Children's fiction 8-12

  • The last castaways

    £6.99

    Grandfather, Roo and the Captain take off for a fishing trip to the Great Cod Banks in the Forgotten Sea, but the trip ends in disaster when the boat sinks and they are cast away on a desert island. How will they survive – and whose footprint do they find on the beach?

  • Roman Mysteries 02 Secrets Of Vesuvius

    £7.99

    Flavia Gemina and her three friends Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus go off to Pompeii for the summer to stay with Flavia’s uncle. They are on the brink of solving a murder mystery when Vesuvius erupts and they have to flee for their lives.

  • Roman Mysteries 01 Thieves Of Ostia

    £7.99

    Flavia Gemina is brilliant at finding things, so she solves mysteries. The daughter of a ship’s captain living in Ostia in AD 79, she acquires three friends who help her work out who severed the heads of the watchdogs that guard people’s homes.

  • Artemis Fowl

    Artemis Fowl

    £6.99

    12-year-old villain Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he’s taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit).

  • Arthur & The Seeing Stone

    £7.99

    This is the first volume in a trilogy that interweaves the Arthurian legends with a story of medieval times. The 100 short chapters are almost like snapshots, not only of the mythical past of King Arthur but the real, uncomfortable Middle Ages.

  • Ice Palace

    £6.99

    No one sees Starjik and his hungry wolves when they come in the dead of night, but always a child is missing in the morning. Who can rid the land of this curse and melt the fear in its people’s hearts?