Children's Fiction Books

Join Marcus and friends as they solve another exciting mystery in The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Headless Ghost. This is the fifth spooky adventure by England International footballer, child food-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE. Inspired by Marcus's own experiences growing up! The perfect spooky read for Halloween. There’s only a week to go before the school play when things start going wrong in rehearsals. Sets crash over, lights go on and off and the fog machine has a mind of its own. There are rumours that a headless ghost has been haunting the dressing rooms and ruining rehearsals with its ear-splitting screech. Marcus and his friends must work together to solve the mystery before opening night. The show must go on, so it’s a good thing the Breakfast Club Investigators never give up! Written with Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie and packed with tons of illustrations by Marta Kissi.  Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035053940 • Author: Marcus Rashford & Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.7cm

Join Ash and friends for another action-packed Pokémon adventure for the ultimate Pokémon face-off! The latest adventure with Ash and Pikachu! Can you read them all? Titles in this collection: • Ash's Big Challenge • Pokemon Peril • The Orange League • Scyther vs Charizard • Race to Danger • Snow Time! • Power Up Psyduck • The Winner's Cup • The Pokemon School • Adventures on Treasure Island • Old Friends New Battles • The Catxorita Challenge • A New Beginning • Over 70 Puzzles to Solve • Mini Mazes This is the perfect gift for Pokemon fans old and new. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008644079 • Author: Pokémon • Publisher: Orchard Books Ltd • Format: Box Set

Izzy and her friends hate school dinners. And they hate the shepherd’s pie in particular. And now something strange seems to be happening to the dinner ladies. They’re wearing new hats, they’re cooking new food (still horrible) and there are lots and lots of new rules. But it’s when Maisie is taken away by seagulls that they KNOW! The dinner ladies have been taken over and they are about to ATTACK! More laugh-out-loud antics from awardwinning author-illustrator team, Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham. School has never been so much fun! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780857636065 • Author: Pamela Butchart • Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd • Pages: 288 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.1 cm

A fast-paced, romantic and feminist YA fantasy full of danger and courtly intrigue. The royal court of Galla is as dangerous as it is glamorous... Kalothia will need every ounce of courage and wit, if she is to avenge those she loves... and stay alive. Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the East after her parents were outed as enemies of the king. When assassins attack her home on her sixteenth birthday, she must flee to the king’s court – a beautiful but lethal nest of poison, plots and danger, overseen by an entrenched patriarchy. Can Kalothia navigate this most worldly of places to find her own role? What if she must choose between her country and her heart? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781529503715 • Author:  Shade Lapite • Publisher:  Walker Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  304 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 1 cm

Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! The only problem? Nikki's frenemy, MacKenzie, has weaseled her way on to the tour too. And, worse still, it turns out she's going to be Nikki's new roomate!  Will Nikki survive her dream tour turning into a nightmare?! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781398527683 • Author:  Rachel Renee Russell • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s UK  • Format: Hardback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 13 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm

This bookcase is the perfect introduction to early learning for your child. With colourful illustrations and bold text, this lovely set will spark recognition and inspire young minds. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781784683337 • Author: Really Decent Books • Publisher: Really Decent Books • Format: Box Set

Meet your favourite new duo: MURRAY AND BUN! Murray is a cat. Murray loves snoozing, fluffy blankets, and peace and quiet. Bun is a bun. Bun loves… EVERYTHING! And together they are unstoppable! SOMETIMES Murray’s enchanted cat flap leads to the garden… but mostly it leads to ADVENTURE! And when Murray and Bun travel through the cat flap and find themselves in a land of VIKINGS, they are given a VERY IMPORTANT MISSION: to travel to TROLL ISLAND and rescue Eggrik the Viking… if he hasn’t already been gobbled up by the trolls, that is. Perfect for newly independent readers and fans of Bunny vs Monkey, Dog Man, Adventure Mice and Claude, this funny, exciting, and hugely loveable story – brilliantly illustrated throughout – will delight adventure-lovers young and old. After all, heroes come in all shapes and sizes! Product Information: • ISBN: x • Author: Adam Stower • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback     • Pages: 145 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.1cm

