General Children's

Lisa Fiedler / Mouseheart

 Hopper is just an ordinary pet shop mouse before he escapes. Soon he finds himself below the bustling streets of Brooklyn, deep within the web of transit tunnels, and in Atlantia, a glorious utopian rat civilization. But all is not what it...

Felice Arena / Battle of the Games

      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...

Richmal Crompton / William the Outlaw - TV tie-in edition

   Some words to not apply to William Brown. Sweet, charming, 'dear little boy' . . . That sounds more like Georgie Murdoch, who is so sickly sweet that William is determined to turn him into a wild, muddy, noisy outlaw like himself . . ...

Disney Teen Beach Book of the Film

      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...

Sam Hayton / The Snow Merchant

   Lettie Peppercorn lives in a house on stilts near the wind-swept coast of Albion. Nothing incredible has ever happened to her, until one winter's night. The night the Snow Merchant comes. He claims to be an alchemist - the...

Coleen Murtagh Paratore / The Wedding Planner's Daughter: Playing Cupid

 Willa Havisham is a firm believer in Cupid and the goosebumps and heart-thumps of his lightning bolts from the blue! But now two of her biggest loves have got her in a swizzle. First Willa learns that her beloved Bramble library is about to be shut...

F.E. Higgins / The Lunatic's Curse

   Deep within the heart of the Moiraean Mountains lies the town of Opum Oppidulum - home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and it's rumoured monster. An inescapable asylum stands in the centre of the lake, enclosed by the sheer cliffs of Drop...

Paul Jennings / Uncovered!

 I'm uncovered...I try to hide my nakedness with my hand. But it doesn't work. Everyone can see.Also on show...Bad rabbit habits. Rapt - in toilet paper. Birds with teeth. A live face on the wall.A collection of brilliant and bizarre...

Gwyneath Rees / The Mum Surprise

   Even though her teenage brother Matthew is a ton of trouble as far as Esmie's concerned, she feels sorry for him now he's been dumped by his girlfriend. What better way to cheer up Matty than to bake him a birthday cake - exactly the same...

Sue Jenkins / Call of the Dolphin

 Grieving the loss of her father and escaping the unwelcome visit of a boy cousin, Erin finds herself drawn into a haunting relationship with mysterious dolphin.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Joe O'Brien / Little Croker

 How do you play every game?' yelled Mick. `Like the All-Ireland Final!' cheered the whole dressing room.Danny Wilde wants one thing more than anything else in the world and that's to get his GAA team, Littlestown Crokes, to the top of the League...

Dominic Wood / Dom And The Magic Topper

 Dominic is an ordinary boy with an appetite for magic and a rather extraordinary sidekick- his magical top hat, the Topper. The two of them live happily, but when Great Aunt Rowena comes to stay things begin to go awry. Rowena has plans of her own...

Nick Toczek / The Dog Ate My Bus Pass

 The Dog Ate My Bus Pass is a brilliant collection of hilarious poems featuring some of the world's most incredible excuses, apologies, tall stories and fibs. It is essential reading for all children (and some adults too!). from The Worst Excuses in...

David Solomons / My Brother Is a Superhero : Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize

 Luke is a comic-mad eleven-year old who shares a treehouse with his geeky older brother, Zack. Luke' s only mistake is to go for a wee right at the wrong time. While he's gone, an alien gives his undeserving, never-read-a-comic-in-his-life brother...

Coleen Murtagh Paratore / The Wedding Planner's Daughter: From the Heart

  After years of being the Wedding Planner's Daughter, at last Willa Havisham has the chance to plan a wedding all by herself, and she can hardly wait! But when her boyfriend's behaving strangely, the whole town is arguing about birds and there's...

Frank Lampard / Frankie's Magic Football: Frankie vs The Knight's Nasties : Book 5

 Frankie and his team love playing football. There's always time for a game. And now that they have their magic football they're playing against teams they never imagined! So when Frankie, Louise, Charlie and trusty Max get sent back to...

Stacy Gregg / The Island of Lost Horses

 Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses - an epic Caribbean adventure!On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and...

