Trouble According to Humphrey

Author: Betty G Birney

This is Humphrey’s third adventure with the pupils of Longfellow School and this time Humphrey is up to his furry, chubby cheeks in trouble. There’s trouble for Pay-Attention-Art as his…

More

No Ballet Shoes in Syria

Author: Catherine Bruton

A girl finds comfort in ballet lessons as she adjusts to life in Britain after fleeing Syria with her family. Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in…

More

Hero

Author: Sarah Lean

Leo has a brilliant imagination and he uses it to daydream about being a heroic Gladiator in a Roman Amphitheatre. In the real world, Leo feels anything but heroic but…

More

Earth to Daniel

Author: Gwyneth Rees

A boy has to cope with his mother’s re-emerging mental illness. Daniel knows that his mum was very ill with mental illness when his sister was a baby. Although Daniel…

More

Dork Diaries

Author: Rachel Renee Russell

Follows the diary of a 14-year-old teenager when she moves to a new school. Nikki Maxwell is not popular, in fact Nikki Maxwell is the opposite of popular; she’s a…

More

Dirty Bertie: Worms

Author: Alan MacDonald

Meet Dirty Bertie – a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits! He’s full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it’s trouble you’re after, look no further –…

More

The Longest Night of Charlie Noon

Author: Christopher Edge

Three friends venture into the woods to discover what secrets lie at the heart of it. This is so much more than an adventure story. Discussing time and quantum physics,…

More

Casper Candlewacks in Death by Pigeon

Author: Ivan Brett

Casper is a bright boy, who lives in a village full of idiots, making him a bit different! Everyone, except Casper, is very excited when famous magician, The Great Tiramisu,…

More

Ella on the Outside

Author: Cath Howe

Ella is starting a new school, but she is missing her old home, her friends and her dad. Ella would love to make friends, but she has a family secret,…

More

Cloud Boy

Author: Marcia Williams

A girl keeps a diary as she learns more about her grandmother’s time in a World War 2 prison camp, and her best friend becomes increasingly ill with a brain tumour….

More

Mr Gum and the Power Crystals

Author: Andy Stanton

Hang on to your heads and eyeballs as you are whisked to the land of talking dogs, silly songs, and the best chase scene you’ve ever read. You may even…

More

The Accidental Prime Minister

Author: Tom McLaughlin

If you like books that make you laugh out loud, have a very good baddie and lots of silly adults, then this is the book for you! When a video…

More

The Garbage King

Author: Elizabeth Laird

Set in Ethiopia, this is a moving story about two runaways from very different backgrounds as they struggle to survive on the streets of Addis Ababa. Mamo is a poor…

More

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Author: Jeff Kinney

Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school, where undersized weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving.  Desperate to…

More

Kick

Author: Mitch Johnson

An award-winning debut novel from Mitch Johnson, which was endorsed by Amnesty International due to the themes of Children’s Rights that run throughout the story. Budi dreams all the time…

More

Sky Song

Author: Abi Elphinstone

Two children set off on a quest to defeat the evil Ice Queen who keeps their world in her icy grip. Eska is trapped in a music box by the…

More

The Storm Keeper’s Island

Author: Catherine Doyle

When eleven-year-old Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, he is drawn in to the magical legacy of his family, and the ongoing battle between the Morrigan and Dagda Fionn…

More

Frog the Barbarian

Author: Guy Bass

The second hilarious tale about a frog on a serious mission, in a world where nobody is sure what the bumbles is going on! Frog has saved the princess (and…

More

Boy Underwater

Author: Adam Baron

A funny and touching story about nine-year-old Cymbeline Igloo, who turns detective to discover the family secret that has led to his mother’s breakdown. Cymbeline Igloo has never been swimming,…

More

The Last Wild

Author: Piers Torday

Gripping adventure that leaves you wanting to read the rest of the series. Kester Jaynes is 12 years old, locked away in the awful Spectrum Hall Academy for Challenging Children,…

