Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories

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  • The comet

    £8.99
    The beautiful and thought-provoking new book from the award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator Joe Todd-Stanton.
  • The completely chaotic Christmas of Lottie Brooks

    £8.99

    Christmas is complete chaos this year! The whole Brooks family are visiting for the festive break, there’s a Secret Santa to organise and Lottie has to prepare for her big performance in the Christmas play as the back-end of a reindeer. Will she survive the festivities intact?

  • The Bletchley riddle – fiction

    £8.99

    A thrilling middle grade historical adventure from bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

  • Lottie Brooks’s Essential Guide to Life

    £7.99

    From hilarious MEGA-bestselling author, Katie Kirby, comes a brand-new Lottie Brooks book with a twist! Hi, Lottie Brooks here! I’ve just found out that you’ve all been reading about my most EMBARRASSING moments for years . . . it’s meant to be my TOTALLY SECRET PRIVATE DIARY!!Seems like it’s only fair then that it’s YOUR TURN! Lottie has been sharing her most cringe-inducing moments for years, and this book sums up all of Lottie’s knowledge and wisdom for a totally ESSENTIAL guide to life. Lottie and her friends are here to help you through those tweenage years with their best advice on school, friendship, crushes and, most importantly, SNACKS.Filled with BRAND-NEW stories and Lottie inspired activities, plus space for you to write and draw as well, grab a pen (and maybe a KitKat Chunky, for energy) and get ready to learn from Lottie!What will you find inside:Tips and advice from LottieHilarious activities including Would you Rather, d

  • Isadora Moon Makes a Wish

    £9.99

    When Isadora discovers a wishing well, the mischievous nymph who lives inside grants her the wish of constant happiness. But being happy all the time isn’t quite as enjoyable as Isadora expects. Can Isadora convince the nymph to undo the wish, and allow her to feel all of her feelings again?

  • Maisie vs Antarctica

    £7.99

    Maisie thinks her dad is the most boring person in the world. For fun he likes to do origami (but only basic triangles) or jigsaw puzzles of a cloudless sky (yep, every piece is blue). He writes cool-sounding books like How To Wrestle A Crocodile and How To Defuse A Bomb, but he’s never actually done any of the awesome things he writes about. But Maisie has to admit weird things happen around Dad. Unexplainable things. When childcare falls through and Dad has to take Maisie to Antarctica to research his next book, How To Survive In Antarctica, Maisie realises there is definitely something unusual about Dad – not only can he speak languages she never knew he could, he manages to crash-land a plane and somehow save her from being eaten by a leopard seal! What is going on? How is any of this possible? Can her dad teleport? Is he a superhero or something else entirely?

  • The Horse Who Danced

    £7.99

    Iona dreams of glory for her beautiful pony, Jinks, so when local dressage star Jessica offers to coach her, Iona is swept off her feet. But each of Jinks’ successes brings injury or accident to her family’s stables. Can they all be coincidences? Or is Iona’s dream becoming a nightmare? As pressure mounts, Iona must fight to save her family’s home and to prove that, no matter who stands in their way, Jinks is born for stardom.

  • Maya and Marley and the Great Big Tidy Up!

    £7.99

    Maya and Marley live in their very own playground with Mum, Dad and pet goats Lou and Chou! But when the playground becomes overrun with litter, it’s up to Maya and Marley to plan a tidy up! Will they be able to clear it all away by themselves?

  • Alone on a wide wide sea

    £7.99

    How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming novel from the nation’s favourite storyteller

  • A bear called Paddington

    £7.99

    The original story of everyone’s favourite bear, Paddington, now a major movie star!

  • Isadora Moon and the Frost Festival

    £6.99

    Isadora is so excited to be going to the Frost Festival, a huge celebration of the winter fairies. But in the hustle and bustle Isadora loses sight of Pink Rabbit. Can she find him before the grand fairy lights are switched on?

  • I love Paris!

    £7.99

    Welcome to Nikki Maxwell’s aDORKable world and Nikki’s BRAND NEW ADVENTURE in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide!

     

  • Bird boy

    £7.99

    After the tragic death of his mother, eleven year old Will is sent to temporarily stay with his uncle in the mountains. After years trapped in a high-rise flat, with only birds for company, Will doesn’t know how he’ll survive a place like this, but he soon finds solace in the woods, when he’s surrounded by birdsong. With his new friend Omar – a refugee from Afghanistan – Will discovers an osprey nest, with two small chicks inside. He forms an unbreakable bond with the birds, especially the smallest chick, who they name Whitetip. But when tragedy almost strikes again one stormy night, and Whitetip is knocked out of the nest – breaking a wing, Will is determined to save her. Smuggling her down from the mountain, he finds a way to keep her alive. As Will helps Whitetip to grow and to heal, he finds a strength inside himself that he never knew he had.

  • A llama called Lightning

    £7.99

    Jasmine’s dad is a farmer, and her mum is a large-animal vet, so Jasmine spends a lot of time caring for animals and keeping them out of trouble. Unfortunately, this often means she gets into hot water herself. When Lightning escapes his lonely field to follow Jasmine home, she’s determined to find a place for him on her farm. Jasmine is convinced that he’ll make a perfect guard llama for the sheep and their newborn lambs! But Lightning is young, and there’s a fox on the loose. When the lambs face mortal danger, can Lightning rise to the challenge?