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Andrew Matthews / Shakespeare Stories: Antony and Cleopatra

 A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and Death in Anthony and Cleopatra. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help...

Andrew Matthews / Shakespeare Stories: As You Like It

 A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and Death in Anthony and Cleopatra. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help...

Stacy Gregg / The Princess and the Foal

   A novel of heart and courage inspired by the incredible story of a real-life princess and the foal she loves.Princess Haya, daughter of the King of Jordan, loves her family more than anything. So when tragedy strikes at its heart, she is...

Gillian Cross / Roscoe's Leap

 Roscoe's Leap - that's the name of the strange old house where Stephen and Hannah had grown up. For Hannah, it was a place where the heating was always breaking down and she was the one who had to fix it. But for Stephen, it was a place of secrets,...

Gillian Cross / Chartbreak

 When Janis Finch storms out of a family row, it starts a chain of events which transforms her whole life. For it's in the motorway cafe, minutes later, that she meets the unknown rock band, Kelp, who talk her into coming to their gig that night...

Dave Lambert / Trouble Times Ten

   Ten-year-old Ben has many fears as he witnesses Moses call down a series of plagues on Egypt; then, when the Israelites follow Moses out of Egypt, their escape through the parted Red Sea forces Ben to confront his greatest fear, water. ...

Lauren Brooke / Chestnut Hill: Playing for Keeps

 Welcome to Chestnut Hill, the boarding school where every girl's favourite subject is riding! Lani loves to ride but her other grades are suffering and her parents want her to change schools. Lani can't bear the thought of leaving Chestnut Hill?...

Megan McDonald / Stink And The Ultimate Thumb-Wrestling Smackdown

 Stink needs a sport, fast! Can his alter-ego, Shark Hammersmash, wrestle a win at thumb wars? Or will a perfect karate kick lead him to vistory? Crackdown! Smackdown! Thmackdown! Stink Moody, family brain, brings home a report card that isn't...

Christopher Edge / Twelve Minutes to Midnight

 Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine, The Penny Dreadful. Her masterly tales of the macabre are gripping Victorian Britain, even if no one knows she's the author. One day, a letter she...

Hilary McKay / Caddy Ever After

   It's Valentines Day and everything's changing in the Casson household. Indigo sets out to do something special to win over Sarah and ends up organising the Valentines Day disco and playing cupid. Saffy has a strange new boyfriend who...

Karen McCombie / Meet the Real World Rachel

 Stella's new life in Portbay is going well. The only hassle is Rachel and her gang, who still manage to make Stella feel like she doesn't belong...Then all this weird stuff happens to Rachel and her so-called mates start avoiding her. Should Stella...

Peter Regan / Riverside: Setbacks

   The good news: Mad Victor and Mad Henry are back from Birmingham. The bad news: They've nowhere to stay. The Irish soccer team must come up with a solution to keep the team together.    All of our books are second hand, and while...

Natasha May / Poppy Love Faces the Music

 Samba, quickstep, tango and waltz - Poppy loves to dance them all! Poppy Love, her dance partner, Zack, and Zack's cousin, Anna, attend a tea dance and dance the waltz for everyone; Poppy turns her brother's birthday party into a real surprise...

Hilary McKay / Indigo's Star

 Indigo's going back to school after a long bout of glandular fever. He's not looking forward to it, as he knows the bullies will be waiting for him. But he's determined to stand on his own two feet - so when Saffy and Sarah break up a fight in the...

Tiffany Mandrake / Mal the Mischievous Mermaid

 Mal the Mischievous Mermaid' is one of two titles in a new series from Tiffany Mandrake with fabulously mischievous creature illustrations from the renowned Martin Chatterton.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Joanna Nadin / Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster

 My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' bit is my dad's JOKE. But I do not see the funny side. Plus it is not even true that I am dreadful. It's just that sometimes my BRILLIANT IDEAS don't work out completely...

Karen McCombie / Summer Special Sunshine Sunburn and Not-So-Sweet Nothings

 Ally's back, and this time she's on holiday! The Love household depart en masse for some summer fun - bringing merry mayhem in their wake.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Patricia Leitch / Night of the Red Horse

      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...

Frank Cottrell Boyce / Cosmic

 Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or be offered the chance to...

Jeanne Willis / Gabby The Vampire Cabbie

   Crazy Jobs is all about the jobs of different characters in fairytale land. Meet Gabby, who drives a cab carrying all sorts of odd passengers - she's taken Granny Riding Hood to watch Wolves play football, and the Gingerbread Man (who leaves...

Annie Dalton / Winging it

 Meet Melanie Beeby! Mel is a trainee time-travelling angel. She's feisty, witty, streetwise and...dead! New-look cover for an angelic series rebirth! Melanie Beeby, just thirteen, has been permanently removed from the late 20th Century by a...

Karen McCombie / Boys, Brothers and Jelly-belly Dancing

 Boys are weird things...and just lately, the boys in my life have been acting even MORE weird. Take Billy, for example. He's been behaving like a total muppet and what's worse is I've been having unexplained feelings for the big dweeb. Not only...

Felice Arena / Race Car Dreamers

      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...

Julia Green / Tilly's Moonlight Fox

 The fox called again. Its eerie cry echoed into the night. The sound wove in and out of the night garden, and into Tilly's dreams.' One night, awoken by a strange noise, Tilly looks out of her bedroom window and sees a wild fox watching her from...

