Birdie is sent to live with her great-aunt in 1950s Yorkshire and befriends the village's last remaining pit pony

Introduces Finn N. O. Hope and his life of epic failure!

An illustrated look at the past, present and future of these four countries.

Tells the story of the British empire told through the monumental journeys that shaped it.

13-year-old Tom Morgan has his life changed when he is inducted into an elite school for thieves.

A beautiful and sensitive exploration of the experience of child poverty.

Welcome to Hazard. An ordinary town where strangeness is a way of life. A town where sink holes appear with no warning, where people go missing way too often and where things really DO go bump in the night...

Presents a collection of mythological poems from around the world.

A boy from the non-magical mortal world joins a girl in the hidden, magical world of the Archipelago to restore the magic that will save both worlds

As war breaks out, Tom enlists with the rebels aiming to defeat the king's army and Rebel follows him to save him and bring him home.

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.

After the tragic death of his mother, eleven year old Will is sent to temporarily stay with his uncle in the mountains.

A collection of compelling short stories about climate change and future worlds.

In a future world where giant mechanical animals called Constructs fight and are driven by human crews, a young teenage boy is separated from his Wolf Construct and must survive with a new crew of similarly lost youngsters

Isaac must solve the mystery of his father's disappearance and foil the plot to take over the world using metric time.

When one of the Swift family tries to murder Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, someone has to work out who is the culprit.

A young girl helps in the resistance work by members of the Grand Mosque in Paris whose bravery saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II.

A British-Nigerian girl heads to a school for superheroes when she finds that her Afro hair gives her psychokinetic powers.

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.

A young girl finds herself in a supernatural world when she tries to find her missing older brother.

The true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic - and the challenges she faced in the 'normal' world.

Sparrow starts her first year at the magical Zenith Academy where she must learn to use her fire magic, and also discover why students are suddenly losing their magical powers.

When her island home is overrun by evil spirits, Evie and her best friend Arthur must go into battle with ghosts and shamans to protect the world they know.

Celebrates the incredible life of Josephine Baker in this true story, chronicling her journey from an impoverished childhood to beloved actress, dancer and wartime heroine.

A boy is enrolled for the task of becoming the new Giver, the person in his community who collects all the feelings and memories that they are brought up not to have.

In the early days of World War II, Jakob and Lizzie work to solve two mysteries - the Enigma code and the fate of their mother

Meet brain scientist and bestselling author Dean Burnett. He’ll show you why your parents are sometimes wrong about phones (and why, annoyingly, they can be a bit right), how you can both understand them a bit better and how you can stop arguing about them.

When a devastating meteor strike destroys their base, Luna is left stranded alone on the moon.

When Chompa's home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Chompa, born with powerful magic travels to the smoky, bustling streets of East London in search of her.

Based on true stories of Afghan refugees, this novel describes how a girl defies the Taliban and dresses as a boy in order to feed her family.

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

Thirteen-year-old Jo tries to juggle life in a family that is half Chinese, half English, running a takeaway in Coventry

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.

Sparrowhawk the wizard accidentally unleashes an evil force in Earthsea and sets out to destroy it.

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

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

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

A German boy befriends a Jew in a concentration camp, without realising the significance of the facility

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

Some school friends discover a seemingly haunted hotel room.

A Mami Wata mermaid must embark on a treacherous journey to make amends for saving the life of a boy at sea and endangering her people.

When Laurie tells her friends about a boy who is coming to visit her, she is as surprised as they are when he arrives.

Georgia stumbles upon a murder in the school library, but struggles to be believed, so takes matters into her own hands.

When the Faerie folk flee their world and come to ours, running from the nightmare of war, they are locked away in a refugee camp, until a group of faeries disocover a way to get home and stop the war.

Kyle and his grandad execute a plan to save the local beck from developers.

A vibrant, evocative and magical tale which centres a positive, empowered disabled character at the heart of a reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood.

When Matthew saves Anton's life, he starts to learn important lessons about friendship, peer pressure and resisting macho culture.

14-year-old Milo unexpectedly finds himself to be the new ferryman that takes the lingering Dead across the dark sea to the Island of the Broken Tower, where they can finally move on.

A teenager starts to use an untested app to improve her grades but then becomes concerned when it seems to be interfering with all aspects of her life

A retelling of the classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

Adult cover edition of the story about a teen girl chosen to take part in a reality show where participants must kill their competitors to win.

Max, Leo and Elsa are three friends in Vienna in 1936, whose lives are transformed by the course of events over the next nine years.

Mira blossoms to her full potential during an important rite of passage.

Tired of having her whole life followed via her parent's vlog channel about her, a young girl sets out to bring it to an end, with unforeseen circumstances.

A boy has to hide from his friends and teachers the fact that he and his mum are living in a van.

A collection of poems that focus on one week in a secondary school.

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 becomes stranded in the Canadian wilderness and has to survive alone

A 13-year-old boy in denial about his mother's terminal illness imagines sharing stories with a yew tree

A boy suffering from amnesia finds himself in an encampment surrounded by wall where half robot creatures hunt the people that live there

An anthology of poems embracing Black British history from Roman times to the present day.

