Children’s Fiction

Fun feisty Eva Gordon always tries to help her friends but this time she might have a problem thats too big even for her .

He is Day.

Finally available in the UK - the manga adaptation of the hit Nintendo game!

Omnibus editions of the adventure stories inspired by The Legend of Zelda video game series

After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating but Tella isnt yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legends true name. The only chance of uncovering Legends identity is to win Caraval so Tella throws herself into the legendary competition once more - and into the path of the murderous heir to the throne a doomed love story and a web of secrets - including her sisters. Caraval has always demanded bravery cunning and sacrifice. But now the game is asking for more. If Tella cant fulfill her bargain and deliver Legends name shell lose everything she cares about - maybe even her life.

The first book in a heart-pounding YA fantasy series from debut author Tracy Deonn.

Charlie Stubbs has one passion in life - playing football.

She was very tired. She lay down her soft head on her soft paws. The sunset licked her face. The snow covered her like a blanket. Fox wakes and begins to walk. She crosses ice and snow over mountains and across frozen oceans encountering bears and birds beneath the endless daylight of an Arctic summer navigating a world that is vast wild and wondrous. Meanwhile Leila embarks on a journey of her own - finding her way to the mother who left her. On a breathtaking journey across the sea Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought shed lost with help from a determined little fox.

For once Lennys looking forward to school. Its a special day so hes got something special to take in. And for the first time ever his class are going to win a competition - and it will all be because of him and his invicible rat!

Orphaned Leonora lives on a remote island spending her days making crazy cool inventions. When a strange boy called Jack washes up on an inflatable lobster and reveals that her evil Uncle Luther has been stealing her inventions and selling them on the mainland it begins a laugh-out-loud adventure - complete with a furry otter a singing sea captain and a very secret society.

Tradition has it that leprechauns are mischievous little people often cobblers who have pots of gold hidden away.

An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a train of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils) and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.

Gerald is careful.

A thoughtful and moving novella of love loss and learning when to let go from the YA queen of emotional suspense Cat Clarke.

When a casting call is announced for new reality TV show Lie or Die Kass is tricked into auditioning by her best friend. Billed as Big Brother meets Mafia Lie or Die pits contestants against each other as they try to discover who is a murderous agent and who is an innocent player. But when contestants start to turn up dead (the real kind not the fake kind) Kass realises that not being eliminated and winning the game is the least of her worries. No longer a game of truth and lies Kass and her friends are in a fight for survival.

Pretty Little Liars  meets Riverdale in this page-turning thriller

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 3 in the series that Stephen King calls a driving torrential narrative.

When Beaufort Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious alluring Edythe Cullen his life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book6 in the series that Stephen King calls a driving torrential narrative.

The earth has shifted on its axis and a mysterious dark mark has appeared on the sun - the whole world is in peril! But billionaire tech genius Howard Hansom has a plan. When Grians sister goes missing hes convinced she has run off to Hansoms new city to help save the world. But when Grian and his two friends Jeffrey and Shelli track her there they find that nothing is quite as it seems. Why is everything so secret? Where is the mysterious Area 13? What does Howard Hansom want with all the people he has enticed to live in his city? The days are getting darker but whats really happening to the sun?

The energy from the sun is being stolen. Its a catastrophe for the planet and every living thing on it! Friends Grian Jeffrey and Shelli are desperately trying to work out how its happening. But they know tech genius Howard Hansom is somehow behind the theft. So they must not use any of Hansoms smart technology because it will track them wherever they go. The three young heroes need to find a strange black mirror to help with their mission. But time is running out and the world is getting darker.

Nine and her friends are headed to the mortal realm in search of the only thing that will shake a very tricky witch off their tail: a priceless stargold locket. It lies hidden in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures guarded by Nines old foe - the formidable gangmaster of all the thieflings in London. Even if Nine can get her hands on the locket the friends must find a way to release its power - and for that they must travel through the World Between Worlds to the lighthouse on the Isle of Illusion where nothing is quite as it seems.

Lightning Girl P/B

Aurora Beam is a SUPER-ANNOYED SUPERHERO. Shes desperate to help her mum and grandma track down the stolen precious stone that holds the key to her familys powers but theres a DANGEROUS SUPERVILLAIN on the loose with a deep-seated desire for revenge and not even Lightning Girl and the Bright Sparks may be a match for him or her...

Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stokes SEN short fiction. Lights in the Mirror has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6 and is fully illustrated throughout.

When Lily is a young teenager the time comes for her and her friends to leave school and find work; some are emigrating to America some going to work in shops. Lily is going into service in the Big House - Lissadell. A warm and engaging story about friendship life in the early 20th century and how the political world affects everyone.

Lily and Nellie work hard as housemaids in Lissadell. And yet their days are full of friendship fun and even madcap bicycle rides with Maeve daughter of the famous Republican Countess Markievicz. But Nellie is all alone in the world; she grew up in the workhouse where she was separated from her sisters. Lily longs to help her but how can she?

The further adventures of Lily: life as a maid in Lissadell House is always interesting but with her friendship with Maeve under strain a war in Europe starting and uncertainty about her future she needs all her wits about her!

Leo and his best friend Sangeetha are the odd ones out in their school. In fact they seem to be the odd ones out no matter where they go in their small town. Leo also wonders how come he never sees anyone like him in the history books he loves to read? But on a special class trip to a nearby cathedral one day Leos attention is drawn to a large marble slab high above the doors of the hall featuring a short list of names. Because right there bang in the middle of the list Leo finds himself staring at his own name. Hungry to understand how a name like his could feature on a slab commemorating fallen war heroes Leo and Sangeetha begin a search and in doing so uncover a missing story which changed the course of history one which needs to be put right back into its missing pages.

Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stokes SEN short fiction. Lion on the Loose has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6 and is fully illustrated throughout.