Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

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...

Pebble the pony lives on a wild and lonely moor. He loves the holidaymakers who come up from the town - especially when they bring picnics and feed him their leftovers! One day, Pebble makes up his mind to see the town for himself, but when he gets there, he finds it's not such a wonderful place ...

Zan is a top singer. Can she turn The Pips into a top band? Find out in this low-level phonics reading book.

At the start of the summer, Tia is excited to see all the visitors arriving for their holidays on Gull Haven Island, and she's delighted to make a new friend. But Tia's feelings change when some selfish tourists upset a newborn seal pup and its mother, and then she sees how people are carelessly ...

After breathtaking adventures in France and Egypt, trusted Rosie Raja is put to the test among code breakers, double-crossers and resistance fighters in Bletchley Park, England, 1942. This time around, Rosie finds herself among the best and brightest codebreakers and spies - from Noor Inayat Khan...

Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. But for now, she's trapped in her impoverished village in southern China, practicing an illegal form of alchemy to keep food on the tab...

In the remote South African bush, the Ballantynes have captured the villainous Josef Gerhard and made him their prisoner. After his monstrous predasaurs unleashed a deadly virus on the world, and he framed the Ballantynes for it, he deserves to pay. But Robyn and Ralph are also racing to get the ...

Astrid likes being different - she doesn't care that some of her classmates think she's a bit odd. She's got amazing friends and is the Scribble Society's star writer. When new boy Teddy joins the school, Astrid is super excited to discover they have loads in common. But when Astrid realises she ...

Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever.

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,...