Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories

12-year-old Gabriel is a brilliant pickpocket, a skill which he uses to keep his often empty belly not quite so empty. And then one day, he's caught. But instead of being arrested, he is invited by the mysterious Caspian Crook to attend Crookhaven - a school for thieves. At Crookhaven, students a...

Nico the toad is always a bit grumpy, but recently he's been grumpier than ever. Stella the mouse, Delilah the spider and Bo the parakeet think the school trip to the art museum will cheer him up. But the animal friends have never left the school before. If they stick together nothing can go wron...

Darrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Mary Lou and all the girls are now in the second form, but they are as lively as ever. Mam'zelle Dupont is still trying to be strict, Alicia plays a trick with invisible chalk and Gwendoline and Daphne get into trouble.

Hilarious, pitch-perfect stories where everyday school life becomes completely extraordinary! By a brilliant author/illustrator team with laughs on every page! Izzy's school is being merged with St Bartholomew's Primary, their greatest rivals! What will happen when the new kids join, in their too...

Here is a story for music lovers about true friendship and finding your own beat. Without music, the world is just blah. That's Mac's take on life, anyway. His mum thinks rock is the only music worth listening to, but Mac is a secret musical lover. When he discovers an underground society for stu...

Students at Lycroft Phelps are marked for success. As a straight-A student and girlfriend of the school's star rower, Charlotte believes in what the school has to offer. Meanwhile, scholarship student Max is struggling. Until he's asked to join the rowing team offering him popularity - but at wha...

There was a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to have been built with 30 classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead it was built with the classrooms all on top of each other. That may be why all kinds of strange stuff happens, especially on the 13th floor.

Simone Thibodeaux's life is sealed in a boy-proof container. Her strict Haitian immigrant parents enforce no-dating rules and curfews, and send Simone to an all-girls school. With senior year coming to a close, Simone makes a decision. She and her fellow late-bloomer friends will create a Bucket ...

Ven had her life all planned out - her dance group were going places and so was she. Then she passes out right in the middle of a life-changing performance. And she's forced to admit that she hasn't been feeling right for a while now. Ven is about to discover she has an illness that threatens to ...

Since her mother died, Nettie Delaney hasn't been able to sing a note. This wouldn't be a problem if she wasn't now attending Dukes, the most prestigious performing arts college in the country, with her superstar mother's shadow hanging over her. Nettie has her work cut out for her and everyone i...