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Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton’s only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in… more

Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed wi… more

Who will be the next Princess of Crabapple Valley? Miggin is sweet but clueless. Druzilla is brave, brilliant, arrogant and nasty. Will they really Influence each other, as the queen hopes, or will they tear each other and the kingdom apart… more

When Madlyn and Rollo are sent to staying at ancient Clawstone Castle they soon fall in love with the house and its eccentric, penniless inhabitants. There’s grumpy, limping Uncle George, mousey Miss Emily, and reclusive Cousin Howard who h… more

Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton Hall is a far more unusual and interesting place than Tally ever imagin… more

Ruth lives in the beautiful city of Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. But her world is about to change forever. When Hitler’s forces invade Ruth’s family flees to London, but she is unable to get a pa… more

“so your spell changed Basil into a bulldog?” gasped Daniel. “Yes,” said Heckie. “I adore bulldogs.” Heckie is not just a witch. She’s a good witch who wants to make the world a better place. So, with her Toe of Transformation an her Knuckl… more

When eighteen-year-old Ellen accepts the post of housekeeper at Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and Dance she wasn’t expecting it to be quite so unusual. For deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, she finds an eccentrically magical w… more

As a bloodcurlingly fearsome ghost, Humphrey the Horrible is a failure. He’s not horrible at all. Instead of being ghastly and skeletal, he’s pink and fluffy, like a summer cloud. He longs to be like his brother, who’s a Screaming Skull. Or… more

This kind of fun will never fail to delight’ Philip Pullman ‘Find me a witch!’ cried Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North. Arriman has decided to marry. His wife must be a witch of the darkest powers - but which witch will she be? … more

‘ATTACK OF THE KILLER AUNTS!’ scream the headlines. ‘AUNT PLAGUE MENACES CITY!’ Three children have been kidnapped by some mysterious, mad aunts and panic is spreading. But Myrtle, Coral and Etta are far from killers - they need the childre… more

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants’ quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy… more

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret rea… more

Under Platform13 at Kings Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island….. It appears only once every nine years. And when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey a… more

Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the mou… more

A beloved New York Times bestselling author returns to paper! At first Tally doesn’t want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But soon she discovers that it’s a wonderful place, where freedom and selfexpression are valued. Enamor… more

Spring, 1922 Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess – who’s given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairytale castle is missing it… more

Get me some ghosts,’ said Fulton Snoddle-Brittle. ‘Frightful and dangerous ghosts!’ Fulton has gone to the Dial A Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. But Oliver … more