Action and adventure stories

Children can learn all about things that go with this fun lift-the-flap book! Children can learn all about a variety of things that go with this fun lift-the-flap book! Different vehicles are presented, such as construction machines, vehicles that...

A book sits abandoned on a living room shelf. While the Blossburn family happily gets on with other things like watching TV and playing video games, the book aches to be read. The longer it sits abandoned, the more it aches. At last the book can't take...

'A Slumdog, feel-good treasure find' Daily Mail 'A SLUMDOG, FEEL-GOOD TREASURE FIND' Daily Mail Now adapted into a Bafta-nominated film directed by Steven Daldry and written by Richard Curtis. Raphael lives on a dumpsite, eking out a living sifting...

He's brave! He's bold! HE'S THE BEST!Tashi's too cunning for the war lord and the wicked baron, and far too clever for giants, ghosts, witches and demons. And Tashi tells the best stories ever! Seven books rolled into one Big Big Big Book of Tashi...

Celebrate 20 incredible years of OLOGY with this special edition of Egyptology - the journal of lost adventurer and Egyptologist, Emily Sands. Explore the lovingly kept journal of a lost adventurer. With a stunning gold foiled and embossed cover...

Fly to the grasslands of Tanzania in Africa for lots of yoga fun! Lulu the lion cub has not learned how to roar yet. This makes her feel really frustrated and angry.With the help of Mindy the chimp, Ernie the elephant, George the giraffe and her other...

The hugely successful Cosmic Kids YouTube channel helps children discover yoga by joining presenter Jaime on monthly yoga adventures, each one a story featuring a loveable animal character that achieves something amazing. Aimed at 4 to 8-year-olds, the...

The 104-Storey Treehouse is the eighth book of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations. Join Andy and Terry in their...

Powerful and universal retellings of seventy-eight divine stories, legends, and myths from around the world, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustration from acclaimed artist Yoshi Yoshitani.  Many of the lessons we learn are shared stories passed among...

A hilarious new adventure from the mega-bestselling author of Wolf Girl and Ninja Kid. Hi there! I'm Pow Pow Pig!  Me and my friends didn't make the A team ... or the B team ... or the C, D or E teams ....  We made the Z team!  How are we going to...

From the author of the multi-award-winning and bestselling How To Bee comes an intense and thrilling new adventure. 'We're gonna starve if we stay here,' Emery said. 'If we're gonna go, best go now.'  And he said it like going was something easy. Like...

The stakes are high in this fast-paced mystery adventure starring young magician Flick Lions. The second book in the Great Fox series. How well do you really know someone...? Flick is a magician who needs answers. Her father is still missing, and top...

Winner of the Book of the Year for Younger Readers at the CBCA Awards 2019 From Australia's favourite storyteller comes a story, within a story, that shows us the extraordinary power of true love and solves a decades-old mystery. 'Once upon a time, in...

'The world will need a Hero, and it might as well be you ...' Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. The Hairy Hooligan tribe think he's totally useless, but Hiccup is about to face his destiny ... with one tiny...

The No.1 Bestselling Series Enter a land of wizards, warriors, mythical creatures and powerful magic in an exciting fantasy adventure from the author of How To Train Your Dragon. Witches are creating havoc in the Wildwoods and danger lurks behind every...

From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an exciting high-adventure series - set in an ancient, magical time, full of Wizards, Warriors, Giants and Sprites. #1 Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award This is the...

Ada Twist is full of questions. A scientist to her very core, Ada asks why again and again. One question always leads to another until she’s off on a journey of discovery!  When Rosie Revere’s Uncle Ned gets a little carried away wearing his famous...

The creators of the New York Times bestselling picture books Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, Architect are back with a story about the power of curiosity in the hands of a child who is on a mission to use science to understand her world. Ada Twist,...

WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The iconic, multi-million bestselling novel, in a 25th anniversary edition with exclusive new material inside. An unmissable modern classic. Stanley...

Don't miss the brand new series of the bestselling BEAST QUEST! Tom and Elenna have tracked Emperor Jeng and the Evil Witch Kensa as they search for the second weather-controlling crystal. But Thoron the Walking Storm is unlike any Beast they've faced...

Don't miss the brand new series of the bestselling BEAST QUEST!  Emperor Jeng and the Evil Witch Kensa have gone in search of the Broken Star - four crystals that can control the weather!  But when the Good Beast guarding the first crystal mistakes...

Join the Rainbow Magic fairies as they help everyday heroes do their very important jobs! Lulu the Lifeguard Fairy makes sure lifeguards everywhere do a fantastic job people keeping people safe in the water. But when nasty Jack Frost steals her magical...

AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT TO READ, WITH LOTS OF CHARMING AND QUIRKY CHARACTERS' -- Better Reading Freja and her mother, Clementine, are reunited at last. Tobias and Vivi are in love. And Lucerne, their new home, is a paradise of snowy alps, sapphire lakes,...

