Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

Bored with her little brother Pog's childish games, Dindy decides that she's finally grown-up enough for a real adventure.

'We're going to a fine place,' Idie told Homer to console him, 'with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.

I'll tell you a weird thing about apocalypses - a thing I didn't even know until I was in one: they seem pretty bad, don't they?

Aisha is a thirteen-year-old refugee living in London.

Felix is going on safari!

Worshipped, envied, desired, and feared by all, Siena Hamilton reigns over Temperley High.

This story is not a story at all.

The story of the magical flying car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a firm favourite for children and adults alike.

During the summer of her GCSEs Kite's world falls apart.

Set in the haunting and barren landscape of a new ice age, AFTER THE SNOW is the story of fifteen-year-old Willo, a 'straggler' kid who loses his family in the opening pages.

Rumer Godden's The Diddakoi won the 1972 Whitbread Children's Book Award.

Just when things were starting to look up for Lottie her life's gone a bit pear-shaped, wonk-ways and downside up again.

Mira Levenson is bursting with excitement as she flies to India to stay with her aunt and cousin for the first time.

Jason Freeman is torn, wondering which natural wonder is more deserving of his attention - the awesome-looking Malibu surf, or Sienna Devereux, who lounges on the beach.

The skeleton lay on its back.

Ernie loves music and he loves his cats, and he always counts his cats at dinner time.

Bumble the hamster, so called because of his big bum, belongs to Rosie.

Jason lives in hyper-cool Malibu and hangs out with the cool kids.

Rowan's family live deep in the country - in a caravan.

These exciting tales are ideal for those new to the Edge or as an addition to the collection of any fan.

Summer is here and it's off to the beach for Rosalind .

At the age of sixteen, shy introverted Naomi makes a harrowing adult decision about the future of her baby daughter.

Otto is a Book Bear and nothing makes him happier than when people read his book.

Jesse Harmon will never forget the night his sixteen-year-old younger brother, Bry, was killed by a drunk hit-and-run driver.

He is waiting.

Class 4 have a very strange new teacher.

Stanley Wells is a very ordinary boy.

Tomas wants to be like his father strong, brave and fearless.

Everyone has a Lifetime Deed Counter (LDC).

Carnegie Medal winner Theresa Breslin explores the dangerous world of cage-fighting in this dark and powerful new novel.

When the story opens, Megan who is a foster mother, has two children in her charge: Anna a 12 year old who is, 'rather given to magical thinking' and Raymond who is 10 and never speaks to anyone.

Verity Gallant has always struggled to fit in.

The first time Sam sees the mysterious figure of Janet she vanishes into the deserted fields beyond the town where nothing has ever been built.

Nobody ever passed the old Garvan house alone; gossip and suspicion surrounded it.

It's spring 1942, and life in the Warsaw ghetto is hard and often brutal with the Jews subject to beatings and execution at the lands of the hated SS.

THE FIRST CHALLENGE It's assignment time at Angel Academy, and for aspiring angels Mo and Colin, it's their chance to prove themselves.

Rollrock is an isolated, windswept island; a wild and salty landscape where fishermen and their families must wring a living from the stormy seas.

Bliss!

Alistair Fury is out for revenge.

Alistair Fury is out for revenge.

All it takes is one fatal mistake .

Charlotte is in for a nasty surprise when Emmy makes a new friend, Tom.

A gripping and powerful story of two boys from rival backgrounds, for fans of The Hate U Give and The Upper World.

There's only one thing that could induce techno-phobe Justine to dabble on the Information Super-Highway - and it's male.

Louisa (known as Weezer) is determined to become a ballet dancer.

One of the most remarkable short stories in Janni Howker's BADGER ON THE BARGE is THE TOPIARY GARDEN, currently under option for filming It is the evocative, timeless story of Sally Beck, and the circumstances which led her to become Jack, the gardener's boy, working amongst the topiary bushes of a great country house garden.

Penelope's mother died when she was a very young child and she was subsequently adopted by her mum's best friend, Aunt Jo.

From the Carnegie Medal 2020 winning author of Lark comes The Donut Diaries, a British Diary of a Wimpy Kid, featuring Dermot, an overweight eleven-year-old.

Alistair Fury is out for revenge.

Alistair is fed up at being treated like a slave while the rest of the family is ill.