New Children's Books

Jessica Scott-Whyte / The Asparagus Bunch

A fresh and funny novel for readers aged 10+, perfect for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and The Boy at the Back of the Class.Having been kicked out of six different schools, Leon is labelled as having an attitude problem by...

Sheena Wilkinson / First Term at Fernside

Robin can't wait to be back at Fernside boarding school. All she wants is to have fun with her friends in the dorm, play hockey and try to win the Form Shield.But for her younger cousin Linnet the first term at Fernside is a bit of a nightmare.And she...

Robert Muchamore / Piracy, Paintballs & Zebras

Robin Hood #2   Robin Hood lives...When Clare Gisborne and Little John returns to school after the Locksley Riot, there's rebellion in the air and Robin Hood's name graffitied on every wall. Power dynamics are shifting - now, instead of being a...

Lucy Ashe / Clara and Olivia

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Philip Pullman / Northern Lights

His Dark Materials #1   Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to...

Lisa Yee / DC Super Hero Girls: Wonder Woman at Super Hero High

Wonder Woman™ wants to be the best super hero she can be, and that means going to Super Hero High School. But there's a lot for the teen super hero to get used to at her new school! Save the Day alarms, a room-mate who shares everything on social...

Peter Corey / Coping with Teachers & Coping with Exams and Tests

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Megan McDonald / The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt

Judy Moody & Stink #2   Judy and Stink co-star in their second full-color adventure — crawling with pirates and puzzles, carbuncles and chuckles.As soon as the Moody family drops anchor on "Artichoke" Island, they are greeted by...

Geraldine Kaye / The Dragon Upstairs

When a girl moves from Hong Kong to England to live with her family, she doesn't expect the large egg she finds in her bedroom to hatch into a dragon. Can the children keep the growing dragon a secret from their parents in the chinese restaurant...

Joyce Ballou Gregorian / The Broken Citadel

Brought to a strange world where strength of mind and spirit are constantly required of her, Sibby finds friends, adventure, and a sense of belonging.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Lauren Magaziner / Case Closed #3: Haunting at the Hotel

Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the third book in Lauren Magaziner’s hilarious and interactive middle grade series. In the Case Closed books, the reader helps Carlos and his friends hunt ghosts at a haunted hotel. In...

Julia Eccleshare / Stories for 8 Year Olds

A classic collection of stories by Michael Rosen, Alexander McCall Smith, Ted Hughes, Michael Morpurgo and others, specially chosen for young readers of around eight by children’s book expert, Julia Eccleshare.Mary Poppins takes Jane and Michael on...

E.L. Norry / Fablehouse

Unlock the legends. Unleash the magic. Save your home.Fablehouse, a mysterious mansion surrounded by ancient woodland, is Heather's new home. Roaming the countryside with some of the other mixed-race kids who are in care there, she finds a stone tower...

Alf Prøysen / Mrs. Pepperpot Again and Other Stories

Mrs Pepperpot has a little problem - an enormous little problem - she shrinks! And when she does, she finds herself facing all sorts of funny situations of giant-sized proportions! But whether it's a big brown bear or a moose on the loose, clever little...

Kate O'Hearn / Valkyrie: War of the Realms

Valkyrie #3   In the world of Asgard, living among Odin, Thor and Loki are the Valkyries of legend. They are Norse goddesses who reap the fallen souls from human battlefields and have the power to cause death with just one touch.At the end of...

Phil Hickes / The Bewitching of Aveline Jones

Aveline Jones #2   Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones!Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the local villagers refer to the...

Jamie Rix / Incredible Luck of Alfie Pluck

Alfie Pluck is the unluckiest boy alive - until he unwittingly eats the chicken which contains the highly-sought-after luck gene. Once his secret is exposed people want the gene for their own devious deeds. But there's more than one kind of luck, and...

Rebecca Westcott & Narinder Dhami / Enid Blyton New Class at Malory Towers

It's time to welcome new girls to Malory Towers, the famous boarding school by the sea, in four brand-new stories by outstanding authors, set in Enid Blyton's much-loved school. YA and Waterstones Book Prize-winner Patrice Lawrence introduces us to proud...

Paul Tobin / How To Outsmart A Billion Robot Bees

It's Friday the 13th again, and for sixth grade genius Nate Bannister, that means doing three more not-so-smart things to keep life interesting. But he has bigger problems than his own experiments. His nemesis, the Red Death Tea Society, is threatening...

Lauren Tarshis / I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018

California continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis's heart pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and -- despite the destruction -- find hope in the ashes.The people of Northern California were used...

Lauren Tarshis / I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871

Could an entire city really burn to the ground?Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is...

Lauren Tarshis / I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001

On the day that shocks the world, one boy just wants to find his family. A powerful addition to the gripping I Survived series.The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his Uncle Benny, his dad's best friend at the fire department where they both...

Lauren Tarshis / I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900

More than a century later, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still America's deadliest disaster. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the horrible event churns with page-turning action and bold hope. The city of Galveston, Texas, was...

Lauren Tarshis / I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis provides a birds-eye view of one of America's most ghastly accidents ever be captured on film, the Hindenburg Disaster of 1937.The greatest flying machine ever built is about to crash...For...

Lauren Tarshis / I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011

The disaster felt around the world . . .Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly...

