Evie loves bugs and one day she brings lots of them into her bedroom, but they escape and cause chaos all over the house

A girl opens up a book looking for the story that's perfect for her and tumbles inside.

A young girl has an adventure with the Egyptian gods when she has to set off to rescue her adventurer father who has disappeared and is trapped inside the Sphinx.

The 35th anniversary of The Hodgeheg - a timeless classic tale for young children from the master of animal stories, Dick King-Smith. Includes an author profile and interview, and fun facts.

The classic story of a spider saving a pig from its usual fate

A young boy is in for a shock when he picks some fruit from the tree at the bottom of his garden and finds himself with a pet dragon.

For as long as she can remember Rumaysa has been locked away in her tall, tall tower, forced to use her magic to spin straw into gold for the evil Witch and unable to leave. Until one day, after dropping a hijab out of her small tower-window, Rumaysa realises how she might be able to escape...

Set in Victorian London a young boy struggles to find a happy life for himself outside the workhouse

A young rabbit and his siblings embark upon a quest to defeat an enemy who has destroyed their family home.

A boy marooned on a Pacific island befriends an Old Japanese man who has lived there since the Second World War

The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure.

The story of a girl's emigration to South America to meet her strange family and adventures on the Amazon river. 20th anniversary edition.

A young girl campaigns for historic wrongs to be righted, whilst also dealing with her autism.

Follows a young boy as he escapes from a convent orphanage in the mountains of Nazi occupied Poland in search of his parents

The granddaughter of Baba Yaga yearns to change her destiny which ties her to her grandmother's enchanted house which moves from place to place at will.

A group of Year 6 children get far more than they bargained for on a school trip to an activity centre deep in the woods at Crater Lake.

Herbert Lemon and Violet Parma are caught up in an adventure concerning a legendary sea-monster when they try to find out what happened to Violet's missing parents.

Follows the story of a young boy going into year 6, dealing with a failing friendship, an ill younger brother and his own mental demons.

An eleven-year-old girl's world is turned upside-down when she has to go and live with her mother in the city after her father, with whom she lives in the woods, is seriously injured in an accident.

An autistic girl learns to be herself instead of trying to hide her condition from people around her.

An evacuated boy builds a relationship with the gorilla at the zoo owned by the woman with whom he's been billeted.

After her friend is taken a girl begins a journey with her animal companion through a dangerous country of ice and witches to find him

A 12-year-old boy struggles to break the bonds of his slavery when he bought over to England from Jamaica with his master.

When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, 14 year old Alex Rider becomes involved with MI6 and has to complete his dead guardian's mission.

A girl survives on an island after a catastrophic flood separates her from her family

A boy. A wolf. A legend for all time. The first book in the internationally bestselling WOLF BROTHER (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) series by renowned author Michelle Paver.

Set in Jakarta, Indonesia, a boy who dreams of being a professional football player is caught up in the criminal underworld

A boy discovers a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament while on a journey to London to try and save his father from the hangman's noose.

Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle. But when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.

Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure

A schoolboy has to flee his home when soldiers come to recruit children to join their army, and makes a perilous journey to try and find safety in England.

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial abnormality attempts mainstream school for the first time

Streetwise George and his childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But do dreams come at a price!

A girl ventures from the island she is forbidden to leave on a quest to find her friend who has gone missing.

A 12-year-old boy's ghost watches his family in the aftermath of his death after being shot dead by a policeman.

A boy who lives and works on a rubbish mountain, finds a bag with money and a map, which the police are very keen to get their hands on

Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

A girl makes friends with a boy who has lived in a detention centre for refugees all his life.

Autobiography of a teenage Pakistani school pupil and education activist who survived an assassination attempt

A forensic crime thriller set in eighteenth century London.

When Erik's bad behaviour attracts the wrong crowd, he's sucked into a terrifying new world of drug dealing, trap houses and violence

Study edition of the classic play in which a police inspector questions the members of a family about the suicide of a young woman.

A lawyer who visits a remote village on business finds the house he is staying in is haunted by a ghost.

New cover reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways

A teen boy and girl from opposing factions in society take on the system and try to change it.

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When Winston begins a secret relationship with his colleague Julia, he soon realises it's virtually impossible to escape the watchful eye of Big Brother

The story of 15-year old Kambili's life growing up in Nigeria during a military coup.

An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.