Dublin, 1858BRAM STOKER: boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)MOLLY MALONE: part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief!When Bram runs away from boarding school and meets streetwise Molly, he finds all the excitement he's ever wanted. Together they explore the city, with its Sackville Street Spooks, hoodlums and heroes – and let's not forget the very creepy Count Vladimir Grof-Constantin de Lugosi.

Dublin, 1859Bram Stoker: Boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)Molly Malone: Part-time sneak thief and full-time Dublin legend!When Bram and his best pal Molly meet a lonely boy called Sanjit in Dublin's Natural History Museum, they can see he needs some friends. So they, along with Molly's gang, The Sackville Street Spooks, take him under their wing.Sanjit tells them the tale of the dread (and very dead) pirate, Captain Lamprey and his links to th...

Dublin, 1937A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films!Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film.But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her rea...

Dublin, 1937At the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street, the children of Dublin watch their Hollywood heroes on the silver screenWhen Sylvie meets tenement boy Jem and his daredevil sister Juno, they bond over their love of movies. But an accident means Juno will miss the latest film at the Grando, so they hatch a plot to hijack the movie reel and do a top-secret private showing instead!Meanwhile, a sneak thief called T...

Dublin & London 1859: A Tale of Two CitiesBram Stoker: boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)Molly Malone: part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief!Best friends Molly and Bram are on a mission in London.Famous writer Charles Dickens has been kidnapped!The pals set out to search the darkest corners of the city. On their travels, they meet all sorts of characters, among them a foul-mout...

Two orphan siblings with truly terrible luck battle an evil celebrity chef in this “bitingly humorous and appealingly weird” (Publishers Weekly) illustrated middle grade romp in the vein of A Series of Unfortunate Events.It’s hard to imagine things could get worse after one’s parents die in a greenhouse explosion. But that is precisely what happens to Basil and his younger sister, Dahlia. They escape from the social worker who wants to split them up to dif...

The third book in the bestselling zombie horror series from the author of Young Bond. Covers may vary.‘Lord of the Flies with zombies . . . tons of nail-biting action!’ Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesHe doesn't know it, but DogNut is about to set off a chain of events that will affect every kid in the city.The sickness struck everyone over the age of fourteen. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, s...

We can't possibly play football out there - the pitch is wet through!I know - the first years have been doing dribbling practise all morning!This hilarious bumper book includes over 1000 jokes. Packed with sparkling rib-ticklers and dozens of cartoons, it includes all the best joke themes, including:• Knock knock jokes• School and teacher jokes• Funny foods• Ghosts and ghouls• Space and a...

A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evocative and unflinching story of wartime survival for younger readers.40% Friendship, 20% Survival, 40% The BlitzBill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he's finding that surviving on the streets of London is pretty easy, thank you very much. He's fed by a local cafe owner, he earns some cash as a barrow-boy in Covent Garden, and sleeping in the Underground air-raid shelters is cosy - if a bit smelly. Things get ...

Allan Ahlberg's five poetry books, written over a period of twenty-five years – Please Mrs Butler, Heard it in the Playground, Friendly Matches, The Mighty Slide and The Mysteries of Zigomar – have delighted generations of children and received many accolades and prizes.Allan has sifted through them and chosen a collection to delight and entrance a new generation of readers and their parents. Here are all the trials and tribulations of childhood, embracing school,...

But it's true,' Tom shouted. 'It was a real lion, I know it was.'No-one believes Tom when he says he has seen a lion - padding around the orchard with a string of sausages in its mouth! No-one, that is, except for Clare, the cleverest girl in the class. Together, she and Tom plan to prove his story is true - by catching the lion!

From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie! When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice. Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Everyone wants to be the next big pie-c...