Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction

All Tom Gates wants to do is get tickets to see his favourite band when they come to town. It's not easy when he's up against Delia, his weirdo big sister. All of his plans seem to get him into major trouble!

Tyra gets off to a tough start at her new school. She's loud and different and nobody seems to be particularly friendly. So when her nan gives her a beautiful china snow dragon, Tyra's decides to take it to school, hoping that people will think it's interesting and talk to her. But disaster strik...

Hilarious, illustrated school-based antics where everything that happens leads to drama and running around and even some fainting! When a session of extreme dancing leaves Maisie in hospital with a broken leg, things take a turn for the weird! Strange noises in the ward at night, missing cuddly t...

Danny is one of the unlucky ones, a survivor of the nuclear holocaust. In Skipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, there are still some people living, and Danny records the sights and events around him.

East Prussia, Germany, 1945. War is raging across Europe, and as Russian soldiers close in across eastern Germany, Bruno and his mother must flee if they hope to survive. In the chaos of the attack, Bruno finds himself face to face with a huge black dog. He knows what she is - a weapon, strapped ...

It is night-time in the supermarket, and it's the veggies' weekly bath. But, what's this? Someone has been meddling with the bubble bath and that can only lead to one thing: bubbly troubly!

When the Happy Ranch theme park closes down to make way for a futuristic new adventure land, park mascots Buck and Bronco are out of a job and out of a home. While Buck thinks it's time for them to spread their wings and take the show on the road, Bronco wants nothing more than for their life to ...

Buddy is filled with fears and worries. Why has his mum left home? What's it like to die? Do the police know he's a shoplifter? What's the mysterious 'job' his dad has found? Buddy's story is continued in 'Buddy's Song' and 'Buddy's Blues'.

Mr Buxton is always having a go at Miles and his friends for climbing the trees outside their tower block. Miles thinks he's just a grumpy old man but when he finds a lost little budgie, Miles also discovers that he and Mr Buxton have more in common than he could ever have imagined.

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron Gas Station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm. This dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye. Sarah can't help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly ...