A Handful of Thieves: Nina Bawden
Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother’s savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the thief. Unfortunately their detective work leads them nowhere fast and very soon they decide the best way to track a thief might just be by acting like one themselves.
Resorting to cunning of their own, the children find their doings attracting the attention of the police. Can they - a handful of well-meaning thieves - find the criminal and vindicate themselves in the process?
Pacy and suspenseful, A Handful of Thieves is another vivid and colourful novel from one of Britain’s most inventive children’s authors. More
Just Ferret: Gene Kemp
Cricklepit Combined School has seen its fair share of ‘problem cases’ - Tyke Tyler, Gowie Corby, Charlie Lewis and Juniper Cantello. But when Ferret is marched by his dad to the ... More
Jason Bodger and the Priory Ghost: Gene Kemp
Jason Bodger is the boss of class 4Z and the terror of student teachers, until the fateful day when 4Z visit the Priory. While the rest of the class see an ... More
The Outside Child: Nina Bawden
‘I am an outside child. That is what Plato Jones calls me.’Jane Tucker is thirteen years old when she discovers she has a half-brother and sister, a revelation which promises ... More
On the Run: Nina Bawden
Ben, eleven years old and the youngest of the Mallory children, has left his aunt and siblings to come to London where his widower father wishes to introduce him to ... More
Many Dimensions: Charles Williams
The Witch's Daughter: Nina Bawden
On the Scottish island of Skua, friendship develops between the lonely and mysterious Perdita and a blind girl, Janey. Both possess a kind of second sight - Janey's is the ... More
The Runaway Summer: Nina Bawden
Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent away to live by the sea with her distant grandfather and the detestable Aunt Alice. Feeling abandoned, without ... More
No Place Like: Gene Kemp
‘This is a peace house,’ reads the notice on the Williamses front door. But as Sara says, ‘Who needs nukes? We got Dad.’ Dad certainly is noisy, a genial but ... More
The Crown of Violet: Geoffrey Trease
A Swarm in May: William Mayne, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
‘I don’t see why I should be Beekeeper, Owen thought, just because Crew is away from school with mumps and I’m the youngest Singing Boy in the school.’One of the ... More
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