Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories

For thirteen-year-old Carmichael Taylor, life is one big joke - in a good way. He just can't understand why no one else seems to find everything as funny as he does. When Car accidentally delivers a hilarious stand-up routine at the school talent show, targetting his family and his school, it goe...

Morgan Charmley is finding it very difficult to keep her witch powers under control and undercover at school. With a fellow secret witch trying to sabotage her and a confusing friendship with a sworn-enemy warlock to navigate, the girl who can spark magic with a click of her fingers knows that tr...

Meet Dirty Bertie - a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits. He's sure to be up to his neck in trouble. Join Bertie in 'Splash!' his 35th adventure as he takes Know-All Nick for a ride at the waterpark, goes on the trail of Angela's missing cat and finds himself out-manoeuvred by Miss Boot on...

Marnie Blue and her school friends are spending the weekend at CORAL, an activity centre in Mermaid Lagoon. There will be lots of fun things to do, like playing with the water catapult and singing round the bubble fire. Not to mention midnight snacks! But Marnie is secretly scared: she's heard al...

When Hazel Wong's beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel's family estate in beautiful, bustling Hong Kong. But when they arrive they discover something they didn't expect: there's a new member of the Wo...

It's 1939 and war has broken out. Everything has changed at Highbury House school. There are no servants, for one thing, and the pupils have to help with domestic tasks. Then a boys' school is evacuated to the Romney Marsh, billetted in the same building although, of course, contact with the boys...

A very funny, warm, engaging verse novel full of heart and emotion following Ferran through secondary school. It is peppered with images and notes adding texture and life to the narrative - a black out poem he did in the back of his biology textbook in year 9, his terrible attempt at drawing his ...

Tracy is given the main role in the school play of A Christmas Carol. As Ebeneezer Scrooge prepares for her big moment, all she wants to know is if her film-star mum will make it back from Hollywood in time to watch her in her starring role.

It's tough fitting in when you're born to stick out! Stick Boy has just moved to Little Town, where there's a mysterious plot underway involving the suspicious HomeBots. Can Stick Boy and his friends uncover the evil plan behind it all before it's too late?

It's tough fitting in when you're born to stick out! When Baron Ben gives the residents of Little Town an exciting new gadget that lets them explore virtual worlds, they can't wait to try it out! Before long everyone is plugged into their techy treats. Everyone that is, except Stick Boy. Left to ...