A serious little girl and her whimsical father find they miss one another's quirks when they split up during a treasure hunt.

A young girl gets into trouble when she tries to use a genie's wishes to find the perfect present for her mother

Three friends have to stop a professor from stealing the Saxon treaure they have discovered in a field

A little girl has a worry that follows her around getting bigger and bigger each day, until she discovers that if she talks about it, the worry shrinks and eventually disappears.

A girl discovers that a rock out at sea is actually a living creature and home to many animals, and must save it from being destroyed by the fishing community who think that it is dangerous.

A witch loses her hat, bow and wand but when she finds them she acquires some new friends.

Follows a young girl's correspondence with Greenpeace about the whale living in her pond.

A boy gets a series of letters from his crayons after they quit their jobs asking for better treatment.

A pirate family move into a house in a small town

Once upon a time there lived a sister and brother who were not at all alike. They fought and argued all the time.

Follows Bob's day as he works as a guide on the moon.

A baby barn owl is afraid of the dark until some exciting nocturnal adventures help him to overcome his fear

Three children with their father explore the countryside

Follows the daily tribulations of a young Muslim boy as he deals with his family, moving house and starting a new school.

A video game addict finds himself on a volcano adventure with Bear Grylls when he comes into possession of the magic compass.

A boy has to prove to his nemisis that he isn't afraid of ghosts after an unfortunate incident at the space museum leads to him wetting himself.

Follows the adventures of Stanley, when he becomes only half an inch thick.

A school boy reluctantly starts an intergalactic pen-pal friendship with a girl from Pluto as part of a classroom lesson, but ends up helping his new friend save her home planet.

A greedy crocodile is taught a lesson by the other jungle animals

Three mean farmers try unsuccessfully to trap the cunning Mr Fox

Anna helps local children learn to read and write while visiting her Grandparent's childhood village, and makes a special friend while she is there.

Follows the antics of the author and illustrator as they put-off writing their next book by expanding their tree house

Two young children transport a family of Yetis to England when their guardian can no longer care for them.

When his father is killed at war, a boy takes on his dream of learning to fly

Leon takes his younger siblings to a magic show and ends up becoming part of the act.

A modern day boy visits the stone age and learns about prehistoric life.

A boy decides to try and save a statue of a soldier in his local park when he hears that it is going to be scrapped when the park is revamped.

When Aunty Bindi's husband-to-be is kidnapped the day before the wedding, it's up to niece and bridesmaid Anisha to solve the mystery and save the day.

A young girl faces danger and adventure in her quest to become a firework-maker like her father.

A classic tale about a boy and a robot defending Earth from a creature in outer space.

A young boy is in for a shock when he picks some fruit from the tree at the bottom of his garden and finds himself with a pet dragon.

Bill has to wear a dress to school and discovers it has its good points

An ordinary schoolboy is mistaken for a secret agent by the secret service and must save the world from an evil supervillain.

James meets all sorts of strange new friends when the giant peach appears in his back garden.

A boy forms an unusual friendship with a polar bear who helps him deal with his feelings about his younger brother who is autistic.

A young girl investigates dog-nappings.

A boy has an adventure at sea with a cast of fantastical people and creatures when he goes in search of his missing parents.

Relates a father's tale to his children as to why it took him so long to get a pint of milk from the shops, involving spaceships, pirates and police dinosaurs.

Children discover that their teachers have been taken over by aliens.

A classic tale about a boy and a robot defending Earth from a creature in outer space.

A girl and her friends rescue her father, who has been kidnapped for his inventions

11-year-old twins, Arthur and Rose, discover the make-believe world they used to play games about when they were little is real when their grandfather disappears.

Nine-year-old Cookie takes a dislike to the new boy in her class who also turns out to be her new next-door neighbour.

Follows the eccentric residents of a small town, including an obnoxious old man who tries to poison a popular dog.

When she is picked up by the Impossible Postal Service train one night in her hallway, a young girl helps save the Impossible Places from the wicked plans of Lord Meridian.

A boy befriends a refugee who has started in his class at school and helps him settle into his new life in the UK.

Four children endeavour to survive after the light aircraft they were aboard crashes in the heart of the Amazon jungle.

Follows the bloody events leading up to and including 1066 through the eyes of the son of Harold Godwinson, lord of the Southern Saxons.

A young orphan girl is taken to a land of giants by a gentle giant and plans to stop other giants eating children

The story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell.

A boy investigates the connection between his missing scientist father and some unusually intelligent beetles next door

Barney meets a cave boy who seems to be living in his local rubbish dump.

A young not-so-heroic Viking becomes a hero when he saves his tribe from a gigantic sea dragon.

Four children discover a fantasy world when they walk through a magical wardrobe

Set in Victorian London a young boy struggles to find a happy life for himself outside the workhouse

Follows the changes a shipwreck makes to the lives of the inhabitants of the Scilly Isles

A boy marooned on a Pacific island befriends an Old Japanese man who has lived there since the Second World War

A classic tale about a boy and a robot defending Earth from a creature in outer space.

Gemma and Mike - two kids hurt by their past are now inextricably linked and their effect on each others' lives is explosive.

Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid.

Twelve-year-old Noah, with his younger brother and friend, set out to lift a eons-old Bradley family curse

A Mozambique girl and her mother living in Tudor London travel to Southampton when they hear of a shipwreck that has been discovered with the possibility of sunken treasure aboard.

A girl runs away from her foster home to get to the Royal Observatory of London to try and name a newly discovered star after her mother who was murdered by her father.

Follows the life of a school boy, his rock band, DogZombies, and his battles with his teachers and his grumpy older sister

Three friends embark upon an adventure in Egypt when 13-year-old Lillian receives a mysterious package linked to the hidden tomb of an ancient Egyptian king.

The granddaughter of Baba Yaga yearns to change her destiny which ties her to her grandmother's enchanted house which moves from place to place at will.

Set in World War 2, a 12-year-old girl evacuated from London to Cornwall discovers a connection between the village and her missing sister

A girl fights to find a way back to her island home, and her mother, when a new government official bans anyone without leprosy from living there.

A boy with OCD turns detective when he is the last person to see a neighbour's young son before he goes missing.

Elliot teams up with Olympian gods when he and the zodiac Virgo accidentally released the sleep daemon from his prison.

A 13-year-old girl enters the dangerous underworld of Victorian London when her father goes missing

A boy tries to work out what is happening when his father runs away with him and his brother in the middle of the night.

An 11-year-old boy helps his 13-year-old super-powered brother stop an obsessed business man as well as an asteroid from destroying Earth

When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, 14 year old Alex Rider becomes involved with MI6 and has to complete his dead guardian's mission.

A boy enrols at a Wizard school and has amazing adventures.

A German boy befriends a Jew in a concentration camp, without realising the significance of the facility

The epic Anglo-Saxon legend is brilliantly recreated by an award-winning author/illustrator team.

Three children are in danger from their uncle who wants their inheritance after their parents die

A young Viking boy plans to take his revenge on the Wolf Men that raided his home village

Two children befriend the local eccentric and become stranded on an island people say is haunted

Recounts the experiences of Joey the horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War One.

Some school friends discover a seemingly haunted hotel room.

A 12-year-old boy's ghost watches his family in the aftermath of his death after being shot dead by a policeman.

After her friend is taken a girl begins a journey with her animal companion through a dangerous country of ice and witches to find him

Set in Jakarta, Indonesia, a boy who dreams of being a professional football player is caught up in the criminal underworld

A teen boy and girl from opposing factions in society take on the system and try to change it.

In a distant future in which humanity travels the stars on sentient trains, a teenage thief is tasked to steal a mysterious object and begins an adventure that will change his life.

Set during the end of World War 2, a group of refugees escape Germany by ship

A 13-year-old boy in denial about his mother's terminal illness imagines sharing stories with a yew tree

Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure

Dickens' classic story about a young orphan who falls in with criminals on the streets of London.

The classic story about an African American girl growing up in Mississippi in the 1930s

An illustrated version of the traditional 8th Century Anglo-Saxon saga

A shy and awkward teenager finds herself scouted by a top modelling agency who then send her on a fashion shoot in Russia

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial abnormality attempts mainstream school for the first time

A boy is brought up by ghosts in the local graveyard after his family is killed by a murderer

Follows a feisty African-American girl as she grows up in Mississippi during the Great Depression and learns the shocking realities of racism.

Stephanie joins forces with her dead uncle's companion, Skulduggery Pleasant (the living skeleton of a dead wizard), against the evil forces of wizards set on destroying the world

A young boy investigates the suspicious death of a homeless man.

Set in 18th century on St Kilda, a fowling party must survive being stranded

Alem thinks he is on holiday with his father in London, but his father has brought him to the UK to escape the war in Ethiopia and leaves him to survive by himself as a refugee.

Nicky finds an injured rook and tries to bring it back to health as he deals with his family issues, first love and a bully at school.

Conjoined twins start at a normal school after being previously homeschooled, and one of them develops a chronic heart disease endangering both of their lives.

A boy with behavioural problems is given a second chance after a new boy befriends him

A group of teens are left to fend for themselves when all the adults mysteriously disappear

Epic story of a man who trades in illegitimate children and a child who survives and is reunited with his gentleman father.

A boy who lives and works on a rubbish mountain, finds a bag with money and a map, which the police are very keen to get their hands on

In an oppressive regime of the future, a young boy finds himself leading a band of rebels to protect his community

A 15 year old autistic boy goes in search of a local pet dog's killer and writes a book about the process

Adult cover edition of the story about a teen girl chosen to take part in a reality show where participants must kill their competitors to win.

When Coraline moves into a new house with her parents, she discovers a secret corridor that takes her into an alternative reality.

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives.

Teenager Bri wants to pursue her dream of being a rap star but her family troubles keep getting in the way

A girl mocked for being overweight decides to compete in her favourite TV show.

A girl is drawn to the abandoned children's home next to her house and discovers a ghostly mystery when she sees a mysterious figure in the overgrown grounds.

A 16-year-old girl is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of her unarmed friend

Sherlock and Watson investigate the connection between a murder and the sighting of a large dog

Set in the Great Depression in the US, two migrant ranch workers encounter trouble on a farm. Dyslexia-friendly edition.

A ten year old boy has to come to terms with the death of his older sister and the break up of his family.

An Earthman joins a gang of alien oddballs to explore the universe after Earth is destroyed by Vogons

Charts the descent into chaos of a group of boys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash.

A teenage boy takes up boxing after being the victim of an unprovoked racist attack.

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

Set in Victorian London, the story of a mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate.

Set in 1995, a Nigerian girl and her brother smuggled to London are abandoned and they must cope with the police, social services and school bullies.

Four teenagers are suspected of murder when a fellow classmate dies during the detention they were all in

Set in the Great Depression in the US, two migrant ranch workers encounter trouble on a farm. Dyslexia-friendly edition.

A sixteen-year-old boy is forced to help the police entrap a drug supplier after his girlfriend dies from dodgy ecstasy that he is found in possession of.

Follows the life of an 11-year-old Ghanaian boy living in inner city London and his ill-fated mission to find the person who knifed a boy from his school.

The classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

New cover reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways

George Orwell's chilling fable of Soviet Russia's brutal dictatorship, Animal Farm brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism.

Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

Full text of this Arthur Miller play.

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

Maimed and disfigured whilst fighting in the war, young Francis Cassavant must hide both his face and his identity when he goes back home to Frenchtown. For his past holds a bitter secret, one which he has vowed to revenge and which he can resolve only through his final, desperate plan: to destroy the man who betrayed him as a boy, bringing Francis dishonour and guilt.

Complete scripts of four plays by J B Priestley including An Inspector Calls.

Relates what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run their farm themselves.

Follows the trial of a black man accused of raping a young white girl with all the prejudices of the southern US in the 1930s.

A lawyer who visits a remote village on business finds the house he is staying in is haunted by a ghost.