Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories

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  • Dory Fantasmagory

    £7.99

    Meet Dory – an irresistible scamp with a huge imagination. Dory’s the youngest in her family, which STINKS because it means everyone’s always too busy to play with her. Or worse! They call her too little to join in. Luckily Dory has plenty of friends to keep her company – even if everyone else says they’re just imaginary. And Dory has a lot to do: outsmarting the monsters that live in her house, escaping from prison (aka time-out) and exacting revenge on her sister’s favourite doll.

  • Dory Fantasmagory and the Real True Friend

    £7.99

    Dory’s so excited for her first day at school. Her big brother and sister warn her that if she wants to fit in she ought to leave her imaginary friend, Mary, at home – or better yet, her whole imagination! But being boring is just about as far from being Dory as you can get. And on her very first day she meets someone new, and wonderful – a little girl whose imagination and style are just about as wild as her own! Now all she has to do is convince her siblings that she’s not making it all up.

  • Heidi

    £14.99

    As a young orphan, Heidi is brought to live with her gruff grandfather in the Swiss Alps. There, the bright and cheerful girl soon wins his heart and befriends their neighbours, including the young goatherd, Peter.

  • Goodnight Mister Tom

    £16.99

    Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley – but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mum back in London.

  • Dork Diaries: OMG! All About Me Diary

    £7.99

    Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 60 million copies in print worldwide!

  • My Sister, the Freak

    £10.99

    From New York Times bestselling illustrator Dani Jones comes a heartfelt exploration of sisterhood, forgiveness, and outer space invasions.Mary Seaver lives in her own world. It’s not her fault if sometimes her enthusiasm creates chaos. To Mary, that’s what being 10 years old and a huge science fiction fan is all about. Allison “Al” Seaver is Mary’s older sister-and she’s everything that Mary is not: cool, calm, collected, and super popular.So it makes sense that when aliens invade their hometown of Pleasant Valley, Mary’s trying to warn everyone about the end of the world while Al’s just hoping it will all go away before the spring dance. But when a secret emerges from their family’s past, Mary and Al find themselves turning to their most unlikely ally: each other.Dive into Dani Jones’s debut original graphic novel, a hilariously tender investigation of sibling dynamics, aliens, and what it is that makes us human.

  • Robots Stole My Mum!

    £7.99

    I was in the corner shop buying a comic. Dad was waiting outside. I’d just given my money to Mr Norman, the shop owner, when it happened. Mr Norman’s head exploded. Something VERY WEIRD is going on in the sleepy town of Cleeby. All the grown-ups are acting strangely. Sandy and his friend Arjan have a suspicion. They think the grown-ups have all been replaced by ROBOTS. And everything points to the evil boss of the local toaster factory, Tony’s Toasters! Together with a very friendly cyborg named Colin, Sandy and Arjan must save the day – and Sandy’s mum – and get home in time for tea!

  • A Flood of Memories

    £8.99

    A beguiling and absorbing novel from the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Award: when Leila returns home to help her mother during flood season, she finds Arthur, the boy she's thought about since leaving school; but if she is to move on with her life, she must confront the past and its many demons… 

  • The Truth About Books

    £8.99

    An uplifting and exciting celebration of books and reading, perfect for young children.

  • A Great Day at the Beach

    £12.99

    Join a family determined to have a great day at the beach, a funny, heartwarming and relatable new picture book from exciting debut author-illustrator Rose Grover.