Jo Nesbo / Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

 Dr Proctor is an ageing inventor just waiting for his big break. And when he teams up with his next-door neighbour Lise and her peculiar friend Nilli in making the world's most powerful fart powder, it seems his dream may be coming true. But the...

Maria Murray / Flip 'n' Flop Go to Kerry

 When Frank Johnson marries Lucy, he and his border terriers, Flip and Flop, move to a cottage in Kerry, where the dogs help Topsy the sheepdog search for Plucky the wolfhound and his owner, who seem to have disappeared.      All...

Disney Fairies Tinkerbell and Friends: Prilla and Tink

      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...

Sarah Webb / Ask Amy Green: Dancing Daze

   From boy troubles to wardrobe dilemmas, first dates to embarrassing parentals - Agony Queen Amy Green is back in her fifth novel, solving problems for pre-teens everywhere! Dancing dilemmas... Mills's ballerina sister has just landed...

Jean Ure / Shrinking Violet

   The fifth gloriously funny and poignant book in Jean Ure's series of `secret' diary stories. Lily and Violet are twins - physically identical but quite opposite in character. Lily is brash, up-front and in your face. Lily Loudmouth,...

Lavinia Derwent / The Tale of Greyfriars Bobby

 Bobby, a lively little Skye Terrier, adores his master Auld Jock and when the old man dies, Bobby refuses to leave his grave in Greyfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh. By day, he plays with local orphans and eats at a nearby tavern, but every night for...

Garth Nix / One Beastly Beast : Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales

 A funny, magical, colourful story collection for young children.The stories are:* Serena and the Sea Serpent - in which a small girl discovers that being a Penguinmaid is too much fun!* Bill the Inventor - in which a young orphan discovers that...

Hayley Scott / Meet the Twitches

 Meet the Twitches, four tiny rabbits who live inside a Teacup House. They belong to a girl called Stevie and she loves playing with them. But guess what? These toy rabbits have a secret. They come alive when Stevie isn't looking! Open up the Teacup...

Franzeska Eward / A Heart for Ruby

   A charming story perfect for Valentine's Day about a young girl who desperately wants to learn how to dance. Ruby's class will be performing in the school Valentine's Day concert on Friday, but there's just one problem - Ruby can't...

Phoebe Rivers / Saranormal: Ghost Town

 Sara Collins is a normal 12 year old girl with an abnormal secret: she is psychic. Sara has had her abilities for as long as she can remember, but she doesn't like to talk about them. She hopes that if she ignores them, they might go away. Sara...

Annie Fine / Country Pancake

   Like an angel, Miss Mirabelle stepped into the lives of the children of Wallisdean Park School. Enchanting she may be, but Miss Mirabelle still ends up in big trouble. The author is a previous winner of the Smarties Prize and the Carnegie...

Neil Arksey / Result!

 Ash's dad is a sports teacher and always makes him play in goal - even though he really wants to play on the field and score goals. However, one day in spite of an injury he comes out to score and so proves his worth in the field...

Jason Beresford / The Fabulous Four Fish Fingers

      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...

Derek Keilty / Will Gallows and the Snake-Bellied Troll

 Will Gallows, a young elfling sky cowboy, rides out on a perilous quest to bring the evil snake-bellied troll bandit, Noose Wormworx, to justice. Noose is wanted for the murder of Will's pa - the former deputy sheriff of Oretown. Will's...

Holly Webb / Becky's Dress Disaster

 Disaster strikes the Ryan household when Becky's rats escape from their cage and decide to snack on Annabel's bridesmaid dress (the one she's wearing to Auntie Janet's wedding in two weeks' time!). How on earth is Becky going to salvage the dress...

Robert Swindells / Hurricane Summer

 It's World War II and Jim has a fantastic new friend - a fighter pilot. Jim worships Cocky and looks forward to his every visit, but war changes people's lives and friendship can bring pain as well as joy     All of our books are...

Pippa Goodhart / Molly And The Beanstalk

 Fantastic new title in the Sprinters series relaunch - a first book for Walker When little Molly plants a story seed, she looks forward to a wonderful beginning. middle and end. But as the weather gets hotter and hotter, she realizes that she...

