Secondhand Childrens Confident Reader Books

September is a twelve-year-old girl, Somewhat Grown and Somewhat Heartless, and she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind and a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland...

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...

The fourth, thrilling episode in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series.In the fourth book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex is...

Yola's leg is blown off by a landmine and her life in Africa is changed forever. When Yola travels to Ireland to be fitted with an artificial leg and meets...

'What is he? A friend, or an enemy'? 'He is a murderer'. Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his...

Orphan Johnny Dunne has fled Balbriggan, where he spied for the rebels in Ireland's War of Independence. Now he has a new and even more dangerous mission. Rebel leader Michael...

Still reeling from the discovery he made about his father, teenage M16 superspy Alex Rider is determined to find out more. He travels to Italy where he manages to infiltrate...

The Third Wheel is the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant, bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Perfect for readers of 8+ and all the millions of...

The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

Join your favourite blue-haired heroine, Hilda, as she heads to Scout Camp, hoping for the most normal scouting expedition ever. But, when her expedition map gets lost and she encounters...

Ruby Rogers is about to turn ten. She wants to be a gangster when she grows up. She also wants nothing more than a tree house for her birthday. Problem...

A stellar novel about space, starting over and the best friend you could ever imagine.Ralph sat up. His voice was croaky. 'If a shooting star past right now, what would...

Facts meet fiction in this exciting, intricate Victorian detective story!Jane Pinny has moved to the very grand Lytton House to be a Maid Of All Work. And being a Maid...

Danny and Elena are now working for the Firm, desperately attempting to track down the vengeance-seeking Black Star before more Angels of Death suicide bombers are despatched. Elena is the...

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you,...

"Ireland's answer to JK Rowling." Sunday Independent "One of the best Irish books of all time." TV3AM"A classic hero in the making." Parent TalkFrom twice-winning author of Ireland's CBI Book...

Luke is now just one relic away from opening the doorway back to his own world and taking his parents from the terrors of Scream Street - but the final...

'I wish I had a dog . . . It could be a big dog or a little one. It could be any colour or breed. Just most of all...

"I was twelve years of age when I chopped off my hair, dressed as a boy, and set off to save my family from impending ruin. I made it almost...

For fans of How to Train Your Dragon and The Hobbit the sizzling, magical fantasy adventure that began with A Darkness of Dragons continues...Brave friends Patch, Wren and Barver are...

Set in the nineteenth century, a boy working in the dining car of the Great Midland West Ireland Railway is asked by the mysterious Mr Cink to judge a story...

Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny. In the fifth book of this Magykal series, Septimus and his friends find themselves on an island whose...

Legends tell how Belgarath the sorcerer and his daughter Polgara defeated the evil God Torak, imprisoning him in an endless sleep. But now a priest of Torak is racing to...

A hilarious tale of history come to life, from former children's laureate and master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. Living with a ghost can have its difficulties, I discovered, even if he...

Introducing Miss Ottoline Brown, an exceptionally inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, Mr Munroe. Ottoline and the Yellow Cat is a quirky mystery-adventure from Chris Riddell, author...

The third 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...

Jemma knows who did the murder. She knows because he told her. And she can't tell anyone. Fourteen-year-old Jemma has severe cerebral palsy. Unable to communicate or move, she relies...

Packed full of beautiful black-and-white illustrations, Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death is the second in this ghostly, funny series from the Costa Award winner Chris Riddell.Preparations for...

Everyone's heard of it, but nobody's read it... Seth and Kady have heard all the stories about MALICE - a secret comic about a strange and awful world full of...

On her thirteenth birthday, Blue makes a desperate wish. To be transformed into a cool, confident teenager. Enter Red, appearing from nowhere like a wacky fairy godmother. She's only visible...

This sensitive and unforgettable story is about the relationship between a fourteen-year-old girl, determined to escape the poverty of her upbringing, and a struggling single mother for whom she babysits....

Waterstones Scottish Children's Book of the MonthYears ago, the Emperor used dark magic to steal all the colour from the world. Now he keeps it for himself, enjoying its life-giving...

A rollicking fairy-tale adventure full of magical mayhem, from the makers of The Adventures of Alfie Onion, The Cherry Pie Princess and Tom & Tallulah and the Witches' Feast.Pippin Potts...

The Join the Dots Detectives: Dot, Beans and McClusky are back on the case in a third, brand-new mystery! Dot and Beans can't wait for their school trip to Adventure...