Jean Ure

Karen Donnelly

Geeky Ruth Spicer hates school. When super-cool Shayanne Sugar comes along and--shock horror! --wants to be her friend, things begin to look up. But Shay is hiding something. Do best friends tell each other everything?

Sugar and Spice

Parents! First they're together, then they're apart. For Stephanie, a hip 14-year-old, and Jessica, her 10-year-old sister, being stuck in the middle of their parent's problems is not what they need. When Dad decides that what the girls really need is a summer holiday with him in Brighton, they jump at the chance. No rules, no hassle, no worries. But things never turn out the way you think, and Steph and Sam soon discover there's a lot more to being a family than they thought.

Passion Flower

Charles Dickens

Gill Tavner

In the dark, dangerous streets of Victorian London Oliver enters the world of people so poor and desperate that they will take any risk and know no mercy. Relentlessly pursued by the menacing criminal world, who should Oliver trust? Are his true friends strong enough to resist the determined plotting of desperate villains? In this gripping tale of kidnapping, shooting and murder, Charles Dickens shows the threats to a vulnerable boy’s existence and asks the eternal question: which is more powerful, good or evil?

Oliver Twist

Introduces the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights.

The Bill of Rights

Discusses the disease, symptoms, diagnosis, psychological aspects, treatment, protection from ticks, the disease in animals, and vaccination.

Coping With Lyme Disease

A rags to riches story of a young orphan who becomes a famous actress. Daisy is brought up in a foundling's hospital in Victorian times. At ten she is sent into service as a skivvy at the Dobell Academy, where she watches all the pupils learning how to be young ladies, wearing fine clothes and learning how to read, write and...dance. Daisy dreams of being like them one day and painstakingly teaches herself to read with the help of one kind teacher. A wonderful unashamedly sentimental rags-to-riches story which young readers from 7 and upwards will adore.

Daisy May

Retells the classic tale of a young orphan boy dealing with hardship in his early life at a boarding school and living with a controlling aunt.

David Copperfield

Alan Moore

My darkness lifted, never to return. This man was truly the light of the world.

Mary Magdalene

Lily and Violet are twins—physically identical but quite opposite in character. Lily is brash, up-front and in your face. Lily Loudmouth, her dad calls her. Violet is timid and shy. She lives very much in Lily's shadow—a shrinking violet. Finding it difficult to make friends, Violet finds the perfect solution in Katie, her new pen pal. Soon the two are writing at a fast and furious pace and become very attached to each other. That is, until Katie suggests that they meet.

Shrinking Violet

Retells the story of an industrial city in Northern England and the bleak existence of its inhabitants in the mid-1800s.

Hard Times

Profiles the Los Angeles Rams' football player whose techniques changed the way coaches and fans thought about defense and caused him to be named "Defensive End of the Century" by Sports Illustrated.

Deacon Jones

Phoebe Bright

Explore the magical world of the stars – where wishes really do come true – with this collectable, irresistible series for younger readers. On Cassie's seventh birthday she made a new friend - Stella Starkeeper. Stella lives in the sky and uses the magic of the twinkling stars to make wishes come true! After passing six tasks Cassie becomes a Lucky Star - someone who can can grant wishes, helped by her magical charm bracelet. But disaster strikes when Cassie's bracelet goes missing and Stella's powers begin to fade . . . Cassie must search for other Lucky Stars who can help her find the bracelet. But before a Lucky Star is able to share their magic, Cassie must first make a wish come true for them. In book ten, THE SWIMMING GALA WISH, Cassie and her two new Lucky Star friends, Hannah and Yasmin, are determined to find Cassie's magical charm bracelet. If they don't then the special power of the stars will be lost forever and no one's wishes will come true. Will they find the bracelet in time?

Karen Donnelly

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