Children's / Teenage fiction: Action & adventure stories

Life in Bearmouth will never change at least that's what people say. They work hard to bring wealth to the Master, toiling in dark mines and brutal conditions for six long days each week. When young friends Newt and Devlin start to question the system, they set in motion a chain of events that co...

Flo and Max are stuck inside Critter Clash, a game where teams of creatures battle in epic arenas. With the contest about to start and no team to call their own, will they ever get back to the real world?

When twelve-year-old Marcus kicks his favourite football over the school fence, he knows he's never getting it back. Nothing that goes over that wall ever comes back. But the next morning, during Breakfast Club, Marcus gets a mysterious note inviting him to join the Breakfast Club Investigators, ...

It is 2120 and London is in ruins. The young Prince Alfred has never known a life outside Buckingham Palace - but when strange goings-on breach its walls and stalk the corridors in the dead of night, he is thrust into a world of mystery, adventure and monsters. And when his mother, the Queen, is ...

When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they're in for an adventure - just not the kind they were expecting. Nearby sits the abandoned Harwood Institute. The crumbling buildings reek of secrets and, at night, strange screams come from the surrounding forest. Nobody ...

Magic doesn't exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome and mythical creatures to pay off her family's debts and secure their freedom. But when her loved ones' safety is threatene...

Koffi is a servant to the god of death, and must choose between the life she once had, or the life she could have if she truly embraced her power. Ekon is on the run from the ancient brotherhood he betrayed, and desperate to find Koffi - the girl who saved his life. But as he treks into the great...

In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the recalcitrant goat. As the monk nurs...

Everyone knows Rachel and Kirsty are best friends! But when nasty Jack Frost steals Becky the Best Friend Fairy's magical objects, BFFs everywhere start having problems. Can the girls help Becky get them back and put things right?

17-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, starting with how she looks, starting with shaving off her hair, her 'crowning glory'. She has to do it quickly, because she has to go now. Dinah was going to go alone and hitch a ride ...