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Anne Fine does not shy away from the fact that separation and divorce are painful, but she does have an uplifting message about the power of honesty and compromise.

When Wilhelmina Silver's home is sold, she is torn from her best friend, her adopted monkey and her pet horse, and banished to an inhospitable boarding school in England.

A beautifully written book, full of hope, love and sorrow; it provides an apt ending to the unforgettable trilogy that also includes Once and Then.

Powerful illustrations underline this captivating tale of loyalty and bravery.

This contemporary retelling of how Princess Sita is kidnapped by the Demon King and ultimately rescued by her true love, Rama, exudes excitement and exoticism.

This nail-biting thriller is also a challenging story about the lives of the world's poorest children.

Jack's five-year-old sister, the gifted Annie, insists she has a time-travelling friend called Sarah. Narinder Dhami explores sibling jealousy in this fast-paced adventure.

Ever woken up to an eerie howl in the night and wondered what it was? This creepy tale about the Considine family might just have the answer

Jason is 12 and on the autistic spectrum...

This is a poignant and often funny book, which looks at ways of coping with a new step-family.

The final novel in Hooper's At the House of the Magician series, in which Lucy is in London, preparing for the imminent arrival of Dr John Dee, the court alchemist and his family.

Lucy and her beloved grandfather enjoy gardening together, and Lucy becomes aware that she, like him, can sense-see a small figure who helps with the gardening.

It's only when Eve's forced to flee her sheltered home that she discovers her world is a visitor attraction – and that she's being hunted by a killer.

Ayesha and her young brothers find themselves refugees in a bombed out flat in Beirut with only an elderly grandmother to care for them.

A skilled and empathetic translation of a German novel, this book emphasises the silence which exists around young victims of sexual abuse inflicted by family members.

When an angry Sovay becomes a highwayman so she can hold up her faithless fiancé, she discovers that there is a conspiracy to try her father and brother for treason.

Having told Massimo, the Italian stallion, that she is only interested in a monogamous relationship, Georgia Nicholson now has an agonising wait to find out if he will be her real boyfriend or not.

Precocious seven-year-old Alice-Miranda is home from boarding school for the holidays in the second installment of this tongue-in-cheek series.

Adam Lurie is gifted and friendless. When a strange creature turns up on the beach near his home, it doesn't take much to convince him he has found an alien.

King Neptune is having nightmares about something terrible that threatens his kingdom. He sends Emily and Aaron to the Land of the Midnight Sun to prevent impending disaster.

Rosie finds herself amongst staunch Puritans during the English Civil War in this accessible time-slip story.

Darien Frey is the captain of The Ketty Jay - a pirate spaceship whose disparate and dysfunctional crew make a living on the wrong side of the law.

While helping to sort out old toys in the attic of a historic house, two youngsters are summoned back to the 17th century and thrust into the midst of the English Civil War.

When her father is killed Garland resents the man who becomes ringmaster of her family's travelling circus, fearing that he will also become her stepfather.

Granny has always fiercely protected Donny and his profoundly deaf, dyslexic mum, Skye

A dark and dangerous world peopled by dwarves, shape-shifting vixen, mythical beasts and stone Goyls lurks on the other side of the ornate mirror in Jacob's father's study.

Many youngsters will relate to the story of Floss, who loves both her parents dearly and desperately wants them to get back together.

A deceptively simple story about the nature of angels, full of wit, humour and insight.

Desi is dissatisfied with her teenage life, which lacks glamour, peer-popularity, money and romance. Yearning to be a princess, she is one day magically offered a role...

Chance? Fate? Luck? How big an impact do they have on our lives? Jack has had a lot of bad luck, so now acts by the toss of a coin - however dangerous the consequences.

Siki already has a fierce hatred for the Mexican warriors but when her little brother Tazhi is brutally slain in front of her, she vows to become an apache warrior and avenge his death.

Witty, touching, sad and gripping by turn; this is a satisfying finale to an exciting series.

There is no end to Grace's imagination! It is the school holidays and she and her friends spend their time playing at being everything from doctors to ghost-hunters.

Hannah's life is really boring until she discovers she has a half sister. Ellie comes to live with Hannah's family, and at first she is a good friend. But there is another side to her...

While Shawn appears – to his father’s increasing distress – to be unconscious of the world around him, the author tells us that he is actually fully aware.

When a rare condition causes her mum's pregnancy to go wrong, leaving her lost in a coma, Ella's life goes into free-fall. Suddenly, nothing is as it was before.

When her best friend suddenly turns up at school wearing a black headscarf, Ellie isn’t sure what to think

A retelling of 11 Robin Hood stories, from his fight with Little John to the firing of his last arrow in humorous comic-strip format.

The sequel to Nobody's Horse continues the story of Abby and her god-fearing family on a Californian ranch in the mid 1960s.

At odds with her strict new teacher, and concerned that her unmarried mother is falling for the divorced father of the little boy she childminds, Charlie's life becomes increasingly stressful.

When Tamar's grandfather dies, he leaves behind a box with her name on it. Inside she finds a series of clues and hidden messages which she and her cousin follow...

A collection of humorous comic-strip stories that follow best friends Lettuce the rabbit and Vern the sheep as they meet a range of equally likeable characters.

Kier has seen his father murdered, the police want to arrest him and the bad guys are after him. Voake provides fast and exciting action but always underpinned by a thoughtful, ethical subtext.

Shifting between spy thriller and enchanting fantasy, The Apothecary is a skilful blend of the magical with the very real nuclear threat of the 1950s.

Kenny Kincaid has a violent, criminal past, but leaves all that behind in Northern Ireland when he runs away to England with his baby son, Ian, to begin a new life.

Tassie's family have a history of being forcibly removed from public monuments. No family outing is ever straightforward and her trip to Huffington Castle looks like being no exception.

Mary Poppins arrives with the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane to respond to the needs of Jane and Michael, whose parents are too busy to give them the attention they crave.

In the first installment of a historical trilogy set during the Mycean Bronze Age, goatherd Hylas and High Priestess's daughter Pirra find themselves thrown together on a mysterious island.

Celebrating the 800th centenary of the Children's Crusade, The Broken Road imagines the story of a group of young people to Jerusalem to regain the city from the Saracens for the Christianity, which took place in the 13th century.

As a German, Franz is an outsider, bullied by his schoolmates. He finds solace in nature, and through this, in his developing friendship with Edrin.