Six children decide that the only way to restore the fortunes of their family is to go out and do it themselves. They produce a series of madcap schemes and one after another try them out with varying degrees of success, most resulting in trouble rather than riches. But then one scheme begins to look more promising than the rest.

Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, delivering messages and running errands all over the city, day and night. Gangland funerals and diving expeditions are hazardous enough, but when the graveyards begin to give up their dead, this tick-tock lad is faced with his deadliest challenge yet... A blood-curdling tale of greed and betrayal. Will Barnaby be...

BEST FRIENDS: When a new glamorous and graceful fairy-ballerina called Bella Glove arrives at the Royal Academy of Fairy Ballet, everybody wants to be her friend. Nina and Peri can't believe their luck when they're asked to share their room with the special visitor! Better still for Nina, Bella wants to be in a pair with her. But, what about poor P...

Jenny is as close to her grandfather as a small mouse can be. Grandfather shows Jenny how to button her buttons and how to write her name. He passes along to her the secrets of making the best lasagne in all of Boston. And during long, shared days at Revere Beach, Grandfather teaches Jenny the names of the seashells they find washed up on shore. Wh...

After Charlotte's first night at boarding school, the view from the window has changed and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who was there last night. She is a stranger who calls Charlotte Clare and says she's her sister. Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back to 1919 and is someone else.

When Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane rescue the magic sand-fairy from a pet shop, they have no idea of the astonishing adventures to come! The children are whisked back in time to exciting and sometimes dangerous places, such as Ancient Babylon and Atlantis, to search out the missing half of the amulet.

The Borrowers are homeless again. The gamekeeper's cottage, their latest refuge, is being closed up. Luckily their friend Spiller comes to the rescue and introduces them to a new home by the river, in a kettle! Once more the Borrowers find themselves in the middle of a huge adventure.

There are lots of birds living by the lake in Poppy's garden but Archie, a chick hatched by a mallard duck, can't find anyone who looks like him. Poppy feels sorry for the little chick, especially as she doesn't like her new life in the country - she can imagine how lonely Archie feels. And yet when disaster strikes the lake, it's Archie who comes...

Ten millennia ago, the fairy people were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the 8th family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world, and if humans get hold of this information, the fairies are in big trouble. Only one person can prevent t...

Lucy, a schoolgirl of 11, finds that the animals of the world have been expecting her for more than a million years. She is The Promised One - the only person on earth with her awesome and extraordinary powers of communication with animals - and her destiny is to save the planet. Her adventures take her to the heart of the greatest jungle on earth,...

The Borrowers lose their home under the kitchen floor of an old house and are forced to move out to the fields. It's harder work than under-floor borrowing, but to Arrietty the life is enchanting and full of new adventures. The second book in the series.

Here's an A-Z of over 70 poems using the alphabet as a framework, written with humour and zest. From an aardvark to the zoo, by way of knickers, the Queen and a vampire, this is a collection that kids are bound to enjoy. Teachers and parents will also appreciate the varied poetry forms (concrete, limerick, nonsense, free, rhyming etc).

Deadly spots are catching and pretty soon the whole world is going to be in danger. Morphus has already lost his wife to the dreaded disease. Can he help to save the rest of the world or will he just make matters worse? Part of the Spirals series for reluctant readers.

The author and illustrator of the best-selling Words Are CATegoricalr series brings their trademark sense of humor to the subject of subtraction. Rhyming text filled with funny, countable examples shows what it means to take one number away from another. Readers are also introduced to the terminology they'll encounter as they learn to subtract.

Edmund and Lucy are gazing miserably at the picture of the ship with the dragon prow when it slowly begins to rock, and the wind starts to blow. The frame disappears, and Lucy, Edmund and their awful cousin Eustace are suddenly swept into the picture. They find themselves in the magical kingdom of Narnia, and on a dangerous voyage of discovery to t...

Josh collects horror comics and he loves to terrify his brother, Paul, and his stepsister, Mandy, with scary stories - the more gruesome, the better! So when the three are sent to Wales to stay with their grandparents, Josh starts to spin a spooky yarn about the strange Balwen Black Mountain sheep that live around Grampy's farmhouse. He says that R...

Eustace and Jill are called back to Narnia where they meet Aslan the lion who sets them the task of finding King Caspian's long lost son, Rilian. The pair stumble across Harfang, the castle of giants, and are invited to stay for the Autumn Feast. little realising that they are the main ingredients. This is the sixth book in the Narnia series.

A crystal pool of myths and legends from around the world: 28 of the most wonderful tales ever told. Geraldine McCaughrean, a great storyteller herself, has gathered them from distant times and faraway places and retells them brilliantly, adding notes on their origin and meaning.

In The Magician's Nephew, nothing is quite as it seems. Digory and Polly find themselves magically transported to a Wood between the Worlds, where several small ponds act as gateways to different worlds. They discover the dead world of Charn and together with Aslan the lion the pair fight against the evil Queen Jadis, restoring the land to its natu...

Who is making badgers fight dogs for sport near Tilly's home? Does the new boy at school and his family have anything to do with it? Tilly and William are determined to find out.

Katy was the sort of girl who might do anything next, so long as it was something exciting! At twenty-one, she was as eager for adventure as ever, and what greater adventure could there be for an American girl than a trip to Europe? Watching a Punch-and-Judy show in London.driving down the Champs-Elys‚es in Paris.on to the Riviera and the pic...