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Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers with this NEWLY-CREATED mystery story for children aged 5 and up! The Five are excited to go to the opening of a brand new museum, but their visit takes a turn when they notice one of the paintings has been replaced with a fake! Who could have taken...

Kiki Kallira can bring her drawings to life...but when a mysterious curse threatens her newly-created kingdom and friends, how can she use her powers to save them? A fantasy adventure inspired by Hindu legends about anxiety, creativity and finding your own strengths. For 8+ fans of Abi...

From the acclaimed author of Sadé and her Shadow Beasts comes Rachel Faturoti's brand new story - about a boy and his dad dealing with the threat of eviction and a boy from the past who might be able to help ... perfect for fans of A Kind of Spark. Isaiah and his dad have recently moved to a...

When Yas takes a selfie in the local park with her brand-new phone, she doesn't expect to see an old lady photobombing her picture. In fact, each time Yas opens the camera app, the ghostly old lady figure re-appears silently screaming. Yas decides to investigate with best friend Oscar. If the pair are being haunted, then maybe the ghost has something important to tell them. What does she want? Can Yas and Oscar find a way to banish her for good?

Where do you go with a BIG worry? Hugless Douglas knows he can count on Dad. Douglas' dad gives him a wonderful new woolly hat. He races outside to show it off and doesn't realise that it's unravelling! Douglas' friends have lots of ideas about how to put things right, but it is left to the little bear to work out for himself the best thing to do....

Douglas is very excited about his birthday surprise. But when the surprise turns out to be his overexcited twin cousins, Douglas is sure this will be the worst birthday ever!

Who knew falling in love for the first time would be so dramatic? Maurene Goo's pop-culture-savvy rom-coms are the perfect combination of humour and heart - perfect story for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth. Desi Lee knows how carburettors work. She learned CPR at...

Utterly hilarious and boldly honest, Kat's back to tell us how it is - and it is STILL INCREDIBLY EMBARRASSING. Fearlessly navigating school, mental health and relationships, Kate Weston is a hilarious new voice for those who love Holly Bourne and Netflix's Sex Education. 16-year-old Kat has...

Mina has a stern face, a long braid, and an attitude that has only got worse since her dad died. Caplan is the golden boy, complete with a vast social circle and an on-again/off-again girlfriend who hates Mina's guts. They're neighbours and somehow, despite all their differences, have always understood each other the most. But then in the last few weeks of high school, everything turns on its head. It's a shock when Caplan's best-friend Quinn confesses he wants to take Mina to the prom. It's an even bigger shock when she says yes.

From the acclaimed author of SLAY, comes a gripping novel, about brothers, grief, and what it means to be a young Black man in America. For fans of Dear Martin and They Both Die at the End. Sixteen year old Alex Rufus lives with his younger brother, Isaiah, in a quiet neighbourhood in Chicago...

A bone-chilling contemporary YA horror about what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who've caused her family pain. Brielle Petitfour loves to cook. But with a chronically sick mother and bills to pay, becoming...

Beauty's merchant father promises to brign her a rose as a gift from his travels. On his journey home, he takes shelter in a mysteriously deserted castle and picks a rose from the garden. The Beast appears - he will spare the life of the merchant only if he sends Beauty to live in the castle. As...

Second left - and then straight on until morning: that's the way to the magical place where Peter Pan lives, a land where no one ever grows up. Helped by fairy Tinkerbell, Wendy and her brothers fly off with Peter to Neverland. There, they meet the Lost Boys - and the terrifying Captain hook and...

When Tavi's boyfriend dumps her, days before her seventeenth birthday, friends Ella and Liss gift her the perfect post-breakup present: a vibrator. Tavi is mortified (especially when she opens it in front of her parents!), but Ella is inspired. It's time for the girls to take matters into their own hands and start Buzz Club; an exclusive club for discussing everything from porn to the patriarchy.

Seventeen-year-old Tasha Nicastro lives a life of glitz and glamour, but she has no idea her family harbours a dark truth. Tasha might look like your classic high school mean girl, but behind the designer clothes is a sharpshooter who knows how to bring anyone to their knees. The only person who has ever gotten under her skin is her former best friend, Leo Danesi, the youngest son of the Nicastro family's rivals. After Leo returns to New York older and more handsome, Tasha thinks he'll be the worst of her problems—until the life she thought she knew takes a violent, shocking turn.

An adorable Christmas audiobook about friendship from a storyteller loved by many generations. As Christmas approaches, most of the toys in the toyshop are excited to be going to new homes. But Bunny, the littlest one, is worried. He can't imagine life outside the shop or without his best friend...

Joe lives with his mother in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies. Joe's friend, Stanny, insists that Joe must toughen up, become a survivor - and he is adamant that a...

When Kai's big sister Jenleaves the family home, Kai knows it's all his fault. His secret burns, but he tells no one, just keeps pulling at tufts of his hair. But in the broadbranches of a wasteland sycamore tree, Kai feels safe and free from his worries. Up there he feels he can be whoever he wants to be. And when a girl called Sky starts climbing Kai's tree, a friendship blossoms...a friendship with the power to heal.

Welcome to the Shop of Impossible Ice Creams! Step inside to discover a delicious world of magical adventure, from bestselling author Shane Hegarty. The final story in this comic, heart-warming illustrated series, for 7+ fans of The Nothing to See Here Hotel and Charlie Changes into a Chicken...

A pacey, fractured twist on a classic fairy tale! Having woken the sleeping prince, Briar Rose, Fi and Shane still have a curse to break, and a terrifying foe to face: the Spindle Witch. If they can defeat her, the land of Andar will be free again. The three journey to the secret city of...