New Children's Books

Jenny Nimmo / Seth And The Strangers

A dark cloud rains tiny whirling shapes on to the hills. Only Seth knows each spinning silver disc carries something extraordinary. Where have they come from? What do they want?       This book is second hand, and while you may...

Philip Wooderson / Teacher's Pet

When his teacher announces that everyone has to bring a pet into school for Nature Day, Marley doesn''t k now what to do. He hasn''t got a proper pet, only Ken, a cate rpillar he keeps under his bed. Then Marley finds a potion t o double Ken''s size...

Andrew Matthews / The Chocolate Bunny Plot

Four hilarious stories about wicked villains written by best-selling children's author Andrew Matthews. Larger-than-life characters, knockabout humour and strong plots in which the villains' plans are foiled will make these books surefire winners...

Jonathan Allen / The Witch Who Couldn't Spell

The wicked witch of the west, otherwise know n as Elspeth, can''t understand why her spells aren''t working properly. Something is ruining her spells, so she calls in Grimweed to find a solution '       This book is second...

Andrew Matthews / The Great Gold Train Robbery

London's most desperate criminals, Nosher Norris, Hatty Herring, and Shady Samuels, are presented with their greatest challenge they must rob the Bank of England without ever setting foot in it. The plan involves three farmer's smocks, a milkmaid's...

Steve Biddle / The Paint & Print Fun Book

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Shoo Rayner / World Cup Winners

The Ginger Ninja #5 Ginger, Tiddles, Hilda and the Wilson Twins are mad about Pawball. They train hard and win a local five-a-side pawball competition. The tickets for the Catalina World Cup final. Once there, Ginger helps the national team win...

Alex Wheatle / The Humiliations of Welton Blake

Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie - the best-looking girl in school - and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and...

Stephen Moore / Spilling the Magic

Spilling the Magic #1 Spending the summer holidays with boring relatives, life looks bleak for Billy and Mary, until . . . They discover a strange book of spells, stolen from its owner, and find themselves whisked into the mysterious, multi-coloured...

Nina Bawden / The White Horse Gang

To raise money for one of them to join her parents in America, three youngsters plan a kidnapping which fortunately backfires but places them in greater danger.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Marjorie Darke / Comeback

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Paul Jennings / Unbelievable!

A collection of short stories by the author of "Uncanny!", "Unbearable!", "Unreal!" and "Quirky Tales". Why the punk ghost cab't pass his spook exam, where Souperman gets his strength from, and how an old lady grows up to be 16.....

Hilary McKay / Happy and Glorious

The Queen #1 Queens have two birthdays, one on the day they were born and one on the day it would have been most convenient for them to have been born on. It is the convenient one that counts. This Queen is not a happy little Queen. It's her...

Nigel Hinton / The Finders

When Rosie posts a parcel for a frail old man she has no idea that it contains the Djinn Star - Whose evil magic threatens to take her over. But she is tracked down by the Finders, the only ones who know how to save her. Together they set out to find...

William Mayne / Over the Hills and Far Away

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Nigel Hinton / The Dark Dream

Beaver Towers #4 In this fourth Beaver Towers adventure, Philip and old Mr. Edgar set off on their travels so that Philip can learn how to use his powers to fight evil. But while they are away, the island itself is under threat from a strange...

Ann Coburn / The Granite Beast

Ruth is forced to move from the city to the Cornish coast after her father's death. Tormented by her new classmates, lost and alone, she begins to have nightmares with premonitions of a catastrophic disaster. Ben, the village outcast, becomes her...

Tom Palmer / Rocky Takes the Lead

Rocky Race loves football so much that she moved to the United States to train at a high school with an amazing soccer team. She's made new friends, even won a state championship! Now her best friends from her home in Melchester, England, have come to...

Jenny Nimmo / The Bronze Trumpeter

The Count has gone to the Great War leaving his son Paolo alone under the eye of his sinister governess, Fraulein Helga. Friendless, Paolo explores the neglected wilderness of the garden until one day he comes upon the bronze Trumpeter, who proves to...

Paul Jennings / Unmentionable!

Stare, if you dare, into Paul Jennings's wild world. What will you tell the lie detector? Could graffiti come true? Why are you magnetic - to rubbish? What could a mouth organ play - after you swallowed it? Nine stories that you would never dream of,...

Gillian Cross / Twin And Super Twin

When David, Ben and Mitch decide to wreck the Wellington Street Gang's bonfire, it seems an easy thing to do. But then something amazing David's arm changes into a firework, and then a sausage, and then a snake. Things come to a head when David,...

Ann Coburn / Worm Songs

Borderlands Adventures #1 Four young members of the local photography club do a shoot in a ruined castle but mysterious happenings take place and they find themselves investigating the legendary Borderlands worm.     This book...

Leon Garfield / Black Jack

"Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling." -- Lloyd AlexanderA swarthy villain, nearly seven foot tall and presumed hanged, seems to wake from the dead in the presence of young Bartholomew Dorking. Having outwitted the noose, Black...

Theresa Tomlinson / The Forestwife

Forestwife Saga #1 Fleeing an arranged marriage, an orphaned young woman joins the forest community of a healer woman, takes the name of Marian, and falls in love with Robert, a young outlaw. By the author of Summer Witches...

