Item category 1: General Fiction

Griffin Silk has a secret in his heart, that nobody else knows until he meets Layla, a princess with a daisy-chain crown and he shares his inner thoughts with her. Together they find a way to deal with Griffin's secret. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Kiki and her best friends, Coco and Lulu, all live on Lotus Lane, attend Amber Acres Elementary School, and have their own club, so when a when a Japanese girl named Mika moves in next door and also chooses fashion design for her art project, Kiki is seriously annoyed.

Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the all-school reading contest.

Tom Gates is the master of excuses for late homework: dog attacks, spilt water, lightning ... Tom's exercise book is full of his doodles, cartoons and thoughts, as well as comments from his long-suffering teacher, Mr Fullerton. After gaining five merits for his 'Camping Sucks' holiday story, Tom'...

Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly ago...

While gathering food to bring to his grandfather, young Arthur becomes trapped in the city of Ratbridge, where he and some new friends try to stop a plot to shrink the monsters of Arthur's home, the Underworld, for a nefarious purpose.

Marcus and Mila Tinkler are very good at climbing. But can they go from their house to the town clock tower without once touching the ground? It won't be easy. It will probably be dangerous. And almost certainly dirty. It's a very good idea.

Its a new school year, and everything is perfect. Ella has a new uniform, glittery stationery and can't wait to meet her new teacher. Until class starts, that is - and everything goes wrong. She can't believe she has to sit next to her absolutely worst enemy ever, Peach Parker. Where's her BFF Zo...

Raffa Santana has always loved the mysterious Forest of Wonders. For a gifted young apothecary like him, every leaf has the potential to unleash a kind of magic. When an injured bat crashes into Raffa's life, he invents a cure from a rare crimson vine that he finds deep in the Forest. The powers ...

"A shy girl teaches a wild boy everything about modern living so he can impress Gam Gam at a family dinner"--

My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me what to do, and what to say. I'm supposed to say that the bruises on my arms and the black eye came from falling down the stairs. But there are things I won't say. I won't tell them I'm going to hunt for ...

Kristy and her friends decide to organize a Baby-sitters Club. They have fun and make money but they also run into several problems.

In twelve-year-old Giacomo's Renaissance-inspired world, art is powerful, dangerous, and outlawed. A few artists possess Geniuses, birdlike creatures that are the living embodiment of an artist's creative spirit. Those caught with one face a punished akin to death.

Pippa has just arrived at a new school, in a new town, and even living on a gorgeous island isn't cheering her up. Her arrival causes ripples at Kira Cove Primary School but Pippa soon starts to make friends with eco-warrior Meg, boho-chick Charlie, and fashionista and cupcake baker Cici. Pippa's...

Ever since Lexie's mum vanished, her world hasn't stopped spinning. A new home, a new school - even a new family but Lexie never gives up hope that her mum will come back and writes her letters every day to tell her all about her new life. There's plenty to tell - the new group of misfits she cal...

Newly qualified teacher Tom Dwyer has been given his first post in Risingdale, a sleepy little village at the very top of the Yorkshire Dales. Unsure if he'll ever fit into this close-knit community, Tom joins a motley staff at the village school. With pupils who know more about sheep than they d...

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convi...

Lara Perryman has spent her whole life travelling for her busy corporate job, so it's a relief when she takes early retirement and settles in a leisure village in Wiltshire. She quickly makes friends with the other residents and finds herself entangled in the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies...

Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everything changes after he has a fateful encounter with a mysterious young woman named Josephine. Julian's world is turned upside down by a love affair that takes him -- and ...

Clementine Rose was delivered not in the usual way, at a hospital, but in the back of a minivan, in a basket of dinner rolls. So begins the story of a lovely little girl who lives in Penberthy Floss in a large ramshackle house with her mother, Lady Clarissa, Digby Pertwhistle the butler and a ver...

Blabbermouth = a person who talks too much = Amelie Anderson. Amelie is a blabbermouth. She's not a bad kid - she's just so bubbly that sometimes words fizz right out of her mouth! And then things go wrong. Terribly wrong. But she's determined to fix all that. It's time for a reputation make-over!

Hamsa's teacher has announced that their class will be doing their very own hackathon. A hack-a-what? thinks Hamsa. She doesn't know anything about tech or coding! Can Hamsa and her team come up with the goods or will things fall apart as she plays it too cool for school?

Reality TV turns deadly in Cherry Hinton's first case. When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV's Big Blubber, the hot new celebrity weight-loss show, is murdered on live television in front of 3 million viewers, the case seems pretty watertight. After all, everyone saw Martin do it - didn't ...

Ella has started high school at Eden College. And things are going great. Sometimes Ella feels like she's lived there for years! She's even joined the school paper, Eden Press. All the girls are getting along really well. Oh, except for the latest scandal. Things have been going missing from the ...

Lotta has just started middle school - but life isn't going very smoothly. First of all, she has a teacher named Mrs. Crabbert who is very, well, crabby. Then, her mom gives her a recorder that seems to make mysterious things happen. Lotta also wants to get her own pet... no matter what it takes....

Penelope Kingston has one shiny phone, twenty handmade necklaces and thirty-six school awards. But sometimes, she feels like there are two different Penelopes living inside her, which makes finding a best friend very tricky! When her horoscope predicts new beginnings on the same day that a new st...

I'm Edie and I love science. So I when I started at a new school, I decided it could be one giant experiment. Can I give you some advice? Avoid sliming your entire classroom. You could end up in trouble with your teacher, your new classmates and the principal. Between the great slime fiasco, the ...

Four friends from school are all going to be bridesmaids. It's every girl's dream come true! Izzy is excited that her parents are finally getting married - she and her siblings have been nagging them to tie the knot for years. Her parents met on a beach holiday, so are planning a lavish tropical ...

Meet the Bush Mob, who live in the Australian outback, and find out how Willy Wagtail gets them to come together for the first time to help each other escape a bushfire.