Children's fiction 8-12

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  • Hide and Seek

    £7.99

    Nobody knows who started the Darkive. It’s a database filled with first-hand accounts of strange, unexplained experiences. Ghosts; paranormal entities; weird anomalies. Each one is stored with a bank of evidence to prove the story. Are you ready to dive in? Adam didn’t think his summer holiday could get any worse. His camping trip with his best friend, Sol, seems to be doomed. They’ve been arguing, and now they find themselves in a strange, abandoned town, where they are told to take part in a game of hide-and-seek. But the rules are hard to follow. And who, or what, are they hiding from?

  • The Poisoned King

    £14.99

    Return to the magic of the Archipelago? The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell’s epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.

  • Nora Nightsky

    £6.99

    A funny, gorgeously illustrated young fiction series about a starcome to earth! Instead of granting wishes, Nora is on a missionto teach humans a lesson… But she’s still ready to lend a sprinkleof stardust! Ideal for readers aged 6-9, the perfect next stepfor Isadora Moon fans or readers of Sibéal Pounder and LauraEllen Anderson.

  • Peril at Owl Park

    £7.99

    Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is eager to spend the holidays at Owl Park, an enormous manor house in the country. Owl Park holds many delights, including a troupe of travelling actors, glamorous visitors from Ceylon, a secret passage and an emerald with a curse! Aggie refuses to believe there’s anything to the superstition, until she and her friends discover a body instead of presents on Christmas morning. Aggie and Hector must once again put their deductive skills and imaginations to work and find a murderer on the loose.

  • A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos

    £7.99

    Vinir, the luscious-locked elven menace is staying in Midgard. To preserve the peace and prevent him from trying to murder Loki (again), Odin sends the goddess Freyja to keep an eye on things.Soon, strange things start to happen. Thor receives mysterious fan mail, Valerie and Georgina start bickering and, worst of all, Heimdall develops a crush on Loki’s teacher!With friends turning into enemies and enemies into friends, it’s up to Loki – and (horrifyingly) Vinir – to figure out what mischief is afoot.

  • The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam

    £7.99

    A mythical timeslip story about family, love, loss and memory, with an epic sea voyage at its heart, inspired by the legend of Odysseus.

  • Selfie Queen

    £7.99

    Cleo's obsession with popularity and perfection is about to collide with the new reality of having to wear braces (her worst nightmare) and an unlikely group project that just might change her perspective forever.

  • The White Giraffe

    £8.99

    Martine is eleven when she goes to live on a game reserve in Africa, a place where mysteries and secrets abound, where the intoxicating magic of the country casts all sorts of spells. One lonely night, she looks out of her window and sees a young giraffe, silver tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight. ‘For a split second their eyes locked, the small sad girl and the slender young giraffe, then the sky went dark. Martine pressed her face to the window, desperate to see the white giraffe again’. In that instant Martine knows that she is prepared to risk everything for it. The giraffe looks at her as if it is waiting.

  • Sin Bin Island

    £7.99

    At the end of each year, four pupils from Cyril Sniggs’s Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls are banished to Sin Bin Island, an eerie place surrounded by eel-infested waters. Legend has it, the island has a secret tunnel, used to smuggle magic into mainland England. But in over 300 years the tunnel has never been found. Nor has any of the magic. This year, all that’s going to change.

  • The Golden Linnet

    £8.99

    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING CHILDREN’S DEBUT FICTION BOOK *

    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING CHILDREN’S HARDBACK FICTION BOOK *

  • Seeds of Doom

    £7.99

    Budding film-maker Jermaine is at his great-great uncle’s Dead Yard, a service for the deceased that lasts the entire night. There’s music, tons of people and lots of food, so when Jermaine spots a plate of patties – his favourite snack – he digs in immediately. But upon taking a bite he finds himself in big trouble. Turns out that at a Dead Yard, a table is set up under a tent with food for the departed loved one. No one is allowed to eat from it before midnight, which is believed to be the time when the spirit passes through. Jermaine wishes he knew that before 22:53! Now he’s got the angry spirit of his Uncle Carl in his life. ALL. THE. TIME. But that isn’t the only creepy happening in town. Kids are suffering from a mysterious illness that sounds A LOT like the Jamaican ghost tales his great gran has told him.

  • Girl From Outer Space

    £7.99

    Meet Luna Grace the girl from outer space! Luna Grace and her family arrive on Earth at midnight. Luna is from Starbright, a colourful planet in another galaxy, and they have come to Earth to study its wonderful wildlife. The mission is simple – Luna and her family need to fit in with their new neighbours down on Earth. But fitting in is hard to do when your hair changes colour depending how you feel, you can move things with your mind and you have a mischievous moon cat called Twizzle! Luna is determined to try her best, but as she embarks on her first day at school, things get cosmically out of control! What can Luna do to make herself like her new classmates? Or will she find the courage to be different?

  • Small Wonder

    £7.99

    Small Wonder lives peacefully at the edge of Ellia, along with his little brother and faithful horse. But then a deadly assassin descends. Enemies are invading and the kingdom is in danger. Small Wonder has six moons to get to Kings’ Keep and warn their ruler. Travelling forests and mountains, encountering bandits and rogue knights, Small Wonder is determined to honour his grandfather’s last advice. Make it count.