A trailblazing new novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds; The Crossing is a profound story of hope, grief, and the very real tragedies of the refugee crisis. Natalie's world is falling apart. She's just lost her mum and her brother marches the streets of Dover full of hate and anger. Swimming is her only refuge. Sammy has fled his home and family in Eritrea for the chance of a new life in Europe. Every step he takes on his journey is a step...

Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennigton-Jones can't wait to start boarding school. When she arrives at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies, the adventure begins ... only not quite as Alice-Miranda expects. The minute she sets foot on the school's manicured grounds, she senses that something is wrong: Miss Grimm, the headmistress, is nowhere to be seen; the gardens have no flowers; and a mysterious stranger seems to be hiding...

Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing Poppy Pym has grown up in the circus...but when her family decides she needs a more traditional education she is sent to boarding school. When dangerous accidents start occurring at St Smithen's, it's up to Poppy to solve the mystery of the Pharaoh's curse!.

The holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of term. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School and there are spells to be learnt and potions to be brewed, but there are other events on the march that Harry is not expecting.

Shona and her dad are moving house, and at Shona's new school, the rules are pretty confusing; she keeps getting into trouble without realising! It's a lot like how it is for Oliver Twist, that boy she's reading about in English class. After Shona is unexpectedly given a mobile phone, she begins to suspect there's something fishy about the new boys she's met. Where did the phone come from? And some gifts, she soon learns, aren't exactly free ...

Open with your best gag. Finish with your second best. Make sure your face matches the material. Sell your routine ... Matt Millz LOVES stand up comedy. He's studied the best. He's memorised all the advice. He spends hours writing new gags and thinking up crazy sketches ... So when the school run a talent contest, of course he's going to enter. What he doesn't count on is: Last minute total meltdown His best mate pulling out zero seconds before going...

In Nikki?s newest diary, it?s the countdown to the end of the school year, and Nikki?s juggling some big questions about how she?ll spend her summer. She?s also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe - there?s a new kid interested in Nikki, but the last thing she wants to do is accidentally hurt Brandon! It all comes down to a big decision Nikki has to make, and drama like she?s never faced before!.

Rafe Khatchadorian, Max Einstein, Jamie Grimm, Jacky Ha-Ha, Pottymouth and Stoopid and The Kidds ? Our favourite characters come together to save the day! My buddy Jimmy and I are finally up to something good - throwing a huge festival dedicated to books! But when one tiiiiiny problem snowballs into a big one and threatens to derail the whole celebration, everyone?s gotta work together to keep things moving before the party gets shut down - permanently!....

And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he's looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things get all kinds of complicated. Because, for Simon, falling for Blue is a big deal . . . It's a holy freaking huge awesome deal. Praise for Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda: 'I love you, Simon. I love you! And I love this fresh, funny,...

Nikki Maxwell has the worst luck. Of all the schools she could have been assigned to for the student exchange week program, she?s stuck at North Hampton Hills, her arch nemesis MacKenzie Hollister?s new school. Even worse, there might just be someone at NHH who can out-MacKenzie MacKenzie! At least Nikki can write about every moment of drama in her diary, so listeners won?t miss a moment of it. Can the queen of dorks survive a week at the head CCP?s...