Children's fiction 10-12
Storm
JOD 8.00
Frances’S Parents Were Not Prepared For Her Birth: They Had A Blanket And An Easel And Some Paint, But Not Anything Useful, Like A Car Or A Phone. So It’S No Wonder Frankie Has Always Had A Temper. She Was Born On A Beach, In A Storm. What Frances Was Not Prepared For Was Dying In A Freak Natural Di..
Storm Swimmer
JOD 9.00
Summer Was Supposed To Be Ginika'S Time For Fun, Friends And Fairs. But Instead She'S Been Sent To Live At The Dead-End Seaside Boarding House Her Grandparents Run. Even Though Her Parents Say It'S Just For A Little While, She Can'T Help Feeling Abandoned And Heartbroken To Be Missing Out On Everyth..
Super Sleuth
JOD 16.50
From million-copy bestselling author David Walliams comes his first ever murder mystery – with thrills, spills and laughs galore. A Waterstones Best Children's Book of the Year Dilly loves a good murder. Not a REAL murder. A made-up murder. One you would find in a murder-mystery novel. Sherlock Ho..
The 1,000-Year-Old Boy
JOD 9.00
Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. Obviously no one believes him. So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to fi..
The Asparagus Bunch
JOD 9.00
Leon John Crothers is 4779 days old (thirteen years and one month, if you're mathematically challenged). He has been 'moved on' from six different schools and most people think he has an attitude problem. Leon doesn't care for the label, in the same way that he doesn't care for Tim Burton, supermark..
The Austere Academy
JOD 9.00
If You Are Looking For A Story About Cheerful Youngsters Spending A Jolly Time At Boarding School, Look Elsewhere. Violet, Klaus And Sunny Baudelaire Are Intelligent And Resourceful Children, And You Might Expect That They Would Do Very Well At School. Don'T. For The Baudelaires, School Turns Out To..
The Bad Beginning
JOD 9.00
Dear reader,There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international bestselling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed wit..
The Battle For Roar
JOD 9.00
Rose And Arthur Are Back In Roar, On A Voyage That Takes Them Further Than They’Ve Ever Been Before: Beyond The End. It’S An Amazing Adventure – Full Of Secrets, Surprises, And Fairies With Fangs – But Then A Mysterious Storm Changes Everything. Shipwrecked On A Strange Island, They Make A Shocking ..
The Beast of Buckingham Palace
JOD 9.00
Fly into a fiery and fantastical future in an epic adventure of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy who must save the world.Illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross! It is 2120 and London is in ruins. The young Prince Alfred has never known a life outside Buckingham Palace - but wh..
The Beasts Of Clawstone Castle
JOD 8.00
When Madlyn And Her Younger Brother Rollo Arrive At Crumbling Clawstone Castle, They Can See That Emergency Action Is Needed Before Clawstone Falls Down Completely. With The Help Of A Team Of Homeless, Scary Ghosts - Including A One-Eyed Skeleton And Brenda The Bloodstained Bride - They Hatch A Spoo..
The Blunders
JOD 16.50
Meet The Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, Their Children, Brutus And Bunny, Along With Their Beloved Grandma Old Lady Blunder, And Their Pet Ostrich, Cedric. An Ostrich Is Not A Sensible Pet, But Then The Blunders Are Not Sensible People. This Family Of Upper-Class Twits Lives In A Crumbling Country House N..
The Boy Who Fooled The World
JOD 9.00
Cole's family is struggling to make ends meet and he doesn't fit in with the rich kids at his school. Until the day a painting Cole made in Art class is unexpectedly spotted and sold in a posh London gallery for thousands of pounds. Suddenly, he's the toast of the international art world, invited on..