General Children's

Keren David / When I Was Joe

    When Ty witnesses a stabbing, his own life is in danger from the criminals he's named, and he and his mum have to go into police protection. Ty has a new name, a new look and a cool new image - life as Joe is good, especially when he...

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...

Brenna Yovanoff / The Replacement

   Everything can be replace. Except human love.Mackie Doyle is not one of us.Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls...

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...

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,...

Ann Halam / Dr Franklin's Island

   What's it like to see your friend transformed into a raven before your very eyes, and to know it's your turn next? How does it feel to morph into a manta ray or slide into the body of a snake? This is what happens to Miranda, Semi and...

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...

Alan Early / Arthur Quinn and Hell's Keeper

   Arthur Quinn has defeated the World Serpent. He's come face-to-face with the Fenris Wolf. But now he faces Loki's most powerful child, Hell's Keeper. With his friends Ash, Ellie and Ex, Arthur sets out to stop this new menace. But Loki has...

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...

Mark Walden / H.I.V.E. 3: Escape Velocity

   Pupils and staff at H.I.V.E. are horrified to discover that Dr Nero has been captured by the forces of H.O.P.E., the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive, the world's newest and most ruthlessly efficient security force. Three months pass...

Roddy Doyle / Rover and the Big Fat Baby (Hardback)

 The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing! Can Rover the wonder dog and his little nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down? While Rover and co. are hot on the trail of the BFB, via Granny Mack's backpack, the post lady's basket and a plane...

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,...

Megan Rix / A Soldier's Friend

   SAMMY is a football crazy rescue puppy.MOUSER is a fearless grey tabby.Together they make an unlikely pair that won't be parted, not even by the First World War.As the war rages in Europe, Londoners are sending brave animals to help the...

David Williams / The Midnight Gang

   Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for... the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning... When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he...

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...

Patrice Aggs / Ooh La Booga Bomp

 On the farm, some very strange noises are keeping the farmer awake. The ducks are having fun singing and banging `instruments'-- what a racket! But their noise is keeping someone else awake too, wily Mr Fox. There's trouble on the way ... Panda...

Gwyneth Rees / My Mum's from Planet Pluto

 Daniel knows that his mum was very ill once - mentally ill. She's fine now, and she's even landed a big new job as a head teacher. The problem is, she's head of his new school! It's so embarrassing - everyone is going to tease him. But then things...

Darcey Bussell / Jade and the Silver Flute

 Dance your way to the magical world of Enchantia in the delightful fourth series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey Bussell! Precious things have been going missing in Enchantia in the lead up to a very special ceremony. Is someone trying to thwart the...

Lauren Brooke / The New Class

 Welcome to Chestnut Hill, a prestigious boarding school with a rich tradition of riding and rivalry. This year, four girls from different backgrounds will challenge the Chestnut Hill stereotype. There's fiesty Dylan; secretive Malory; tomboy Lani...

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,...

Wendelin Van Draanen / Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf

 Sammy Keyes has got two mysteries to solve. Unless she finds scary Mrs Landvogt's dog in a matter of days, she and Grams are going to be out of a home when Mrs Landvogt shops them to the authorities. Sammy needs to be concentrating on getting yappy...