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A girl gives her mother and twin sister the runaround as they try to find out where she has got to in a big department store.

A little rabbit adventures far away from home to find berries to put on his mother's cake.

A little girl and her myopic grandmother make friends with a tiger while they search for her grandmother's missing glasses.

A little girl pretends that she is her daddy's mummy and explains how she looks after him.

A rhyming story which celebrates the potential for every child as they grow up.

A counting story in which a hungry fox tries to make three chickens his dinner, counting from one to ten and including one hundred.

A grandpa buys craft materials so that he and his granddaughter can make a kite together when she comes to visit.

A family accomodate their pet dog whose personality traits mean that he doesn't like noise, being petted, or have his routine changed.

A girl travels across the Himalaya Mountains guided by a bird she believes to be the spirit of her grandmother as she ventures from her rural home to the city to find her missing father.

A young girl finds a packet of magical seeds which start to wreak havoc in her concrete, depressing town as flowers start growing again

A young boy struggles to help his autistic brother when their mother becomes ill

A girl is befriended by a streetwise boy when she is left with a crumbling manor house after her destitute uncle abandons her.

Two sisters take it upon themselves to investigate the murder of one of the fellow residents of their housing estate

A spider learns to communicate with humans in a bid to stop people from killing him and other spiders.

A girl must learn to harness her magic powers to protect her village from the monsters that plague their world.

A girl must venture out into the forest to save her brother who has been spirited away by a creature that feeds on children's dreams.

Two children brave the wilds of Russia after they flee a prison camp, pursued by a vengeful sorceress and her shadow wolves.

A young girl bonds with an abandoned Exmoor pony foal when she goes to stay with a foster family after her mother is hospitalised.

Ele escapes from the shed she has been held captive in for as long as she can remember, and struggles to adjust to life outside.

An orphan girl living in Paris just before the French Revolution uses magic to trick her way into the aristocratic life at Versailles

A boy breaks his guardian's rule that he never go beyond the ruined factory where they live, and discovers things about his life and the outside world beyond his comprehension.

Seventeen-year-old Marianne has been training on board The Maiden to be the Viper for her entire life - to serve and protect the King and the citizens of The Twelve Isles - but to become the Viper and protect the islands she loves she must find the strength to defeat her father.

A girl finds herself in danger when she uncovers hidden secrets about a historic murder that happened in her town five years ago.

A young princess seeks justice when she is forced to flee the royal palace after being framed for the death of her father, the emperor, accused of using her blood power to kill him.

A teenage girl finds herself falling apart following the disappearance of her older brother

Three teenagers are bought together on a suicide-pact website, but their growing friendship gives them the strength to see that there are other ways out of their personal issues.

When her mum falls into a coma, a young teenager uses key objects from her mother's childhood in Kuwait to magically experience key moments from her past that help strengthen their fragile relationship.

Follows Emily as she ponders her future after sixth form, pursues her first romantic relationship and struggles to convince her friends and family that she is happy with her body image

A seafaring teenager vows to exact revenge on a warlord who killed her family, but finds her feelings mixed when a boy from his crew saves the life of her best friend.

Two Korean teenagers living in America pretend to date each other to please their parents, while secretly in love with other people

When a new boy arrives to the mines where Newt lives, Newt starts to question everything that he has been told about the dark, subterranean world he has always lived and worked in.

Five friends, sold into prostitution as children go on the run for their freedom after one accidentally kills a man.

A girl struggles to regain normality after being badly scarred from a house fire.

A girl makes a friend at her new school when she joins the computer science club and learns to combine coding with her love of music.