When Holly’s mother puts her on the Edinburgh train in the care of a complete stranger, who happens to be a children’s author, none of them have any idea of what is going to happen. The following weeks will be unlike anything Holly has known before; Nina and Colin Nightingale, and their son Johnny live a life very different to her own. But when Johnny has a terrible accident all differences are fo... More >

This book is not for the faint hearted! Here are seven spine-chilling stories that give a new meaning to the word Nasty! Wherever he goes, Michael Rosen bumps into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories about man-eating fleas on the London tube, grizzly bears roaming the streets, killer wasps and all sorts of tall tales. And because they are written by Michael Rosen they are not o... More >

Laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Picture the scene: Dother Hall performing arts college somewhere Up North. On the whole, it’s not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting! But once her mates turn up and they start their ‘FAME! I’m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I’m gonna fill my tiiiiights’ summer course things are bound to pe... More >

Leo knows the value of never grassing; never grass on your friends for a start. And you certainly don’t grass on the gang leaders in town. The Leo witnesses a murder committed by a man called Armour, one of the gang leaders. Soon Armour has an insidious hold not only on Leo, but also his family: a hold that will test Leo’s family relationships and his sense of right and wrong. It will take bravery... More >

Finn Oliver knows he’ll never come to terms with his father’s death, but joy-riding over the moors in his mum’s beat-up old car is a quick fix of freedom and forgetting. Until the accident happens ... and Finn finds himself hurtling through the water-thin divide between the worlds of the living and the dead ...... More >

It’s 1944. Elizabeth’s father is fighting with the German army on the eastern front. Her mother works at Dresden zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot, Elizabeth’s mother moves Marlene into the back garden! Then the bombs start to fall. Their home destroyed, Elizabeth and her family flee the bombed-out ... More >

Thomas has inherited a magical box from his dead grandmother which provides entry into a mysterious garden where her ghost warns him she was poisoned. For once she belonged to an arcane guild whose members each cultivated a garden and mastered the arts of poison, perfume and medicine. The remaining guild members jostle for power as one by one, they are murdered. Can Thomas solve the mystery before... More >

How many ostriches does it take to smash up a school? One. And her name is Mad Iris. Mad Iris has gone! Top End Primary has stolen her from Ross’s school. She’s not happy – nor are Top End Primary. They didn’t know how much muddle and mess a six-foot-tall ostrich could make! Can Ross rescue Iris before she gets into real trouble? Illustrated by Scoular Anderson Interest age: 9-12 Reading age... More >

Doctor Conner’s been shot. The killer’s DNA is on the gun. But 30 identical clones all have that DNA. They all say they didn’t do it. One of them is lying. Who is the killer clone? Illustrated by Dylan Gibson Interest age: 10-14 Reading age: 8... More >

Merlin always knew he was different from other kids. But he had no idea how different. Inside Merlin lies power. Magic. He could shape the future. The world could remember his name. He just needs to make sure the King doesn’t kill him first... Illustrated by Dylan Gibson Interest age: 10-14 Reading age: 8... More >

Mouse and Millie’s home-work is all about dinosaurs. So when the alien Umba-Wumba comes to visit in his space-time ship, the three friends decide to go back in time and see dinosaurs up close. But the dinosaurs get a lot too close! Can they escape from the hungry allosaurs? Illustrated by Shona Grant Interest age: 9-12 Reading age: 8... More >

Raimon has carried the Blue Flame, the true spirit of the Occitan, to the mountains above Castelneuf. There he dreams of Yolanda and gathers more people to his cause. But his resolve begins to fail as he is besieged by the Catholic Aimery and the Cathar White Wolf. In Paris, Yolanda, resists marriage to Sir Hugh, who is building a war train to topple Raimon and bring the flame and the Occitan unde... More >

A half-crazed boy has turned up at the Animal Investigators HQ, raving about an army of gulls taking over his town, led by the malevolent Red Eye. Expert tracker, Ellis, and animal mind-reader Meriel must find a way to stop this deadly menace from terrrorizing the town’s people – before the death toll starts to rise.... More >

“Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well!” Chloe sees Mr Stink every day, but she’s never spoken to him. Which isn’t surprising, because he’s a tramp, and he stinks. But there’s more to Mr Stink than meets the eye (or nose) and before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual new friend hiding in her garden shed.... More >

When Laura Sibbie starts a secret club at school she calls it Pig City, after the funny hat she always wears. To make sure that none of the members tells anyone else about the club, Laura makes them give her something totally embarrassing as ‘insurance’. She promises to keep the insurance secret – unless someone talks about Pig City. Gabriel, who never tells on anybody, would be a perfect member o... More >

Teodora has always longed to visit Venice. And at last she has her chance. But strange and sinister things are afoot in the beautiful floating city. Teo is quickly subsumed into a secret world in which saltty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and... More >