David Bennett / Tresury of Witch and Wizard Stories

 A Spellbinding Collection! Mind-boggling magic leads to mystery, mischief and mayhem in this dazzling treasury. An all-star cast of authors including Alan Garner, Margaret Mahy, Terry Jones, Floella Benjamin and Helen Cresswell has conjured up this...

E.L. Konigsburg / From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away... so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped-- right into a mystery that...

Jahnna N. Malcolm / A Dog Named Toe Shoe

Five friends at Deerfields Academy of Dancing, and they all hate ballet. An abandoned dog is not something any of the gang can ignore. What they can't do is agree about his name.       All of our books are second hand, and while...

Moshi Monsters Pick Your Path 1: Disco Mystery

 Moshi Monsters Pick Your Path Disco Mystery is the first 'Pick Your Path' book for fans of the online world of Moshi Monsters.There's something strange happening in Monstro City. The Underground Disco has gone eerily silent . . .One of the...

Terence Blacker / Pride and Penalties

 Seven girls and one football don't exactly make a team, but that's not going to stop any of them. The boys may laugh, but when Eve manages to get the best football coach around, things start to look different. This is the first of a four-book...

Tony Bradman / Mixed Up Madness: "The Two Jacks", "Screw Loose"

 popular stories in 1, this good value volume includes The Two Jacks by Tony Bradman and Screw Loose by Alison Prince. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexicBarrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant,...

Marjorie Newman / Yo Ho Ho!

 Class 4 have a very strange new teacher. Mr Cutlass wears a spotted scarf around his neck and has a parrot on his shoulder. Could he possibly be a ...pirate? And can Class 4 help him solve a secret message that could lead to hidden...

Ruth Eastham / Memory Cage

 Alex's grandfather keeps forgetting things, and Alex has overheard his adoptive parents say that they're going to put granddad in a home. His grandfather begs Alex to save him from that, and it's a promise Alex is desperate to keep. But Alex once...

Greg James / Kid Normal

 The first book in a laugh-out-loud funny adventure series for 8+ readers from radio stars Greg James and Chris Smith'So funny, it's almost criminal' INDEPENDENT'Outrageous capers' GUARDIANSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZEA TOM...

Stephanie Moraghan / Harry's Magic Tables : Learn your times tables in as little as a week!

 Nine year old Harry Moraghan never found maths easy. Then he discovered he REALLY hated it when it came to learning multiplication tables.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Karen McCombie / Wonderland

Jude's never had much luck with boys. In fact, all the blokes in her life seem to be allergic to treating her right - including her dad...Then she meets Gareth. He's not like the others: he's sensitive, caring and actually listens to her. Could it be...

Trevor Pye / The Big Race

 Duck Lake Primary School has only eleven children, so it's a problem choosing the best runner to represent the school in The Big Race. Trevor is picked because he has the longest legs in the school - but can he run? * Skyracer Yellow titles...

Wes Magee / So, You Want to be a Wizard?

 In Wes Magee's new book of spellbinding poems, you'll find magic, mysterious places, and a cast of creepy characters. You can visit a ruined castle in Scotland, attend the Vampire's 'Bite Fright' party, and discover what's behind the green curtain...

Andrew Cullen / The Recovery Squad : Diamonds of Ishemar

      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...

Allan Drummond / Aussie Notables: Mary Gilmore

 The second title in the Aussie Notables. Born and raised in Wagga Wagga, Dame Mary was a schoolteacher, utopian socialist, journalist, poet and girl friend of Henry Lawson, whose adventures took her to Paraguay, Patagonia and Casterton(!)...

Allan Drummond / Aussie Notables: John Monash

What's the connection between the man on our $100 note and bushranger Ned Kelly? Be inspired by the story of John Monash, child of migrants, who went on to become one of the greatest, wisest, generals of World War One and an engineer who literally...

Jessica Townsend / Nevermoor : The Trials of Morrigan Crow Book 1

 WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2018 YOUNGER FICTION CATEGORYWINNER OF RED MAGAZINE'S BIG BOOK 'BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK (7-12)' AWARD International bestselling new series. Enter the Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor -...

Terry Deary / War Games

 Two stories about George and Esther, growing up in England and Germany during the Second World War, with only their passion for sport to help them along. A wonderful contrast of England and Germany at war. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for...