Two can keep a secret Book review Cover

Twins Ellery and Ezra are on edge when they reach Echo Ridge. After all, it is the place their mother grew up. The mother that is now in rehab, sending the ...


The Screaming Staircase Book Cover Jonathan Stroud

50 years ago, an upsurge of spirits and ghosts took over Britain, spurring new laws, night time curfews, ghost lighting and special agencies to combat ‘The Problem.’ Children being much ...


This tale of growing up in the Deep American South in the 1930’s is a wonderful classic. Scout (Jean Louise) and her big brother Jem (Jeremy), live with their father, ...


Lockwood & Co - The Whispering Skull Book Cover Jonathan Stroud

Lucy and George are back in the second book in this series, with their enigmatic but slightly deceptive boss – Antony Lockwood. They are all still young agents with sharp ...


His Name was Walter Book Cover Emily Rodda

When Colin, Tara, Lucas, and Grace have school bus trouble and end up staying with their teacher in an abandoned old house, they never dream of what will unfold that ...


Lucy’s special skill with ghosts is growing stronger, and with it her confidence as part of the team of three that is Lockwood & Co. She’s keen to try her ...


The Pug Who Wanted to be a Unicorn Book Review Cover

Peggy the pug’s owner can’t cope with her puppy ways anymore and she is abandoned at a dog shelter. Luckily for Peggy, there are foster families who will look after her ...


The Train to Impossible Places Book Review Cover

At 11 yrs old, Suzy Smith is smart. She loves science, especially physics, always keen to know how the world works. So one night when she discovers train tracks inside ...


Lockwood & Co The Empty Grave Book Review Cover

Lucy wouldn’t normally trust what her sarcastic, cranky, skull in a jar says – but the information he’s given her has spurred her and the other agents of Lockwood & ...


Out of my Mind Sharon Draper Book Cover

Melody is nearly 11 years old, and she has never spoken a word. Melody has Cerebral Palsy, a condition that prevents her from walking, talking, dressing, standing, feeding herself, using ...


The Lost Witch Book Review Cover

Bea is in turmoil. She has been seeing strange things in everyday places. People in the clouds, and shining lights from creatures around her, for starters. It all began one ...


12 year old twins Josh and Jordan Bell are lightning on a basketball court. And together they are nearly invincible. Living and breathing basketball through their dad who played in ...


Artie goes to visit his father, who he hasn’t seen in a long while. They’ve never been very close. Artie is an artist who is keen to write a graphic ...


BOB Book Review Cover

Bob is a small green creature who has been waiting in a little girl’s closet for 5 years. Livy was 5 when she told him to hide there, and now ...


The Truth Pixie Book Review Cover

The Truth Pixie is feeling very glum. No matter how hard she has tried to make friends, it always goes wrong. The Truth Pixie can only speak the truth, which ...


When Jo-jo’s parents have the biggest argument on Christmas Eve, he hears the words – “You’ve killed Christmas.” Instantly believing it’s all his fault, he thinks of all those who ...


A Different Boy Book Review Cover

When Anton Muller arrives at Wolfdog Hall, he knows it is a terrible place. The only thing he will learn in his classes is how to survive the bullies and ...


16 years have passed. Hester and Tom have lived happily at Anchorage raising their daughter Wren. Wren has grown up hearing her parents adventures and is keen to have some ...


Blue lives in a house full of psychics, her mother being one of them. Blue doesn’t share her mother’s gifts but she has learnt early that she enhances other’s gifts, ...


Hilda lives in a magical valley inhabited by trolls, deer-fox (half deer, half fox), little wooden men and giants. She has managed to live there happily with her mum for ...


(Bixby Alexander Tam) or Bat for short, loves animals and knows already he’s going to be a vet like his mum. When she brings home a tiny baby skunk, Bat ...


Flick loves her home underneath the beech trees at the end of Holyrood Lane. She dances with butterflies, plays in the autumn leaves and soaks up the sunshine. But sometimes ...


The Peski kids aren’t like other kids. Joe is the oldest, with a terrible stutter for no apparent reason who avoids any situation where he may have to talk and ...


A brown ute comes out of nowhere and smashes into Jarli and his dad in their car. To make things even worse, they quickly realise it wasn’t an accident when ...


Harper is on the move again. Every six months or even less, Harper’s father’s work takes them to a different place. When she was younger, her parent’s catch-cry of New ...


And the ocean was our sky Book Review Cover

This is a tale of Moby Dick tipped on its head. Bathsheba is the key character in this story. She’s a whale – part of a team of three apprentices ...