More

The Boy Who Grew Dragons

Author: Andy Shepherd

Tomas picks some fruit from a strange tree at the bottom of his Grandad’s garden and has no idea that as a result he will have a pet dragon to…

More

Just Jack

Author: Kate Scott

Jack has just started yet another school. He will just keep others at a distance and not be himself again, won’t he? However, he hadn’t imagined meeting Tyler! A warm…

More

The Skylarks’ War

Author: Hilary McKay

A wonderful historical novel of growing up in the shadow of World War 1. The Skylarks War won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2018. Clarry and Peter’s mother died…

More

The Elsewhere Emporium

Author: Ross MacKenzie

This is the second book in The Nowhere Emporium trilogy, with The Otherwhere Emporium completing the trilogy. The Nowhere Emporium has been stolen and Daniel and Ellie must find it…

More

You Can’t Make Me Go To Witch School!

Author: Em Lynas

Daisy Wart dreams of being a Shakespearian actor and wants everyone to see her Bottom … her performance in Bottom the play, that is. BUT she is absolutely NOT a…

More

Tin

Author: Padraig Kenny

In a steampunk 1930s Britain, a group of mechanicals (robots) set out to save not only their friend but also the country from being destroyed by the plans of a…

More

Cosmic

Author: Frank Cottrell-Boyce

An 11 year old boy, who is too big for his school blazer and looks much older than he is, competes with a group of adults to lead a space…

More

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

Author: Lauren Child

Clarice Bean likes to daydream although she thinks it’s because her head has too much information in it. If only the awful teacher, Mrs Wilberton, would let her just read…

More

I, Cosmo

Author: Carlie Sorosiak

Cosmo, the golden retriever, tells his story about attempting to save his human family, become a star and eat lots of bacon! Cosmo’s family is falling apart. The human mum…

More

My Parents Cancelled My Birthday

Author: Jo Simmons

A 10-year-old boy has big plans for his birthday, but he seems doomed to disaster! Due to several crises within the family, Tom’s birthday party is on hold. It’s a…

More

The Girl Savage

Author: Katherine Rundell

Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can’t prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this “gripping, magical, and heartwarming tale of resilience, friendship,…

More

Stig of the Dump

Author: Clive King

Barney wanders to the edge of the disused chalk pit, falls in when the ground gives way and ends up in a kind of cave where he meets Stig. Barney…

More

Boot

Author: Shane Hegarty

A robot tries to find his way back to his owner after he wakes up damaged in a scrapyard. Boot has only two-and-a-half memories and a broken screen. He remembers…

More

Beyond the Odyssey

Author: Maz Evans

Elliot embarks on a dangerous odyssey to find a magical potion that could save his mum. Along the way he makes a few discoveries about himself, his family and his…

More

Help! I Smell A Monster

Author: Justin Davies

If you like your books to be monstrously funny and full of adventure, then this is for you. Alice MacAlister is afraid of three things, flying, snakes AND dogs. When…

More

The Astounding Broccoli Boy

Author: Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Rory Rooney and Tommy-Lee Komissky are not the best of friends, so when they find themselves in an isolation ward because they have both turned green, it’s really not ideal….

More

Swimming Against the Storm

Author: Jess Butterworth

Disaster strikes when Avery goes missing and a storm is coming, putting their lives at risk in the search to find Avery. Will they be able to save the village…

More

Icarus Was Ridiculous

Author: Pamela Butchart

Izzy is back and this time she’s telling us all about four Ancient Greek Myths, but in a way that only Izzy would do!  A funny and accessible way for…

More

The Star Outside My Window

Author: Onjali K. Rauf

That new star up there must be my mum! Aniyah runs away from her foster home to the Royal Observatory to try to get the new star named after her…

More

Ferryman

Author: Claire McFall

When teenager Dylan pulls herself free from a train wreck and emerges onto an almost deserted Scottish hillside, she believes she is the only survivor. Seeing the figure of a…

More