Spine-tingling, spooky football thrillers! If you’re dead into football, these books are for you… It all starts when circles of scorched earth start popping up in Halifax: on the moors, the parks & the football pitches. People are freaked out; but Seth is really scared. He knows something awful is happening. The past is coming to life, & dark forces are attacking his town. Can Seth & his buddy Nadiya become the Defenders: stopping the evil while kicking a ball around? A chilling series of football ghost stories from a top author Featuring the classic Barrington Stoke dyslexia-friendly format Tom Palmer is the creator of the Football Academy series Each book ties into a KS2 history theme – Vikings, Celts or Romans ‘ Plenty of adventure, jeopardy, blood & thunder & mixing it all in with a good dollop of the country’s favourite spectator sport.” The Letterpress Project ...

‘A kinetic tale of the tension between duty, love & trust’ – Cassandra Clare ‘ Defy the Night is everything I crave in a fantasy romance’ – Stephanie Garber ‘ Addicting from page one!’ – Jennifer L. Armentrout The first book in the thrilling Defy the Night series: a blockbuster fantasy saga about a corrupt kingdom, a star-crossed romance & a girl who will do anything for justice. A spark of rebellion is all it takes to DEFY THE NIGHT. In a kingdom where sickness stalks the streets & only the richest can afford a cure, King Harristan & his brother Prince Corrick are forced to rule with an iron fist. Tessa Cade is a masked outlaw marked for death, but she likes it that way. Together with the mysterious, handsome Weston, she robs from the rich to help the poor, distributing food & medicine to those who need it most. As it becomes clear that the only way to save her people is to assassinate the King, Tessa must face a deadly mission that will take her to the dark heart of the kingdom … & force her to work with the very people she intended to destroy. For more fantasy romance, don’t miss Brigid Kemmerer’s New York Times bestselling Cursebreaker series. ...

All aboard for the rip-roaring final book in the bestselling Train to Impossible Places Adventures, with magic at every stop. From the award-winning P.G. Bell, with dazzling illustrations from Flavia Sorrentino, join Suzy on this magical adventure, where the journey will never, ever take you where you expect it to. ...

This title is part of a brand new set of phonically decodable reading books perfect for very early readers. These expertly levelled stories are engaging, & are exactly matched to Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised, used in schools across the UK. ...

This beautiful hardcover box set

Includes:: all three books in Suzanne Collins’s internationally bestselling

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THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS. The creator of the number one bestselling SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves… & the monsters that await her. ...

Psychic ghost-buster Alannah Malarra & her burglar sidekick Worley are on red alert. Can they handle devilish demons from the Dark Dimension, pouring into Pittingham Manor? ...

Feisty heroine Cat Royal finds herself on the streets of revolutionary Paris in this gripping adventure. When Cat finds herself suddenly homeless, she travels to Paris to become an underground reporter &8211; while disguising herself as a prissy ballerina! But as Cat tries to tell the real story of what is happening in France, she nearly gets hung for being a traitor to the revolution, & is baffled by the attentions of numerous eager suitors. Then the French Royal family flee, & Cat discovers the power of the people. Vive La Revolution! &8220; These books will keep readers hooked until the end.” Bookseller ...

In a secret supernatural battle that’s been raging for over a century, the stakes have just been raised – & they’re not wooden anymore. Enter Department 19, the government’s most secret agency: the only reason you’re alive! ...

A bone-chilling series that takes vampires into brand new territory: deadly sinister & ultra high-tech. In a secret supernatural battle that&8217;s been raging for over a century, the stakes have just been raised &8211; & they&8217;re not wooden anymore. ...