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...

‘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...

The Birthday Burglar is Bassington - surely the most fortunate boy in the world with his own island and no parents to spoil his fun. But Bassington is bored - until he realises that what he wants...

Eight-year-old Barney is willing to accept that the ghost of his Great-Uncle Cole might wish to be friends with him, but his family are sceptical. However, some of his older relations admit that...

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...