Fans of Pokémon won't want to miss this cool graphic novel with two exciting new stories! This full-colour graphic novel includes two stories jam-packed with adventure and Pokémon battles. First, in Fire-Type Fued, Ash and best pal Gary embark on a journey to Pallet Town, which leads them to a thrilling Fire-type battle between the Pokémon Infernape and Moltres. How will it end? Then, in Not Afraid of the Darkrai, Dawn and Chloe are exploring the Sinnoh region and discover a town suffering from nightmares. Will an epic battle between Cresselia and Darkrai help the residents? With tons of art on every page from the animated show this comic book is the perfect companion for Pokémon fans. Two exciting stories in one Cool comic compilation! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008615437 • Author: Pokemon • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 80 • Dimensions: 21 x 14.8 x 0.7 cm

Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world and the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! When the animal shelter Brandon volunteers at (how cute is he?) is too full to take a litter of abandoned puppies, Nikki decides to look after them until the shelter has more room. Simple, right? UMMM NO! Her parents won't allow dogs in the house so Nikki has to hide the pups at home and take them to school in secret ... but the dogs are a lot harder work than they look - and messier too! Is Nikki's plan going to end in a pawfully dorky disaster? With a HUGE global fanbase, Dork Diaries is the perfect series for fans of Lottie Brooks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398527645 • Author: Renee Russell • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Pages: 320 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.1 x 2.8 cm

Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world and Nikki’s BRAND NEW ADVENTURE in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! Oh la la! Nikki and her band are invited to Paris for a super cool photoshoot – it’s a dream come true! Nikki can’t wait to learn new art styles, practice her French and explore the most romantic city in the world with her crush Brandon. But when MacKenzie starts to stir trouble and invites old friend André to be their tour guide, the drama starts. Can Nikki still enjoy her dream vacay, or will it become a dorky disaster? With a HUGE global fanbase, Dork Diaries is the perfect series for fans of Lottie Brooks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781471196850 • Author: Rachel Renee Russell • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2cm

Meet Nikki Maxwell (aka Queen of the Dorks!) in the first book in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series, for fans of Lottie Brooks. Join the jokes, drama and aDORKable BFFs... New school. New Crush. New mean girl. New diary, so Nikki can spill all!  Nikki Maxwell has never been popular but now she’s started at a new school, she’s hoping to leave her old dorky ways behind.  Follow Nikki's adorkable life through sketches, doodles and diary entries as she shares all the details of her not-so-fabulous life full of BFF drama, hopeless crushes and an extremely cringe-worthy family.   Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781398527553 • Author:  Rachel Renee Russell  • Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Children's UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  352 • Dimensions:   13 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm

Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times – battling monsters, Titans, even death himself – so graduating high school should be a breeze, right? Wrong. Percy needs three recommendation letters from the gods before his final year in high school comes to an end. And one thing Percy knows, the gods on Mount Olympus don’t do anything for free. To secure his second letter, Percy and his friends Annabeth and Grover agree to a new quest – pet-sitting for the goddess Hecate while she’s away over Halloween. They just need to follow her simple rules: 1.    Look after the pets like their lives depend on it (because they do) 2.    Don’t touch anything – especially Hecate’s magic potions! 3.    See points 1 and 2 But when Grover’s curiosity gets the better of him, the trio find themselves with a giant goat, a destroyed house, and Hecate’s (terrifying and potentially deadly) pets on the loose in New York City. Now the trio have twenty-four hours to find the pets and restore the mansion to order – or face the full fury of Hecate and her horrifying three-heads. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241691717 • Author: Rick Riordan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm

From the delightfully twisted mind of R.L. Stine comes a fresh new vision for the fan-favourite brand. Happy Silverman is more than a little excited for his class trip to the museum. He loves learning about Ancient Egypt and can’t wait to see real mummies. At the museum, Happy leans as close to the mummy display as he possibly can―and something strange happens. His head spins and he hears an unfamiliar voice ringing inside his mind. The mummy is inside Happy’s brain and needs his help―or else! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780702338922 • Author: R.L. Stine  • Publisher: Scholastic Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 160 • Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.5 x 1.5cm

Hilarious, illustrated school-based antics where everything that happens leads to DRAMA and RUNNING AROUND and even some FAINTING! Izzy and her friends are on a school trip to a big lake. Gary Petrie is excited because the lodges where they’re staying have ROBES AND SLIPPERS! The lake is dark and deep and a bit scary. But it’s when they open their packed lunches that they know! There’s a MONSTER in the lake and it’s coming for their CRISPS! Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788009690 • Author: Pamela Butchart  • Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm

Meet your favourite duo: MURRAY AND BUN! Murray is a cat. Murray loves snoozing, fluffy blankets, and peace and quiet. Bun is a bun. Bun loves… EVERYTHING! And together they are unstoppable! SOMETIMES Murray’s enchanted cat flap leads to the garden… but mostly it leads to ADVENTURE! And when Murray and Bun travel through the cat flap and find themselves in a land of KNIGHTS, they are given a VERY IMPORTANT MISSION: to defeat Sir Nasty in a jousting competition, rescue Princess Rubytoes… and try not to get lost in the maze. Perfect for newly independent readers and fans of Bunny vs Monkey, Dog Man, Adventure Mice and Claude, this funny, exciting, and hugely loveable story – brilliantly illustrated throughout – will delight adventure-lovers young and old. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008561277 • Author: Adam Stower • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback     • Pages: 192 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.2cm

In a charming new chapter-book series by a social-change advocate, young Frankie emulates her journalist mama by reporting on household news with the help of her sister and an unlikely news crew. Frankie’s mama is leaving to cover a breaking news story. Frankie, Papa and Frankie’s teenage sister, Raven, are all proud of Mama, even though they miss her when she’s away. But Frankie has a great idea: she can make her own news show! After all, Mama has told her that news is happening around her all the time. With a little assistance from her friends – including her doll Farrah, Robert the toy robot, and her tabby cat, Nina Simone – Frankie prepares for her first “broadcast”. And when she hears someone crying in the house, she knows that’s the developing story she must cover. With sweet illustrations throughout, this engaging new series embraces communication and compassion and is a refreshing portrayal of Black women in journalism. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529526349 • Author: Christine Platt • Publisher: Walker Books Ltd • Pages: 80 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 0.5 cm

Step into Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world with the BRAND NEW ADVENTURE in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series! Lately, Nikki’s little sister has been a TOTAL BRAT! But while Brianna is busy raiding her closet and taping a HIDEOUS drawing of Nikki on her bedroom door, Nikki has more important things to think out. It’s the end of summer and she has only 72 hours to completely reinvent herself before starting at Westchester Prep… SQUEEEEEEE!! Nikki is determined to be the COOLEST, CUTEST, SMARTEST, MOST INTRIGUING girl at school. But when disaster strikes and Brianna gets hold of Nikki’s most cherished items… her phone AND her diary, her world is turned upside down. Will an unexpected emergency ruin Nikki’s fabulous start to the new school year or, worse, ruin her relationship with wacky BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, and cute crush Brandon? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398541207 • Author: Rachel Renee Russell • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 272 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1.63 cm

Hilarious, pitch-perfect stories where everyday school life becomes completely extraordinary! By a brilliant author/illustrator team with laughs on every page! Izzy’s school is being merged with St Bartholomew’s Primary, their greatest rivals! What will happen when the new kids join, in their too-shiny shoes and with their too-loud singing? And what if they’ve got a secret mission and that mission is a BAD mission? Only Izzy and her friends can discover the truth, even if they must go SO DEEP UNDERCOVER that they might not come back… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781839940491 • Author: Pamela Butchart  • Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm

A brand new Goosebumps series is coming―prepare to be scared like never before! From the delightfully twisted mind of R.L. Stine comes a fresh new vision for the fan-favourite brand. Mario Galagos is joining his best friends Todd and Jewel on their annual holiday visit to snowy Vermont. Everything looks picture perfect at first. But then Mario finds a small statue of a strange, ugly creature in the garden and brings it inside. Little does he know the stone creature is actually a real, live goblin. By bringing it inside, Mario has just started a war with all of its hideous goblin friends! This exciting new Goosebumps series will have the same humor and terrifying tone that millions of readers love, but will be bigger, bolder, funnier, and scarier! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780702331268 • Author: R.L. Stine • Publisher: Scholastic Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 160 • Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.5 x 1.8cm

Hamlet could NEVER make his mind up about ANYTHING. And one time he actually went to school in just his pants and got sent home because he couldn’t decide what to wear. When Izzy (star of The Spy Who Loved School Dinners) is asked to tell her friends some HILARIOUS and SCARY stories she knows exactly where to look: Shakespeare, the king of SUPER dramatic stuff. After learning about Macbeth (a STRONG solider who ate four bowls of porridge and twenty pieces of toast every morning) her friends want more. So Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet all get the Izzy treatment. There’s blood and guts, ghosty stuff, and plenty of people wandering around in their nighties. The perfect introduction to the Bard! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780857637727 • Author: Pamela Butchart • Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd • Pages: 176 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm