‘If only I was a teenager,’ said Flossie, who was feeling very bored, ‘I could shout and bang doors all day long.’Life was so unfair. Flossie, the youngest of the family, wasn’t...

When Flossie Teacake puts on her sister’s fur coat she is transformed... briefly... into Floz, an eighteen-year-old with attitude. It’s magic, it’s amazing, it’s almost unbelievable. But...

When paratrooper Corporal Reith Douglas received a head injury in Greece during the Second World War, he might well have anticipated a hero’s welcome on his return home. But it would have helped...

The Seatons, affluent members of the Protestant gentry, own The Haven, a lush, opulent estate in the Scottish countryside. The Flynns, proud Catholics to the core, spend their working days in the...

Before Calico starts her job at Prairie Books, she thinks publishing’s really glamorous. After her first week, she thinks she should be getting paid danger money. Exploding packages, menacing...

'The Revolting Baby'
Katie thinks looking after a baby will be easy. But after Emily has covered herself in sticky golden syrup, newspaper print, scrambled egg, a few leaves and plenty of...

When Devon farmer's daughter Roxanne Hawkins attends a local summer concert, the 14-year-old is blindingly stage-struck. On the day of St Petroc's autumn fair, Roxanne runs away to seek fame and...

From the day she was born, Amanda Phillips was awful: she was mean, spiteful, greedy and a bully. But she was also very brave - and this was lucky because at nine years old she found herself...

When the dance teacher can’t take the class, or the new boutique needs a sales assistant, or the gypsy fortune teller lets the school fête down, enter that glamorous, multi-talented and...