Little Acorns

Vita longs to write plays and poetry - but as a high-born girl in Roman Londinium, her fate is sealed: marriage and children. Then her father is murdered, her mother and brother disappear, and Vita flees from a shadowy enemy. Disguised as a slave at...

Magic is forbidden in Myrsina, along with various other abominations, such as girls doing maths. This is bad news for Gretel Mudd, mathematician and inventor of helpful contraptions. When the sinister masked huntsmen accuse her of witchcraft, she is...

The Battle of Nearby Village is over, and deep in the Darkwood, Gretel and her friends journey into the hostile mountains of the north, seeking new allies in their fight against the huntsmen. There they find Gilde the Bear Witch, along with a Werewolf...

The tyrannous huntsmen have declared the residents of Nearby Village to be outlaws, since they insist on supporting the magical beings of neighbouring Darkwood. Why won't they accept that magic is an abomination? Far from being abominable, the...

When a pair of unruly fictional pirates escape out of their book into Victorian London, 11-year-old Odelia Hardluck-Smythe's lonely life is turned upside down. Captain Blunderfuss and Cook are rude, dangerous and obsessed with marzipan fruits, but...

THE GREAT SAFARI RESCUE. When Cassie's cousin Luca joins the girls' school, they invite him on a magical playdate adventure. They decide to go on a wild journey to the African savannah. But when they arrive, the animals are in a frenzy. Their watering...

THE MAGIC OCEAN SLIDE. On the hottest day of the year, Katy, Cassie and Zia imagine a water slide coming out of Katy's bedroom window. As they plunge into an underwater world, they can't wait to explore. But when they meet a dolphin in distress, they...

THE MIDNIGHT MOON FEAST. The friends are having a sleepover when they discover that the usually fearless Zia always sleeps with the light on. To help her, they plan their first ever magical midnight feast! Soon, they find themselves in a moonlit...

Whatever happens, no matter what, DO NOT step into Asco Express because you might just end up leaving with more than you bargained for! When eleven-year-old Wesley stops by at a mysterious local shop to buy a drink, he does not realise the trouble he...

Autumn Albert can see the dead - much to her annoyance. But when her dad dies in mysterious circumstances, he's the one ghost who DOESN'T appear . . . A curious instruction in his will sends Autumn to Imber, the storm-soaked island of his childhood: a...

Evie is forever crossing swords with her twin. While she practises her after-school fencing, Tallulah is winning movie auditions. Neither of them could have imagined how their worlds would collide; but when Tallulah goes to Hollywood, Evie goes too -...

While her milliner mother Rosamund is abroad in Paris, twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe is left behind in Brighton. She finds comfort in her eccentric Aunt Bets, her new friend Temitayo, and the Brighton Aquarium - where the arrival of a giant octopus will...

Dear Nose-Pickers, are you well? Good. Then come closer. For I'm about to tell you a right slimer of a tale..._x000D_In it, there's a bogey monster, two best friends, four daredevil slugs, a neighbour so wicked she'll give you the willy-willy-woo-woos...

Reema runs to remember the life she left behind in Syria. Caylin runs to find what she's lost. Under the grey Glasgow skies, twelve-year-old refugee Reema is struggling to find her place in a new country and new language. But she isn't the only one...

Young cabin steward, Sid, is proud to be working on the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built. Clara dreams of adventure too, but she's a stowaway in the hold of a much smaller boat, Carpathia. Here she meets the biggest, best dog she's ever known:...

Jomi's mum left him to seek her destiny in Lagos. Now Jomi and his friendly bushbaby follow her - but their only starting place is a TV dance competition his mum used to love. If Jomi and his new Lagos friends can get on that TV show, then maybe his...

Jamie Lee just wants to be normal. But ADHD doesn't make that easy. If only he could control his butterfly mind then he'd be able to have friends, keep out of trouble - and not be sent away to stay with his dad. Elin Watts just wants to be perfect. If...

Roll up, roll up, the Scareground is in town! Twelve-year-old Nancy Crumpet lives above a bakery and her life is a delightful mix of flour, salt, and love. Yet her mind is brimming with questions no one can answer: Why did her birth parents disappear?...

A while has passed since Orinthia Shalloo's transatlantic adventure with her two younger brothers, and the Mailbox Menagerie is thriving, with trained animails delivering post. Then the Ambroses, a family of ice-cream makers, arrive in Little...

Orla has been on her own since Ma died, living in a woodshed by the river, with only her beloved garden for company. It provides all she needs. But when sickness come to the land, Governor Atlas decrees that plants are the cause, and must be...

Cassie's older brother Byron has fallen in with the wrong crowd; boys who are wild, reckless, and not even human at all. They are 'tylwyth teg' - Fair Folk - who tempt humans down into the dark places of the world. And Byron is tempted. When he goes...

One evening, Patrick discovers a polar bear - in his parents' freezer! How did Monty - official name, Wilbur Ambrose Cedric Barnaby Montague the Third - get there? He talks like he might have swallowed a dictionary as well as a library, he has read...

Orinthia and Seafra Shalloo accept a summer job from the eccentric Grandy Brock, who has collected a menagerie of furry and feathered posties known as ANIMAILS. The children are especially fond of Geronimo, a homing pelican. But when the big bird...

Gruff and his new friend Matylda live on a small island off the Welsh coast, where legends are beginning to stir. Islanders find themselves irresistibly drawn to the Sleeping Stones, a line of rocks like stepping stones out to sea, and Gruff and Mat...

Vita longs to write plays and poetry - but as a high-born girl in Roman Londinium, her fate is sealed: marriage and children. Then her father is murdered, her mother and brother disappear, and Vita flees from a shadowy enemy. Disguised as a slave at...

Magic is forbidden in Myrsina, along with various other abominations, such as girls doing maths. This is bad news for Gretel Mudd, mathematician and inventor of helpful contraptions. When the sinister masked huntsmen accuse her of witchcraft, she is...

The Battle of Nearby Village is over, and deep in the Darkwood, Gretel and her friends journey into the hostile mountains of the north, seeking new allies in their fight against the huntsmen. There they find Gilde the Bear Witch, along with a Werewolf...

The tyrannous huntsmen have declared the residents of Nearby Village to be outlaws, since they insist on supporting the magical beings of neighbouring Darkwood. Why won't they accept that magic is an abomination? Far from being abominable, the...

When a pair of unruly fictional pirates escape out of their book into Victorian London, 11-year-old Odelia Hardluck-Smythe's lonely life is turned upside down. Captain Blunderfuss and Cook are rude, dangerous and obsessed with marzipan fruits, but...

THE GREAT SAFARI RESCUE. When Cassie's cousin Luca joins the girls' school, they invite him on a magical playdate adventure. They decide to go on a wild journey to the African savannah. But when they arrive, the animals are in a frenzy. Their watering...

THE MAGIC OCEAN SLIDE. On the hottest day of the year, Katy, Cassie and Zia imagine a water slide coming out of Katy's bedroom window. As they plunge into an underwater world, they can't wait to explore. But when they meet a dolphin in distress, they...

THE MIDNIGHT MOON FEAST. The friends are having a sleepover when they discover that the usually fearless Zia always sleeps with the light on. To help her, they plan their first ever magical midnight feast! Soon, they find themselves in a moonlit...

Whatever happens, no matter what, DO NOT step into Asco Express because you might just end up leaving with more than you bargained for! When eleven-year-old Wesley stops by at a mysterious local shop to buy a drink, he does not realise the trouble he...