Blackman, Malorie

Betsey Biggalow is here! She may be small but she's full of bright and shiny ideas about new trainers, winning at marbles and even helping the world! Join Betsey on four short, sun-filled adventures as she learns you don't have to be big to make a big difference.

You're about to receive your A-level results and then a future of university and journalism awaits. But the day they're due to arrive your old girlfriend turns up unexpectedly - with a baby. Your baby. You agree to look after it, just for an hour or two. Then she doesn't come back - and your life...

Sam doesn't want to be friends with Davey - in fact, he thinks he's a moron. But one day Davey saves Sam's life and an extraordinary friendship is formed, only to end in tragedy. This story is told in verse.

Just this once. Please let me get away with it just this once. Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just th...

Following on from 'Noughts and Crosses', Sephy is struggling to raise her mixed-race child in an apartheid society and to make her mark as a singer in a society prejudiced against Crosses like her. But when her daughter finds out about her parentage, she must reassess her identity.

Callum is a Nought, an inferior white citizen in a society controlled by the black Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, and the daughter of one of the most powerful, ruthless men in the country. In their hostile, violent world, Noughts and Crosses simply don't mix. But when Sephy and Callum's childhood fri...

Join two intrepid adventurers as their imaginations transform their house into a wild wonderland - and their big brother becomes a mighty monster. A joy to read-aloud with its cumulative refrain, and full of funny, relatable characters, this is a contemporary celebration of creativity, fantasy an...