Children - Kids Novels and Joke Books

Flightless, helpless and often, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have...

Maddy's gorgeous new kitten, Biscuit, quickly settles into her new home. But little does she know that a neighbour's two big tom cats see the garden as their territory. Soon poor Biscuit is too frightened to go out at all... Dimensions : 10 X 129 X 198...

The tenth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James and Lauren are off to America to help train the army - and get into trouble in Las Vegas ... The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty...

Suzy can't wait to return to the Union of Impossible Places on the Impossible Postal Express. But when she arrives, she overhears a dastardly plan to destroy Trollville from a shadowy and unexpected villain. Suzy and her friends must race from magical...

Although friends Leah and Amy couldn't be more different, when it comes to helping vulnerable animals in danger, they make the perfect team.  Adventurous Leah wants to investigate an old manor, source of much spooky talk in the village. Amy's not too...

A chilling mystery set among the winding streets of Victorian London from acclaimed author, Brian Keaney. If you like Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels, or Eleanor Updale's Montmorency, you'll love Nathaniel Wolfe... Dimensions : 130 x 197 x...

This heavily illustrated, full-colour, elegant hardcover closely resembles the look and feel of THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET. With interviews of key people behind the making of the film; side-by-side visual comparisons of artwork from the book and...

A joyful middle grade novel based on the Netflix holiday film Jingle Jangle A Chistmas Journey, starring Phylicia Rashad, Forrest Whitaker, Anika Noni Rose, Keegan Michael Key, and newcomer Madalen Mills, about an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous...

Is their inherited magic enough to battle against the most powerful mythical forces that Egypts gods have to throw at them? Carter and Sadie Kane, descendants of the magical House of Life, are in pretty big trouble. Despite their bravest efforts,...

The fourth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! A routine operation for James turns into a much more deadly mission ... Leon is a small-time crook who's ridden his luck for three decades. When he starts splashing big money around, the cops...

Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack...

In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories! When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's...

Fairy tales are just the beginning. The Masked Man is on the loose in the Land of Stories, and it's up to Alex and Conner Bailey to stop him . . . except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and no one will believe they're in danger. With only the...

Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they learn the famed Enchantress has kidnapped their mother. Against the will of their grandmother (the one and...

The epic conclusion to Chris Colfer's No.1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories!   In the highly anticipated finale, Conner and Alex must brave the impossible. All of the Land of Stories fairy tale characters - heroes and villains - are...

Beautiful hardback editions of the classic series with covers designed by award winning illustrator David Wiesner. To my side, all true Narnians! Would you wait till your new masters have killed you all, one by one?" It is Narnia's darkest hour. A false...

Can Agatha and Sophie find the perfect ending to their story in this epic third adventure in the School for Good and Evil series. Before they can graduate, the students at the school for Good and Evil must complete their Quests for Glory. The quests are...

In Belladonna Johnson's world, talking to ghosts seems perfectly normal. She even lives with two - her recently deceased parents, who are still very much involved with their daughter's life. But then the ghosts start disappearing. Before her father slips...

Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.)  The robotic Steampunk Pirates are roaming the high seas, hunting for gold! But the evil Iron Duke has other ideas... He's determined to capture the pirates in return for a...

The Wings of Fire saga continues with a thrilling underwater adventure--and a mystery that will change everything! The lost heir to the SeaWing throne is going home at last. She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of...

When Ambrose Grammaticus, famous inventor and master engineer, viciously attacks his own son, Rex, he is hauled to the island and imprisoned. Rex knows his evil stepmother, Acantha, is behind his father's 'madness', but how can he prove it? Only the...

And the latest in a long line is her mum losing her job. They didn't have a lot to begin with and now Mum's taken to not opening the curtains and crying in secret. But Maggie has a plan to cheer her up - find her a fella. And if he's got a bit of cash to...

The first gripping installment in bestselling children's author Sophie McKenzie's MEDUSA PROJECT series - back with a bold new cover look!Fourteen years ago, scientist William Fox risked it all to achieve the impossible_ he successfully implanted four...

Scarlett is excited to be moving to the countryside, especially as it means she will finally get a pet. She chooses Bootle, a ginger kitten with four white socks, and the two of them become inseparable. Then Scarlett has to start at her new school.....

Join a mad professor's forgotten creation as he risks it all to save his friends.  When an unexpected visitor crash-lands on top of Castle Grotteskew, Stitch Head knows it can only mean trouble. Eccentric explorer, Dotty Dauntless, has bet her fortune...

The fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling THE WHITE GIRAFFE series. When Sawubona's white rhinos are attacked, the poachers leave behind a terrified calf. Devastated but determined to help, Martine and Ben agree to take the rhino baby...

Meg Cabot's Ten Out of Ten is Princess Mia's final entry in the brilliant The Princess Diaries! Mia is about to turn eighteen and has decided to put down her princess pen for good. This is your one and only chance to find out how it all ends - including...

Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family's connection to the...

Twelve-year old twins, Mika and Ellie, live in a future behind a wall - safe from the plague animals beyond. Or so they've been told. But when one of them disappears, and the other takes part in a sinister virtual reality game, they begin to discover...

The Grace kids are just beginning to get used to Aunt Lucinda's strange old mansion when Simon suddenly disappears. At first Mallory thinks the twins are pulling some kind of prank, but when it becomes obvious that he's been snatched by goblins, Jared...

Have you ever experienced dreams so vivid it seems like you have lived them? Or had deja vu so strong you're convinced you must have been there before?The explosive first book in a brand new action-packed series from bestselling author Chris Bradford...

Assured, witty and inventive. This debut has "future classic" written all over it.' - The GuardianPack your suitcase for a magical adventure! Perfect for fans of The Train to Impossible Places and The Polar Bear Explorers' Club.At the Strangeworlds...

Freddie Yates likes facts. Just not the one staring him in the face - that his secret plan is not, in fact, secret. Because Freddie's journey wasn't meant to involve Big Trev and the onion-eating competition or the loo-exploding pear-and-potato turnovers...

Ten-year-old Danny knows he's going somewhere, but he just doesn't know where. On his way he . . .. . . flattens a stuffed otter (with a three-holed brick). . . messes with a dog called The Beast (who bites kids' willies off)and feeds biscuits to blue...

Beautiful hardback editions of the classic series with covers designed by award winning illustrator David Wiesner. "Stop it!" cried Eustace. "It's some silly trick you are playing! Ow!" A great cold salt splash had broken right out of the frame and they...

The second of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. Dimensions : Format : Paperback Age Group : Ages 6-12 Page Numbers :

Martine is looking forward to the holidays and riding Jemmy, her white giraffe, until an accident sends her and Ben on a journey to the Matobo Hills wilderness in Zimbabwe. It is a lawless land, where nothing is as it seems. When they uncover a plot in...

Second in a brand new action adventure series starring 14-year-old Jack Courtney - a hero to rival Alex Rider - from worldwide bestselling author Wilbur Smith.Jack and his friends Amelia and Xander are in Zanzibar diving for lost treasure to support...

Katie Ellison is not a liar. But she can't exactly tell the truth, either - not when she's juggling two boyfriends, secretly hating the high school football team and trying to have the best summer ever. At least Katie has it all under control (sort of)...