A high-octane, high-chemistry, sci-fi adventure about a stowaway girl and the richest boy in the galaxy, racing against the clock to outwit a gang of mercenaries.

Flip is exploring the nearby marshes and stumbles upon an abandoned Victorian house. He quickly discovers not everything is as it seems...

Amir has faced more challenges than any teenager should ever have to, all in the simple quest for survival. And he's finding out that life in his new country is bringing a whole new set of challenges...

From then on, I collected sentences like other people collect keyrings. I searched for them everywhere . . .

Explores aspects of history from the perspective of females

Rizu lives a comfortable life in the gated middle class suburbs of Delhi; her biggest worries are getting her homework done and keeping up with the mean girls at school. That is, until she's accused of being a witch and the hysteria that follows triggers a chain reaction.

A thrilling and heart-warming tale about family, friendship and football.

Enter a darkly dystopian world full of eerie folklore, in which illness and difference have been prohibited. But from deep beneath the earth, a rebellion is rising...

Loan shark Chick Lennon is notorious around Sonny Gilmour's way, and not for anything good.

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

A 14 year old boy is faced with a moral dilemma when he becomes involved with a local gang

First in an epic trilogy of verse novels set in 19th century Ghana, following a boy who is sold into slavery

A teenage boy who aspires to be a famous rapper finds new motivation to pursue his dreams when his family are in danger of being evicted

A teenager living in the repressive regime of 1989 Romania faces the choice whether to inform on his family to save their lives.

A history of post-war Black Britain told through the lens of these groundbreaking songs.

Two boys compete to become the best tree climber in the village, but an ugly rivalry develops between them.

A 16-year-old refugee is found near to collapse and recounts her story to a kind adult, explaining how a totalitarian government in London ripped her family apart.

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

Epic story of a man who trades in illegitimate children and a child who survives and is reunited with his gentleman father.

Four teenagers are suspected of murder when a fellow classmate dies during the detention they were all in

Kay must find out who is behind a threatening letter she finds on her bed which claims that she will be murdered by the end of the week.

Teenager Ronny moves to Norwich from inner city London and feels like an outsider in his new school at first until he gets the opportunity to pursue his talent for creative writing and poetry

Follows a girl with Autism navigating her way through life - friendship, school and family dynamics

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

After a sixteen-year-old American boy is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison, he struggles to find a way to keep true to himself.

Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is... I'm here to divide and conquer. - Aces

A teenage girl's life is turned upside down when a billionaire she has never met dies and leaves her most of his fortune in his will

Two sisters, who have only just learned of each other's existence, become friends when their father dies

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

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

A 16-year-old girl is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of her unarmed friend

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

A homeless teen boy must evade a serial killer after other homeless kids start disappearing from the streets

Set in sixties America, a teen member of a gang witnesses the savage baiting from a rival gang that leads his best friend to manslaughter

A botanist survives against the odds when he is left stranded alone on Mars after the rest of the crew leave, presuming him dead after their expedition is aborted due to a destructive storm.

Recounts the life of a young German girl in Germany during World War II.

Two young women from different backgrounds become close friends through their roles in WWII, one as a pilot, the other as an SOE agent.

A 15 year old autistic boy goes in search of a local pet dog's killer and writes a book about the process

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him?

A Jewish man survives the horrors of Auschwitz as the camp tattooist and falls in love with one of the women he meets there.

Leah and Charlie cope with their father's death in different ways and it takes them into dangerous territory.

When a fellow prisoner offers a chance at escape and the keys to a dangerous Jinn magic, Dania seizes the opportunity and, armed with a brand-new identity and all the power she could want, enacts a plan to bring down those who betrayed her and her family.

A life affirming story of rehabilitation and hope after prison.

Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love?

A woman who commits suicide finds herself in an infinite library and is given the chance to see how her life might have been if she'd made different choices.

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?

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

This is Britain as you've never read it.

First published in 1953, this is Bradbury's prophetic dystopian vision of a weird but too distant future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force.

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

The story of a 16-year-old boy who is shipwrecked along with a zebra, a orang-utan and a tiger

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe.

It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.

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.

Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy where women are subjugated, one woman attempts to gain individualism and independence.

From familiar fairy tales and legends - "Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast", vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

The story of 15-year old Kambili's life growing up in Nigeria during a military coup. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer.

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

A STUDENT EDITION

Annotated edition of the full text of Macbeth to support study

The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones - he's drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolutionary plans, the animals are convinced they can thrive on their own once the despot Jones is overthrown. But as the pigs vie for power, they begin to bear an uncanny resemblance to the tyrants they have overthrown...

Two classic stories about the split personality of a Victorian doctor and a man taking refuge in a remote Scottish pavilion.

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

The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age.

A 17-year-old boy is thrust into fatherhood when an ex-girlfriend dumps her baby daughter on him, as well as having to resolve various issues with his dysfunctional family

Text of this classic Williams play

Full text of this Arthur Miller play.

Follows the trial of a black man accused of raping a young white girl with all the prejudices of the southern US in the 1930s.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

An edition of Shakespeare's play Othello which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

The classic story of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

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

Complete scripts of four plays by J B Priestley including An Inspector Calls.

Play set in the trenches of the First World War.

Text of Miller's play based on the witch-hunts that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s

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!