Anne Fine

When their mother takes on a new cleaning lady, the Hilliard children discover there's more to Madame Doubtfire than domestic talents.

Madame Doubtfire

When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal.

Flour Babies

Tells of a strange and disturbing friendship, seen through the eyes of Natalie, as she gets to know Tulip Pierce, a delinquent girl most others go out of their way to avoid. This work explores the dark side of a friendship bordering on obsession, and depicts one girl's gradual decline into hostility and violence. Ages 10-13.

The Tulip Touch

The hilarious confessions of a ferocious feline Poor Ellie is horrified when her cat, Tuffy, drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. Before long, another apparent victim arrives though the cat-door. Can softhearted Ellie get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends up in even deeper trouble? Especially when Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about? Chock-a-block with lighthearted illustrations, readers experience a deliciously sharp and funny view of the world through a cat's eyes.

The Diary of a Killer Cat

Véronique Haïtse

Lundi, j'ai tué un oiseau. C'est vrai. Ellie, ma maîtresse, a sangloté si fort en me serrant contre elle que j'ai cru me noyer. Mais dites-moi, qu'est-ce que je suis censé faire quand une petite boule de plumes m'arrive entre les pattes ? Je suis un chat, tout de même. Mercredi, j'ai rapporté une souris morte à la maison. Je ne l'avais même pas tuée. Ellie a encore beaucoup pleuré. Et jeudi, il y a eu cette regrettable histoire de lapin... Un livre pour les enfants qui aiment déjà lire tout seuls.

Journal d'un chat assassin

Mel, the class bookworm, doesn't want to be first-week minder for new girl, Imogen. But only Mel can stop Imogen's private horror story - stop the bad dreams...

Bad Dreams

Sally Nicholls

Matt Whyman

Adele Geras

Theresa Breslin

Melvin Burgess

Berlie Doherty

Mary Hooper

Rowena House

This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous nurse risks her life at the Front Line; a young woman discovers independence and intrigue in wartime London; and a grief-stricken widow defends her homeland amidst the destruction of war.

A Collection of First World War Stories Through the Eyes of Young Women

War Girls

The Return of the Killer Cat

Kitty Killin teaches her friend, Helly Johnson, about friendship and stepfathers.

Goggle-eyes

Spending the summer with his ex-wife, his children, his ex-gardener (and ex-wife's new husband) was never going to be a good idea. Perhaps Oliver should have expected the autobiography he was writing would be constantly sabotaged? Perhaps he should have guessed that he'd have scorn and derision poured upon him? But then Oliver was a philosopher, always happier with abstraction than reality, and the realities of his life have never been simple - and they're just about to come crashing down around him in the most unexpected and hilarious of ways. Market: Readers of contemporary women's fiction, e.g. Margaret Forster, Joanna Trollope, Alice Thomas Ellis and Angela Lambert. Reviews: 'Anne Fine's black comedy bounces along its sprightly one-liners without flagging' - Observer 'It is very perky, shot through with wit, and full of effervescence and good humour' - Financial Times 'It is said to take two to make a quarrel but the casus belli for Constance after sixteen years of marriage is her philosopher husband Oliver's serene unawareness of ever having given grounds for one...clever and entertaining...a direly witty achievement' - Guardian 'Alive with brazen charm' - Mail on Sunday

Taking the Devil's Advice

The Killjoy

Bonny has no choice. If her mother is to keep her new job, Bonny must take a one-day course at Charm School. One day at Charm School turns out to be every bit as bad as Bonny had feared. The other girls are scratchy and self-obsessed, and will do anything to win the glistering tiara.

Charm School

Everyone thinks they know what it's like, going to school. But have you ever wondered what life must be like at a boarding school? A school for young offenders? A school for the blind? With her trademark humour, insight, sensitivity and razor-sharp wit, Anne Fine explores these different worlds in a short story collection that will fascinate young readers.

Anne Fine

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