General Children's

Cetherine Doolan / Drochla Gruaige

Ba bhrea le Finn a bheith 'cuileailte' -- ach nil se ar chor ar bith. Deanann se a dhicheallach teipeann air ...go dti go n-athraionn se a stil ghruaige! Finn really wants to be cool. He tries very hard, but nothing works. Until he tackles his...

Lee Weatherly / Breakfast at Sadie's

Sadie is fourteen years old and unhappy at school. Her dad died four years ago, and she lives alone with her mum in their seaside bed and breakfast. Her mum thinks Sadie doesn't try hard enough at anything she does, and her teachers think she's...

Niki Daly / Pa's Perfect Pizza

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...

Sherryl Clark / The Littlest Pirate

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...

Redvers Brandling / Spilling the Beans on Robin Hood and other robbers of the copse

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...

Stephanie Dagg / Oh Mum!

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...

Jonny Duddle / The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon

Ahoy there shipmates! Climb aboard with a new fiction series from Jonny Duddle featuring the crew from The Pirates Next Door. Join Jim Lad and Matilda as they sail the seven seas (and the coast of Dull-on-Sea) in search of adventure and pirate loot...

Michael Carroll / Moonlight

The perfectly preserved body of a 10,000 year-old headless horse is discovered in a glacier in Norway. In Dublin, a genetic engineer in the employ of a ruthless businessman dreams of creating the fastest racehorse ever. Add an inquisitive young girl and...

Eva Ibbotson / Dial a Ghost

'Get me some ghosts,' said Fulton Snodde-Brittle. 'Frightful and dangerous ghosts!' Fulton has gone to the Dial A Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. The...

Marie Burlington / Dear Me!

Dear Me, Grandad took me to town today and let me buy whatever clothes I wanted. Mum would never have let me off so lightly! Everything's changed for Cathy - she's moved in with Grandad while Mum's in hospital and she has to go to a new...

Jackie Burke / The Secrets of Grindlewood

With Wanda the good witch defeated, all that stands between Worfeus the warlock and ultimate power is just one spell. That is, until the Grindles arrive on the scene. The children and their pets move into an old rambling house and discover a collection...

Emily Smith / Joe v. the Fairies

Joe is sure he's right, but his sisters are obsessed by them. They've turned the climbing frame into a fairy bower, there are fairy cakes for tea and no one wants to do his assault course any more. Then a new neighbour arrives, who loves climbing trees...

Joe O'Brien / Feile Fever

Danny Wilde and his teammates are finding the Under-14s Division tough going. They've lost one of their best goal-scorers to injury and it looks like they'll have no chance of winning the County Feile! Could Todd, the new Australian kid, be the...

Jamila Gavin / Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting

When Emma goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in old Cote's Hall, she anticipates a holiday of boredom. But things begin to change when she discovers a beautiful doll that is uncannily real. Gavin also wrote "Grandpa Chatterji" and...

Edgar J. Hyde / The Scarecrow

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...

Enid Gibson / The House in Angel Lane

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...

Conor McHale / Don't Open That Box

Two boxes -- one large, one small -- arrive for Granny Lambert. But wily Belzoni, her cat, sees the note printed on the small box that reads: Don't Open that Box, Open this one first! Unfortunately Granny doesn't notice the sign and opens the big...

Frank Lampard / Team T. Rex: Book 14

Frankie and his team love playing football. There's always time for a game. And now that they have their magical football they're playing against teams they never imagined! While on holiday at a summer camp, Frankie, Charlie, Louise and Max the...

Shaun Traynor / Hugo O'Huge: The Children's Giant

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...

Bel Mooney / But You Promised!

Kitty, Bel Mooney's naughty, messy, loveable heroine, returns in a new set of adventures. This time her cry is 'But you promised!' She discovers that sometimes grown-ups make promises they can't keep. But then so do children!All of our...

Bel Mooney / Why Me?

Kitty learns that things do go wrong - for her, her family and her friends. But at least they have each other and at times like this only one thing matters; being able to make others laugh.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Dick King Smith / Sophie's Snail

Sophie is four-years-old and very determined. When she grows up, she's going to be a farmer. Already she's saving up to buy a cow, two hens, a pony and a pig. She's very fond of most creatures - especially little ones, like snails, and...

Terrance Dicks / Sally Ann Goes to Hospital (Streamers)

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...

Erika McGann / The Fairytale Trap

Who's afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf ...? When Grace and her witch apprentice friends sign up for the school pantomime they get much more than they bargained for. A mysterious enchanted object turns the entire school into a real medieval village, with a...

Pete Johnson / How to Train Your Parents

Moving to a new area and a new school, Louis is horrified to discover his parents changing into ultra-competitive parents, wanting him and his younger brother to get straight As at school and join all sorts of after-school clubs and activities like the...

Philip Ardagh / Awful End

When both of Eddie Dickens' parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie,...

John W. Sexton / Johnny Coffin School-dazed

A shooting star flashes over the town of Kilfursa and Johnny Coffin makes a wish. That's when the trouble starts. Strange lights follow the school bus, hedgehogs throw themselves at the traffic and all the town dogs go missing. Enya's pet...

