Meet a fearless blue penguin on an unexpected journey, in this Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winning story from the bestselling Rob Biddulph, creator of the internet sensation #DrawWithRob! Meet Penguin Blue, in this Waterstones Children's Book Prize winning tale, read by the incredible Paul Panting! It's a windy day, and he has a brand-new kit...

A collection of stories peopled with intensely individual characters. Meet the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of melon; the American wife who, homesick for the farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; and the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never s...

Badger is so old that he knows he must soon die, so he does his best to prepare his friends. When he finally passes away, they are grief-stricken, but one by one they remember the special things he taught them during his life. By sharing their memories, they realise that although Badger is no longer with them physically, he lives on through his fri...

"Laugh out loud funny and full of heart" Noel Fielding "Very funny, with brilliant illustrations. It should be called The Book That Everyone Wanted To Read." Nadia Shireen "One book that I really think children should read is The Book That No One Wanted to Read." David Baddiel What is it that makes YOU want to read a book? Richard Ayoade's children...

Narrated beautifully with atmospheric sound effects, this is a perfect audiobook for fans aged nine and older of David Almond and Frances Hardinge. The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfathomable depths until it ripped the whole island from its roots. The bed was a boat, the shark a tide, a...

A heartfelt middle-grade novel about a theater-loving girl who uses a wheelchair for mobility and her quest to defy expectations—and gravity—from Tony award-winning actress Ali Stroker and Stacy DavidowitzThirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks, her best friend Chloe, and competing on her wheelchair racing t...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Schwab invites readers to New Orleans in this installment of her thrillingly spooky City of Ghosts series!   Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows... Unless it's the other way around? Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob...

A historical time-slip adventure from the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Apache and Buffalo Soldier. Alfie Wright? Alfie Wrong, more like. Alfie has never really fitted in anywhere – he doesn't have any friends, and even his mum seems embarrassed of him. So when he's evacuated to a farm in rural Devon run by kind old Aunt Bell and her gentl...

Late one snowy Christmas Eve, 10-year-old Penny is wide awake, worrying if Santa will come. The house is silent and still, but something miraculous is about to happen. A sleigh crash-lands in a cove by the cottage, and Penny meets a mysterious being known as the Winterman. This is the true Father of Christmas, an ancient and magical Gift-Giver, and...

After saving themselves and their fellow students from a life pitched against one another, Sophie and Agatha are back home again, living happily ever after. But life isn't exactly a fairy tale... When Agatha secretly wishes she'd chosen a different happy ending with Prince Tedros, the gates to the School for Good and Evil open once again. But every...

_______________ A STIRRING HISTORICAL MYSTERY SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE VALLEY OF LOST SECRETS The First World War has ended, but it hasn't gone away. When Natty has to move to a new village, she meets two young soldiers who are still battling the effects of war. Huw can't forget the terrible things he's se...

A second novel from the bestselling author of Branford Boase-shortlisted and Carnegie-nominated Witch. An engrossing story of fathers and sons, death and grief, and unexpected bonds, new and old, forged by dark and benign magic. When Sam, grieving the death of his father, finds a silver-flecked stone, ice-cold to the touch, strange and eerie things...

Every four years, two girls are kidnapped from the village of Gavaldon. Legend has it these lost children are sent to the School for Good and Evil, the fabled institution where they become fairytale heroes or villains. Sophie has always dreamed of her place at the School for Good while her friend Agatha seems destined for the School for Evil. But w...

The captivating new companion to international bestsellers Here We Are and What We'll Build A father takes his two children on a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure into space and invites them to look back at Earth and the conflicts that have taken place since the beginning of time. This becomes a brief history of the world and a whistle-stop gui...

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is now a major motion picture from Netflix, starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, and many more! The third book in the series – a magical fantasy adventure that delivers action, romance and more twists than ever before. Fo...

A thrilling, resonant and inspiring novel about justice, privilege and the power of the young to strive for change. Set in a world where Adam and Leila and their friend Zak live as Nons under the Permitted ruling class. Then, when Adam and Leila's father dies unexpectedly, their mother faces losing her permit to live in the Stone City with deportat...

Still eluding her older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft, 14-year-old Enola Holmes continues the search for her disappeared mother while solving mysteries in Victoria's London. Investigating her most perplexing case yet, Enola comes to the aid of a past acquaintance. Rushing off the street after bumping into Mycroft, Enola finds herself in the company...

Spelled backwards, her name is Alone. And that's exactly how 14-year-old Enola Holmes often feels in bustling 19th-century London. Continuing to elude her detective brothers Sherlock and Mycroft while trying to find her run-away mother requires great powers of observation—and numerous disguises. While posing as a Scientific Perditorian's assi...

As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother Sherlock is just as diligently searching for Enola herself—and this time he really needs to catch her! He is in possession of a most peculiar package, a message from their long-lost mother that only Enola can decipher. Sherlock, along with their brot...

For Enola, longing for her absent mother and on the run from her older brothers, it is a fundamental fact of life that her name backwards spells alone. Her lonely London days include very few people except her landlady, Mrs. Tupper. Although nearly deaf and a truly dreadful cook, the elderly Mrs. Tupper is endearing—really the closest thing E...

Dr. Watson has been the right-hand man of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes through many a mystery, always there to fit a missing piece to the puzzle. But now Watson has gone missing. Lacking even the slightest clue, Sherlock enlists the assistance of Enola Holmes, his intrepid kid sister. Enola readily takes the case, for Watson is dear to her as well...