Could you stay in a house where someone was murdered? What if the victims were your own family? After years in Cornwall, Lauren is returning to London. Going back to the site of a terrible tragedy, & a house full of ghosts. When Lauren was six, her mum & little sister were murdered. Her father was jailed for the crime. Now Lauren is back a stone&8217;s throw away from the house where it all happened. Despite her horror, she is curious too. Who lives there now? How will the house make her feel? When she befriends Nathan, the son of the new owners, Lauren gets to find out. She blocked out a lot of that fateful day: lots of nightmarish memories. But now they are coming back. & so is a hidden truth. ...

When orphaned Michael is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large & desolate country house, his instincts tell him that something is not right. First he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. & then there is the uneasy solitude of the house itself, where he roams the silent corridors seeking distraction. But lonely doesn&8217;t mean alone, as Michael soon discovers. The house & its grounds harbour terrible secrets, & Michael must unravel them all&8230; ...

Screenwriter, film director & comic genius: Garth is the new Dahl. His sweet but sinful monsters will make you laugh like hell. ...

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist & romantic – this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. ...

Stevie is eleven she’s been best friends with Andrew since forever. Stevie’s mum teases her that someday they’ll get married, but Stevie knows that won’t ever happen. There’s a girl at school that she likes more. Actually, she’s a bit confused about how much she likes her. A beautiful & warm verse novel about the discovery of sexuality. ...

The Junior Computer Brain of the Year competition is sending ripples of excitement through the school & when Dinah makes it to the final, she’s over the moon. But too late she realizes that she’s being used to access the private computer of the Prime Minister... the daring new target of the Demon Headmaster! ...

When Ingrid turns up at a SPLAT meeting she is raving about Hunky Parker, a new TV show. It’s the latest craze, she says, & soon everyone will be hooked. The other SPLAT members disagree – until they watch for themselves & something weird happens... & it could involve the Demon Headmaster! ...

It seems too good to be true. The Hyperbrain: a super intelligent computer that works by accessing the human brain. However, someone wants to use it for accessing people’s minds & taking control of them! It can’t be the Demon Headmaster, because he’s been defeated. Hasn’t he? ...

He’s back! But hey, you always knew this mega-baddie could never really be defeated, didn’t you? For a while, it seemed as if the Demon Headmaster was gone forever. But nope – he’s back in a new book, & a new school, with a new evil plan! It’s nice to be good at things. But at Lizzie’s school, all the kids have suddenly become weirdly brilliant at stuff. Lizzie’s classmate Ethan, who hates sport, has turned into a football whizz. Her brother’s now an expert in robotics. As for Lizzie herself, she’s become really good at being bad! What’s going on? Could it be linked to her school’s creepy new headmaster? A brilliant new thriller from this legendary series Fast-paced, funny & full of action & suspense Brings this best-loved series to a new generation Gillian Cross won the Carnegie Medal for Wolf fiction-9-11-reading-collections sum-18-ie ...

There’s a new head teacher at Lizzie’s school, & she’s great! She encourages the pupils to follow their passions, & there’s even a competition to win an adventure trip to an exciting remote island! But someone is waiting for them there. & once he lays his eyes on them, there will be no escape... ...