When young Spit MacPhee came to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen feared for his future. For Fyfe MacPhee was a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit had to fend for himself along the riverbank where they lived. While some people believed that Spit could look after himself, there were those who believed he would be better cared for in a boys home - and when old Fyfe died after one of his 'turns' a fierce battle to decide Spit's destiny began.

Angie and her twin brother, Billy, catch a steam train to school every day. Their father is a signalman on the local railway line. But things are changing. There are rumours that the line is going to be closed, and at school the new headmistress is determined to believe that Angie is a troublemaker.
Hurt, almost defeated, Angie fights - and against all odds she finally triumphs in a spectacular way.

The Red King controls his forest kingdom not just by force of arms, but by spreading disease. All who question his authority are infected with the deadly red fever. Who would dare oppose such a man? Only a tiny band of entertainers - a magician, an acrobat, a monkey and a bear...... How could so unlikely a group possibly challenge the Red King in his stronghold? How could they hope to survive, let alone win?

The Hardy's guided the motor boat out into the shark-infested ocean beyond the reef. Several times they saw sinister looking fins knifing through the sea around them. Suddenly Frank's blood ran cold - water was starting to pour in through a hole in the hull. They were sinking fast....... In the sultry heat of the West Indies, Frank and Joe hunt for a desperate gang of cargo thieves. But as the net tightens around the crooks, their tricks get nastier....

It seems simple enough for David and Jem to release the two baboons from the experimental research station where they are doomed to die. But when they discover the baboons are no longer capable of looking after themselves in the African bush, David and Jem are forced to stay and protect them. And that's when their problems truly begin....

Small and insignificant, Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book, he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian, and there follows a magically evocative story to fulfil your deepest longings.

It is a perfect world - conformity and happiness are a way of life. But for Jonas, things are different. While his friends are selected to be doctors or teachers, Jonas is sent to an old, tired man - The Giver - where he begins to discover the dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of his world. Jonas is about to undertake an incredible and impossible journey....

A lost gold mine...... Frank and Joe Hardy rescue a man injured in a shooting accident. Can his strange story of lost gold help solve the robbery case their detective father is working on? The Hardys leave for the old mining town of Lucky Lode - but a deadly trap is set for them on the way. Someone in town is in league with their enemy. Is it the friendly storekeeper? Or the mysterious businessman?

Sent to America during wartime to stay with 'Aunt' Bird, young Fanny Clegg finds herself in an unsettling world of sophistication and luxury. Bird's daughter, Pepper, seems friendly enough, but her son Jay is openly hostile. And, as fanny soon discovers, he is not the only one.

When Ireland is stricken by the potato famine, Sean and Annie, the only surviving children of the O'Brien family, set off to find their father in America. They are ill-equipped for such a hard and treacherous journey: a Dragoon's scarlet cloak, a shimmering moon-shawl and the golden necklace, entrusted to them by their sick mother, are their sole possessions. But Sean and Annie are not prepared to give up without a fight, and this epic story of courage and tenacity tells of their thrilling adventures as they travel from Cork to California.