Gideon lifted his axe. Whack, he split the ice. Surely someone had spotted him? Any second he expected a cry, ‘Stop thief.’

When Gideon is trapped in the palace, only the little...

I rushed out of school clutching my letter. I couldn’t wait to tell Dad my news.I only ever wanted my dad to be proud of me. So I’m a girl who wants to play rugby. What’s wrong with that?...

Tim is an ace actor and keen member of the school drama club. So of course he expects to be the star of the end of year school play. But to his horror he finds he's been cast as a tree. Is there...

Catherine Morland reads popular tales of Gothic romance, yet leads a quiet country life in Wiltshire. When she travels to Bath with Mr and Mrs Allen she meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney....

Theo gives his bodyguard the slip once too often, and Rachel receives a weird text from her father. So begins a highly dangerous search to unravel unanswered questions about their past.

Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for a class assignment, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, and her...

Oswald wishes he and his fortune-telling father, Mercurio the Magnificent, had never been washed up on the island. Idlegreen is a mysterious place, an old-fashioned world full of horse-drawn...

‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself,’ Otto replied. ‘Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world’s deadliest assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of...

It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. And the new building outside her...

When Pegasus, the majestic winged stallion, crashes on to her roof in the middle of a storm that blacks-out New York City, 13-year-old Emily’s life becomes that of legend: epic battles with...

Elisabeth Sladen, who stars as Sarah Jane in the CBBC TV series, reads this exclusive audio story by Scott Handcock. A camping trip spells trouble for Sarah Jane and friends when both the...

Moving home has not been much fun for Jimmy and his family, least of all for his fisherman father who had to leave the sea and his treasured boat behind. Then, out of the blue, Jimmy meets Major...

‘The Christmas Truce’ / ‘Only Just in Time’ / ‘The Midnight Adventure of Miss Montague’ / ‘William and the Musician’ / ‘Williams Leads a Better Life’ / ‘William and the...

When Daisy arrives at the farm campsite where her family are spending her summer holiday, she knows she's going to have the best time ever. Especially when she finds out the farm dog has just had...

Hubble bubble, toil and trouble! It’s All Spells’ Night, the broomstick is waiting, and soon Junior Wizard Ben-Muzzy and his twin companions, Joel and Gemma, are off to Proverbial Village,...