Across The Barricades
Joan Lingard

Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett

Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has come up with the perfect scam. Inspired by the Pied Piper tale, cat and kid...

Carrie's War
Nina Bawden

Evacuated from London to Wales during World War II, Carrie and her brother are sent to live with the very...

Catcall
Linda Newbery

A compelling psychological drama from a prestigious and important writer for children.

Darkside
Tom Becker

Jonathan has stumbled on London’s greatest secret: Darkside, an incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting place, ruled by Jack the Ripper's...

Gideon The Cutpurse
Linda Buckley-archer

An encounter with an anti-gravity machine catapults Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to the 18th century and sets in...

Goodnight Mister Tom
Michelle Magorian

Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child,...

Holes
Louis Sachar

Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not surprised when a miscarriage...

Homecoming
Cynthia Voigt

Dicey had known for a while that something was not right, and when her mother said goodbye that day Dicey…

I Am David
Anne Holm

The story of a young boy's journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he had lived all his...

Little Soldier
Bernard Ashley

Kaninda is an ex-child soldier from East Africa, orphaned and living in London. When a child from a nearby estate...

The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall

Living in World War II Britain, Chas McGill is determined to outdo his rival Boddser Brown in obtaining the ultimate...

My Swordhand Is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick

In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the in hospitability...

Noughts and Crosses
Malorie Blackman

Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member...

Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo

"Tommo" Peaceful is recalling his childhood from those terrible battlefields. He remembers his big brother Charlie taking him to his...

Sabriel
Garth Nix

Sabriel is sent as a child across the Wall to the safety of a school in Ancelstierre. Away from magic,...

The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged Thirteen And Three Quarters
Sue Townsend

At 13 years old, Adrian Mole has more than his fair share of problems - spots, ill-health, parents threatening to...

Smith
Leon, Mckendry, Kenny Garfield

Smith, though only 12, is an accomplished pickpocket, saved from the gallows by his own stealth and speed. One dark...

Stoneheart
Charlie Fletcher

Deep in the City something had been woken, so old that people had been walking past it for centuries without...

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson

Troy
Adele Geras

Marpessa is gifted with God-sight, Xanthe has the healing touch. But then, Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, decides to play with...

Tulip Touch
Anne Fine

Nobody wants to be around Tulip but her outlandish behaviour doesn't matter to Natalie. At first she finds Tulip exciting...

Watership Down
Richard Adams

Fiver could sense danger - something terrible was going to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel could sense it...