Minty's parents are strict and to say she doesn't get on with them would be putting it mildly. So she lies to them – about where she is, who she's with, and what she's doing. Then she accidentally stumbles across a secret they've been keeping from her and her whole world starts to fall apart.Araminta is a contemporary Young Adult novel exploring the challenges of growing up in 21st Century Britain. Minty's helicopter parents treat her like a child and refuse to accept that she is o...

'Rebecca goes to boarding school, she's fifteen years old, she's got her GCSEs this year and she's bored…'At least, that's what it said at the beginning of book one. Now it's a year later, she's sixteen, her GCSEs are over and she's just started on her A levels, but she still manages to find time for another four adventures with the same crowd of friends that you met in the previous stories.This is the second book in the Rebecca series.Now read on…

Rebecca is eighteen and she's just started at university. But which university? Has she made the right choice? Has she really got over the disaster that was revealed in the last story?It's a time to make new friends and see new places, but to continue to have adventures every bit as crazy as the ones she had during the previous three years.This is the fourth book in the Rebecca series.

'Rebecca goes to boarding school, she's fifteen years old, she's got her GCSEs this year and she's bored…'But that was two years ago. Now she's seventeen, in the upper sixth, her A levels are looming and for reasons which will become clear later she just has to get good grades.So how can she find time for yet more crazy adventures with all the familiar friends from books one and two? Against all the odds, she manages to enjoy another year, up to and even beyond the day when...

Rebecca goes to boarding school, she's fifteen years old, she's got her GCSEs this year and she's bored.But not for much longer. One simple decision is all it takes for her to embark on a series of adventures that will give her plenty to talk about at dinner parties for the rest of her life.Here are four short stories about the exploits of Rebecca and her friends as they are confronted with saturated sisters, tottering tents and malignant minibuses, not to mention a host of...

"I suppose it must have all started when I got the text message from Summer."When Erin receives a text that leaves her in tears she has no idea what to do. Surely it can't be anything to do with boyfriends. But then other girls are targeted and the headmistress somehow finds out about it.

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal, Kim Slater's outstanding debut, Smart, is moving and compelling novel with a loveable character at its heart.'I found Jean's friend dead in the river. His name was Colin Kirk. He was a homeless man, but he still wanted to live.'There's been a murder, but the police don't care. It was only a homeless old man after...

The Witches - Will you DARE read it?

Book 2 in the fantastic four book series about taking risks and flying high, from the children's book legend Paul Jennings and brilliant cartoonist Andrew Weldon.'You're grounded, Ricky,' said Mum. 'Yes,' said Dad. 'In more ways than one.'Ricky is an ordinary boy, who can fly. He can really fly! But only when no one is looking. His dream is to one day be FAMOUS. But after accidentally opening the car window at the car wash, he's grounded. No movies...

"Australia's king of young adult fiction" The AustralianLisa Morris could be the girl next door. She could be your cousin. She could be sitting behind you in class. She could be you.But Lisa, cool and beautiful Lisa, remote and private Lisa, has more going on in her life than anyone imagines.Only her journal knows the truth about her life. Only her journal - and you.Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and John Flanaga...

The cat sat comfortably on the wall.Are you sitting comfortably?Then I will continue.As you know cats like to sit. Sometimes they like to sit and think, and sometimes they just like to sit. But on this occasion the cat was sitting and thinking,'What a lovely day'.But little did the cat know that it was all going to go horribly wrong.

The Diamond Brothers – the world's worst private detectives – are on the case!Lenny Smile has been run over by a steamroller. He used to run a children’s charity called Dream Time, financed by millionaire Joe Carter. Now Carter wants to know what happened to Smile … and to his money. Unfortunately, he’s hired the Diamond Brothers to solve the mystery!