Barnabus Mupatch is a street urchin who grew up on the dirty back streets of the great medieval city of Waxminster. Daily life is a struggle for survival. Both the City Watch and the criminal Deadhand gang have no time or sympathy for the children who live in the streets, so they are forced to fend for themselves. Barnabus has always been lucky in his life - at least, so far. This leads him to take risks that others wouldn't dare to. Like creeping onto the tournament field, and sneaking inside a knight's pavilion. Like trying on the suit of armour he finds there, and being mistaken for a real...

Jackie lives with her parents above the baked-potato restaurant they run, which is why she has the nickname, "Jackie Potatoes." Her friends like to meet up in her kitchen where they chat, bake cakes, and help with the washing up. Life is perfect until the day the letters start arriving.... Multi-national organisations and government agencies all seem determined to destroy the peaceful way of life that Jackie, her parents and friends have built around the restaurant. No-one seems to be able to stop them, until Jackie starts to have some amazing ideas.... This is a story about a group of...

Suzie Sparkle had always loved reading. It wasn't surprising, since her father owned a bookshop. What she liked best was the feeling of being carried away to another world, a world of make-believe and imagination. It was a safe way to experience adventure, excitement and danger. At least, it was until they collected THAT book. They got it from a woman who looked like a witch, and who lived in the most dangerous part of town. It was an old book, with an air of mystery about it. Suzie couldn't wait to get it home and start deciphering the faded old writing on its stiff and dusty pages. So when...

When the Galactic Coloniser Class starship Starallax 743 was attacked by aliens all of the adults disappeared, leaving the children to be brought up by the ship's computer. Ten years later the aliens were tracked down to a distant planet, far away from the space highways. Unknown to civilisation, it was ideal for human life. Those who live on it call it Earth. To take revenge on the aliens the children of the Starallax 743 sent their best and boldest warrior - twelve-year old Vex. Together with a clone of the ship's computer he found the aliens on this strange and distant planet, and was...

Suzie Sparkle thought she was going on holiday with her mother. That was the plan, anyway. But then she met a girl on the plane who managed to maroon her on an island full of man-eating dragons. And that was only the beginning of an adventure that took Suzie to a secret kingdom which was threatened by earthquakes and creatures from the distant past. The only person who could save them all from a terrible fate was the Dragon Princess. And she hadn't been seen for nearly a thousand years...... Join Suzie Sparkle as she crosses the world to save a kingdom she'd never heard of, and finds an...

Suzie Sparkle hadn't paid much attention to paintings before. Well, not until she went with her class to the old manor, and saw the five hundred year old painting of a girl who looked just like her - a girl who had grown up to be a witch, and who was desperate to escape from her painting..... How was Suzie to know that this class trip threatened to ruin her life and separate her from family and friends forever? How could she ever imagine that a witch had been waiting centuries just for her to turn up? And how was she to escape from the terrible trap that the witch had laid for her? Join Suzie...

My dad was just an ordinary dad until he had those accidents. At the time he thought he was unlucky, but as it turned out they changed his life for the better - and mine too You see, when his powers started appearing, he had no idea what was going on. What he needed was someone who was an expert on super-heroes, someone who had spent their whole life collecting and reading super-hero comics, someone who knew everything there was to know about super-heroes and their powers. Someone like me. I could explain to him how he was being transformed, and help him to discover the best way to use his...