Synopsis: VIMS- the Virtual Interactive Mobile System- is the creation of Dominic’s scientist mum. It is an amazing artificial intelligence masterpiece controlled by a single glove and a special pair of glasses which can disarm a car bomb, search through underground pipes or hold a baby. But then VIMS attacks violently and without warning and Dominic realises it’s no longer ...

Synopsis: Davey is the new boy. Sam can't stand him, he thinks he's a weirdo. But when the two boys are thrown together, Sam finds that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more exciting, until something terrible happens.

Review: The story of the making and breaking of a friendship, which Malorie Blackman has told using many different ...

Synopsis: Lydia has to move from londond to a small town in Yorkshire which is bad enough. But when everyone at her new school thinks that she stole the schoolsports cup and ignores her because of it, things get so bad that she has to run away to the moors - and finds herself in a very different place to the one she has left.

Review: The only good thing about coming to a t ...

Synopsis: Wonderland is quite literally a world of make-believe, its people and landscape shaped by the imaginations of its occupants, and in particular its Queen. Alyss Heart is destined to be that Queen, but the driving ambition of her Aunt Redd plunges the land into chaos and bloodshed and Alyss is forced to flee blindly through the Pool of Tears to another world; a strange world; a ...

  Synopsis: An extravagent new edition of some of the best-loved stories of all time. First published over a century ago. these three stories about the man-cub Mowgli have delighted adults and children ever since. The stories tell of Mowgli's upbringing among the wolves; his lessons in the Law of the Jungle from Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and Kaa the pytho ...

Synopsis: Cooped up at home and mollycoddled by his overprotective mum, Sam Harris is miserable: Bellstone is a boring place to live and his neighbours the Bullock family are his sworn enemies. But when the Griswalds come to live next door...

Review:Emma Barnes has created a likeable character, who many readers will empathize with, in Sam, the slightly overweight, overmoth ...

Synopsis: Twin Tigers captured, separated, imprisoned. A forbidden friendship between a slave and the princess. A bloodthirsty world dominated by Caesar's will. A fight for freedom - and for life.

Review: Twin Tigers have been captured in India, separated and imprisoned. One is sent to the bloodthirsty Colosseum to fight, and one is sent to Ceasar’s palace as a p ...

Synopsis: When an ancient coffin is discovered in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey the local monks believe they've revealed the final resting place of King Arthur and his queen. In the coffin is also found a crude leaden cross. But when the cross and the bones are stolen, Gwyneth and Hereward have to find out their whereabouts. Their hunt leads them to a labyrinth of underground tun ...

Synopsis: Hereward discovers a buried sword and realizes it has extraordinary power, but what he doesn't realize is that this sword is Excalibur and that his life is now in grave danger. There are traitors all around - people who want Excalibur so they can claim the throne of England. Ursus and Gwyneth must make Hereward see that the treasured sword has to be returned to its burial ...

Synopsis: When Lord Ralph's young daughter goes missing in the village, the gentle mute Bedwyn is arrested for murder and thrown into the Abbey dungeons. Gwyneth and Hereward refuse to believe that this shy man could be responsible for such a despicible crime and set about trying to prove his innocence. While Bedwyn languishes in prison the girl's father receives a ransom note - ...