Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows lives with his parents and younger sister Rebecca in London. He has little in common with any of them, except for a passion for digging, which he shares with his father, a museum curator and doctor of archaeology. When his father suddenly disappears after a row with his mother, the police believe he has just gone away...

Boneland is Alan Garner's continuation of the story thread which began in his first and enduringly popular fantasy children's novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The Weirdstone was published in 1960 (it has never been out of print since), and The Moon of Gomrath followed, in 1963. This took the story further with the same two children, Colin and...

The Magic Factory is where Midden and her team of helpers come up with magical answers to all sorts of problems. In these four fun stories, they must stop the terrible twins from terrorising the town; round up some runaway scissors; save school from a spell disaster and catch an invisible imp, all before the Halloween party!

Over the city, high above the sea, into a storm, and through a sky full of aeroplanes, the Noon Balloon is off on a magical journey. Read along as the boy, girl, and little dog fly away for a truly magical adventure! Part of our fantastic, Read-along collection for younger readers, these are picture books which highlight the text in time with the n...

'I hope everyone out there will know by now about how I, Summer Holly Love, finally persuaded my mum to let me have a wonderful golden Labrador puppy of my own named Honey. (If you are not aware of this, you can read all about it in PUPPY LOVE (1322CD), a fascinating and frankly gripping account of The Said Event.) Anyway, things have moved on sinc...

Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for. the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning.When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he me...

Six stories featuring the irrepressible Harry: 'Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs', 'Harry and the Robots', 'Harry and the Dinosaurs make a Christmas Wish', 'Harry and the Dinosaurs say Raaaah!', 'Harry and the Snow King' and 'Harry and the Dinosaurs Romp in the Swamp'.

Thomas loves living in the Hidden World. His friends, the twins Pinch and Patch, are even teaching him magic, like how to make himself invisible. Then a beautiful stranger comes to Owlchurch. She holds the Horns of Pan, the Hidden World's highest award for magic. Everyone is very excited - except Thomas and the twins. Something very odd is going on...

Fluff is the smallest and weakest of the farm kittens, but she surprises everyone with her strength and spirit, and soon she and her brothers and sisters are ready for new homes. But nobody seems to want Fluff, and after a heartbreaking encounter with a little girl called Ella, she gives up on her dream of a loving home and flees the farm out into...

Pamela L. Laskin's beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and captivating retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict. Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of the fence. Jamil, a Palestinian boy, lives on the other side. Only miles apart but sepa...

The gruff and surly Mr Thomas Oakley is less than pleased when he is landed with a scrawny little city boy as a guest, but because it is compulsory that each villager takes in an evacuee he reluctantly agrees. It soon becomes obvious to Mister Tom that Willie Beech is hiding something, and as the pair begin to form an unlikely bond, Willie begins t...

Sam's dad runs an ice-cream parlour, which is steadily going bankrupt thanks to competition from Karbunkle's mega-emporiums. Mum's getting fed up with dad's dreams of making money, and moves out. Sam longs for dad's luck to change when - suddenly one night - a large meteorite comes thumping down into their garden. But it isn't any old meterorite -...

One of the biggest science experiments of all time is about to take place - and George and Annie have got front-row seats! Eric, Annie's scientist dad, is heading to the Large Hadron Collider to explore the earliest moments of the Universe - the Big Bang. Armed with his trusty super-computer, Cosmos, nothing can possibly go wrong . . . until George...

Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom; but he's taking on more than a bunch of fairies when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the Lep-Recon (lower elements police reconnaissance unit).

When Kit moves to Stoneygate, a once thriving mining village haunted by a long-ago tragedy which killed 117 children, he is befriended by the wretched, sullen John Askew, a boy whose very soul has been fractured by his violent upbringing. As Kit's grieving grandfather begins to lose his grip on life, Kit is irresistibly drawn into a treacherous gam...