Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

When Jason, Piper and Leo crash land at Camp Half-Blood, they have no idea what to expect. Apparently this is the only safe place for children of the Greek Gods - despite the monsters roaming the woods and demigods practising archery with flaming arrows and explosives.

It's been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town's children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers' mysterious circumstances are brought back into the light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious bo...

A Japanese tale in which a tinker buys a magic kettle. Will it bring him luck? This story is part of the 'Reading Champion' series - carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills.

This 'Read It Yourself' version of 'The Magic Porridge Pot' is suitable for children who are beginning to learn to read. The story is told simply, using short sentences and a small number of frequently repeated words.

Tom Sawyer and his friends play truant from school and set off for an island near their home town. Here they decide to play pirates but their game is interrupted when they witness a murder. Tom has to grow up very quickly and do the right thing.

Marsha and her parents live on the edge of the dark forest. Once a week they go to town to market. When Masha spots a box of paints, she begs her parents to buy it for her. Soon she becomes an expert painter of eggs.

The monstrous Medusa shows off her oh-so stinky snake-hair in this epically gross Greek myth retelling! Will Medusa tame her wretched mane or is her do's wretched stench set in stone? With wacky illustrations and descriptions at the end of how the story links to the original myth, this series wil...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce the...

With an invisible girl, a parliament of owls and a pen that writes by itself, the journey to the garden of the Midnight Swan might be Seren's most dangerous adventure yet. Seren and Tomos must try to help the Crow find the way back to his human form. But why is Captain Jones enquiring about Seren...

To save her mother from Olga's evil clutches, Filomena must travel to the legendary land of Camelot to find the legendary sword Excalibur. But Camelot is not all that it seems. Fil and the crew quickly realize that another fairy tale has taken hold in the land of Arthurian Legend - the Wizard of ...