Children's, Teenage & educational

Billy and his friends know that Waterfall Woods is out of bounds; strange things are rumoured to have happened there and no one in their village has ventured past its walls for decades. But when they discover a secret way in, Billy and his best friends, Anna, Jimmy and Andy, can't resist the temp...

When Billy discovers his step-dad is a super-villain with an evil plan to destroy the world, it is the perfect excuse to break him and his mum up. But gathering evidence about a villain is harder than it looks. A story of friendship, pizza, fizzy drinks, a volcano secret-lair, a platinum-toothed ...

From award-winning author Michael Morpurgo, come two charming stories for young listeners about all the muck and magic of finding fun on the farm.

England, 1605: Twelve-year-old Tom must save his father from hanging. He falls in with a mysterious stranger, the Falcon, who promises to help him in exchange for his service. But on the long journey to London, Tom discovers the Falcon's true mission - and a plot to blow up Parliament with barrel...

It's 1718: pirate ships sail the oceans and brutal slave masters control the plantations. Eleven-year-old Abigail Buckler lives with her father in the Caribbean. Her clothes are made of finest muslin so she can't play in them, not that there's anyone to play with anyway. She isn't even allowed to...

Cassie's older brother Byron has fallen in with the wrong crowd - it's soon clear these boys are wild, reckless and not human at all. They are tylwyth teg - Fair Folk, who tempt humans down into the dark places of the world. And Byron is tempted. When he goes missing, Cassie and her cousin follow...

There was a time when the ocean was full of friends. Then a little jellyfish notices that things are changing and her friends are disappearing! She sets out to discover the truth and learns that everyone has a part to play in protecting the careful balance of the ocean. 'Bloom' refers to a substa...

Partly autobiographical, this is the second title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past.

It is the holidays again and Joe Robinson and his cousins are back with Granny in Muddlemoor. The problem is Muddlemoor is a hotspot for crime. When Joe, Tom and Pip discover that a dangerous gang of robbers is hiding in the local area they start an investigation straightaway. But hang on a sec -...

Bran and Fran love living with their mum, who is the storyteller at the Once Upon a Wow bookstore in their small Midlands town. But when mum goes missing and her stories turn out to be a portal to another world, they're going to have a huge, magical adventure on their hands. Luckily, they have Wi...