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Gareth Owen / The Fox on the Roundabout

 Gareth Owen's bitter-sweet observations on life and the world will strike a chord with readers everywhere. Girl from a Train We stopped by a cornfield Near Shrewsbury A girl in a sun hat Smiled at me Then I was seven Now sixty-two Wherever you are...

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...

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...

Cate Tiernan / Full Circle

 Seventeen-year-old blood witch Morgan is being tormented by nightmares which become reality when she starts sleep-walking into life-threatening situations. In these visions, her dead ex-boyfriend, Cal is trying to kill her. In desperation Morgan...

Judy Blume / Forever

   Do you remember the first time? Still the bravest, freshest, fruitiest and most honest account of first love, first sex and first heartbreak ever written for teens. It was a book ahead of its time - and remains, after thirty years in...

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,...

Ann Brashares / Summers of the Sisterhood: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

 Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget have been best friends all their lives. They live in the same small American town and usually spend every moment of their long summer holidays together. The year they turn 16 is the first time they have separate...

Don Conroy / The Witches' Birthday Party

      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...

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...

Louis Sachar / Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

 All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of the infestation of cows! Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of...

Jeremy Strong / Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog

 From The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog to karate princesses and hot cross bottoms, there's a Jeremy Strong story to suit every child's sense of humour. Jeremy's readers range from 7 to teen, perfect for fans of Roald Dahl and Andy Stanton.Streaker the...

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...

Dick King-Smith / The Guard 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...

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...

Tony Bradman / Dilly to the Rescue

 In these stories, the naughty dinosaur decides to be Captain Dinosaur for the day, but the fire brigade has to rescue him from a tree. Then Dilly blackmails his sister into letting him ride her bike. Dilly tries to make friends with the cool older...

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...

Terry Deary / The Big Fat Father Christmas Joke Book

 In THE BIG FAT FATHER CHRISTMAS JOKE BOOK Horrible Histories author, Terry Deary, brings you two hilarious books in one - Father Christmas' Joke Book and The Great Father Christmas Robbery - full of rib-tickling fun for the festive...

James Patterson / Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile

 Four kids on a quest to find the legendary Mines of King Solomon...and their parents. Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are navigating their way down the Nile, from hot and dusty Cairo to deep dark jungles, past some seriously bad guys along the way...

Annie Kelsey / Pippa Morgan's Diary: Trouble and Squeak

 Meet Pippa Morgan, a small girl with a BIG imagination, and read her hilarious diary, packed with doodle illustrations. Pippa is DESPERATE for a dog, but Mum isn't budging. When Mr Bacon introduces Squeak, the class hamster, Pippa...

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...

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...

Naomi Lewis / Classic Fairy Tales to Read Aloud

 A wonderful collection for sharing with the whole family, this anthology gathers together the fairy tale s that have established themselves as enduring favourites ov er the years. '      All of our books are second hand, and while...

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...

Leslie Goldman / "Night at the Museum" - Novelisation

 The new night guard at New York's Museum of Natural History soon discovers there is more to the exhibits than meets the eye. Every night they come to life! This is an exciting novelisation of the film for young readers. Larry Daley is a loser. At...

Anne Fine / Press Play

 Nicky and Tasha wake up, but instead of their mum being with them, there's just a tape recorder on the floor, with a note saying, 'Press Play.' Mum's thought of everything: Tasha needs to wear a jumper (and not that thin shirt she'll get cold in),...

Karen McCombie / Indie Kidd Bk 4: Are We Having Fun Yet?

 More adventures with Indie Kidd, her animal-mad mum, best-est friends Soph and Fee and geeky (but loveable) step-brother Dylan. When Fee's cat gets run over, Indie thinks she knows exactly how to cheer her best friend up. But a trip to the Animal...

Merida Woodford / The Bogwater Witches

 When, one stormy night, the witch sisters Thora and Sybil Weird find a baby on the doorstep, they are thrilled- for this can only be the seventh child of a seventh child, with more power in her little finger than all the members of the Witches'...

Oisin McGann / The Harvest Tide Project

 Taya and Lorkrin are Myunans - shape-changers who can sculpt their flesh like modelling clay. They accidentally release Shessil Groach, a timid botanist working in captivity on the top-secret Harvest Tide Project. A massive manhunt is launched by...