Adventure stories

Theres just one problem as far as Tim is concerned: he is hopeless at sports of any kind. Can Tim survive the horrors of a week absolutely packed with activity? Can his team - the Tigers - be the overall champions? ...

When Cat Royal finds herself homeless, she travels to Paris and becomes an underground reporter - all the while being disguised as a prissy ballerina! She nearly gets hung for being a traitor to the revolution, and is baffled by attention from numerous suitors. As the French Roya ...

Evacuated from London, David and Tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the countryside. Then one night, the distant crump of bombing brings the war back to them and shatters their new-found peace. When a German bomber crashes, the boys feel they should ...

The Department for Extraordinary Activity informs Max Flash - explosive escapologist and master magician - that an island in the Pacific has been flooded by a freak surge of water, and they suspect sinister forces are at work. Its time for Max to dive straight into a perilous und ...

When eleven-year-old Poppy Fields goes on an activity holiday to a remote Scottish island, she is looking forward to a week of climbing, hill-walking and horse riding. But things take a bad turn when their instructor has what appears to be a fatal abseiling accident. ...

A hilarious tale of bravery and evil, set in Victorian London and told partly in strip-cartoon form. Three orphaned children are being pursued by the evil Mack the Knife, but Spring-heeled Jack is hot on his trail. The authors other books include "How to be Cool" and "The Ruby in ...

Lara, or GM451 as she is known by the government, is a highly trained special agent, bred by the British Secret Service for use on dangerous missions around the world. But her last mission went wrong and now she is being hunted down by an evil drugs baron, Mr Big. Ages 7+ years. ...

Genious wit meets fabulously anarchic spoof-quest. Read it and weep with laughter. Packed with comic Monty Pythonesque episodes ...

The very first CHERUB adventure is about to begin ... ...

Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War II, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope. They travel through Europe towards Switzerland, where they believe they will be reunited with their parents. ...

Life on the Sicily Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Lauras twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems theres little hope... that is until the Zanzibar is wrecked on the islands rocks and everything changes. ...

Max Murphy thinks his mum and dad are weird. Theyre zoologists, so theyre always flying off to different countries. Max has to live in his Uncles house with his twin sister. Sometimes, the twins go with their parents on their travels. On one trip, Max develops a fever after he dr ...

Rachel and Adam are sent to stay with their grandmother, following their parents divorce. But the quiet English village is a sinister, unsettling place. With the help of Gabriel, Rachel and Adam begin to unearth centuries-old secrets and make a shocking revelation about their fam ...