Synopsis: Bored? Fed up with yawning, day-dreaming, scuffing your trousers on the pavement? Worry no more. Inside this humble buke (blush) is all you need to know for life-skills in the 21st century (yeech). A true voyage of the soul from moi, Letty Chubb, aged 15.

Review: Ros Asquith is well known for her cartoon contributions to the Education ...

Synopsis: Worry no more! Letty Chubb's guide to the passion and pain of lurve will help all teenage worriers find happiness. Deliciously funny as well as tackling serious issues, this is the ultimate handbook for affairs of the heart. From romance to pregnancy and quarrels to valentines, there's nothing more you'll need to know. Follow Letty's own tumultuous love life al ...

Synopsis: Set in Paradise this is Eve's story as you've never heard it - the elderly, cantankerous figure of God, the wise and beautiful serpent, the gentle Adam and the enquiring, intelligent Eve, who has been given by God to the Serpent to raise. The Serpent introduces her to life in Paradise and she learns about nature, love and the way that the new and fascinating world work ...

Synopsis: A book of poems all about whispering. Noise is all around, bring back peace and quiet! Whisper – in class, when watching wildlife, in church, everywhere.

Review: This book – only 42 pages in length – contains a few lovely poems about situations where whispering is important but a number of other poems that don’t, I feel, have any meaningful ...

Synopsis: Davie and Geordie are inseparable even under the threat of the monstrous Mouldy and his gang. Then Stephen Rose comes to live with Crazy Mary and rumours about his past and present spread. Strange and brilliant, Davie is drawn to the boy who makes beautiful clay models. They have something in common, the power to give life and desire to control monsters. But is Davie powerful ...

Synopsis; Nancy has always been a wild girl, running and playing in Bristol Docks and being left to do as she pleases. When her father remarries she is forced to become a lady although she still rebels on the subject of who she should marry. But then Nancy’s father dies and she finds herself on a journey to the Caribbean, one which will lead her to family secrets, mortal danger an ...

This collection of short stories contains stories by ten of the most popular authors writing for young people today. Contributors are: Malorie Blackman, Melvyn Burgess, Meg Cabot, Anne Fine, Cathy Hopkins, Sue Limb, Celia Rees, Meg Rosoff, Rosie Rushton and Jacqueline Wilson. The authors have donated their stories for publication in this book and Piccadilly Press and CosmoGIRL! are donating ro ...

Sara is a headstrong 16 year-old who wants nothing more than to be famous. Obsessed with her own self-image and the desire to be different, Sara decides that her face needs plastic surgery. Jonathan Heat, a legendary rock star, who has undergone so much plastic surgery on his face that he must wear a mask to conceal its hideous nature, offers to pay for Sara's surgery. Sara soon learns tha ...

Synopsis: Kelly Ann has come to her senses and realised that G, the boy she's fancied all year, is a total nerd and Chris, the boy next door who's been in love with her all year, is actually the man for her. But does that mean she'll live happily ever after with Chris, discovering the joys of sex and smugly advising her friends in the ways of true love? Of course not. With t ...

Synopsis: In Johannesburg in the late 1960s, the Iris family take in house guests from time to time to diffuse the tension in their large but unhappy home. 11-year-old Emily looks forward to these guests as she knows her parents will set their quarrels aside, and, if only for a short time, be like a real family. One spring a family of wanderers - an Australian couple and their two boys, ...