Fiction for 8 years and upwards Authors beginning with B

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.)

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

A Most Improper Magic - Stephanie Burgis
A mix of Regency England, spells and adventures, starring a feisty, appealing heroine who readers will identify with. Kat has to battle highwaymen, Napoleonic spies, wild magic and even a few ghosts.
ISBN 9781848770072
£6.99

Return to the Lost World - Steve Barlow & Steve Skidmore
Someone is trying to kill Luke Challenger. Being garrotted with cable car wires is not the way he wants to end his life! Luke flees the would-be assassins into the deepest Brazilian jungle - where he enters a lost world of real-life dinosaurs. Then a mysterious cult comes after Luke. Why are the sinister Sons of Destiny hell-bent on destroying him?
ISBN 9781409520177
£5.99

Chronicles of Avantia: First Hero - Adam Blade
From the Author of Beast Quest
Avantia stands on the edge of an abyss. Dark armie, led by a malevolent warlord, are mustering on its borders. But destiny has chosen an unlikely hero to fight the threat...
ISBN 9781408307472
£5.99

   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.