‘The Ghost of Able Mabel’

Able Mabel is huge and horrible. She’s a thief and a pirate... and she’s a ghost! Many years ago she stole a box of gold from Sam’s old granddad –...

Bennett School is celebrating its hundredth birthday - and thinking about the next hundred years. There's a prize for the best idea, and Barny, Spag and Clipper are sure they're going to win....

There are few feelings in the life of a journalist to equal the intensity of emotion involved in tracking a scoop. When that scoop combines the pathos of human tragedy, the revulsion of human...

What happens when the characters in a children's book decide they just don't like the story they are in? In this hilarious novel the characters go straight to the author to complain, with...

Wally's mum, Vera Pratt, is no ordinary mum. She likes nothing better than poking about in engines and taking her motorbike to bits.Then one day, after a confrontation with Captain...

In a hurry to find five pupils to join a school trip to creepy old Harwick Hall, Miss O'Dell, their teacher, picks them from one of the 'special' columns on her list. They have little in common,...

Twenty-one marvellously inventive stories by Carnegie Medal-winning author Margaret Mahy. Starting with The Horrible Story, about a boy whose chilling tales terrify two older boys, the other...

Set in the Unexpected School on top of Hurricane Peak and in the great city of Hookywalker below, this blood-and-thunder story abounds with villains and rogues. There is also a hard-working...

'Tommy Niner and the Planet of Danger':

The Galactic Council has ordered Tommy Niner and his family to find out why spaceships are disappearing in Sector 13. But once their spaceship,...

Douglas is not the sort of boy to panic when something out of the ordinary happens. But then he meets a native of the planet Vangar, whose arm has dropped off. Kai is being hunted by the Guardians...

Ark lives a mile up from the ground - in the last trees in the world. But Ravenwood faces a new threat by the empire that wants its precious wood. Ark and his friends must travel deep into enemy...

In 'The Phantom of Billy Bantam', Annie needs help from the ghost-boy when danger threatens, and in 'The Ghoul of Bodger O'Toole', it's rumoured that Bodger haunts Davey's new home. Can hr catch...

Nothing much ever happened to Digory when he was in the forest, until one day when he found something that changed his life for ever - a dragon's tooth. Soon the village gossips spread the word...

‘I was a pirate. Now I’m trying to give it up, and I need help.’ Uncle Ludovic has a great black beard hanging down his chest like a doormat. He claims to be a pirate trying to mend his...

Villains beware! It’s Jeremy Brown of the Secret Service!

Jeremy Brown may look like a weedy schoolboy, but he’s actually an MI7 agent. One minute he and his sidekick, Patsy Spudd,...