Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories

When a Faberge egg is stolen and makes an appearance on the black market, Charlie's ex-con dad is an immediate suspect.

It seems like the whole world has gone mad.

Here's the thing about covert operations: the really bad things always happen when you least expect them.

There I was: Cammie the Chameleon--the Gallagher Girl who had risked the most sacred sisterhood in the history of espionage.

Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses - but it's really a school for spies.

Why on earth did Norm's family have to move, anyway?

They're the GIRLFRIENDS - Polly, Keri, Frizz and Lily.

They're the GIRLFRIENDS - Polly, Keri, Frizz and Lily.

Polly is really looking forward to a trip to the seaside with her best friends and their boyfriends.

The Gang of Four are growing up.

Meet the girlfriends!

Meet the girlfriends!

Meet Polly, Keri, Frizz and Lily - they're the Gang of Four, and they're determined to be best friends for ever!

Meet Polly, Keri, Frizz and Lily - they're the Gang of Four, and they're determined to be best friends for ever!

I thought I was prepared for most scary situations.

Normal.

It might be a dream, but Norm soon finds that things go from bad to worse - when his perfect cousins arrive for a walk.

Knights, dungeons and battlements - Cavel Castle has it all!

The fair has come to town and Max, Ben and the Gargoylz can't wait to ride the ghost train, zoom along on the dodgems and zip down the helter-skelter.

Max and Ben need a plan of escape!

Lucy's life is being made hell by Melanie Prosser and her bullying sidekicks - the present takers - who threaten her every day at school for presents and money.

The Parkview team are off to compete in the Regional Championship tournament, but their striker is in trouble.

TJ and his friends get a terrible shock when their old teacher, Mr Potter, returns from illness to take over from Mr Wood as PE teacher at Parkview School.

Marcus was convinced that vampires didn't exist.

TJ is a new boy at Parkview School and he's never played in a proper football match before, but he soon makes friends with a bunch of football-mad kids.

TJ's friend Jamie is the heart and soul of the Parkview football team, but although he's a great tackler his passes are dangerously random - and he can't resist the stodgy food that his mum and the school cook love to tempt him with.

Max and Ben are in the school play, and the Gargoylz are very excited.

Now well into their first term at the world-famous Garrick stage school, Holly, Cat and Belle still have a lot to prove.

Holly, Belle and Cat are first years at The Garrick School for the Performing Arts.

Dal, Chris, Abs and Jason have made the squad for the local youth club under-lls football team.

Dal, Chris, Abs and Jason have made the squad for the local youth club under-11s football team.

The gargoylz are up to more mischief when they stow away on a school trip!

More brilliant jokes and plenty of laughs as the gang come together to battle some evil dogsnatchers!

Zac and Izzy win a place on a new reality TV show, but they have no idea where they're going or what to expect .

When a mysterious gunman takes a class hostage, the rest of Mia's school is evacuated.

Dal, Chris, Abs and Jason have made the squad for the local youth club under-lls football team.

"e;Mum said to just ignore them and they'll get tired of teasing.

"e;I said, 'It's my life and it hasn't been very special so far, has it, so why shouldn't I write any old rubbish?

Hooker, Azzie, Erica and the rest all play cricket in their spare time, but they've never taken it very seriously until now.

Is anything bothering you?

' I don t want Sam to be my stepdad, I said.

How does gravity work?

Finding refuge at a secret location in the south of France, Allie almost convinces herself she's safe - until Nathaniel's guards attack.

It's one thing to waltz properly.

Does one need four fully-grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests?

The fourth and final book in a steampunk YA adventure series, from Orbit's New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate series.

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly.

Is school out for ever at the School of Fear?

Have no fear!

Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders.