Harrison. Afterburn This is a thriller from the author of 'The Havana Room' and 'Manhattan Nocturne'....

Neil Gaiman. Coraline Coraline is not the kind of girl to be put off by a sign of danger read in some tea leaves or indeed a message sent to her by some very talented mice! No, she is the kind of girl who faces a challenge with bravery, intelligence and a lot of determination. Which is just as well because she is going t...

Gordon Jarvie. Bloomsbury Grammar Guide: Grammar Made Easy Grammar, the structure of a language, is often the subject of confusion. "The Bloomsbury Grammar Guide" is an easy-to-use handbook which provides the answers. Updated and revised throughout, the new edition is essential reading for all writers and readers of our increasingly dynamic and global langu...

Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming and What We Can Do About it (Young adult version) The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives - and this affects young people above all. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a true planetary emergency and we need to ...

Louis Sachar. Holes Stanley Yelnat’s family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. As punishment, the boys must dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, each day in the hard earth of the drie...

Neil Gaiman. The Dangerous Alphabet An alphabet book with a story about two children and their pet gazelle who head off, treasure map in hand, on an underground journey into a place where monsters and pirates roam. Will they find the treasure? Will they get out alive? Will the alphabet ever be the same again?...

Michael Rosen. Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy (+ Audio CD) You Can't Catch Me and You Can't Put Mustard in the Custard were first published twenty-five years ago and were groundbreaking in that they were full-colour illustrated new poems for children. You Can't Catch Me won the Signal Poetry Award in 1982. Both books went on to be bestsellers and both poet ...

Sue Miller. While I Was Gone Perhaps it's best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that's dear to you Thirty years ago Jo Becker's bohemian life ended when she found her best friend brutally mur...

Alyxandra Harvey. Out for Blood Hunter Wild just wants to get through her last year at the secret Helios-Ra Academy. To do so, she'll have to betray her grandfather, date a vampire and possibly take down the entire League - all before the end of term....

Elisabeth Beresford. The Invisible Womble Orinoco is certainly the tubbiest of the Wombles and is perhaps the Womble who needs the most encouragement to go out on the daily sortie to clear up and recycle all the rubbish that humans leave behind... Meanwhile, Tomsk, DIY extraordinaire, is getting to grips with the one of the humans' more ing...