Secondhand Childrens Confident Reader Books

From the former Children's Laureate and author of international phenomenon War Horse comes a moving tale celebrating the bright light of humanity surviving even in the darkest conflict.Travelling to the...

Grandad has lost his car and Lenny is helping him to look for it.But Grandad is acting very strange ... even stranger than normal.Lenny has to find out what's wrong...

From David Baddiel, the brightest new star of children's books and winner of the LOLLIES award, comes a laugh-out-loud adventure for every child who ever wondered what it might be...

Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca.Readers...

In the third instalment of the Eddie Dickens saga, our hero finds himself en route to North America with some of the most disreputable prospectors anyone might have the misfortune...

Introducing Rhianna Pendragon: unlikely princess and Camelot's last hope.It is the darkest hour of the darkest Age. King Arthur is dead, killed by his wicked nephew, Mordred. Saxon invaders rampage...

Suze is in deep. She loves gorgeous, ghostly Jesse but fellow mediator, Paul Slater, is determined to win her heart. And evil Paul knows how to blast Jesse to the...

"Tim," I asked. "What's the French for 'murder'?" Tim shrugged. "Why do you want to know?" "I don't know." I stepped onto the escalator and let it carry me down....

More chills and thrills in Darren Shan's latest Demonata title. Let the Slawter commence... "Never trust fairy tales. There are no happy endings. There's always something new around the corner....

Meg Finn is in trouble. Unearthly trouble. Cast out of her own home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg is a wanderer, a troublemaker. But after a botched...

Reluctant teenage superspy Alex Rider is useful to the national security services in ways an adult could never be. Now they require his help once again: for a routine reconnaissance...

Haoyou knows that his father's spirit lives among the clouds above Ancient China. He also knows that to save his mother from being forced into a new marriage he must...

Cindy, a with-it and cynical young teen, still traumatised by her mother's recent death, is appalled when her father falls in love with one of her teachers, a woman with...

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Secret Starling and The Accidental Stowaway - a spectacular adventure set through and under the streets of Paris.When...

A brand new, funny and quirky story based on E.A. Wyke-Smith's classic, the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, featuring wonderful illustrations from Melissa Castrillon! PRAISE FOR THE HALLOWEEDS: 'A...

Emma and Saffie are going to stay with their grandparents for the summer to learn how to use their superpowers. Grandma has powers too, but Grandpa doesn't, and he definitely...

_______________'This is a witch story like no other - and it's a blast!' - Bookseller'Brilliantly magical' - Tom Fletcher Book Club_______________The first book in the hilarious Witch Wars series for...

Neil and Lizzie's Dad is a Weatherman. But not the boring kind that you see on TV. He's one of the people who make sure that the Seasons change every...

The seventh instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to the number-one bestseller, Death Bringer... Magic is a disease. Across the...

For Polly, moving to Penhallow Hall is the fresh start she's been longing for since the death of her father. Her mum has got a job managing the stately home...

Eleven-year-old Hannah Hallett has loved baking all her life and is endlessly coming up with amazing new ideas. Her mum's just the same - and now she's moved the whole...

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2012A hair-raising family adventure that will have you howling with enjoyment! Fourteen-year-old Mariel returns to England for her grandmother's funeral. It is the...

Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders.Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying.Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces.Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water.Which is why this may...

Small, but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a farmer when she grows up. In this book she gets a dog that she calls "Puddle", makes...

The story of one man's uncommon experiences with a dog who was determined to have nothing whatsoever to do with him. Steven Winn wanted a dog for his family -...

Mildred Hubble is sure that the new term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches is going to go brilliantly. She has prepared the best Holiday Project ever - she's certain...

Get ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. Rachel and Kirsty have been invited to meet the seven nieces...

Everybody loves the BFG. Now children can bring him to life!David Wood has created seven short plays to read and perform. With notes on simple staging, props and costumes, the...

Will has four brothers and it's chaos in his house! If he's not being teased by his big brother Marty, he has to deal with the terrible, three-headed bundle of...

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...

Polly and her new ghostly friends William, Rex and Magnus wake Li-Mei, the Chinese porcelain Fu Dog from the Red Drawing Room. The little Pekinese tells them her adventures with...

Tom would do anything not to have to stay on Aunt Millie's farm while his parents are away - he likes the city and hates climbing trees. But once there,...

Rachel and her brother are extraordinary. She is a spell-maker. He is a destroyer of spells. The High Witch, Heebra, wants Rachel and Eric crushed, and her enemies, the Wizard's,...

King Arthur's soul lingers in Avalon's enchanted halls, while his daughter Rhianna seeks the four magical Lights that can bring him back to life. She must venture deep into Dragonland...

Granny Smith is an ordinary little old lady when something extraordinary happens. She is struck by rays from a super machine and becomes ... Super Gran! Extra fast, strong, with...

From the author of Lily at Lissadell and the 'Alice & Megan', 'Eva' and 'Time After Time' seriesLissadell House, Sligo, 1913Friends Lily and Nellie work long hard hours as housemaids...