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Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Rescue comes, but lasting damage has been done....

Guilt is in the eye of the beholder ... When her cold and indifferent husband vanishes, so does Lois\"s old life. Now she is ready to take her chances again. There\"s only one fly in the ointment: Janie-Gay, ex-partner of the son Lois lost to drugs, and spiteful mother of the small, neglected child she can\"t get out of her mind....

The devil walks . . . But the devil can make no headway if he has no help. We must invite him in . . .\" Raised in secrecy by a mother everyone thinks has gone mad, Daniel\"s only link to his past is the intricately built model of the family home - High Gates. The dolls\" house is perfect in every detail....

Tuffy doesn\"t feel wanted at home any more. His owners just don\"t appreciate him. So what if he broke the new TV? Got fur on all Dad\"s clean clothes? Ate Tinkerbell the kitten\"s special kitten-food? All accidents! But they\"re making such a fuss! So Tuffy decides to make a break for it....

I adore stories in which people have weird dreams, and strange things happen. But that\"s in books. Real life is supposed to be real, and I like my world to be solid around me . . . \" Mel is the class bookworm. She prefers books to people and doesn\"t want - or need - friends. She certainly doesn\"t want to be first-week minder for new girl, Imogen....

Everyone thinks they know what it\"s like, going to school. But have you ever wondered what life must be like at a boarding school? A school for young offenders? A school for the blind?...

I am NOT going to Charm School . . . \" But Bonny has no choice. Forced to spend a day at Charm School while her mother is on a course, Bonny makes some surprising and hilarious discoveries. Can Bonny cope with listening to Mrs Opalene\"s Helpful Handy Hits (like \"how to bleach your elbows\"!)?...

I hate Frozen Billy - his painted, staring wooden eyes, the way his eyelids click when Uncle Len pulls a string, his long thin legs and his bright red wooden mouth . . . \" Clarrie and Will live with their Uncle Len - a brilliant ventriloquist in the nearby music hall....

Ally really doesn\"t want to go with his mum on her weekly visit to his fragile aunt Chloe at the big Victorian hospital - until he discovers a hidden garden in the grounds. Here a young homeless couple have made themselves a home....

Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one\"s neighbours are encouraged to report any dissension to the authorities....

How stupid do you have to be to fall out of a top floor window? Or was Stolly trying something else - up on cloud nine, even then? Stolly has always been so alive, so inspiring, taking risks, hiding nothing, notorious for being the school\"s most imaginative liar (or fantatist, as he calls it)....

Ione Muffett is alone in the summerhouse when she meets Ned Hump - a wacky student who is in love with her professor father\"s secretary, Caroline. In a zany and uninhibited twenty-four hours, Ione helps bring the two together, culminating in a wonderfully anarchic picnic....

Cass has always been there for Tom, her twin - racing off to laugh with him in the old, abandoned ice house or planning how to foil Jamieson, the farm\"s creepy pest-killer. But now Cass is a teenager, she is changing - she wants her privacy and feels suffocated by their life on the farm....