For reluctant readers (children)

Mia, Juno, Kyle and Billy all long for a different life. They're stuck in a foster home and feel like they're in the wrong story. But when the mysterious Cherry turns up with her crazy patchwork bag and magic book, she opens up a whole new world to them. Will they all get a happy ending after all?

Josh is football mad - and so is his grandad, who used to be a league player. Josh is disappointed when he doesn't do so well in matches at school, so his grandad comes up with some rather unorthodox training methods to help him. Will Josh make it all the way?

In a post-apocalyptic world where everyone wears non-contact suits to survive and where you can never touch another person directly, Cal and Jenna have formed a football team. Not virtual - real football, with real contact. But Jenna's horrible twin Jacob is suspicious and it looks like they're h...

Emma loves football! She's always wanted to be on the school team, but the captain is mean to her. Will she be able to stand up to this bully?

New girl Hattie hopes a scarecrow will protect her den at school, but soon Crow is taking his job far too seriously and Hattie's chances of making any friends are being ruined.

Mia and James are getting married! When a tight budget means no wedding cake, Mia's sister Holly plans a surprise for the couple - 1000 cupcakes! What could possible go wrong?

Kitty and Tom travel the county with Ma Hawker, enthralling crowds with their amazing collection of curios. Always on the lookout for new wonders, Kitty is tricked into buying a worthless bag of rubbish. But hidden within is a special piece of scrimshaw. A young woman called Flora Meriweather is ...

Scott and his gang of techno-hackers barely escaped with their lives when they planted the virus that destroyed Virtual Kombat. Now that the game is gone, they think they're finally safe. But VK creator Vince Power's deadly scheme is far from over. Without a virtual world to host it, there's only...

November 1920. The body of an unknown soldier is to be buried at Westminster Abbey. The war has claimed the lives of thousands of men whose bodies will never make it home, and the Unknown Warrior will represent them all. As hundreds of people crowd to Westminster Abbey, Daisy knows she has to mak...

Here is a laugh-out-loud, wildly imaginative twist on 'The Wizard of Oz' as a boy gets flushed down a toilet and discovers a magical world in trouble: the queen has completely lost her sense of humour and banned any mirth of any kind. As the boy navigates the world by popping up in various locati...