Storm clouds gather over Lily and Robert?s summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. For Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocket - but that?s not the only thing he wants. Soon, dark secrets from Robert?s past plunge him into danger, because Jack is playing a cruel game. Lily and Malkin, the mechanical fox, must stay one step ahead before Jack plays his final, deadly, card...

The Pet Defenders Code: 1. The safety of Planet Earth depends on you. 2. Humans MUST NOT know the truth. GOOD LUCK - you?ll need it? A mysterious stinky cheese has appeared in Nothington-on-Sea and it smells so bad it?s knocking people out! Biskit and Mitzy set out to investigate the alien cheese and they uncover a plot that?s even more potent. The stinky cheese is on the run from a bigger threat - the cheese monster? This fast-paced funny series...

I'm Finn McAllister, I'm a normal middle schooler, and on June sixth I died. I know, I know-you weren?t expecting me to die so soon. Me neither. But dying is just the beginning of my story. You see, now I?m a ghost! I don?t have to go to school. I can play as many video games as I want. And I can try every ice cream flavour in the store. I?ve made a new friend, too. She?s also a ghost. It?s pretty neat, huh? Only thing is, I have some unfinished business....

For example, I want my sister, Ninja Grace, to go to university at the North Pole and only come back once a year. I want to help Sherlock Holmes solve his most daring mystery yet. And if it could be a zombie mystery, all the more exciting. I want my dog to stop eating the planets and throwing them up on the carpet. And finally, the biggest dream of all, I want my dad to love me.

Billy is a lonely boy. He's obsessed with swimming in the sea, which is where he goes to wash his problems far, far away. Thanks to his mum's mystery illness, his dad has been forced to work extra hours to make ends meet, so Billy locks himself away with David Attenborough films, and ponders the magic of nature. Meanwhile at school, bullies mercilessly seize on Billy's 'otherness' and make his life as miserable as possible - but then new boy Patrick...

The Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, are exceedingly unlucky. Their parents have been killed, and they are forced to go and stay with their Uncle Olaf. It soon turns out that Olaf has evil plans for the children.

When Murph Cooper rocks up to his new school several weeks into the beginning of term, he can't help but feel a bit out of his depth. And it's not because he's worried about where to sit, and making friends, and fitting in, or not knowing where the loos are. It's because his mum has enrolled him at a school for superheroes by mistake. And unlike his fellow students, who can all control the weather or fly or conjure tiny horses from thin air, Murph...

Odawahaka has always been too small for Maggie?s big scientific ideas. Between her stuck-in-a-rut mom, her grumpy grandpop, and the lifetime supply of sludgy soda in the fridge, it?s hard for Maggie to imagine a change. � But when Lena moves in with her creative spirit and outrageous perspective, middle school takes off with a bang. Someone starts pulling the kind of pranks that send their rule-loving new principal into an uproar-complete with purple...

Join Freddie Mole as he tumbles through the air, flies around the big tent and tames four growling lions! Freddie is an ordinary boy who joins the circus one day. He can't believe his luck as he is asked to understudy some of the acts. But is he brave enough to go into the lions' cage?

Inspired by a true story, this is the beautifully written tale of how a mighty gorilla wins his freedom. The book is a winning blend of humour and poignancy that will appeal to fans of Michael Morpurgo.