Jonathan Meres / The World of Norm: Welcome to the World of Norm

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...

Michael Lawrence / Do Bugs Have Bottoms?: And Other Important Questions (and Answers) from the Science Museum and Evilution - The Troof

Combining two fantastic authors this brilliant flip-book will satisfy on both sides. Glenn Murphy's very funny question and answer book will solve some of life's great unknowns: what are scabs for and is it OK to pick them? How loud can you burp?...

Gregory Maguire / Seven Spiders Spinning

Seven baby Siberian snow spiders, frozen since the Ice Age, defrost on their way to a science lab. They wake up in a wood where the Tattletales girls club are planning for the school Halloween Horror Pageant. Their goal is to wipe the floor with their...

Liam Farrell / The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf: The Untold Story

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...

Jan Mark / School Stories

A collection of school stories by writers as diverse as Charlotte Bronte, Louisa M. Alcott, P.G. Wodehouse, Enid Blyton, Jill Paton Walsh, Philippa Pearce, Geoffrey Willans and Keith Waterhouse.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Dick King-Smith / Mr Ape

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...

Kara May / Cat's Witch and the Lost Birthday

One of a series intended for children who have mastered reading and need simple, funny and exciting books to encourage their interest. Aggie Witch has forgotten her birthdate, and decides to go on strike until she finds it. But her magic is needed to...

Dick King-Smith / All Because of Jackson

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...

Morris Gleitzman / Worry Warts

There's trouble in Keith's tropical paradise - his mum and dad are just as miserable as ever. Can Keith's adventure-packed trip to the opal fields save them from spending the rest of their lives as worry warts?All of our books are second...

Brigid Smith / In Flight: Our Gang and the Mystery of the Missing Parrot Level 1

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...

Peter Bird / Girlfacts

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...

John Quinn / Duck and Swan

On a school trip to Dublin, Emer discovers Duck, a twelve-year-old half-Nigerian, half-Irish runaway boy who is taken in by an elderly couple, uncovers his athletic ability at the game of hurling, and leads his team to victoryAll of our books are second...

Ann Jungman / LUCY AND THE WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING AND LUCY KEEPS THE WOLF FROM THE DOOR.

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...

Philip Reeve / The Teacher's Tales of Terror

"The Teacher's Tales of Terror" (Bloomsbury Children's Books). Chris Priestley has readers on the edge of their seats in this trio of terrifying stories as a teacher and his pupils share three spine-chilling tales. But, of course, with a very surprising...

Edyth Bulbring / A Month with April-May

'Life is not a bowl of cherries. Suck it up.' On April-May's first day at Trinity College, she has the wrong colour bag, too-bright socks and she gets her favourite novel confiscated for reading it during class. She makes total enemies with...

Trenton Lee Stewart / The Mysterious Benedict Society

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside...

Cathy Hopkins / Mates, Dates and Sizzling Summers

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...

Wendy Douthwaite / A Dog for a Day (Treetops)

Tree Tops Oxford Reading Tree - Stage 14. Mark wants to help the hungry little dog he finds tied to a fence at the dump. But bully Wayne Waring has other ideas and that's only a part of Mark's trouble. His best friendis away, his parents can't help and...

Narinder Dhami / Annie's Game

Jack has always known his little sister, Annie, is bright. By the time she's five, she's reading Hamlet and the Financial Times, and has an extremely active imagination. Her odd behaviour doesn't make life easy at school for Jack, especially...

David Baddiel / The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

Written especially for WBD 2016, this is a fabulously entertaining and touching novella from David Baddiel, author of the bestselling THE PARENT AGENCY and THE PERSON CONTROLLER.Illustrated by the hugely talented Jim Field, winner of the Roald Dahl Funny...

Charles Ogden / Rare Beasts

Hello, little hamble!" Edgar exclaimed, holding it up, so he could look into its mismatched eyes. "Not another one like you in all the world. Definitely exotic! Definitely worth a lot of money!" Creepy twins Edgar and Ellen are bad, bad,...

Kally McKain / Summer Stars

Lucy and her best friends forever, Jules and Tilda, are going on holiday together and are thrilled that their fave mag is holding a competition to find backing dancers for its beach party in the very same town! Can they strut their stuff onstage and...

Nigel Smith / Nathalia Buttface and the Most Embarrassing Dad in the World

At last something laugh-out-loud funny for girls in this hilarious new series from TV and radio comedy writing talent Nigel Smith. The Most Embarrassing Dad in the World was embarrassing Nathalia even before she was born. He went and married Mum,...

David Donohue / Walter Speazlebud

Walter Speazlebud is a whizz at spelling backwards. He also has the power of Noitanigami (Imagination) - he can make people, and animals, go backwards in time - two skills he inherited from his favourite person, his grandfather. So when his horrible...

Paul Jennings / Come Back Gizmo

The third story in the successful Gizmo series, involving a mean-spirited hoodlum who - via a toilet seat getting stuck on his head - discovers compassion and becomes a hero.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown...