Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories

Phoenix is a firebrand and a fire starter. After burning down a dormitory at her prestigious boarding school, Phoenix is sent to live with her grandmother, the owner of Greystones mansion. But Phoenix struggles to settle in. Will the band accept Phoenix, despite her spiky personality? And can Pho...

Meet Freddy - the most super-amazing superhero robot ever. His unbelievable amazing robotic abilities are mind-blowingly cool. But it turns out that teachers get really angry when you use your rocket boosters in class. Freddy's super awesome - but he's also in big trouble. Can he stay true to him...

Fran is a typical teenager. She has a loving family, a great best friend and she is doing really well in her school swimming team. But she also has a lot on her mind. Stuff that she doesn't talk to anyone about, especially her family. During an evening out with her friends, Fran starts to feel un...

Billy Plimpton took to the stage and captivated the crowd at the triumphant ending to 'The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh', and in the sequel, he's going to go viral. Celebrity comedian Leo Leggett takes Billy under his wing, as his new sidekick: when Leo tweets a clip of his stand-up act, Billy sud...

The Galloway Girls are back! With exams coming up and major life choices in progress, everything is about to change.

Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item. But with strange things happening a...

There's a new girl in my class. She has eyes as wide and as golden as a tiger's, a face as pale as a glass of milk, and hair as shiny as a mirror. I'd like to be her friend. But she never wants to play with me in the playground or makes sandcastles in the sandpit. The cleverest people I know say ...

Meet ten-year-old Joy Applebloom, a girl with a knack for finding the silver lining in even the darkest of rainclouds. After years of travelling the world with her parents and older sister, Claude (Claude rhymes with bored, which is just about right), Joy and her family move to suburbia - back to...

Bridge has always been a bit of an oddball, but since she recovered from a serious accident, she's found fitting in with her friends increasingly hard. Tab and Em are getting cooler and better and they don't get why she insists on wearing novelty cat ears every day. Bridge just thinks they look g...

Melody Bird has discovered an old abandoned house in the corner of the graveyard, and a mysterious boy hiding out there. Hal tells her that he's a spy-in-training, using the house as a base for his undercover surveillance of a known local criminal. Her friends Matthew and Jake don't believe that ...