Secondary class sets

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

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

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

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

In a distant future in which humanity travels the stars on sentient trains, a teenage thief is tasked to steal a mysterious object and begins an adventure that will change his life.

Set during the end of World War 2, a group of refugees escape Germany by ship

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

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

Dickens' classic story about a young orphan who falls in with criminals on the streets of London.

The classic story about an African American girl growing up in Mississippi in the 1930s

An illustrated version of the traditional 8th Century Anglo-Saxon saga

A shy and awkward teenager finds herself scouted by a top modelling agency who then send her on a fashion shoot in Russia

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

A boy is brought up by ghosts in the local graveyard after his family is killed by a murderer

Follows a feisty African-American girl as she grows up in Mississippi during the Great Depression and learns the shocking realities of racism.

Stephanie joins forces with her dead uncle's companion, Skulduggery Pleasant (the living skeleton of a dead wizard), against the evil forces of wizards set on destroying the world

A young boy investigates the suspicious death of a homeless man.

Set in 18th century on St Kilda, a fowling party must survive being stranded

Alem thinks he is on holiday with his father in London, but his father has brought him to the UK to escape the war in Ethiopia and leaves him to survive by himself as a refugee.

Nicky finds an injured rook and tries to bring it back to health as he deals with his family issues, first love and a bully at school.

Conjoined twins start at a normal school after being previously homeschooled, and one of them develops a chronic heart disease endangering both of their lives.

A boy with behavioural problems is given a second chance after a new boy befriends him

A group of teens are left to fend for themselves when all the adults mysteriously disappear

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

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

In an oppressive regime of the future, a young boy finds himself leading a band of rebels to protect his community

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

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.

When Coraline moves into a new house with her parents, she discovers a secret corridor that takes her into an alternative reality.

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives.

Teenager Bri wants to pursue her dream of being a rap star but her family troubles keep getting in the way

A girl mocked for being overweight decides to compete in her favourite TV show.

A girl is drawn to the abandoned children's home next to her house and discovers a ghostly mystery when she sees a mysterious figure in the overgrown grounds.

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

Sherlock and Watson investigate the connection between a murder and the sighting of a large dog

Set in the Great Depression in the US, two migrant ranch workers encounter trouble on a farm. Dyslexia-friendly edition.

A ten year old boy has to come to terms with the death of his older sister and the break up of his family.

An Earthman joins a gang of alien oddballs to explore the universe after Earth is destroyed by Vogons

Charts the descent into chaos of a group of boys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash

A teenage boy takes up boxing after being the victim of an unprovoked racist attack.

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

Set in Victorian London, the story of a mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate

Set in 1995, a Nigerian girl and her brother smuggled to London are abandoned and they must cope with the police, social services and school bullies.

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

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.

Set in the Great Depression in the US, two migrant ranch workers encounter trouble on a farm. Dyslexia-friendly edition.

A sixteen-year-old boy is forced to help the police entrap a drug supplier after his girlfriend dies from dodgy ecstasy that he is found in possession of.

Follows the life of an 11-year-old Ghanaian boy living in inner city London and his ill-fated mission to find the person who knifed a boy from his school.

The classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

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

George Orwell's chilling fable of Soviet Russia's brutal dictatorship, Animal Farm brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism.

Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

Full text of this Arthur Miller play

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet

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.

Maimed and disfigured whilst fighting in the war, young Francis Cassavant must hide both his face and his identity when he goes back home to Frenchtown. For his past holds a bitter secret, one which he has vowed to revenge and which he can resolve only through his final, desperate plan: to destroy the man who betrayed him as a boy, bringing Francis dishonour and guilt.

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

Relates what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run their farm themselves

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