Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

The evening is long. It's silent outside. We love silent. The most important thing is for the sirens not to howl. It is a bright day in February, but 7 year-old Ia and her family are in the dark. Church bells are ringing, sirens are screaming. The War has begun. Ia holds her astronaut doll close,...

Join Spidey, Spin and Ghost-Spider for two exciting tales in this heroic collection of stories filled with awesome artwork! Read along as Team Spidey battle the bad guys and learn about how the power of teamwork can save the day!

Jean Sylvester is a typical, overthinking adolescent whose painful experience with parallel realities teaches her that while life involves her, it's not always all about her. She thinks life isn't fair and wishes hers was different. When she witnesses a traumatic accident, she can't help but blam...

Fourteen-year-old Hollie has always lived in the small town of Loweburgh on the south coast. When she and her best friend, Parker, start researching repairs to the sea defences, they find that low grade steel has been used to protect the town walls. If there was a terrible storm, bigger than anyt...

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea what he's doing. Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. There's only one problem; Effie's a housemaid, and she can't marry a gentleman. It seems that Effi...

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). Original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has b...

In this twist on the traditional Aesop fable 'The Lion and the Mouse', a tiger is caught in a trap, and only a tiny monkey can rescue him.

Twins Pew and Basket Church dream of escaping the miserable misfortune of their isolated orphanage. Or, even better, the return of their unknown parents. But even in their wildest dreams, they never imagined the truth: The twins can travel through time. Armed only with perplexing clues to their p...

Kim and Cam are both digging pits, but who can dig the top pit? Find out in this low-level phonics reading book.

Meet Charley - a totally ordinary 13-year-old, who's also an international singing sensation. Meet George - Charley's best friend, social media whizz, and rising-star comedian. Together they form the Rockstar Detectives, the most dynamic mystery-solving duo the world has ever seen! This summer, C...