It's time to welcome new girls to Malory Towers, the famous boarding school by the sea, in four brand-new stories by outstanding authors, set in Enid Blyton's much-loved school.YA and Waterstones Book Prize-winner Patrice Lawrence introduces us to proud Marietta with her magnificent head of braided hair. A dormitory argument reveals something unusual about Marietta, and something equally unexpected about Alicia.In

Read the novel of the global smash hit noughties film - now on Netflix!If you're 18, love football and can bend a ball like Beckham, the world must be your oyster, right? Wrong. If you're Jesminder - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it.Jess just wants to play football but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a women's team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off ...

Your home was the one place you felt safe.Now it’s your prison.You were invisible.Now your every move is monitored by masked strangers.You looked after your mum, your best friend.Now you barely know her.Everything can change in thirteen hours.

When a mysterious gunman takes a class hostage, the rest of Mia's school is evacuated. But Mia is determined to stay behind. She knows it's a life or death situation but there's something she fears more than dying. Mia thinks she might know who the gunman is, and, if she's right, then she may be the only one who can save her schoolmates...

Amber, Geena and Jazz have been through some tough times. Think Bollywood levels of tragedy and you’re getting close.Now, they’ve finally got everything they could ever want. Well, almost everything. They’re smart, funny and popular – and they’ve got all the latest designer labels. The one accessory they don’t need is their interfering Auntie-ji cramping their style. But nothing can stop the Bindi Babes … can it?

The best-loved boarding girls' boarding school ever comes to our screens for the first time in 2020! NOW ON CBBC AND BBC iPLAYER.When Darrell joins Malory Towers, she's thrilled to be at the beautiful boarding school on the Cornish coast. There are new friends to make, lacrosse games to play, midnight feasts to eat and many stories to share. Should Darrell believe lively Alicia's tale of a school ghost? Are there some stories of her own that Darrell would rather keep to herself? As...

Book Band: Brown - Ideal for ages 8+A funny retelling of an Indian folk tale from best-selling author Narinder Dhami.Bulbul would much rather sit at home under the mango tree than go to work. And anyway everyone in the village agrees that he is the worst barber in the whole world. Luckily his wife Ruby has a cunning plan to earn money – but first they must outwit a notorious band of thieves!This com...

Book Band: Brown - Ideal for ages 8+A funny retelling of an Indian folk tale from best-selling author Narinder Dhami.Bulbul would much rather sit at home under the mango tree than go to work. And anyway everyone in the village agrees that he is the worst barber in the whole world. Luckily his wife Ruby has a cunning plan to earn money – but first they must outwit a notorious band of thieves!This com...

Book Band: Turquoise (Ideal for ages 6+)A captivating retelling of an Indian story, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school.Ram the farmer is in trouble. Bali the tiger has threatened to eat him, his wife and their children, unless Ram gives up his pretty white cow. But Reeta, Ram's clever wife, has a plan to outwit the hungry tiger...This beautiful retelling of an Indian folk tale from best-selling author N...

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!Fliss is desperate for a pet in The Sleepover Club at Rosie’s, and volunteers to look after the school hamster for the weekend. Oh-oh… Kenny’s horrible sister is out to make trouble in The Sleepover Club at Kenny’s – have the Sleepover Club met their match? And in Starring the Sleepover Club, it’s all fun and games with Fliss’s mum’s camcorder. W...

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!In Happy Birthday Sleepover Club, the girls celebrate the Sleepover Club’s 10th birthday in style – until they all start squabbling. Could this be the end? In Sleepover Girls on Horseback, the local riding school is threatened with closure. Can the girls raise enough money to save it? And it’s off to the sunny Costa Brava in Sleepover in Spain, w...

A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout.When she was just nineteen, Anne Elliot followed the wishes of her father and turned down the proposal of the man she loved - a naval officer called Frederick Wentworth.Years later, Captain Wentworth returns from his time at sea, and Anne dares to hope that their paths might cross once more.But the course of true love is bumpy ...