Children's Fiction & True Stories

Here's just the book to enjoy whenever you feel like adding a little spookiness to your life. Whether they are sharing ghost stories, turning back ...

Award-winning author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, follows the success of Short, with Short Too!, an inspirational collection for short story writers wh...

There's a rat running amok in Emil's house, and he's determined to capture it. But hiding the rat trap just under his father's bed probably isn't i...

In the Accidental Prime Minister, Joe Perkins was trying to save his local park when he accidentally ended up being Prime Minster. In this hilar...

There's a new craze in town for smart speakers and everyone has got one. At first they seem super helpful, but Tyler and her friends soon start to ...

A beautifully illustrated story of freedom, music, and seeking refuge. A small group of refugees is crowded on to a boat on the sea. They share t...

The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain for ever, abandoning it to civil war and the threat of a Saxon invasion. Aquila deserts...

Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out the rest of their crew, and their...

Andie, Eden, Ryan, Tasha and Hasmita love being part of the Heart Club. They've promised to stay best friends forever and nothing can tear them apa...

Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests them. A major family battle results, and it's clear life is n...

CLEVER POLLY AND THE STUPID WOLF by Catherine Storr is back in a brand-new edition in A Puffin Book series with the charming original black and whi...

The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai. Set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay, Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12,...

Madame Doubtfire by bestselling author Anne Fine is a wonderfully funny, punchy story about family life. Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to...

The final book in the award-winning Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant. 'You have no idea what real w...

The third and final instalment in the breathtaking Half Bad series by Sally Green. Nathan Byrn is running again. The Alliance of Free Witches has...

The #1 New York Times bestseller is now a major Netflix film starring Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Odeya Rush and Isabela Moner. It's Christmas...

The new book from the award-winning Phil Earle, author of Heroic and Being Billy. 'Have finished BUBBLE-WRAP BOY. If happy tears/snot smeared acr...

Join Spot on his very first day at school. As the day goes on, Spot finds he's having more and more fun - and what will he learn along the way? Wit...

Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Michael Caine, Russell Brand and Matthew Goode, released on Sky Cinema in APRIL. Rosalind is the eldes...

Don't miss the thrilling final chapter of Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles series. Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty,...

'If an Outsider wields the blade, the House of Koronos burns...'A boy on the run. A deadly prophecy. A race against time. Hylas the Outsider ...

Driftwood by Cathy Cassidy is a touching, utterly brilliant novel for girls aged 9+'I feel like I'm losing my best mate . . .'Hannah and Joey have ...

A classic picture book from Eric Carle - The Very Busy Spider. Early one morning a little spider begins to spin her web on a fencepost and she do...

Thomas has very itchy nipples. It's really embarrassing. It's the most embarrassing secret he's ever had. So the question is - why are his nipple...

The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong has become a children's classic!From The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog to karate princesses and hot cross ...

It all started when Lauren first moved to the countryside from the city and discovered that her ordinary little pony was anything but ordinary, for...

Will has four brothers and it's chaos in his house! If he's not being teased by his big brother Marty, he has to deal with the terrible, three-head...

Meg Finn is in trouble, unearthly trouble. Cast out of her own home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg is a wanderer, a troublemaker. ...

The story begins with a mysterious egg washed up on a Scottish beach, the morning after a great storm. Kirstie and her brother Angus find the egg a...

Twelve Shakespeare plays presented afresh by Leon Garfield in narrative form. These are not simple retellings, but more like a refashioning of the ...

When Ned helps his grandmother clear out her attic, he finds a very unusual Victorian doll - she speaks! Ned and Lady Daisy soon become fast friend...

'I don't think my mum's fit to be a parent, really I don't.'How would you feel if your mother had royal-blue hair and wore lavender fishnet tights?...

Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren...

Rediscover Professor Branestawm this Christmas - soon to become a brand new drama on BBC ONE written by Charlie Higson and starring Harry Hill'Once...

#1 New York Times Bestseller For fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and Sarah Dessen comes this powerful novel with a fearless heroine-self-procl...

A classic Happy Families story written by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Andre AmstutzMrs Lather is getting quite worked up in her laundry. She h...

The haunting young adult gothic romance classic that launched Virginia Andrews' incredible best-selling career. Up in the attic, four s...

Once upon a time, there was the most beautiful, extraordinary princess. At least, until the day of her christening, when a grumpy fairy placed a sp...

In CIRCUS SHOES by Noel Streatfeild Gus the clown is Peter and Santa's only living relative and escape to the circus seems a better idea to them th...

Carbonel is a magical fantasy story by Barbara Sleigh. This is the story of a cat, a broomstick and an ordinary schoolgirl called Rosemary. She bo...

Alice nearly didn't go to the sleepover. Why would Savvy, queen of the school, invite someone like her? Now Alice is lying unconscious in a hospita...

'I wish I had a dog . . . It could be a big dog or a little one. It could be any colour or breed. Just most of all I'd like a hearing dog.'Eleven-...

Dreamer. Rebel. Hero. Wadjda has one simple wish - to race her friend Abdullah on her very own bicycle. But in Saudi Arabia, it is considered imp...

The story of Annie - everyone's favourite orphan - with an introduction by writer, actor and comedian Miranda Hart. It's 1933 and for as long as ...

You'll never GUESS what Mr Butternut said at school today:'This is your first day with me and I can see that there is something amazing about you ....

Young Samurai: The Ring of Earth is the fourth book in this blockbuster series by Chris Bradford . JACK FLETCHER IS ON THE RUNWith no sensei to g...

From the author of To All The Boys I've Loved Before (now a smash-hit Netflix movie), this is the perfect funny summer romance for fans of The Kiss...

Now is the third shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. Sometimes facing the past is the bravest a...