The Snake-stone
James is adopted. He knows that to work out his future he has to make sense of his past. He embarks on a journey to find his birth-mother who tells her own story in this moving and powerful novel.
Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction
Lord of the Nutcracker Men
A young boy gradually comes to understand the difference between his toy soldiers and the bloodshed of the First World War in this poignant story.
The Lost Diary of Shakespeare’s Ghostwriter
The eighth Lost Diary – factually accurate, fictionally funny! William Shakespeare himself needs no introduction, but not everyone knows the secrets of his success!
Chums – Buster (Chums)
Four stray dogs all with a story to tell of their rescue and how they came to live at Munchy Flats Cottage with their people Flossie and Jo. Buster is the boss dog, and he tells the stories…
First Modern Classics – I, Houdini (First Modern Classics)
Houdini is no ordinary hamster. He is an escapologist with an exceptional talent for getting out of cages and urge to escape leads him to all kinds of adventures…New edition published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers.
The Key to the Indian: New edition
The fifth title in this gripping series about Omri and his plastic North American Indian – Little Bull – who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard
Return of the Indian: New edition
Omri has never forgotten Little Bull though, and finally yields to the temptation to see his tiny blood brother again.