Fiction for 8 years and upwards Authors beginning with B
Perennial Favourite Enid Blyton needs no introduction.
Here is a selection of her series suitable for reading age 8 and upwards.
If you don't see the title you want, please let us know, as we normally have most of the books in stock and can send them out quickly to you!
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Famous Five Series: £4.99 each 1: Five on a Treasure Island 2: Five go Adventuring Again 3: Five Run Away Together 4: Five go to Smuggler's Top 5: Five go off in a Caravan 6: Five on Kirrin Island Again 7: Five go off to Camp 8: Five get into Trouble 9: Five fall into Adventure 10: Five on a Hike Together 11: Five have a Wonderful Time 12: Five go down to the Sea 13: Five go to Mystery Moor 14: Five have Plenty of Fun 15: Five on a Secret Trail 16: Five go to Billycock Hill 17: Five get into a Fix 18: Five on Finniston Farm 19: Five go Down to Demon's Rock 20: Five have a Mystery to Solve 21: Five are Together Again
More adventures from Enid Blyton in the Adventure Series. The main characters in this series are Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack.
£4.99 each
The Island of Adventure
The Castle of Adventure
The Valley of Adventure
The Sea of Adventure
The Mountain of Adventure
The Ship of Adventure
The Circus of Adventure
The River of Adventure
Masterpiece - Elise Broach
Marvin, a beetle, lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompaday's apartment. James, a boy, lives in that apartment with his family. Before long these unlikely friends are caught up in an art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that could lead them to a famous long-lost drawing by Albrecht Durer.
ISBN: 9781406321838 £5.99
Blart III: The Boy who Sets Sail on a Questionable Quest - Dominic Barker
Genious wit meets fabulously anarchic spoof-quest. Read it and weep with laughter. Packed with comic Monty Pythonesque episodes
The 3rd book in the series featuring the lovable pig boy Blart, following the success of The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World and The Boy Who Was Wanted Dead Or Alive: Or Both. Blart takes to the seas to rescue a princess, and encounters pirates.
ISBN: 9780747593577 £5.99
Sons of Thor - Magnus Bledwell
Dane the Defiant is a Viking with a destiny, but since that destiny is pretty depressing, he's doing his best to avoid it! Embarking on a quest to rescue the girl and defeat the prince, Dane has to deal with lethal doomfish, an enraged frost giant, a love rival with really great hair and his own fears in order to succeed.
ISBN: 9780330463546 £5.99
Thief! - Malorie Blackman
Lydia's last thought before darkness closed over her mind was that the strange, swirling storm had trapped her. Fleeing onto the moors when she is unfairly accused of being a thief an extraordinary storm suddenly whirls twelve-year-old Lydia into the future - a computer-dominated future where her home town is ruled by a cruel tyrant.
ISBN:9780552551656 £5.99
Pig-Heart Boy - Malorie Blackman
Cameron is thirteen and in need of a heart transplant when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - but from a pig. I Cameron is fed up with just sitting on the side of life, always watching and never doing. He has to try - to become the world's first pig-heart boy.
ISBN: 9780552551663 £5.99
ANTIDOTE - Malorie Blackman
It's a normal Friday evening for Elliot - until the police knock on the door and tell him his mum's in serious trouble! A security video clearly shows her breaking into a giant pharmaceutical company on behalf of the environmental action group A. N. T. I. D. O. T. E. Elliot can hardly believe it. His mum's a secretary, isn't she? Not a SPY!
ISBN: 9780552551687 £5.99
Iggie's House - Judy Blume
ISBN: 9780330398091
£4.99
There's a new family on Grove Street. Winnie's best friend, Iggie, has just moved away - and Winnie's bored as hell without her. So she's determined to be friends with the new family - especially Glenn, who's kind of cute. But certain people don't want the Garbers to be there, and have started a petition to get rid of them.
(A classic novel about racism from Judy Blume, and about how you cope with knowing your parents are wrong.)
Blubber - Judy Blume
ISBN: 9780330398053
£5.99
Linda can't help it if she's fat, but what starts as a joke leads to a ritual of humiliation. Jill knows she should defend Linda, but at first she's too scared. When she stands up to the bullies, she becomes their next victim. This book talks about issues such as, family stress and pressures, what happens when your parents divorce, and more.
Starring Sally J. Freedman as
Herself - Judy Blume
ISBN: 9780330398152
£5.99
A highly imaginative girl, Sally constantly makes up stories - stories in which she is always the star of her own lavish film spectaculars. But, when her close-knit family is separated because of her brother's illness, even Sally's daydreams are not enough to comfort her.
Babysitter's Club - The Truth About Stacey
Stacey has a secret that she keeps from everyone, except her best friends in the Babysitters Club. But this secret soon starts casing problems at home...Will her friends stick by her? Stacey hopes so - especially since there's a rival babysitters club in town!
ISBN 9781407120454
£5.99
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