For reluctant readers (children)

Paul du Pain's bakery is a very special place. Each day, Paul bakes the bread while Marie serves customers in the shop. Everyone who walks in the door walks back out feeling happier than before. But when Marie goes away, Paul's days become sad and grey. Without her, the bakery's magic is gone. Wi...

Life has always been tough on the streets of Stepney, where Elsie and her brother Mikey are growing up in a vermin-infested slum nicknamed 'Paradise'. But the rise of antisemitic fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts in the 1930s stirs up trouble between families who have lived closely togeth...

There are many reasons why Tansy dreads Aunt Emma coming to visit, but maybe kindness could be the key to making it work in this funny family drama from author Anne Fine.

When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they're in for an adventure - just not the kind they were expecting. Nearby sits the abandoned Harwood Institute. The crumbling buildings reek of secrets and, at night, strange screams come from the surrounding forest. Nobody ...

Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces in 'Becoming Muhammad Ali', the illustrated novel on the life of the boxing legend. A mixture of prose and verse, it follows the life of the young Ali up until age 17.

Bertie is not looking forward to spending the summer holidays on stinky Long Bottom Farm - but things take an interesting turn when he encounters Nugget, the alien chicken. Can the power of friendship put a stop to Nugget's mission to exterminate the Earth?

Discover the origin of our beloved characters from the 'Dog Man' series as they join forces to stop the Space Cuties from destroying the city. Will the past predict the future for Dog Man and his friends? Will goodness and bravery prevail? Can anything happen if you truly believe?

When he spots a lonely old man watching his football games in the park, and then sees him again eating at the local gurdwara kitchen, Bobby wants to help. At first the man doesn't seem very friendly and he doesn't want to take part in the local walking football league for older people that Bobby ...

Rachel loves to skateboard! But her parents think she is too young to skate. When she is invited to join a contest, can she prove them wrong?

The InvestiGators are having a hard time keeping a low profile with their new headquarters being a giant robot towering over the city! How can they be secret agents if everyone recognises them? But with their ears to the ground, Mango and Brash hear mysterious rumblings about boulder buddies - ar...