Children's Fiction & True Stories

The (nearly) true confessions of Jamie Kelly. Dear whoever is reading My Dumb DiaryAre you sure you're supposed to be reading someone else's diar...

Matched is the first book in an utterly compelling series by Ally Condie. On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates h...

HO-HO-HOW can Nicholas save Christmas?Nicholas's dad has lost his job just before Christmas! This means no money for yucky cake (hurray) or for PRE...

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and g...

A love letter to fandom, friendship, and the stories that shape us, Eliza and Her Monsters is absolutely magical.-Marieke Nijkamp, New York Times-b...

A lonely boy haunted by an ancient family curse, The Shadow Guests is a classic supernatural mystery from the master-storyteller, Joan Aiken. Aft...

The beloved, award-winning novel is now a major motion picture starring 13 Reasons Why's Katherine Langford and Everything, Everything's Nick Robin...

SKYE and SUMMER TANBERRY are identical twins, and Skye loves her sister Summer more than anyone else in the world. They do everything together, but...

Allan Ahlberg's The Boyhood of Burglar Bill is a nostalgic, autobiographical story about football, schooldays and growing-up in the '50s. Allan Ahl...

The Mau Mau - the name of a secret society that once struck terror into the hearts of British settlers in Kenya. An episode in history that ended i...

Jake Cake is an ordinary kid who likes writing and illustrating stories about his adventures. He swears they're all true, but no one ever believes ...

'T. rex! T. rex! Run!'The terrible Tyrannosaurus rex is scaring all the dinosaur families that live on the Great Plain. Nosy, the little pterodacty...

Charlie Ashanti, the hero of LIONBOY, speaks cat - the language of all cats wild and domestic alike. His unusual talent helps him on his quest to f...

Kevin is determined that he'll never join a gang but his path crosses the Tribe's when he saves one of them from a rival gang. Invited to take thei...

Ahmed drives his donkey cart through the streets of Cairo, delivering butane gas cylinders to his father's customers. He knows everyone and has a p...

One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick - a boy who many years ago learned what it was like to ...

'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He's a Fattypuff and you're a Thinifer. There's no doubt about it!'This is the tale of two brothers. Edmund is a little...

Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the...

Why is the Brazilian rainforest vanishing so fast? And why is it essential not only to the people and animals within it, but to the whole world? Ca...

Pick a book. Grow a reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to rea...

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The second sensational middle-grade standalone that follows an epic voyage from England to France in the aftermath of WW1, from the bestselling aut...

From the queen of historical fiction, a thrilling, deliciously creepy story that is sure to freeze your blood . . . They were coming tonight to t...

Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should...

Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem. His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the hi...

The Time and Space of Uncle Albert is book one in the bestselling Uncle Albert science and adventure series. Famous scientist Uncle Albert and hi...

Find Jake the Fake Keeps His Cool from publishers Random House USA Inc at Books2Door!

Noah is running away from his problems the day he takes the untrodden path through the forest - or at least that's what he thinks. When he comes ac...

From the beloved children's author of Hetty Feather, Tracy Beaker and Rose Rivers. Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely ...

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following d...

Lizzie refuses to speak. She doesn't want to talk to Rory or Jake, her new stepbrothers. Or to Sam, their dad. Or even to her mum. She's completely...

When life with Jayni's violent-tempered father becomes too frightening to cope with, Jayni, her mum and her little brother Kenny are forced to esca...

George is fascinated by World War Two. Bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. But he discovers the reality is very different from how he had imagined it when ...

I want to sail the seas,' said Jackson. 'I want to see the world . . ."Jackson is a very unusual rabbit - a rabbit with a dream. He spends his days...

Find Noisemakers : 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World - A Graphic Collection from Kazoo from publishers Random House USA Inc at...

A fantastic adventure for brave, feisty Hetty Feather - one of Jacqueline Wilson's most well-loved characters. Since leaving the Foundling Hospit...

India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mum she can't stand and a dad she adores, though he hasn't had much time for her recently. She seeks...

I'M TRACY BEAKER, THE GREAT INVENTOR OF EXTREMELY OUTRAGEOUS DARES - AND I DARE YOU TO READ A MORE BRILLIANT STORY THAN THIS!I've bought a big fat ...

1 boy. 1 girl. 1 camel. Squillions of dollars. A plan that can't fail. Or can it?Oliver's parents own a bank. This makes them very rich, very i...

Dive into the world of The Secret Explorers and learn about ocean life in this action-packed first instalment in a brand-new fiction series. Meet...

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINA...

The classic award winning story from Anne Fine. Kitty Killin is not just a brilliant story-teller, but also the World's Great Expert when it comes ...

The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that's when we can f...

Loved by millions of children around the world Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time. This story sees Pip...

Loved by millions of children around the world Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time. This new edition of...

Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain. Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a ...

Binti's father is dying from AIDS, a disease that nobody in their town in Malawi dares name aloud. As Binti and her brother and sister slowly begi...