Hodder Children's Books

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  • The Spiral Key

    £9.99

    What if your enemy could make your existence hell – both in real and virtual life? For one night, a few lucky students get to enter Ametrine, a virtual paradise designed to be the party of the year – an unforgettable celebration that will secure their social status in the real world. As Madison’s hated ex-BFF, Bree Benson never receives a key. Until now. Despite warnings from her boyfriend, Bree sees the invite as an olive branch, the perfect opportunity to rekindle her once-amazing friendship with Madison. But as the party games begin to turn violent, Bree finds that Ametrine might not be the virtual paradise she was promised. And that Madison may have let Bree enter Ametrine, but she has no intention of ever letting her leave. Can Bree turn the tables in time to survive and fight back?

  • The Lions’ Run

    £14.99

    Petit éclair. That’s what the other boys at the orphanage call Lucas DuBois. Lucas is tired of his cowardly reputation, just as he’s tired of the war and the Nazi occupation of his French village. He longs to show how brave he can be. He gets the chance when he saves a litter of kittens from cruel boys and brings them to an abandoned stable to care for them. There he comes upon a stranger who is none too happy to see him: Alice, the daughter of a British horse trainer, who is hiding her filly from German soldiers. Soon Lucas begins to realise they are not the only ones in the village with secrets. The housekeeper at the German maternity home and a priest at the orphanage pass coded messages; a young mother at the home makes dangerous plans to keep her baby from forced adoption; and a neighbour in town may be harbouring a Jewish family.

  • Emily vs Gravity

    £12.99

    What comes up must come down! When Bear falls at Emily’s feet, she is determined to get him back where he belongs. But Gravity keeps pulling Bear straight back down. So, Emily makes it her mission to defy Gravity and make the impossible, possible! This empowering picture book is about the forces that keep us grounded, and the equally powerful forces of determination, knowledge and human ingenuity that allow us to fly.

  • Boss of the underworld: Shirley vs the Huge Beast

    £7.99

    Shirley follows her cockroach companion George into the Under-Underworld and finds herself immediately crowned as queen. With Peels, a banana-skin royalist, Shirley travels across the junkyard of this new world to rescue George and confront the Giant Beast who has been terrorising the land.

  • Five and the Smuggler’s Code

    £7.99

    Maddy, Fran, Tom and Gilbert can’t wait for their holiday with Professor George at Kirrin Cottage. But when they arrive, they realise George is missing. They follow her to an old house called Smuggler’s Top, full of secret tunnels and ancient hiding places, where they discover a master criminal who must be stopped at all costs.

  • Mystery Most Puzzling

    £7.99

    When someone steals the ashes of Gothica City’s vampire mayor, Werelock’s mother is wrongly accused. Desperate to prove her innocence and bring the mayor back to unlife, Werelock and Scratch are launched into the ultimate treasure hunt. All clues point to the mayor’s long-hidden, dangerous mind-controlling potions. Our daring duo, along with you, dear reader, must race to find the potions before they fall into the wrong hands. Will Werelock and Scratch succeed, or will they fall into a villain’s mind-control trap?

  • Doom of the darkwing

    £7.99

    Join Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and his dragons, Toothless and Windwalker, in their hilarious, hair-raising adventures at the Isle of Berk’s Training School for Vikings and Dragons. Where they are bottom in pretty much everything. Disastrous Lesson Number One: The Art of Battle. It was supposed to be a quiet, sensible lesson. Hiccup never meant to get into trouble. But things take an unexpected turn along the way and Hiccup and his friends soon find themselves adrift on stormy seas, in a sinking ship, facing imminent doom, in one of their biggest adventures ever. Packed with illustrations, action and a highly accessible text, this series is perfect for developing readers, and the millions of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ fans worldwide.

  • Boss of the Underworld 1: Shirley vs the Green Menace

    £7.99

    Join Shirley and her giant cockroach friend, George, on a strange adventure through the Underworld. Will they triumph over scary foes, resist eating delicious things in the forest, navigate the Bog of Intense Emotions, and find their way into the dark sewers to confront the Green Menace? There are many ways into the Underworld, but only one way out!

  • Five and the forgotten treasure

    £7.99

    When Fran, Tom, Maddy and Gilbert the dog stay with Professor George Kirrin for the holidays, they soon find themselves caught up in a robbery of a top-secret treasure map. Professor George will have to tell them about an old case of the Famous Five if they’re ever going to catch the thief and rescue the forgotten treasure.

  • I must betray you

    £9.99

    Cristian has lived his entire life in the grip of a repressive dictatorship. The country is governed by fear. When the secret police blackmail him, Cristian has an impossible choice. Save the life of his sick grandfather by informing on his family, or risk his life – and all of theirs – by resisting? At 17, Cristian dreams of being free but doesn’t know where to turn. In this climate of constant suspicion, can he trust his best friend, his girlfriend or even his family?