Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

Part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE).

It's the car boot sale and Mum's all excited. Will I be able to find a scooter (YES!), get grumpy Delia out of her room (No) and save my comic book collection (Maybe).

Yesterday Crumb is no ordinary girl - and she's about to face her biggest challenge yet. Yesterday Crumb is determined, brave and nearly ready to defeat a formidable foe: Mr Weep, the Lord of the Dead. Reunited with her beloved Dwimmerly End - a magical, walking teashop - apprentice tea witch Yes...

Return to Dwimmerly End, the magical, walking teashop, where Yesterday Crumb's adventures continue. Yesterday Crumb is in London to watch The Wild Feast, a magical cooking competition. But when the teashop Yesterday and her friends call home is stolen by the Faerie Queen, she must join the compet...

Take on the role of the Monster Hunter in this fully interactive, flick-through-the pages, choose-your-own-destiny adventure story. You are the Monster Hunter, fighter of yetis and protector of the people! When your services are needed, will you answer the call? You decide.

Yeti is expecting a lot of customers at his Snow Cafe. Delicious spaghetti should fill them up. But how much to make? You can't have too much spaghetti - can you?

Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June's three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in me...

Yoma Sutton has always been different from everyone else. She may appear like a normal 13-year-old girl on the outside, but Yoma has a special gift. She possesses magical talents, which she tries to keep hidden. Yoma's first day at her new school gives her more than she bargained for. She finds i...

You are never too young to know how brilliant you can become. The Mr. Men and Little Miss are all different. This book celebrates those differences and that whether you're small or tall, noisy or quiet, shy or silly, you can achieve amazing things by believing in yourself.

When Eleri discovers a gift left every day of December for her in an abandoned tower block, she thinks nothing of it at first. But as the countdown to Christmas continues, the gifts take on an increasingly dark and dangerous nature. Could this have something to do with the disappearance of Nina l...