Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories

Molly and her friends are suddenly plunged into a lockdown and have to adapt to a new way of living. Molly completes jigsaws, plays her fiddle, and looks after her pets, whilst her mother helps others on the island and her father is stuck far away on the mainland. With a vaccine on the horizon, t...

Max and Peregrine volunteer at an old people's home when strange things happen. One resident is walking on the ceiling, another is riding their wheelchair through walls. And Reggie says his marmalade is haunted (no one listens)! Things don't look good - the Marmalade Ghost is turning into a stick...

Moving house can be hard. Can Duggee and the Squirrels help Snail to move house easily?

Grandads - all different and all a little bit the same. We love our grandads and they love us!

This picture book shows how one little girl's careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living center of a loving, intergenerational Black family.

Elodie Lightfoot and her friends live in the most magical place in South London, where unicorns from all over the world come in search of The Secret Unicorn Society's help. When shell shaped hoof-prints start appearing in the sand near the local volleyball court, they suspect another unicorn is i...

Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realises this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes...

Twelve-year-old Rose can't remember anything before last week, when she woke up not knowing her own name, her own house, or even her own mother. The only thing Rose recognised was her puppy, North. But Mother patiently explained everything - well, not everything. Not the real-feeling dreams Rose ...

When a unicorn who hates unicorn books realises that he is, in fact, IN A UNICORN BOOK himself, he does everything he can to get out. Can he run out of the book? Jump? Eat his way through the pages?! One thing's for sure: it will be a whole lot of fun to watch this unicorn try to get out of yet a...

Noor loves her mum, and all the other hijabi women in her family, but wonders why do they wear headscarves? Is it so they can hide snacks for later? Or because they're a super spy and hiding their secret identity? Full of curiousity, Noor sets out to find her answer, but her family are all busy a...