Children's

An improbable hero, a spine-tingling adventure, and a surprising twist of fate ...Gully Potchard never meant to cause any trouble. (read more)

An improbable hero, a spine-tingling adventure, and a surprising twist of fate ...Gully Potchard never meant to cause any trouble. He's just an ordinary sort of boy ...at least that what he thinks. But when an old acquaintance comes knocking, it isn't long before Gully is tangled up in a mess of mischief and skulduggery.

Cats and dogs go astray, a child is kidnapped, and ransom notes are delivered to the wrong people! But as a storm rages and a fire blazes, Gully discovers that he has an extraordinary skill that might just make him an unlikely hero after all ...Another unputdownable adventure from the author of The Mysterious Misadventures of Clemency Wrigglesworth! (hide)

Elise is dead. And someone must pay. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise and a group of close friends set off on a debaucherous (read more)

Elise is dead. And someone must pay. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise and a group of close friends set off on a debaucherous Spring Break trip to Aruba.

But paradise soon turns into a living nightmare when Elise is brutally murdered. Soon Anna finds herself trapped in a foreign country, fighting for her freedom. As she awaits the judge's decree, it becomes clear that everyone is questioning her innocence.

To the rest of the world, Anna isn't just guilty, but dangerous. And the truth is more shocking than you could ever imagine ...'The best teen thriller I've ever read' Wondrous Reads 'I haven't wanted to talk about a book this much since Gone Girl' goodreads.com 'Tension to the very last page ...a compulsively readable, hair-raising snapshot of [the] 21st-century' Kirkus Reviews (hide)

From the mind of one of the most popular YouTubers of all time, DanTDM, comes a graphic novel adventure that reimagines the Minecraft-style (read more)

From the mind of one of the most popular YouTubers of all time, DanTDM, comes a graphic novel adventure that reimagines the Minecraft-style worlds and characters he's created like you've never seen them before. After a day of experiments, Trayaurus and DanTDM are about to call it a night when a strange-looking crystal plummets to earth, breaking into five pieces that scatter far and wide. DanTDM and Trayaurus recover one of the shards and quickly realise they are in possession of an object more powerful than anything they've ever known.

Word reaches DanTDM and Trayaurus that other pieces of crystal have been recovered - a group of pigs have harnessed the crystals' power to enable them to talk. But they're not alone - their archenemy Denton has also found a shard and manipulated its power for evil. He has created a cloning machine, producing a terrifying, marauding army intent on hunting down the remaining crystals in his effort to become all-powerful. (hide)

Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But when she's mocked at a college party, she kows (read more)

Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But when she's mocked at a college party, she kows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level.

She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-stylee. But can she make him love her? (hide)

We all need to know what's missing in our lives. At a funeral someone stands and describes everything a person has accomplished in (read more)

We all need to know what's missing in our lives. At a funeral someone stands and describes everything a person has accomplished in their life. But what if they missed something? What if there was one thing they never got to do? And what if they had a chance to go back and do it?' The Blackwells are a family with an extraordinary history and astounding traditions, which include attending their own funerals before they die! Their ways are questionable and their stories about deceased relatives are as bold as their red hair, but it is their eclectic wares that keep tourists coming back to their market in the town of Coraloo.

Published:18 Oct 2019 (hide)

A scientific team has boarded the submarine Oceanos to explore the ocean's depths. Suddenly, it gets caught in a violent storm, causing (read more)

A scientific team has boarded the submarine Oceanos to explore the ocean's depths. Suddenly, it gets caught in a violent storm, causing it to drift thousands of miles off-course. From the glittering surface of the sea to the darkness of the abyss, Deep in the Ocean takes readers on a bewitching journey through fascinating waters-some warm, colorful, and crowded with sea creatures, others mysterious and turbulent.

Published: 28 May 2019 (hide)

The deadliest weapon is a girl with nothing to lose... Sarah is used to spying in the champagne-fuelled parties of Nazi Berlin. But (read more)

The deadliest weapon is a girl with nothing to lose... Sarah is used to spying in the champagne-fuelled parties of Nazi Berlin. But her new mission is infinitely more deadly - tracking a lethal disease across bullet-torn Africa, to uncover the monster who would use it to create fifty million corpses.

Her enemies think she is a terrified little girl. But she is a warrior set to burn them all. (hide)

*It's the 13th hilarious book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series!*'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling (read more)

*It's the 13th hilarious book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series!*'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet' - IndependentWhen snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighbourhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. (hide)

It's Christmas Eve in Dinosaur Cove and Tom and Jamie are hoping for snow. There's just time to go and visit their dinosaur friend, (read more)

It's Christmas Eve in Dinosaur Cove and Tom and Jamie are hoping for snow. There's just time to go and visit their dinosaur friend, Wanna, in their secret world of real dinosaurs, and wish him a merry Christmas. But when they emerge from the cave, the Jurassic jungle has disappeared and there's snow everywhere! And what's that in the distance? It's a herd of woolly mammoths - the boys are in the Ice Age! Jamie, Tom and Wanna set off on a snowy adventure with blizzards, avalanches, a sabre-tooth cat, and a young woolly mammoth that needs their help to get back to its herd.

As they search for the lost herd the boys come across another unexpected discovery - something so amazing they can hardly believe it. This double-length story is something that readers can really get their teeth into and is non-stop adventure from the first page to the last. (hide)

**Stocked 23 October 2014 **What do you know about the seaside? Explore the amazing variety of habitats, plants and animals that (read more)

**Stocked 23 October 2014 **What do you know about the seaside? Explore the amazing variety of habitats, plants and animals that call coastlines around the world home and find out how they are adapted to survive there. Explore what makes sand such an amazing material, food chains, seashells and seaweed. Discover why beaches and seaside resorts are such popular holiday destinations and the jobs that people do there.

Part of the series Discover Through Craft. Six books that explore key curriculum topics using a mixture of activities, quizzes, facts and crafts. For children aged 7-9. (hide)