FANS OF ... JACQUELINE HARVEY WILL LOVE THIS BOOK' -- Kids' Book Review on The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome When Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, Provence, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fields...

After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the corrupt governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission,...

A new hero, a new mission: meet CHERUB's latest recruit. Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the billion-dollar Aramov criminal empire. But he's got no idea that this routine job will lead him into...

It's 1919, Richmond football club is on top of the ladder, cream buns are threepence each and four boys are gunning for the best job in town. Charlie is lucky enough to win the prime job - running messages for Squizzy Taylor, the most dangerous gangster...

Adam and his family live in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. He's got everything he wants, everything he needs, and there's a lot he takes for granted. Then war breaks out, and, in the confusion to escape, Adam runs away. It...

ALL SIX BOOKS IN ONE! Join Amy and Sprocket as they uncover deadly secret after deadly secret on the most tumultuous journey of their lives. An adventure full of delight, terror, tears and laughter, DEADLY!will leave you gasping. IT'S DARING! IT'S...

A tense thriller about a serial killer targeting homeless youngsters; STONE COLD won the Carnegie Medal and is now part of the Originals, showcasing Penguin's very best modern classics for young adults. A tense, exciting thriller combined with a...

IF YOU LIKE POISONINGS, BETRAYALS, MUTILATIONS, MURDERS AND FLESH-EATING FARMYARD ANIMALS, KEEP READING . . . In this gripping follow-up to Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods, demigod Percy Jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original Greek heroes...

"If you like horror shows, bloodbaths, lying, stealing, backstabbing and cannibalism, then read on..." Who could tell the true stories of the gods and goddesses of Olympus better than modern-day demigod Percy Jackson? In this action-packed tour of Greek...

The fifth book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Now with a new cover look, read the stories that launched Percy Jackson into the stratosphere, before the Disney+ series comes out! HALF BOY - HALF GOD - ALL HERO. FOR ME, THE END...

The fourth book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Now with a new cover look, read the stories that launched Percy Jackson into the stratosphere, before the Disney+ series comes out! HALF BOY - HALF GOD - ALL HERO. SURE, AS A...

Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ The explosive, emotional, incredible final book in the Artemis Fowl series. IS THIS THE END FOR ARTEMIS FOWL? Opal Koboi is back, and up to no good. A bit of world-domination here, a little light...

In Africa only the strong survive. Teenage martial arts expert Connor Reeves is tasked with protecting a foreign ambassador's family on safari. Considered the perfect assignment, the holiday turns to hell when their convoy is ambushed by gunmen. Fleeing...

Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code is the third book in the unbelievably brilliant Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. CAN ARTEMIS FOWL LEAVE HIS CRIMINAL PAST BEHIND? Not quite. At least, not yet. He's got one...

Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ Join the world of Artemis Fowl, the number one bestseller by Eoin Colfer. THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human...

Join the world of Artemis Fowl, the number one bestseller by Eoin Colfer. AT JUST TWELVE YEARS OLD, ARTEMIS FOWL IS A CRIMINAL GENIUS. No scheme is too dastardly, no plot too devious. And he's just discovered that fairies are real. Poor fairies. But...

Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex is the seventh awesome book in the bestselling Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH ARTEMIS FOWL When he gathers the fairy elite to show...

Winner - KOALA Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7-9 Winner - YABBA Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7-9 Winner - COOL Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7-9 Longlisted - Family Award for Children's Books...

An extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like...

Andy and Terry have built their biggest and most astonishing treehouse yet! It has everything they - and you - could wish for, including an electric pony stable, a Santa Land, a NOISY level, a kangaroo-riding range, a WHATEVER-WEATHER-YOU-WANT dome, a...

Andy and Terry are celebrating Christmas in their 156-storey treehouse which now has 13 new storeys, including an aquarium wonderland, a wishing well, a world record breaking level, a TV quiz show hosted by Quizzy the quizzical quizbot, a lost property...

How do you pretend everything is fine when those that you love are in danger? If people you once trusted are now deemed a threat? After winning the National STEM Championships, Kensy, Max and a team of students from Central London Free School are ready...

Friday Barnes is being attacked on all fronts! When Friday Barnes gets involved in her frenemy Ian Wainscott's family dispute, it appears her knack for uncovering the truth may ruin their friendship once and for all. Highcrest Academy is no longer a...

The perfect book for all young wildlife enthusiasts. Explore the best wild places that Australia has to offer, from rainforests and reefs to high mountains and deserts. Get outside into nature where adventure awaits. Australia is home to 230 types of...

Andy and Terry's treehouse now has 13 new storeys, including a word-o-matic (it knows every word in the whole world!); a recycling depot; a wrecking ball; a complaining room; a spooky graveyard (where it's always midnight, even in the middle of the day);...