Seventeen-year-old Jayna wishes she could spend every second of the day with Andrew. He\"s her first love, and he understands her like nobody else can. Jayna just wishes Andrew\"s prejudiced family could accept her - but when they\"re alone together, it hardly seems to matter. But something strange has happened to Andrew. He looks . . . different....

Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians - an elite peacekeeping force - to protect the city, without ever resorting to the brutal methods of their enemy....

Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians - an elite peacekeeping force - to protect the city, without ever resorting to the brutal methods of their enemy....

Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices....

Life is tough for Nova. Her frantic parents are obsessed by running their hotel and her older sister seems too grown-up and good-looking to spend time with her any more. Then Nova meets the gorgeous Liam and things start to look up. But Liam is having an even worse time than she is....

In Boys Don\"t Cry, bestselling author Malorie Blackman explores the unchartered territory of teenage fatherhood. You\"re waiting for the postman - he\"s bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it\"s your old girlfriend; and she\"s carrying a baby....

Danny and June are bored. So June dares Danny to go with her to wake the Marty Monster. Over the shark-infested seas they sail, climbing up the high mountain where the dangerous wolves lurk, past the jungles where the fierce wildcats stalk, round the bubble lake where the blubber blob bathes, to the cave of the Marty Monster......

\\\"IT\"S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!\\\" There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don\"t want a dog. Then Granddad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic . . ....

\\\"IT\"S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!\\\" There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don\"t want a dog. Then Granddad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic......

Betsey puts on a magic show but everyone is less than impressed with her tricks. No matter, in these four sweet and funny short stories, Betsey learns the importance of believing in yourself, that practise makes perfect, and that some magic is real . . ....

A hurricane is on it\"s way . . . And Betsey can\"t wait! Join her as she helps prepare for the storm, is entered into a very strange contest, and even attempts to eat a MONSTER hamburger in four fabulously funny adventures. This book is one of five collections featuring Betsey Biggalow from Children\"s Laureate, Malorie Blackman....

Five...four...three...two...one. Lift-off! What can Lizzie do when big-headed Jake challenges her to a race in space? She\"s GOT to beat him. But Jake has a super-duper, deluxe new spaceship that runs on special fuel... Zoom to Pluto and back with this super space story from award-winning author, Malorie Blackman....

At her new school, Mira discovers she has a very unusual teacher - a teacher who turns into a real-life dragon when she eats crisps! This comes in very handy when the class run into trouble on a school trip to the seaside......

Jackson Winstanley Sweettooth (or Jack for short) is a mouse who lives with Matthew and the rest of the Bailey family. He gets the blame for a lot of things - Mrs Bailey thinks he\"s swallowed her ruby and nibbled at Shani\"s birthday cake. And Jack\"s biggest enemy is Beauregard Battersby-Bunge, the pesky ginger cat from next door....

In March 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. It was many years before slavery, as it was known then, was abolished, and slavery still continues today in different ways, but it was a big step forward towards the empancipation of a people....