WINNER OF THE SCHOOL READING LIST CHILDREN'S FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'This fast-paced thriller will thoroughly engage tech savvy teenagers and give them plenty to think about. A [. . .] gripping sci fi adventure. ' LoveReading4KidsAlways online . . . until they want you off. Permanently.Just imagine . . . Hundreds of apps available at the blink of an eye: skills ranging from martial artist to ...

Darkus Knightley, tweed-wearing, mega-brained, thoroughly logical 13-year-old investigator of the weird, was just getting used to having his dad back in his life. Then Alan Knightley went off-radar, again, leaving Darkus with a traumatised ex-bomb-disposal dog as his only partner in crime-solving.Now things are getting even stranger. Family pets are being savaged by a beast at a top London beauty spot. Policemen have been tracked and attacked by a particularly aggressive canine. An...

Meet Knightley and Son - two great detectives for the price of one . . .Darkus Knightley is not your average thirteen-year-old: ferociously logical, super-smart and with a fondness for tweed, detective work is in his blood. His dad Alan Knightley was London's top private investigator and an expert in crimes too strangefor Scotland Yard to handle, but four years ago the unexplained finally caught up with him - and he fell into a mysterious coma. Darkus is determined to follow in his...

Who will hold the winning hand? Sherlock meets Ocean's Eleven in this wickedly funny, action-packed crime caper.Darkus Knightley is used to expecting the unexpected. An extraordinary solver of crimes, with immense powers of deduction, and regularly found bedecked in tweed, Darkus is anything but the average 13-year-old. But he is the person to call when strange goings-on are afoot!Despite trying to leave his detective ways behind to lead a normal ...

WINNER OF THE SCHOOL READING LIST CHILDREN'S FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'This fast-paced thriller will thoroughly engage tech savvy teenagers and give them plenty to think about. A [. . .] gripping sci fi adventure. ' LoveReading4KidsAlways online . . . until they want you off. Permanently.Just imagine . . . Hundreds of apps available at the blink of an eye: skills ranging from martial artist to ...

"Teenage angst and daily dramas rule in this warm and funny debut about 14-year-old Faith... sure to appeal to fans of Louise Rennison." The Bookseller"Faith is a little freaky, a little feisty and a lot funny. I defy you not to fall for her." Joanna Nadin, bestselling author of the Rachel RileyseriesYear Ten has just begun and I'm already in trouble.The way Miss Ramsbottom acts you'd think I'm always causing explosions or giving teachers' radical haircuts (whereas ...

In the aftermath of a blood transfusion that saved her life, Kara feels different. Her senses are stronger ... she can hear whispered comments not meant for her ears ... she can hear the person following her.When Jack, her stalker, reveals himself and insists that Kara has something that belongs to him, she does her best to avoid him. But he's determined to talk to her, convinced that they're linked through the blood she received during her transfusion.Jack is struggling ag...

Being a combination of conventional diary entries and transcripts of videos shot by the author on the camera she was given for her 13th birthday, and beginning at the end of summer.Bluebell Gadsby is 13 but that's the least of her problems. Both her parents seem more interested in their careers than the family, leaving Blue and her three siblings in the care of Zoran the au pair, as well as their three pet rats (who may or may not be pregnant). The enigmatic Joss moves in ...

Noa lives in what's left of a Britain where flooding means land is scarce. Everyone must sit an exam at 15: if you pass you can stay in the Territory, if you fail you must go to the Wetlands. Rich families can buy their children an upgrade to help, but 'Norms' like Noa must succeed on their own merits. Noa is a bright funny teenager, not sure which boy she likes, devoted to her friends. The book follows her as she and her friends face the exam. Who will pass and who will fail?

"A swicked adventure that will leave you smiling and wanting more." -HM Ward, New York Times Bestselling AuthorThere are no minor gods.Lilah Jones is officially thirteen. Unfortunately, the day comes with a few twists she didn't expect. For example, her hair turned into a living rainbow and she was gifted with a golden necklace that randomly goes from being room temperature to as hot a supernova. On top of that, she has a dream that she remembers l...

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't feel. Feel, but never ever love.From the moment Alina touches London's hottest fae superstar, breaking one of the laws founded to protect all of her kind, her fate – and the fae – close in.Below ground, the fae High Queen plots to claim the city as her own and places her pawns, ready for the battle to come. A battle she cannot lose, but for one small problem – Alina. There are four ancient k...

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of UsherIn a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks to herself – and narrates this, her story – in a unique language of her own invention. By night, she sleepwalks the corridors like one of the old house's many ghosts and is t...