Hassan and his mum love visiting Primrose Park near their house, where they often see foxes and owls. But they're very surprised to find a deer and an otter in a park in the middle of a city! Dapple the Deer is trying to find someone to help his mum, who is tangled in a wire fence, while adventurous Olive the Otter has been washed downstream after a heavy rainstorm. Follow the adventures of D…
Despite her fear of boats, Grace Darling loves her life as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and spends fun-filled childhood days with her three sisters, four brothers, numerous goats, chickens, cats and her beloved dog, Happy. The only shadows come from the many shipwrecks caused by the poor location of their lighthouse, a problem that seems to be fixed when a new one is built further out…
Jamie is in hospital waiting for a life-changing operation. And to make a difficult time even harder, he’s fallen out with his dad and refuses to speak to him when he comes to visit. To keep his spirits up, nurse Shirley suggests he writes a letter to the dog he desperately wants to adopt from the local dogs’ home. But imagine his surprise when Dog writes back!
From award-winning author Phil Earle comes the hilariously agonising account of one teenage boy’ s disastrous attempts to win the heart of the cool new girl at school. Marv’ s fourteen and his life is simple. There’ s football. And his best mate, Jimmy. Perfect. Nothing else matters until a new girl at school called Carly crashes into his life. For Marv, it’ s love at first sight, his e…
Eva's football skills make her stand out while playing at break-time at school, and her friends are desperate for her to join their local team, the Lightmoor Lionesses. But Eva was horribly bullied at her last school due to a painful skin condition, and she's terrified that the same thing will happen again if her new friends find out. Her instinct is to hide away, but can she find the courage…
Freya desperately wants to be a famous influencer, like her former best friend, Hye-jin, but no matter what she does, her posts flop. Until Freya’ s stepdad arrives home with AdelAIDE, a home-assistant robot. It quickly becomes clear that AdelAIDE is much more powerful than other home-assistant technology, and the thing AdelAIDE wants most of all is to help her new owners. Especially Freya. A…
Alex is not happy that his family are moving to the village of Noggings. He’ s even less happy when he discovers that Noggings is under siege from a vicious jackdaw called Graham who has been dive-bombing kids in the school playground and terrorising locals. Surely, it’ s only a matter of time before Alex himself is targeted. But can he defend himself against the flapping fiend and learn wh…