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

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.

The inhabitants of Halcyon Island are ruled by the laws of the Deliverer and follow the same customs and traditions that have prevailed for hundreds of years.

The stunning sequel to Gayle Forman's international best seller, If I Stay - Now a major film starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

Eleven-year-old Martha is used to being the one who has to keep her head.

Max and Ben are off for an awesome adventure in the woods - going camping with their favourite Gargoyle friendz!

Max and Ben are sent off to stay with a wrinkly old uncle for the weekend - while their mums think it's a real treat for them, the boys are dreading it, so they're super relieved when their naughty gargoyle friends tag along for the ride.

Meet Polly Price, owner of the world's most embarrassing mother: actress and all-round airhead Arabella Diamonte.

Udolphus Beck - an otter - is an unraveller of mysteries.

It's Pea's birthday, and all the family are gathered around to celebrate.

Eleven-year-old Pea and her wonderfully wacky family are back for their second adventure in this fabulously funny series.

When Pea Llewellyn's dizzy but dazzling single mum becomes Marina Cove, author of the bestselling Mermaid Girls books, everything changes.

The first thrilling book in the most exciting children's fantasy series since Harry Potter.

From the Carnegie Medal 2020 winning author of Lark comes The Donut Diaries.

From the Carnegie Medal 2020 winning author of Lark comes The Donut Diaries.

These days falling in love can happen at the touch of a button and when it happens to Justine, it happens in a BIG WAY!

A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue' - Guardian'An engrossing story' - Daily Telegraph 'That's all I ever did - watch and listen.

'I don't do dark stuff.

MAKE SOME NOISE - Max and Ben are going on a school trip to the library and can't wait to meet Troy Brawn, the coolest spy book author ever.

Maddy has always wanted a cat, but now she's got something even better - three small ceramic cats which come to life and give her magical powers!

Maddy has always wanted a cat, but now she's got something even better - three small ceramic cats which come to life and give her magical powers!

Maddy has always wanted a cat, but now she's got something even better - three small ceramic cats which come to life and give her magical powers!

Maddy has always wanted a cat, but now she's got something even better - three small ceramic cats which come to life and give her magical powers!

Maddy has always wanted a cat, but now she's got something even better - three small ceramic cats which come to life and give her magical powers!

When the bin men find Dotty the Dinosaur, they put her up on the front of their truck.

Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet.

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart is about to decipher a code from his missing brother, Max, when he's called on a mission to Kenya.

An endangered Giant Panda has been kidnapped from the Wolong Nature Reserve in China.

Jack's car-racing hero, Morgan Parks, is in danger.

Despised by his Spanish relatives and ignored by his distant grandfather, twelve-year-old orphan Felix Brooke is lonely and unhappy.

Packed-off to boarding school and bullied by his peers, Felix feels sad and trapped.