Secondhand Childrens Confident Reader Books

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...

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...

When Georges moves into a new apartment block he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Soon Georges has become his spy recruit. His first assignment? To track the mysterious Mr...

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...

Manolo has a simple dream: Become the best musician in San Angel and capture the heart of his friend, Maria. But Manolo's father wants him to carry on the family...

Ruby Redfort: undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius - there's nothing average about her. Only this time it's an adventure in the wild, and it'll take all Ruby's got just...

Fresh out of school, young Mariah faces a new chapter of his life living in the Prince Regent hotel built into the rockface of a cliffside. His job to to...

Winner of the Honour Award for Fiction, KPMG Irish Children's Book Awards, 2021.'A magnificent, shadowy, gothic adventure full of heart' Emma Carroll, author of Frost Hollow Hall.Sometimes the monsters take...

When Claudia Hodges-Bradley meets a fox, she knows it will be an extraordinary day. Not just any fox, this vixen is the magical familiar of the sorceress Morgana Shee. For...

The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination. Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat....

Volume II of The Archisan TalesTaya and Lorkrin's shape-changing Myunan tribe faces an invasion by Noran, which is intent on mining the valuable iron ore from their sacred mountain, Absaleth....

FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP. Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life - having lessons taught by...

Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed that anything is wrong,...

Lots of twins have a special connection - being able to finish each other's sentences; sensing what the other is thinking; perhaps even knowing when the other is in trouble...

When Prince Abu Ali, son of Aladdin, is born his destiny has already been foretold: he is the one who has been chosen to break the spell of the mysterious...

Alfie's house is invaded by flies. His fly-trap plant is too small to eat them all so the wise old plant uses magic to make it bigger.Then it gets BIGGER...

A rusty key opens a dusty box hidden in Alfie's grandad's shed. Inside is an old, old book -- with magical powers. The book promises Alfie a gift, but first...

Jonathan's father, Doctor Mordecai, is summoned to Rome to help the plague victims. The four young detectives are wanted too, as the Emperor Titus believes that they can find the...

Charlie McGuffin has an incredible secret . . .He can change into animals. All sorts of animals: a flea, a pigeon, even a rhino.Trouble is, he can't decide when -...

'The devil walks...But the devil can make no headway if he has no help. We must invite him in...' Raised in secrecy by a mother everyone thinks has gone mad,...

Camazotz has been vanquished, but our band of heroes face a whole new terror...Back in London, the outbreak of a strange new disease causes Jack, Ben and Emily to become...

Schoolboy turns secret agent in this hilarious spy spoof!Before you read this, I want you to carefully check that no-one is reading over your shoulder - go ahead, do it...

Join Amelia and her friends in these three best-selling tales of adventure, fun and laughter.

A terrible sect has arisen is Dullitch: they're dark, they're deadly and they're even more hell bent on the destruction of the city than the citizens themselves. All that stands...

London docks, twilight, 1850...Twelve-year-old Jack Harkett sees a huge ship sail into port. he also sees a flock of black creatures fly from the ship and disappear over the streets...

Lord Curfew has been returned to Dullitch, but things are not as they seem. The real Lord Curfew was brutally murdered and now an evil impostor sits on his throne....

A dark enemy is about to make its presence felt in Dullitch ...something even more twisted and evil than the citizens themselves. But for Enoch Dwellings, famed investigator, it's a...

From the esteemed New York Times bestselling and multi-award-winning author Mac Barnett comes a thrilling, hilarious fully-illustrated new spy adventure series! Before Mac Barnett was an author, he was a...

When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is furious. So furious he locks her in a tower. She has seven long years...

The dreadful secret that Torak carries with him at the close of SOUL EATER is revealed and he is cast out from the clans. It's his fourteenth summer. He's alone,...

Hermux is drawn into intrigue when his artist friend tackles a taboo subject - cats. Then, Birch, a chipmunk once drummed out of town for deciphering an ancient map of...

It's a world where everything might seem pretty normal. But the weird, the surprising and the truly terrifying are lurking just out of sight. Like a hitchhiker who isn't quite...

This bind-up combines Groosham Grange, the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, with its gripping sequel, Return to Groosham Grange.David quickly discovers that his new school, Groosham Grange, is a...

The sparkling debut children's novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a...

It's spring 1919. Ireland's War of Independence has just begun. In a cottage in County Westmeath, thirteen-year-old Colm Conneely longs to join the local Volunteers, the 'Rainbow Chasers' who dream...

My family always live at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad me and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with...

"All's fair in love and war and ballet." Fifteen-year-old Erik Shaw loves dancing. He doesn't care that he's the only boy in his ballet class or about the remarks people...

A stunning classic horror story - perfect for fans of Mary Shelley! '[A] wonderful twisted gothic novel ... [an] evocation of a weird and wonderful world with compulsive characters and...

Janey Brown thought she was an only child. Now 'Joanie' has turned up claiming to be Janey's secret twin! But when Jane Blonde is posted to Australia to investigate a...

A spellbinding children's story from from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo - now with a brand new cover look. Toby Jenkins doesn't like boarding school. He...

A lively, gorgeously illustrated story from Dynamic Duo, Reeve and McIntyre!Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid, and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes...

What's the best way to sneak onto a film set? Why do grown-ups trust you more when you're carrying a baby? Is pizza a pizza without mozzarella cheese? What do...

A thrilling, wintry Nordic epic from the magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell, weaving a tale of legend, magic and adventure which will grip and enchant...

Merle, the Flowing Queen, Junipa and Vermithrax the stone lion are in snow-bound Egypt, surrounded by ice, mirrors and sphinxes. They encounter Seth, the Pharoah's dangerous chief priest. Why is...