Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

Monster is hungry, and he's coming to find you! He creeps through the streets, hunting for his favourite snack. You'd better hide, because you know what he likes to eat. Something tasty, something sweet - it's cake, of course!

Matilda and her dad are very different. Matilda is fast and Dad is slow. Matilda is tidy and Dad is messy, and Matilda is quiet and Dad is very, very loud. They're off to find treasure, but Dad keeps getting distracted. Soon, they're lost and Matilda is getting crosser and crosser. Will they ever...

All the kids at Wayside had to spend 243 days at horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of an infestation of cows! Now they're back and the fun begins on every floor. Miss Mush has prepared liver in purple sauce, and it is pet day on the 30th floor and there is a substitute teacher.

Welcome back to a new year at Wayside School - where things are as strange and eccentric as ever. There are twenty-nine kids in Mrs Jewls's class on the thirtieth floor, and this book is about all of them: there is Todd, who is in trouble every day, until he gets a magic dog; Paul, whose life is ...

Jess and Tracy Beaker have found happiness in The Dumping Ground. Not that Dumping Ground - the children's home that Tracy grew up in - but a seaside antique shop full of treasures, along with Flo, the owner, and Alfie, their dog. Jess is looking for a fantastic new boyfriend for her mum (mostly ...

Bear and Mouse have finally overcome their differences and are living together in perfect harmony - until it's time to decorate the Christmas tree! Bear wants dazzling lights, while Mouse prefers gigantic baubles - and, wait a minute, did Mouse just put a manatee on the top?! A topsy-turvy tree i...

Ben and Jack really want to help on the farm, but the animals just do not like the food they're handing out! 'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.

When aliens fly down to Earth, they don't come to meet you - they simply want your underpants - I'll bet you never knew! Expect to find aliens, monsters, dinosaurs and of course plenty of pants in these zany, fun-to-read-aloud stories from award-winning picture book duo, Claire Freedman and Ben C...

An action-packed adventure full of performing donkeys, goat yoga and sabotage! There's never been a movie quite like this one!

Justin Chase is having the worst week ever! His cat is still missing, he's an unintentional internet sensation, and right now the sharks are circling as he's stranded in a heart-stopping, skin-crawling, jaw-dropping, seriously shocking S.O.S situation with his unbelievably annoying arch-enemy! Mo...