Children's / Teenage fiction: Action & adventure stories

Cosima Unfortunate has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls - a school where any disabled children, or children deemed different, are sent, whether their families want it or not. It is there that she meets her friends - Pearl, Mary, and Diya - and they start to practise mini heist...

Carol Danvers' quiet night with BFF Jessica Drew (a.k.a. Spider-Woman) takes a cat-astrophic turn when Manhattan's bodegas are suddenly overrun by a host of angry felines! And not just any felines-Flerkens, the most terrifying, pocket-dimension-holding, tentacle devouring kitty-look-alikes in the...

Super-sized Liam is the only 12 year old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or be offered the chance to ride a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.

Grown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? Lost your peculiar pet? You need the Space Detectives! What seems like a simple case of a missing pet soon has the Space Detectives completely bamboozled! This is no ordinary pet - it's a synthpet, where owners mix in di...

The community aboard the massive space station Vantia1 is in danger once again - and now their enemy Vellis has stolen the technology that could allow him to escape the Void and attack the station himself! When a massive space spider is spotted, armed with powerful lasers and the ability to spin ...

You've just been sent many thousands of years back in time. The climate is cold and the landscape is strange. The people you encounter look quite different than modern-day humans. But what worries you most are the fierce sabre-toothed cats and the giant woolly mammoths that roam the land. Do you ...

You've suddenly time travelled thousands of years into the past. The world around you looks wild and unfamiliar. The humans you encounter can't understand a word you say. Now they're running at you carrying stone tools! Do you have what it takes to survive in the Stone Age? Turn the pages to find...

After being framed by jealous rivals, young sailor Edmond Dantes is sent to a gloomy prison for 20 years. He orchestrates a daring escape and disguises himself as a rich count to gain revenge on the enemies that framed him.

Join Morgan, Ash, Harper, Po, Jodi and Theo as they return for another adventure in the world of Minecraft. Someone - or something - has turned the Evoker King to stone. Do the gang have what it takes to solve the mystery and return the Evoker King to normal? Theo's coding skills might just be wh...

11-year-old Zebedee Bolt is on the run. Again. Only this time it's not the police who find him. It's an evil harpy called Morg. And when she hauls him into Crackledawn, an unmapped kingdom that conjures sunlight for our world, Zeb discovers running away only gets you so far. When magic's involved...