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Suddenly orphaned and alone, Rosie Frost is sent to the mysterious Bloodstone Island – home not only to a school for extraordinary teens, but also a sanctuary for endangered species. There, Rosie confronts a menacing deputy headmaster, a group of mean girls bent on destroying her, and shocking family secrets. She also discovers that history can come to life in ways she never could have imagined. When the island itself comes under threat, Rosie knows she must enter and win the Falcon Queen Games in a desperate bid to save it.

In a world where garden gnomes guard secrets instead of flowers, one sleepy little gnome holds the key to peace, dreams, and maybe even magic itself. Meet Napoleon, the smallest and drowsiest gnome in all of Mossy Hollow. While the other gnomes spend their days polishing mushrooms and chasing away squirrels, Napoleon would rather curl up in a sunbeam and nap. But when the Dream Dust that keeps the forest alive suddenly disappears, only Napoleon’s strange gift his dreaming can save the day.

Rosie, Phoebe, and Stella all share an incredible secret—when they travel to a place called the Magic Forest, they can transform into powerful creatures called Night Dragons. Once there, the friends must save the Magic Forest from an evil that threatens to banish nighttime—forever. Rosie is determined to help! Her first task is to save the forest's magical daydreams from being destroyed by pesky Fire Sparks.

It’s a new term at Heverbridge School, and Bloodstone Island is in turmoil – mutant animals are on the loose, jealous classmates want to bring Rosie down, and, even worse, there’s a black hole to deal with. Below the island’s surface, an everlasting star is growing in strength, and it just may end them all. Rosie discovers the northside of the island, home to the alluring Imperium Palace. But is the palace one of scientific genius or deadly menace?

Kit can’t stand reading. She’d much rather be outside, playing games and getting muddy, than stuck inside with a book. But when she’s dragged along to the library one day by her two best friends, she makes an incredible discovery - and soon it’s up to Kit and her friends to save the library...and the world. The first book in a fantastically exciting, brilliantly funny, magical new series!

Considered by Time magazine to be one of the best fantasy books of all time, Edith Nesbit's Five Children and It follows a tribe of children on their magical adventures during a summer in the English countryside. When a strange, furry creature appears in front of the children and offers a wish a day, the children take advantage of the creature's abilities and discover that their wishes have many unforeseen - and often quite funny - consequences.

Rosie takes a late summer walk in the woods with her grandmother's Labrador, Hattie. She meets an alien troll called Thumblerock. He can talk to animals, and he wants her to go with him to his own planet for an extremely specific reason. This sets the scene for an intergalactic journey across the stars, which for Rosie and her grandmother's Labrador can be upsetting, delightful, and full of love. It touches on both political and environmental issues and explores the possibilities of how a civilization could continue to develop while achieving environmental balance.

There's a wild wind blowing in Friendship Forest, as Grizelda's storm dragon takes over the magical windmill that controls the forest's breezes!

Who is Rosie? Is she a fun-loving rhinoceros who is always up early and ready to greet the day? Or is she a magical unicorn who skips through the savannah on her dainty hooves? Either way, she's perfect.

A delightful story for young children, Rosie and the Unicorn contains themes of inclusion and diversity.

Another Christmas comes to Land Far Away, and with it comes a new set of troubles and adventures.

A forest of rusting giants. A girl who trades time itself. A discovery that changes everything. The space elevator was meant to be humanity’s salvation, but now it stands abandoned, surrounded by a forest that is mutating into something deadly. Trading the mysterious time marbles to survive, Violet and her robotic companion, Jackdaw, seek to find a cure to their dying home. When she discovers a marble that can freeze time for an entire year, Violet embarks on a journey to unlock its secrets and save the forest. But some truths are buried for a reason – and Violet is about to find out why…

Fantasy Tale. The story of a little girl who finds a Magic Carpet with a smiley face in a market whilst on holiday, and takes him home with her. She gives him a name - Casper. Maddie and Casper will fly off into Fantasy Land and find all sorts of adventures, exciting and sometimes scary, meeting mermaids, fairies and a witch, and a prince and princess imprisoned in a Castle of Ice. But will Casper manage to bring Maddie safely home again?

Just before Christmas, Freddie and Elsie are chosen by their school to go on a special Mystery Bus trip in their school bus. But the bus and its driver turn out to be very special indeed, and the children are taken to some amazing places, travelling forwards and back in time, and having some exciting and hair-raising adventures. The trip ends with a special Christmassy surprise; but they must try and outwit someone who will try and spoil Christmas for everyone.

In wild, medieval Britain, 13-year-old Wynn Hoppringle has a big secret of the smallest kind. She has discovered a miniature village hidden close to her family home of Smailholm Tower. When tales of merciless border raiders reach the small folk, they realize they are in danger and must seek a cure to their strange predicament. Can Wynn help her tiny friends, or will the scheming King quog have other ideas? Heroes, it seems, come in all sizes.

Titchy-witch loves her pet dragon but she's only allowed to keep him while he's still small. When the dragon begins to grow big, Titchy-witch needs an extra-special spell to save her precious pet.

Titchy-witch thinks flying is easy-breezy. But when she sets off on her first solo flight, she finds that riding a broomstick is much harder than it looks!

Titchy-witch may only be little, but she spells BIG trouble! Titchy-witch wants to be a pirate in the class production of Peter Pan, but there's no way her teacher will let her now that she's in trouble again. With the help of a little magic, Titchy-witch manages to charm her teacher – a bit too well! Can Titchy-witch find a way to reverse the spell and get her dream role?

Titchy-witch has a wobbly fang, but it won't come out on its own. So she decides to give it a little bit of help ... using magic!

Titchy-witch is desperate to know what's in the Forbidden Forest near Grand-witch's house, but Cat-a-bogus is making sure she won't have a chance to find out. But with the help of an invisibility spell, Titchy-witch just might get her wish …