Michael Northrop / The Book of the Dead

 For fans of Alex Rider and The History Keepers comes a brand newepic Egyptian adventure!Nothing can save Alex Sennefer's life. That's what all the doctorssay, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the LostSpells of the Egyptian Book of...

Jeanne Willis / Bert The Fairies' Fashion Expert

 Meet Bert, fashion designer to the stars of Fairyland! He made Cinderella's wedding gown and new coats for the Seven Dwarfs. But then the Wicked Fairy turns up, and she wants a special magic cloak!      All of our books are second...

Jim Eldridge / Disgusting Dave and the Farting Dog

   Meet Dave. He's disgusting - everyone says so. Even his mum is fed up with him examining his nose pickings. So now Dave's got a challenge: if he can avoid doing anything disgusting for a week, he gets a GBP20 reward. He thinks he can do...

Geri Halliwell / Ugenia Lavender

 Thoughtful, brave and sassy, Ugenia Lavender is one amazing kid. With loads of energy, tons of attitude and brainwaves like thunderbolts of lightning, Ugenia leaps into adventures that are as packed with personality as their creator, Geri Halliwell...

Lou Kuenzler / First Term at Tall Towers

Princess Grace is anything but graceful. Her clumsiness gets her in all sorts of trouble. But now Grace is starting at Tall Towers Princess School - she can learn to be a proper princess at last! At her new school she must make new friends...

Janet Foxley / Muncle Trogg

   Giants live on top of Mount Grumble, hidden from humans below.But not all of them are big. Muncle Trogg is so small that he's laughedat by the others for being human-sized.Fed up, he decides to take a look at the 'Smallings' that he's...

Liz Weir / Boom Chicka Boom

      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...

Judy Waite / Eerie Encounters

Part of the Literacy World series that provides support to deliver shared reading and writing, guided reading, ICT and speaking and listening at Key Stage 2 and Junior level.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Beverley Naidoo / Journey to Jo'burg

 This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from...

Henry Winkler / Hank Zipzer: The World's Greatest Underachiever The Night I Flunked My Field Trip

   Hank Zipzer wants to be number one, not the one who always gets it wrong. A likeable, struggling hero that readers will adore.When Hank Zipzer's class gets to spend a night on a replica of a tall-masted sailing ship, Hank is psyched! Then he...

Andrew Norriss / Aquila

 Two schoolboys discover a spaceship when out on a school-trip. The boys learn to fly the spaceship and talk in Latin, because this is the only language Aquila understands. But the more fun and adventures the boys have, the more they seem to grow...

Rose Doyle / The Invisible Monk

      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...

Arthur Rackham / English Fairy Tales

 This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little...

Hilary McKay / Permanent Rose

   It's a long hot summer - to Permanent Rose it seems never ending. Rose misses Tom, Indigo's friend who went back to America, and new friend David is no replacement. Caddy's fiancee, Michael, tries to cheer her up by delivering a rose every...

Bonnie Bryant / The Saddle Club: Horse Sense

 Lisa love being a member of the Saddle Club. But lately, Stevie and Carole haven't had time for her or their friendship. And if she can't convince her friends that their club is just as important, she may have to find new members to replace them.....

Kody Keplinger / Shut Out

   The girls of Hamilton High School are going on strike. Sick of the rivalry between their boyfriends' American football and soccer teams, Lissa and her friends are determined that the boys won't see any action from them until they put an end...

Gillian Cross / Wolf

 Cassy lives with her granny, until the night that she hears strange footsteps coming into their flat. The next morning, she is packed off to her mum's - a squat in London that her beautiful, simple mother shares with a couple of actors. Cassy does...

Sarra Manning / Irina

   Irina used to steal designer clothes from Moscow's best stores. Now she's living in London and modelling them in the pages of glossy fashion magazines. Nothing and no one is going to stop her from becoming the world's most famous supermodel...

Owen Jones / The Establishment : And how they get away with it

   Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of...

Penelope Fitzgerald / The Gate of Angels

  Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been...

Malorie Blackman / Chasing the Stars

 Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out the rest of their crew, and their family, in its entirety.Nathan's ship is heading in the opposite direction. But on the journey it is...

Margaret Wise Brown - The Dead Bird - Classic illustrated Children's Picture Book

A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016. This heartwarming classic picture book by beloved children's book author Margaret Wise Brown is beautifully re-illustrated for a contemporary audience by the critically acclaimed, award-winning illustrator...

Susie Day / BIG WOO: My not-so-secret teenage blog

Laugh-out-loud funny, stunningly authentic and totally original, this is the online story of serafina67's so-called life. Writing in her daily blog, serafina's deliciously sarky voice and hilarious, spot-on observations about her everyteen...

M. G. Leonard / Beetle Queen

Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies. When Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt discover further evidence of her evil, they're determined to stop her. But the three friends are in trouble. Darkus'...

Michael Morpurgo / Friend or Foe

The Germans are bombing London and every day people are dying in the Blitz. Everyone hates them, especially David because they killed his father and caused him to be sent to the country to live with strangers. So when a German soldier rescues David and...

Willard Price / Tiger Adventure

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 price sticker on a...

Sylvia Waugh / The Mennyms

The Mennyms are a devoted family living together at No 5, Brocklehurst Grove. It is a big household in which the five children are fussed over by their mother and the father worries about his job. Any normal family, you might think - but you would be...

Mary Beckett / Hannah or Pink Balloons

Hannah is a 12-year-old Belfast girl who with her two brothers, goes to stay with her grandmother while her parents are away. Mary Beckett is the author of Give Them Stone, Orla is Six and A Family Tree.All of our books are second hand, and while you may...