When 11 year old runaway Matt Bright is rescued by Samantha Cooper and taken to her creepy home, Craven Manor, he has no idea that he's entering a trap. What is the mystery of Samantha's parents? Who is the sinister Mr Higgins? And the even more frig...
It's not easy sharing your bedroom and your bed with a full grown and very hungry African lion, and when Buster goes on the rampage through the streets of Bristol Danny is horrified.His problems increase when Buster decides to use Danny's room as his...
Pineapple Island (which despite its name won't be found in the warm waters of the Caribbean the South Pacific, although you might find it on a map of Cumbria if you look through a large magnifying glass) is home to the Scarrot family, at first just F...
Charlie Churchill is the odd one out, the ugly duckling in a dysfunctional all-female Liverpool family. She's the one who works a forty hour week, pays the bills and provides a modicum of common sense, plus - when she has time - a healthy cooked meal...
Nick is an unlikely hero. Almost sixteen, he longs to be taller, braver, more athletic, more popular with the girls, more one of the guys. He also suspects that he's the only one in the class who's still a virgin.Let's face it, he's a worrier, with m...
A bomb hit Jamie Bird's house during WW2, killing both his parents and trapping Jamie beneath the rubble for hours. Half conscious, he dreamed of flying through the air on a swing with long, long ropes, and the dream comforted him.Now his only relati...
13 year old Simon is determined not to accept his mother's new partner Philip and his future stepsister, 11 year old Lissie. His new life on Philip's farm in the North of England is very different from his previous life in London, and he hates his ne...