‘Do you think I should ask him out, Nicholas, or is that a bit forward?’ ‘GRANNY!’ We all stared at her. Dad had to sit down. Nicholas’s granny has fallen in love – with the elderly Hell’s Angel next door! Yurrrgghhh. Nicholas’s dad isn’t happy about it – but Granny won’t let him get in the way. She has a...

Lots of Jacqueline Wilson's characters are well-known and well-loved by thousands of readers: Hetty Feather, Ruby and Garnet, Pearl and Jodie, Elsa, Lily and, of course, the brilliant Tracy Beaker! But how much do you know about Jacqueline herself? Jacqueline takes a look back at her own childhood and teenage years in this captivating story of friendships, loneliness, books, family...

'I don't think my mum's fit to be a parent, really I don't.' How would you feel if your mother had royal-blue hair and wore lavender fishnet tights? But Minna's whole family (including her mum's punk boyfriend, Crusher Maggot) is a bit unusual. Being the only sensible one is not easy for Minna... ...

Two children cross an ocean, two hundred years apart. One is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, a present-day English girl transplanted from London to America, fighting a battle of her own against loss and...

‘Do you think I should ask him out, Nicholas, or is that a bit forward?’ ‘GRANNY!’ We all stared at her. Dad had to sit down. Nicholas’s granny has fallen in love – with the elderly Hell’s Angel next door! Yurrrgghhh. Nicholas’s dad isn’t happy about it – but Granny won’t let him get in the way. She has a...

A moving and powerful story about brother and sister, Joe and Annie, who flee from a pitiful existence as servants. They embark on a tough and perilous journey to Manchester in search of their mother who was forced to leave them at the workhouse when they were very young. Their future is tainted by the horrors of their past and...

It's the first day at PIRATE SCHOOL for Ziggy, Smudge, Carkella and Flo and they have lots of new things to contend with. Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank and hand-to-hand fighting. When out on the pirate ship a storm blows up, resulting in the children having to rescue...

Patagonia Clatterbottom, the headteacher of Pirate School, is having a birthday. She takes the children to shop for a party and they are ambushed by the children of the School for Young Highwaypersons who take all the food. But Master Skittershins, the dancing master, secretly trains them in high kicks, etc and they go back to fight-dance the highwaypersons. They...

Josh thinks Fizz is dentally challenged and fluent in gibberish. Fizz thinks Josh is the Prince of Handsomeness. They're destined to work together at Marigolds Old People's Home – can Cupid's arrow strike among the Zimmer frames? Thow in Josh's wacky mother with her goats on the sofa and Fizz's goddess-like big sis and one thing is certain. Things will...

Two years after their flight from Nigeria, 14-yr-old Sade, her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London, waiting for their claim for asylum to be approved. Sade is upset when Femi is drawn into a violent possibly drug-dealing gang, and even more upset when their father doesn't seem to notice. He's too taken...

At the age of nine Andrew Kindness witnesses the horrific death of a father and son who are sucked into quicksand on the shores of Millom's estuary in Cumbria. Unable to help at the time, Andy grows haunted by the guilt and memory of this terrible event. When his granddad shows him the art of cross-breeding daffodils some years later,...

Everyone knows that Louis is a loudmouth, he never stops talking and drives everyone crazy. No one believes him when he announces that he's going to do a sponsored silence to raise money for the new school library. But Louis is determined, just for once, to keep his mouth shut. To his surprise he finds that he actually enjoys listening,...