Helen Cresswell / Absolute Zero

The Bagthorpe Saga #2   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...

Alex Martin / Zeus Perkins and the Exploding Planet

The world is a mess and who is to blame The anwer is simple - grown-ups - and the solution is that children should take over. Zeus Perkins enlists the help of Piglet and Darryl to fight injustice and when a couple of girls enter the scene, a TV...

Pauline Fisk / The Beast of Whixall Moss

One day Jack finds a boat hidden on the creek, and in the boat is a fabulous beast. At once he is filled with wild he must own it. But the mysterious inhabitants of the boat have other ideas and, in the struggles that follow, Jack's world is changed...

Anne Fine / Round Behind the Ice-House

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Margaret Mahy / The Other Side of Silence

In an attempt to distance herself from real life, Hero acts out fairy tale fantasies in the overgrown garden of a neighbouring mansion. Miss Credence, the owner, becomes a part of Hero's imaginings but soon, Hero realizes that her fantasy is taking...

Kenneth Lillington / The Real Live Dinosaur: And Other Stories

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Eileen Dunlop / Finn's Roman Fort

The sequel to "Finn's Island", this title develops the friendship between Finn and Chris and introduces the themes of conservation and of bullying. When news is leaked that a gravel pit may be sited in an area of archeological interest the community...

Tracey Turner / How to Tell a Wizard from a Warlock: Life-saving Differences You Should Know

Just what is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite, a germ and a virus, or rugby league and rugby union? This mad miscellany is for anyone who has found themselves pondering the exact qualities that make a stoat a stoat, and not a weasel,...

Mary C. Ryan / Frankie's Run

As she and her best friend really start to grow up and enter the boy-watching stage, thirteen-year-old Mary Frances wonders if she should try to be like everyone else or fight for her own identity.       This book is second...

Kate Tym / Pig Tales

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Julie Hearn / Follow Me Down

Mind the gap.Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is...

Benjamin Zephaniah / Talking Turkeys

Wanna be in our gang? We cause Peace, Fighters fear us, On de streets The very first ground-breaking children's poetry collection from street poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Playful, clever and provocative, this is performance poetry on the page at its very...

Kaye Umansky / Wilma's Wicked Revenge

When Wilma is denied the opportunity to become a Wicked Queen even though she has earned her Grade Three Magic certificate, she decides to get her revenge by devising a cunning plan that involves a girl named Snow Drop.       This...

Rachel Delahaye / Little Dolphin Rescue

Fliss loves animals and will do anything to save them! Join her on her adventures to save wild animals in danger.A swimming lesson takes an exciting turn when Fliss is magically whisked away to the Indian Ocean! There she finds a young dolphin in trouble...

Chris Blake / Gladiator Clash

Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history’s mightiest warriors. The first book in a new time-travelling series – perfect for fans of Beast Quest.When ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he...

Heidi Heilig / The Girl from Everywhere

Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century...

Carolyn Keene / Nancy Drew Diaries 3-Books-in-1!

Join Nancy Drew and her friends as they solve thrilling mysteries with the first three novels in the Nancy Drew Diaries series—now available in one paperback edition.Nancy Drew is a spectacular sleuth, one who relies on her wits more than her...

Sean Taylor / Alligator Swamp

A novel for 8-11 year olds. When Ant travels to a farm owned by a relative, he gets caught up in a tense mystery involving piranha-fish-infested rivers, guns and illegal traffickers of animal skins. An eco-adventure set in the swamplands of western...

Jonathan Stroud / Ptolemy's Gate

Bartimaeus #3   The tremendous climax of the Bartimaeus sequence.Three years on from the events in The Golem's Eye, the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is...

J.D. Irwin / Edwin Spencer: Shadow Magic

School loser Edwin must go back to Hysteria. He MUST. Why Well, erm, to help his doppelganger Prince Auvlin win a triathlon... *cough cough* But Edwin and Perpetua are happy to use even the flimsiest excuse to return to Hysteria. Only things aren t...

Kyla May / Pug Blasts Off

The first book in a sweet and funny new Branches series about a pug and his human, told from the pug's POV! Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With...

Shannon Hale / Palace of Stone

Princess Academy #2   Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding.There, Miri also has...

Liz Kessler / Emily Windsnap: A Tangle of Tails: 3 Books in 1

An omnibus of the first three bestselling Emily Windsnap adventures about a girl who is also a mermaid.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Lindsay Eagar / The Bigfoot Files

From the author of Hour of the Bees comes another captivating story that deftly blurs the line between reality and magic – and will leave you wondering What if? The Loch Ness Monster. The Frogman. Bigfoot. Twelve-year-old Miranda Cho used to...

Connie Glynn / The Lost Princess

The Rosewood Chronicles #3 In the third book in the Rosewood Chronicles return to a world that effortlessly combines the charm of The Princess Diaries and the immersive magic of Harry Potter .Ellie is a rebellious princess hiding her real...

Karen McCombie / How To Be A Human

Who said friends have to match to matter?When the Star Boy’s space-pod crashes in the grounds of Fairfield Academy he knows he must seek shelter. Taking refuge in the school’s boiler room to await rescue he discovers that the room’s...

Zibby Oneal / The Language of Goldfish

Thirteen-year-old Carrie, clinging to memories of her idyllic early childhood, struggles to communicate with family and classmates       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...