Synopsis: Leonard Boameh wants to earn extra house points at school and plans a secret visit to Elmina fort to see the ‘Door of No Return’. However, his secret adventure turns into a nightmare when he is kidnapped by local street kids. Renamed ‘Angel Boy’ because of his clean-cut appearance, Leonard becomes their captive beggar with no possibility of escape.

Synopsis: This is the fourth in the darkly humorous series from award-winning illustrator Chris Mould. The island of Crampton Rock has emerged from pirate battle. But something far more sinister is on the move ...

Review: This is an easy read with short chapters, relatively large print, fantastic illustrations and an enticing cover making it an attractive book, particularl ...

Synopsis: Five years have passed since David Rain, now a cult author, disappeared mysteriously in the Arctic. Life in Wayward Crescent has settled to relative normality. But as the weather grows wild and the ice caps melt, all eyes turn north, where bears and the souls if the Inuit dead are combining to produce a spectacular solution ... a solution with its focus on David's child, A ...

Synopsis: A fictionalised  autobiography about an unusual boy with a suit of armour, an unshakeable dream and a most unusual vocabulary, written by that very boy, Nigel Dorking.

Review: A fantastic and enjoyable book about the world through the eyes of Nigel Dorking, Grade Six. In Jacqueline Wilson style Mary-Anne Fahey tells the story of a difficult family situation ...

Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, delivering messages and running errands all over the city, day and night. Gangland funerals and diving expeditions are hazardous enough, but it is when the graveyards begin to give up their secrets that this tick-tock lad faces his deadliest challenge yet. Read this blood-curdling tale of greed and betrayal, if you dare, and find out whether Barnaby will be d ...

Synopsis: Andrew Matthews's vibrant and accessible retelling, coupled with expressive and funny illustrations by Tony Ross, provides a perfect introduction to this story from Shakespeare. Also included are notes on the themes within the story to prompt discussion and background to the Globe theatre.

Review: This is an excellent narrative retelling of Shakespeare’ ...

Synopsis: Pip is a blacksmith’s apprentice – but he longs to be a famous knife-fighter like his dead father. Alone in London, he meets great danger….and two odd allies. One is hairy and hungry. The other is William Shakespeare. Pip’s extraordinary adventures have begun…

 Review: ‘Bearkeeper’ is a novel set in the dir ...

Rachel and her younger brother Eric are snatched from home to the world of Ithrea by the wicked witch Dragwena, who is exiled on that planet. Rachel feels "an exhilarating strength inside her, of powers strange and unrevealed, waiting to be used." She is captured and escapes more than once as Dragwena tries to gain control of the girl's magic gifts for her own child-hating schemes ...