that can't fit in the back of a van and they stay nowhere very long. Home is wherever they are, as long as they're together. But as Nina begins to long for a...

Mike Wilks / Mirrorscape

    The first thrilling adventure in Mike Wilks' trilogy of fantasy stories for fans of Charlie Bone. Imagine being able to step into a painting. This is the Mirrorscape. Fulfilling the dream of a lifetime, Melkin Womper is apprenticed to a...

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...

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...

Bear Grylls / Mission Survival 6: Strike of the Shark

   A gripping adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn!When Beck Granger is ship-wrecked in the open seas, he needs all of his survival skills to save a small group of passengers.But the...

Vincent McDonnell / Chill Factor

    When Dr Denis Gunne disappears, the police believe he is fleeing charges of supplying drugs to addicts. His son, Sean is convinced that his father has been set up. But for what reason? With his friend, Jackie, Sean sets out to find his...

Tobias Druitt / Corydon and the Siege of Troy

    Since the disastrous fall of Atlantis, Corydon and the monsters have gone their separate ways, each licking their wounds from their inability to save the legendary city. But now Troy is under siege by the heroes and Corydon's friend,...

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...

Rachel van Kooij / Bartolome: The Infanta's Pet

   17th-century Madrid is not a kind place for a dwarf like Bartolome, and his family has to keep him hidden in a small back room. His dream is to be able to read and write, and when he hears that a dwarf like himself works in the King's...

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...

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...

Jeanne Duprau / The Diamond of Darkhold : Book of Ember 4

 Lina and Doon are returning to the city of Ember, but what awaits them in the dark? This highly acclaimed adventure series is a modern-day classic--with over 4 MILLION copies sold! Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and led their people...

Jim Carrington / In the Bag

 Joe and Ash are best friends. Ash is the leader, Joe the one who follows. Then one night after a party, Joe and Ash come across a holdall, seemingly abandoned by the side of the road. They open it up . . . and find GBP20,000 in cash. Of course...

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...