Collection: Junior Fiction

Shona has always loved words. She even has her very own strange word thesaurus! When she and her classmates learn that some languages are dying out, Miss Bates tasks them with becoming top-class word detectives, proving to themselves and their families that there are many beautiful languages stil...

It's never too early to teach children to be antiracist, and this lift-the-flap book is a great toolkit for young children and their families alike. It is all about recognising and celebrating the differences that make people who they are, and explains in age-appropriate language what racism is a...

Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a not-to-be-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, face-to-face with criminal mastermind, The Grandfather! To Elle's surprise, he needs her help. Someone has threatened to r...

Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her 12th birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle ...

It's mid-summer's day and thirteen-year-old Elle and her Leapling classmates are visiting the Museum of the Past, the Present and the Future. But on the day of the school trip, disaster strikes, and the most unique and valuable piece in the museum, the Infinity-Glass, is stolen! Who is the culprit?

Things are going badly at Mission Control. On the far side of the moon, a wheel has fallen off the spy-camera's moon buggy and the astronauts can't fix it. It's up to Ben to blast into space and save the day!

It's 1953, the Coronation Year, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. It's Spencer's idea to get a team up - some of them are good, and one of them is even a girl, but all of them are football crazy.

In this energetic Gaskitt story, Mrs Gaskitt finds a parcel, Mr Gaskitt loses a baby, Horace has mixed feelings about a bird, and Mrs Fritter is not herself.

Three cheers for bread, HIP-HIP-HOORAY! Early in the morning the baker bakes a lovely loaf of bread. So lovely, in fact, that by the time the sun goes down it's been gobbled up! Who eats it all? Well, the baker munches on its crunchy crust. The baker's wife has the second slice as toast and the b...

Daisy has the most amazing life as she zooms between two homes - one with her Dad who's a dustman on the dole & one with her mum who has married a duke with a Daimler. But when the Duke loses his money & her Dad wins the lottery it's a different story.