CHILDRENS CONFIDENT READER

When Harry and his best friends go back for their third year at Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass-murderer on the loose and the sinister prison guards...

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yeah. And dead. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back - just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down....

Lyra and her daemon are eavesdropping when they uncover a plot to murder Lord Asriel. He has returned from the far North where he tells of strange sights-a beautiful city...

Selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book ClubEleven-year-old Rose is autistic and struggles to understand her classmates. But when her father gives her a stray dog, which she names Rain,...

Arriving at Dark Avenue, the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and little Sunny, begin their new life with Jerome and Esme Squalor. Jerome is a kind man, but he agrees...

The three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and little Sunny, arrive at the Prufrock Preparatory School, only to be met by the unpleasant bully, Carmelita Spats. The children must to the...

A remarkable sequel to the best-selling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....

Life is complicated enough already, but when you try to solve your big sister's relationship problems, it can only mean trouble!Rebecca isn't looking forward to school after a summer full...

My name is Rebecca Rafferty, and there are lots of things wrong with my life right now. 1. My boyfriend has moved to Canada. Canada! 2. I have annoyed my...

The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to 2012's number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked... War has finally come....

Fans of Clare Balding and Jacqueline Wilson will love this fun and heartwarming new adventure series for animal-mad 8-12 year olds from superstar equestrian influencer Esme Higgs!Summer has always loved...

'In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active....

A third mystery for thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly - a bold, determined heroine, and the star of this stylish new detective series. Agatha Oddlow is on the case with yet another...

Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for... the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning......

Did you know that : there are 700 ways of committing a foul in Quidditch? The game first began to evolve on Queerditch Marsh? What Bumphing is? That Puddlemere United...

The seventh instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe... Magic is a disease. Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers....

The apocalypse is coming to the woods, and Bunny and friends are the only ones who can stop it! But that's not all! Action Beaver becomes a superhero, Skunky's giant...

It's quiet in the woods today. Isn't it lovely? Really quiet. Really, very - WHAMMMM! KER-THWUMP!What's that?! It's Bunny and Monkey fighting with all sorts of crazy inventions . ....

Slither's Tale is the eleventh book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide!'My name is Slither, and before my tale is finished you'll find...

The second brilliant book in the Jack Beechwhistle series.The world's a dangerous place. Luckily, Jack Beechwhistle is around to protect it. He might look like an ordinary boy, but really...

Philip Pullman's groundbreaking HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy, now a thrilling and critically acclaimed BBC/HBO television series, available here in a TV tie-in paperback bind-up edition. First published in 1995, and...

Ellie, Magda and Nadine are back - but they're not very happy! Ellie's glorious romance with Russell is teetering on the rocks. Magda's lost her pet and is desperately upset...

A wonderful tale of family and fairies from the phenomenally successful Jacqueline Wilson. Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerising, controlling brother Will - by turns delightful...

Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny.When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived...

The fourth hilarious title in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud series, The World of Norm. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Norm knew it was going...

Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ..._______________Winner of the Children's Book PrizeWinner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2017Winner of the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the...

The ninth hilarious title in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud series, The World of Norm. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.Norm knew it was going to...

The sixth hilarious title in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud series, The World of Norm. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.Norm knew it was going to...

Mr Mack's inventing career has got off to a bad start \- he's been arrested! It's up to Jimmy, Robbie, Kayla and Rover the wonder-dog to: - Rescue Mr Mack...

'Nadine has a boyfriend. I can't believe it! How come Nadine's got a boyfriend before me?'Ellie, Nadine and Magda are three best friends who couldn't be more different - Ellie...

The fifth hilarious title in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud series, The World of Norm. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.Norm is back! And he knows...

This is one bumper book with three times the wedgie power! This is a bind-up of three best-selling titles featuring everyone's favourite super-hero, including: "Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot...

Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton...

Discovered as a newborn baby in a dustbin, April's life has never been easy. Moved from place to place, she has little sense of who she really is. After a...

Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny.Septimus faces a perilous quest to find Nicko and Snorri, who have been trapped back in time.Everyone at the...

George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their school - and now they're about to bring him to life! MEET CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS! HIS TRUE IDENTITY...

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago,...

Howl with laughter with the SECOND book in the hilarious full-colour, illustrated series, Dog Man, from the creator of Captain Underpants! Dog Man, the newest hero from the creator of...

The thirteenth (lucky for us!) title in the bestselling Tom Gates series of books from the brilliantly talented Liz Pichon. Having two sets of grandparents is turning out to be...

Isadora Moon is special because she's different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and she's a bit of both. When Isadora wins an amazing holiday...

Esper and Starn are twin boys who live in a grim world that has been almost laid waste by massive volcanic explosions. Very little grows in Orchard, which used to...