Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy & magical realism

When Mildred makes a wish on a shooting star, she never dreamed that it would come true so quickly. Suddenly she has an extra four-legged friend to look after. Luckily her Lantern Monitor duties provide the perfect cover, but when class sneak Ethel Hallow becomes suspicious, suddenly the whole sc...

Hex never meant for the girl to follow him and his friend Tommo into the woods. He never meant for her to fall off the rope swing and break her arm. When the finger of blame is pointed at him, Hex runs deep into the woods and his fierce sense of injustice leads him to a strange clearing in the wo...

Hush Quiet is a girl with an infinite baseball cap and certain views on love and kindness. Her sister, Matilda, carries around a shotgun full of bees, and doesn't need much excuse to fire it. Hush and Matilda have been hiding out in a pocket world, ever since the war started. Ever since Dustbowl ...

It's the week before Halloween and Marina is about to turn thirteen, Her father died a year ago. Her mother has strangely fallen asleep and no-one can wake her. She is sent to live with her mysterious grandmother, Ursula who tells her that that you can enter a strange world between the ever falli...

Cassie, Rue and Tabitha's magical training will be put to the test as they venture deeper into the Hedge and race to find the faery treasure before it falls into the hands of the Erl King.

This is the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker becomes the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. Based on the major motion picture - an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humour - 'Wonka' introduces...

Uprooted by her single mum along with her troublesome older brother, 11-year-old Prune Robinson is trying to settle in a new town. She figures she can't burden her hard-working mother with the fact she's being bullied. Or the fact that her drawings have started coming to life. But with her brothe...

Wulf is at war - war against the Dark. As Pan's soldier and champion, it's his responsibility to fight for what is right. An early Winter has come to the County, threatening its people with starvation - but there is an even more dangerous foe to face. A demon is trying to become the next ruler of...

Wulf has left behind his life in the monastery and is now the Apprentice to Spook Johnson, assisting him in protecting the county from denizens of the dark - which mainly involves Wulf acting as bait. But Wulf is captured by Hrothgar, a giant with abilities to conjure subservient creatures - or t...

Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times - battling monsters, Titans, even death himself - so graduating high school should be a piece of cake, right? Wrong. Percy needs three college recommendation letters from the gods before his final school year comes to an end. And one thing Percy kn...