Margaret Mahy / The Chewing Gum Rescue and Other Stories

Eleven splendid new stories by the witty and perceptive author of some of the best children's fiction of recent years. This collection ranges from the hilarious title story to the pure fantasy of "The Traveling Boy and the Stay-at-Home Bird" and "The...

Lucy M. Boston / The Sea Egg

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Nina Bawden / The Runaway Summer

Already upset by her parents divorce, an eleven-year-old girl finds matters just get worse when she helps hide a boy who immigrated to England illegally.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Nina Bawden / Rebel on a Rock

A family's visit to a country under the rule of a dictator involves the children in a startling revolutionary secret and leads them to suspect that their stepfather is a spy.       This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Nigel Hinton / The Dangerous Journey

Beaver Towers #3 In this third Beaver Towers adventure, Baby B, the little beaver, and his friend Nick the hedgehog fetch Philip to help once again in the quest to save Beaver Towers from the powers of evil. The Prince of Darkness is always just...

Lucy M. Boston / An Enemy at Green Knowe

Green Knowe #5 L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century.The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with...

Tom Richards / Hotfoot

So you want to be a professional footballer, do you? You'd do anything to get there? Well, think again, because that's what Larkin's lot wanted, and all they got was hell...       This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Jon Cramer / Amy and the Weather Wizard

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Julian Atterton / Robin Hood and the Sheriff

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Mick Gowar / The Guard Dog Geese

A further adventure in the SPARKS series, set in Roman times, featuring Gaius and Livia. Uncle Titus' country villa was hot and boring, and he was always worried about bad omens and signs from the gods. But when Livia is chased by geese, she begins...

Mick Gowar / A Runaway Donkey

This is the fourth Roman story in the Sparks series, continuing the adventures of Gaius and Livia. At th e back of the book is a facts section, to reinforce and cons olidate the information covered. '       This book is second...

Karen Wallace / Dancing for Captain Drake

The daring tearaway Arthur Knucklebone finds himself working as a cabin boy for Francis Drake on the Golden Hind, but will his dancing really save the Captain's life?       This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

Michael Coleman / Fizzy Hits the Headlines

Fizzy tells her classmates that she is going to have her picture taken with Pete Za of the chart-topping Red Hot Peppas. This leaves Fizzy with the problem of making it come true. Michael Coleman has also written "Tutankhamun is a Bit of a Mummy's...

Selina Young / Owl and Pussycat's Picnic / Owl and Pussycat's Bike Ride

Two stories about a pair of best friends, Owl and Pussycat. In the first story, they set off on a picnic in their rowing boat and in the second story they go for a bike ride, but Owl gets a flat tyre. The author's other books include "Grandpa Has Big...

Karen Wallace / Flash Harriet and the Fiendishly Wicked Whistle Mystery

Karen Wallace, Judy Brown   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may...

Mary Hooper / Poppy's Big Push

This is the second Victorian story in the Sp arks series, aiming to introduce children to the events, peo ple and ways of life in that era. The story follows the rags to riches adventures of a young village girl named Poppy...

Harriet Castor / Wondaglop Plot

Joe Burger's father wants him to be a tightrope walker, and his mother would be happier if he was an astronaut, but Joe wants to be a supersleuth. When a sinister, cream Wondaglop falls into the wrong hands, there's trouble in town, as the cream...

Jan Mark / The Snow Maze

One day, on the way to school, Joe finds a large, heavy key in the long grass. Joe thinks a giant might have dropped it; Irrum thinks it might be magic; Akash says the key is no good because it doesn't open anything. But when Joe tries the key in the...

Brennan Herbie / Mario Scumbini And the Big Pig Swipe

Mario Scumbini lives in New York where his grandfather and uncles are training him to be a gangster. Hannah lives in Dorset with her rotten family and goes to a school where the headmaster does not believe in children reading books that are not...

David Henry Wilson / Superdog

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Pippa Goodhart / Pest Friends

Maxine and Minnie are very different—Maxine is big and bold while Minnie is quiet and shy—but they become best friends. These are simple stories of friendship for beginning readers—staying at another's house overnight, losing a...

Robert Swindells / The Siege of Frimly Prim

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Vivian French / Captain Jennifer Jellyfish Jones

The Ghastly Ghoul #1 Jennifer has always known that she wants to be a pirate.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author...

Rose Impey / We Want William! The Wisest Worm in the World

Rose Impey, Shoo Rayner   William is the wisest, most worldly worm in Wiggleton. So when the World Worm Charming Competition threatens the worm population again, it is William everyone turns to, with great success...

Rose Impey / Pipe Down Prudle: The Most Talkative Parrot in the World

Designed for building reader confidence, "Animal Crackers" are stories based on real animals featuring easy-read type and half illustrations and half text. This title follows the adventures of Prudle, the talkative parrot who becomes a heroine when...

Hiawyn Oram / Beetle and Bug Go to Town

Second in the series about Beetle and Bug's adventures. In this story the two friends go into town with their rug, and discover that "always-full- purses" are not so easy to find. The book's large type and many illustrations are designed to give the...

Geraldine McCaughrean / Wizziwig and the Crazy Cooker

Wizziwig is the greatest inventor the world has ever known, except the world doesn''t know about her yet. This is a lively and fun read, with lots of repetition in t he text and illustrations throughout '       This book is...

Branwen Thomas / Roxy's Italian Diary

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...