Children's fiction 8-12

  • Best friends forever

    £7.99

    The Bigg School series follows a class of kids who have just moved up to secondary school, the Henry Bigg Academy. Best Friends Forever tells Lola’s story – she and Evie have been BFF since they were babies but everything is about to change for Lola, and not in a good way!

  • The body in the Blitz

    £7.99

    March 1941. Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up children as spies – because grown-ups always underestimate them. Enter May, Eric and Nuala: courageous, smart, and the Ministry’s newest recruits. May’s big sister Hazel has arranged for them to stay on a quiet street close to the Ministry, home to an unlikely collection of people thrown together by the war. And it is in the basement of the bombed-out house at the end of that street that they discover something mysterious. Something that was not there when the Blitz wreckage was first combed through. Something that has been placed there recently. A body. Could this be the missing Ministry spy that Daisy Wells is on a dangerous mission in France to find? Or could it be someone else – someone a resident of the street wanted silenced?

  • Stepfather Christmas

    £7.99

    Written in an advent calendar structure (a chapter to read each day in December). 10-year-old Harper lives with her single mum and her older brother Will. All is happy and well, until Mum announces she is bringing her new boyfriend, Nick, home for the Christmas season. Nick is a bit – well – weird. He’s impossible to annoy, always jolly, an expert at fixing toys, has a white beard and works part-time on a reindeer farm – could he be Father Christmas? Harper certainly thinks so, no matter how much her brother tells her it’s nonsense – after all, after Nick arrives a reindeer shows up on the roof, a LOT of post suddenly starts coming for him, and snow falls but only seems to fill the family’s back garden! But when Nick starts spending unexplained time away from the family and keeping secrets, Harper and Will have to decide together if they really believe Nick is the big man himself.

  • Enchanted mist

    £6.99

    Maia knows that new girl Maddie Taylor wants to make friends, so when the whole school is suddenly fighting to spend time with her, the Star Friends are certain that magic is involved. But is Maddie behind it all?

  • Sky

    £6.99

    When Lara follows a beautiful white snowy owl into the forest, it’s just the start of an amazing journey back in time?

  • The night train

    £6.99

    With a shrill whistle the Night Train is off, delivering its passengers to children’s dreams. But when the train comes to an unexpected halt it’s a race against time to get it moving again. Can the yeti, the ballet dancer, the friendly monster and the princess work together to reach their dreams before midnight?

  • Mind control!

    £8.99

    Agent 9 is back in action at the Super-Secret Spy Service, and it couldn’t come at a better time. The next assignment? Stopping the Wolf, a cunning canine who’s been hired by the sinister organization DiViSiON to hunt down the final pieces of a mind-control device. It’s a mission of such paramount importance that Nine must do the unthinkable – work with a partner!

  • The November witches

    £8.99

    No witch is excited about gloomy magic-free November apart from young hag Clemmie who is relieved to finally be done with October’s magical mess. But if there’s no more magic, then where are all the armour-clad knights coming from? When even their enemy coven, the Morgans, don’t have any answers, the Merlyns are on the run. Neither the Morgan or Merlyn covens want to burn so they will have to work together to solve the mystery of where the witch-hunting knights and the all-engulfing flames are coming from. Will Clemmie be able to find her voice in time to save her family?

  • Trapped

    £7.99

    Hunted across the Salted Scorch by a vicious pack of raptors, Eleri and his friends become lost in the Fire Peak: the secret volcanic headquarters of the dreaded Carrion Kingdom. And they are not the only herbivores trapped within the enemy’s lair. Can the outcasts free a larder of prisoners and gather proof that the war is a lie – without becoming food themselves?

  • Tom’s midnight garden

    £7.99

    65th anniversary edition of this award-winning, timeless classic about Tom’s adventures in his secret, midnight garden.

  • The case of the haunted wardrobe

    £7.99

    Fayson has been dreaming of going back to the island ever since she left. But no sooner is she reunited with her friends than they start squabbling about membership of their new detective agency. The group has to get their act together fast, as a new case comes their way: a haunted wardrobe that keeps making a spine-chilling sound. More frightening still, each member of the agency receives letters threatening to reveal their closest secrets. With inspiration from her favourite mystery novels, Fayson must track down clues to get to the bottom of these strange events.