A wonderfully strange yet poignant tale of accepting the truth about oneself.Magrit lives in an abandoned cemetery. She is as forgotten as the tiny graveyard that surrounds her. One night a passing stork drops a strange bundle into the graveyard. Master Puppet, her friend and advisor, tells her it is an awful, ugly, terrible thing and that she should get rid of it. But Magrit has other ideas.

Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storytellerA gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller.High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village – safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear…

From the PEN Award–winning author: The Named series continues as the prehistoric tribe of sentient cats confronts a rival tribe of feline hunters.Twenty-five million years in the past, a clan of sentient, prehistoric big cats called "the Named" have their own language, traditions, and law. Ratha, a female Named, has brought fire to the clan and serves as their leader.In RATHA'S CHALLENGE, Ratha faces a separate clan of hunter cats, entranced by the telepathic...

A fast paced sci-fi adventure, A Game of War blends dizzying excitement with a whirlpool of emotions to keep you gripped from beginning to end. Like ‘The Hunger Games'? You'll love this. A Game of War so far: Ally flies and dad shoots. She’s got a gift for flying, always has, even before she joined the Game. The Game? A weekly contest between slaves, winner takes all, losers get to walk home, assuming they survive tha...

Part five of A Game of War is here! A fast paced sci-fi adventure, A Game of War blends dizzying excitement with a whirlpool of emotions to keep you gripped from beginning to end. Like ‘The Hunger Games’? You’ll love this! It turns out Stem wasn’t paranoid… Ally is trapped and Stem is lost, floating in space and low on air. The evil controller of Station Nephal has Ally caught in her collection with no way out. Bu...

When Will finds himself in hospital, but unable to make anyone see or hear him, he realises that he never made it home from his first date with the school hottie. Knocked off his bike in a road traffic accident, Will is now officially dead - and a ghost. But somehow his best mate, Dougie, can still see him, and, once they've exhausted all the comic possibilities of being invisible, they decide to delve into the truth behind a school rumour - whether there really is an unhappy spirit haunti...

Part six of A Game of War blows Ally’s world right open as she realises just how big the universe is and wonders whether she’ll live to see it.Just when Ally thought she’d escaped the Atrile…Ally and Stem have broken out of Station Nephal and are on their way to Earth, but a brief stop at Gateway brings them face to face with their greatest enemies. The Atrile have long memories and big ships and won’t stop until Ally and her friends are dead.Gatewa...

Ten brilliant stories to unsettle and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice.'White Time is book of absolutely outstanding short stories . . . a collection of extraordinary richness and power that will reward adult as well as teenage readers.' Adelaide Advertiser'Ten more compelling stories from the author of the much-lauded Black Juice. Taut, vivid, original: another winner.' The Horn Book, USA'I haven't read su...

The second book in the Wychetts series."This is not the key to a door, but the Key to Magic itself."But there is only one Wychetts Key, and there are two Guardians...A summer holiday becomes a nightmare for Bryony and Edwin, when an argument about the Wychetts Key causes a freak surge of magical energy. The Key is lost, and the children are plunged into a sinister animal underworld.On one side is the notorious Ratello Mob, the meanest rat gang ever; on the o...

Kenssie is a demon who feeds from secrets. Lately pickings have been slim, and she has grown so weak that her shield of invisibility is slipping. As the servant of a demon who eats embarrassment she already feels like she's the laughing stock of the demonic world. But the scorn of someone who thinks that Hawaiian shirts are the height of cool is the least of her worries.A powerful fear demon is dead set on making her his slave, a position that carries seriously short life expectanc...

A young boy subconsciously calls forth the power of the Crossworlds creators. They send the mystical beast, Purugama, to accompany him on a fantastic journey. After revealing a number of possible futures to his young charge, Purugama prepares to return him to his home. His plans are interrupted when Drazian, Purugama's mortal enemy, faces the Champion in a ferocious battle for Conor's life.

“Galloping suspense dominates this riveting sequel to the post-apocalyptic Dark Inside” (Kirkus Reviews) as four teens continue the struggle for survival in a world gone mad.Aries, Clementine, Michael, and Mason have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers. Now they’re hiding out in an abandoned house in Vancouver with a ragtag group of fellow teen survivors,...