Hilary McKay
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he's trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! In the fist story, the new boy at school says his dad is on a rocket, flying to a star. Charlie knows Zachary is lying. No one has a dad that cool - do they? In the second story, fed up of being picked on by his family, Charlie runs away - to Henry's house....
Author
Series
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Tilly's little brother Timmy used to be as good as gold. But now he makes all sorts of chaos during the night and won't go to sleep. It's the fault of his imaginary friend, Naughty Morgan. He's the boss around here now. Can Tilly find out how to tame Morgan before her parents are forced to sell Timmy on eBay?
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
It was Christmas time when Bear arrived. He was not invited, he just appeared. Nobody needed him. Nobody wanted him. Little did he know that his new home would be a place filled with rubbish mountains, bulldozers, blue rabbits and mad horses.
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Binny's life has been hard since her father died and her old Aunt Violet disposed of her beloved dog, Max. Her world changed then, to a flat with her Mum, her sister and her brother. Then one day Aunt Violet dies, leaving a cottage in Cornwall to Binny and her family. Binny finds herself in a new world once more, full of sunshine.
11) Binny bewitched
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Binny Cornwallis has lost something. Something that wasn't really hers in the first place. With her best enemy Gareth and her beloved dog Max she turns detective to track it down, but the Cornwallis family are anything but helpful. Little brother James and his friend Dill are having an adventure of their own and big sister Clem is acting very strangely. And on top of all this, Binny suspects their next-door neighbour may be a witch.
Author
Series
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tilly is keeping a dragon in her bedroom. Her's family are very worried about it, even though the dragon is very nice and can help make brilliant crunchy toast. So the dragon has to go. It's up to Tilly to find a place that a very polite, very hot and very smoky dragon can call home.
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
With her awful secondhand uniform and stuck-up classmates, Binny's new school is horrible. And life gets even worse when a storm damages the roof of her house, forcing Binny and her family to move to the countryside whilst it's being fixed. Binny, her sensible older sister Clem and her rambunctious brother James (and his chickens) begin adjusting to life in the country. Then one of James's beloved chickens vanishes and Binny finds strange footprints...
16) Oliver
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Follow the life of a little boy called Oliver as he goes from being a workhouse orphan to a life with a group of young pickpockets. Will he ever manage to escape his life of crime?
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The Conroy sisters are always short of money. So when Ruth decides to sponsor a child in Africa, her sisters wonder how she'll find 10 every week. Then Joseck's letters start to arrive, and soon all the girls are plotting ways to raise money.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder Children's
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Anna believes in real magic. Perhaps if she wears the mysterious old dragon coat, her wildest dreams will come true? She's determined to find out. Sneaking out of bed early one morning, Anna creates some very special, and very messy, magic of her own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Lulu loves animals. All sorts of animals. Huge ones like elephants. Small ones like ladybirds. Dangly ones, climbing ones, furry ones, even flying ones. When Lulu finds 27 unwanted caterpillars in some nettles, she takes them all home to look after. She's especially excited because she knows that soon the caterpillars will turn into beautiful butterflies.