A hilarious read-aloud story, sequel to the fantastic There's Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah, featuring a wildly competitive gang of alliterative animals taking part in a beauty pageant - from slugs in santa suits to warthogs in wedding wear!

Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing school education, she will be favourably married off to a handsome gentleman, after which she'll want for nothing.

A powerful dystopian thriller from an unmissable new voice in YA, packed with action, emotion and romance, set in a world divided by race where life itself must be paid for if you want to survive... Ideal for fans of Noughts & Crosses, The Gilded Ones and Shatter Me.

Newbery Medal winning fantasy, set in a world not unlike Ancient Greece, complete with interfering Gods and Goddesses.

Gustas is nearly killed in the hurricane, trying to save his banana tree; Nenna and her brother patrol the cocnut plantation at night, ready to catch interlopers; Becky longs for a bicycle and Fanso longs to find his father who walked out thirteen years ago. This collection of short stories brings the author's Caribbean childhood vividly to life.

Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city. Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with disguises and the health of his pet tortoises.

You're the new girl in school. You're just trying to fit in - and it's not working. Then someone accuses you of theft, and you think things can't get any worse. Until you get caught in a freak storm. The next thing you know, you're in the future. Being shot at for being out after curfew.

It's AD 79. Someone is killing Ostia's dogs and Flavia Gemina - inquisitive, bossy and brave - wants to find out who and why ...

A brilliant and brand new story of swords, sand and sorcery from the endless imagination that brought you The Saga of Darren Shan and the Demonata. New characters - same excitement, action and terror...

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote.

Arianne knew Luc as a child, of course she did. But he's been away, and five years really makes a difference to a boy. As they fall headily into love their world starts to crumble around them. German forces are closing in, and the village is torn between cooperating to save themselves or putting up resistance and entering unknown danger.

Pull up a chair...if you're feeling brave enough! A shine-chilling book of short stories by Dave Shelton, the author of the highly-acclaimed A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.

16-year-old Victor Frankenstein begins a dark journey that will change his life forever. Victor's twin, Konrad, has fallen ill, and no doctor is able to cure him. Unwilling to give up on his brother, Victor enlists his beautiful cousin Elizabeth and best friend Henry on a search for the ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life.

Stories of uncanny originality from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

Features songs, rhymes and games for different occasions. Collected from all over Britain, this title includes contents that show the cultural diversity of the nation.

A fictional account of the day a whale swam up the Thames, in which the whale makes an environmental plea to the boy who first sees him.

A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman's acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper - now a major Netflix series. From the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless.

The Big Book of Engines is what every Thomas fan needs!

Essential Modern Classics are relaunched in gorgeous new covers bringing these timeless story to a new generation.

Deep in the forest of Hagwood, the dark forces of magic are gathering. The High Lady of the Hollow Hill is seeking to trap a thief who has stolen her most treasured posession. She summons the nightmarish Thorn Ogres to help her but has reckoned without the Werlings.