Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories

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  • Maisie vs the Himalayas

    £7.99

    When Maisie travels with her Dad to the Himalayas to research his book, ‘How to Find Buried Treasure’, she doesn’t expect their exploration to take them deep into the caves beneath the mountains. Before long, Maisie has discovered a cursed treasure, stolen a shark, been hunted as a thief, walked through an underground lake and outrun an explosion. Just another average day! Turns out there’s more to Maisie than she even realised herself, but will Dad tell her truth? Or is this secret just too dangerous?

  • Betsey’s Birthday Surprise

    £7.99

    It’s Betsey’s birthday and she’s been looking forward to it for ages. But when it seems like everyone has forgotten she decides to make herself a birthday treat. But Betsey’s in for a big surprise and so are her family!

  • The Moonlighters

    £8.99

    When ten-year-old Theo runs off from a school trip to London’s Natural History Museum and decides to pay his gran a surprise visit, he discovers the surprise is on him – his gran is on holiday and Theo finds himself alone in the big city with nowhere to turn. Enter Alistair Goodfellow, a mysterious, flamboyant young person with a charismatic twinkle in his eye. Alistair offers Theo a room at the Casablanca Lily – by day, a run-down and unloved hotel; by night, a palace of magical wonders. Each night, Alistair sends their found family of runaways and ne’er-do-wells, the Moonlighters, out into London in search of lost magical artefacts, gifting them their own magical powers as a reward. Theo is quickly enthralled, but there is more to Alistair than meets the eye, and soon Theo comes to realise that the items Alistair is hunting could be more dangerous than he’d ever imagined.

  • Baking Mix-Up

    £6.99

    Destiny is entering a baking contest! But she is disappointed when her cake doesn’t turn out how she hoped. After doodling in her sketchbook, Destiny has fun baking something different with her best friend. But will they win the competition?

  • Lottie Brooks vs the Ultra Mean Girls

    £14.99

    Just when Lottie thought life might be going back to normal, everything goes wrong again! Amber’s hanging out with the Ultra Mean Girl Gang at school and is completely ignoring the Queens of Eight Green. Mum’s gone back to work and expects Lottie to ‘help around the house more’, Bella keeps biting everyone and Pot Noodle will not stop sniffing every dog’s bum. DISASTER! Now Lottie has to come up with a foolproof plan to get Amber back before her friendship group is destroyed forever. What could go wrong? Join Lottie as she battles the mean girls, takes on school injections (apparently they can go through your arm!) and even more extremely embarrassing moments.

  • Alyssa and the Enchanted Forest

    £7.99

    When Alyssa accidentally transports herself and her cousins to the Jamaican spell garden, they have to work out a way back home before the end of the summer holidays. But the magical garden is inexplicably hostile and they will need to win it over in order to grow the right ingredients for their spell. They must learn more about their ancestors and their connection to the ancient magic as well as persuading the garden’s prickly guardian, Raheem, to help them. But when the very essence of the garden is threatened will their magic be enough to protect it?

  • Sister Showdown!

    £7.99

    Lately, Nikki’s little sister has been a TOTAL BRAT! But while Brianna is busy raiding her closet and taping a HIDEOUS drawing of Nikki on her bedroom door, Nikki has more important things to think out. It’s the end of summer and she has only 72 hours to completely reinvent herself before starting at Westchester Prep. Nikki is determined to be the COOLEST, CUTEST, SMARTEST, MOST INTRIGUING girl at school. But when disaster strikes and Brianna gets hold of Nikki’s most cherished items. her phone AND her diary, her world is turned upside down. Will an unexpected emergency ruin Nikki’s fabulous start to the new school year or, worse, ruin her relationship with wacky BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, and cute crush Brandon?