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Can you find happiness anywhere? Anywhere at all?
In the chaos of breaktime, one boy sits perfectly still, alone on top of the wall. Those who don’t know him are baffled. But by the end of his first year at Winfield School, everyone has learned to prize Finley’s gift for quiet contentedness.
A change in classroom seating arrangements challenges old habits and leads to a new friendship in this funny new school story from award-winning author Anne Fine.
As best friends should, Jamie and Angus share everything. Join them as they have fun at their birthday party, think up some new ways to cry, and deal with a naughty pet gerbil.
Accompanying his engineer father on a work trip, Louie is stranded by an earthquake in an isolated world peopled by ghostly figures. Overwhelmed by the misery of the silent Endlanders and grieving the loss of his own brother, Louie realises there is something he can do to help them all face the future again. But will he find the courage to do it?
Every teenager remembers when they realised how disappointing their parents actually are. Scarlet’s feeling that in spades. Her mum has left for a new life with a new love, and her dad’s just hopeless. She’s feeling stuck in the middle. So when her mum gives her the notebook, Scarlet decides there’s only one thing she can write in it – the truth, about everything!
Once best friends, always best friends. Nothing can come between Jamie and Angus – a boy and his toy Highland bull. Join them as they tackle a lively play mate, get muddled in a pretend game, and discover that playing isn’t fun unless they are doing it together. These heartwarming stories for young readers are filled with playful adventures and lessons in just how wonderful friends can be. They are brought to life with enchanting black and white illustrations from the celebrated author-illustrator Sam Usher.
Kitty Killin is not just a brilliant story-teller, but also the World’s Great Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwelcome boyfriends. So it’s no surprise that she’s the one chosen to sort out classmate Helly, who’s gone into meltdown. Kitty decides to share her story about old Goggle-eyes – possibly one of the worst episodes in her life.
When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright’s class don’t get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies – sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times. Funny and poignant, ‘Flour Babies’ is a brilliant depiction of secondary school life.
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil. But all that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual cleaning lady. Soon the Hilliard children discover that there’s more to Madame Doubtfire than domestic talents.
Tuffy doesn’t feel wanted at home any more. His owners just don’t appreciate him. So what if he broke the new TV? Got fur on all Dad’s clean clothes? Ate Tinkerbell the kitten’s special kitten-food? All accidents! But they’re making such a fuss! So Tuffy decides to make a break for it. He bids farewell to the gang – Snowball, Tiger and Bella – and runs away. But starting a new life isn’t easy, and soon Tuffy starts to wonder if he’s made a terrible mistake.
An installment in Anne Fine’s popular ‘Killer Cat’ series, this book finds Tuffy the Killer Cat celebrating his birthday – on Halloween night!
The Killer Cat has his own special brand of art criticism – and Ellie’s mum’s new art-class creations don’t stand a chance! A scratch here just happens to shred a painting; a nudge there somehow slips a clay pot off a shelf. Dad hopes a particularly hideous sculpture will be next, but the Killer Cat’s having none of it.
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