Books beginning with ...

A

Absolute Power (Michael Carroll)
Across the Barricades (Joan Lingard)
Adam's Ark (Paul Stewart)
The "Alex Rider" Series (Anthony Horowitz)
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tipps (Michael Morpurgo)
The Amber Cat (Hilary McKay)
Amongst the Hidden (Margaret Haddix)
The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud)
The "Animorphs" series (Katherine Applegate)
The Apprentices (Leon Garfield)
Ark Angel (Anthony Horowitz)
The Arm of the Starfish (Madeleine L'Engle)
Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
Artemis Fowl - The Arctic Incident (Eoin Colfer)
Artemis Fowl - The Eternity Code (Eoin Colfer)
Artemis Fowl - The Opal Deception (Eoin Colfer)
Arthur - The Seeing Stone (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
Ash Road (Ivan Southall)
Astercote (Penelope Lively)
Avenger (Andy McNab)

B

The "Babysitters Club" series (Ann M Martin)
Back Home (Michelle Magorian)
Badger on the Barge (Janni Howker)
Baldur's Bones (M Arrigan)
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (Philippa Pearce)
Beauty (Robin McKinley)
Beyond the Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
Beyond the Deepwoods (Paul Stewart)
The Big Pink (Ann Pilling)
Black Hearts in Battersea (Joan Aiken)
Blitzcat (Robert Westall)
Blood Red Snow White (Marcus Sedgwick)
Bloodtide (Melvin Burgess)
Blue Moon (Julia Green)
The Blue Sword (Robin McKinley)
The Boggart and the Monster (Susan Cooper)
The Boggart (Susan Cooper)
A Bone from a Dry Sea (Peter Dickinson)
The Borrowers Afloat (Mary Norton)
The Borrowers (Mary Norton)
The Box of Delights (John Masefield)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (John Boyne)
Boy Soldier (Andy McNab)
The Bronte Girls (Garry Kilworth)
Brother in the Land (Robert Swindells)
Buddy (Nigel Hinton)
The Bus People (Rachel Anderson)
The Butterfly Lion (Michael Morpurgo)

C

Caddy's World (Hilary McKay)
Carrie's War (Nina Bawden)
The Casson Family Series (Hilary McKay)
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (Brian Jacques)
The Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
The Changeover (Margaret Mahy)
The Changes Trilogy (Peter Dickinson)
Charlotte Sometimes (Penelope Farmer)
Charm School (Anne Fine)
The Children of Green Knowe (Lucy Boston)
The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Chimneys of Green Knowe (Lucy Boston)
The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S.Lewis)
The Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander)
The Clockwork Three (Matthew J. Kirby)
Cloudy-Bright (John Rowe Townsend)
A Cold Wind Blowing (Barbara Willard)
The Confession of Brother Haluin (Ellis Peters)
Copper (Rebecca Lisle)
Coram Boy (Jamila Gavin)
Crocodile Tears (Anthony Horowitz)
Crystal Mask (Katherine Roberts)
Cuckoo in the Nest (Michelle Magorian)

D

The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper)
Dark Quetzal (Katherine Roberts)
The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
Dear Del (Alison Prince)
Dear Nobody (Berlie Doherty)
Dear Olly (Michael Morpurgo)
The Death Collector (Justin Richards)
The Demon Headmaster series (Gillian Cross)
The Demon Headmaster (Gillian Cross)
Demon Thief (Darren Shan)
Devil in the Fog (Leon Garfield)
The Devil's Children (Peter Dickinson)
The Divide (Elizbeth Kay)
Dog Friday (Hilary McKay)
Dogsbody ()
The Dolphin Crossing (Jill Paton Walsh)
The Donkey's Crusade (Jean Morris)
The Door Within (Wayne Thomas Batson)
Double Image (Pat Moon)
Double Or Die (Charlie Higson)
The "Dragonriders of Pern" series (Anne McCaffrey)
Dragonsinger (Anne McCaffrey)
Dragonsong (Anne McCaffrey)
Drift (William Mayne)
Drummer Boy (Garry Kilworth)
Duncton Wood (William Horwood)
The Dungeon (Lynne Reid Banks)

E

The Eagle of the Ninth (Rosemary Sutcliff)
Eagle Strike (Anthony Horowitz)
Earthfasts (William Mayne)
The Edge of the World (John Gordon)
The Empty Sleeve (Leon Garfield)
An Enemy at Green Knowe (Lucy Boston)
Escape From Genopolis (T.E. Berry-Hart)
Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
The "Everworld" Series (Katherine Applegate)
An Excellent Mystery (Ellis Peters)
The Exiles at Home (Hilary McKay)
The Exiles (Hilary McKay)

F

Faerie Wars (Herbie Brennan)
Fair Stood the Wind for France (HE Bates)
The Falconer's Knot (Mary Hoffman)
Far Out! (Rachel Billington)
Feather Boy (Nicky Singer)
Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye (Lois Lowry)
Fireweed (Jill Paton Walsh)
The Fire Within (Chris d'Lacey)
The First Book of Samuel (Ursula Dubosarsky)
Fish Feet (Veronica Bennett)
Five Children and It (Edith Nesbit)
Flambards (KM Peyton)
Floodland (Marcus Sedgwick)
Fly, Cherokee, Fly (Chris d'Lacey)
Forever X (Geraldine McCaughrean)
Foster Family series (Jean Ure)
The "Fourth World" Series (Kate Thompson)
Framed (Frank Cottrell Boyce)
Fr Brown Stories (GK Chesterton)
Frozen in Time (Ali Sparkes)

G

The Garbage King (Elizabeth Laird)
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Penelope Lively)
Gideon Ahoy (William Mayne)
Gideon the Cutpurse (Linda Buckley-Archer)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)
Goggle-Eyes (Anne Fine)

G

The Golem's Eye (Jonathan Stroud)
Goodnight, Mr Tom (Michelle Magorian)
Granny was a Buffer Girl (Berlie Doherty)
The Great Harlequin Grim (Gareth Thompson)
The Great Piratical Rumbustification (Margaret Mahy)
Greenmantle (John Buchan)
Greenwitch (Susan Cooper)
The Grey King (Susan Cooper)
The Guardian of Isis (Monica Hughes)

H

The Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
A Handful of Magic (Stephen Elboz)
The "Harry Potter" Series (J.K.Rowling)
Hatter's Castle (AJ Cronin)
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (Chris Wooding)
The Haunting (Margaret Mahy)
Here Lies Arthur (Philip Reeve)
The Heretic's Apprentice (Ellis Peters)
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Ellis Peters)
Hidden Turnings (Diana Wynne Jones)
Hiding Out (Elizabeth Laird)
His Banner Over Me (Jean Little)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
The Historical Stories of Cynthia Harnett (Cynthia Harnett)
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hollow Land (Jane Gardam)
The Homeward Bounders (Diana Wynne Jones)
Horrendo's Curse (Anna Fienberg)
The Horse and His Boy (C.S.Lewis)
The House in Norham Gardens (Penelope Lively)
House of Secrets (Jennie Walters)
The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)
The House of Windjammer (V.A. Richardson)
The House on Falling-Star Hill (Michael Molloy)
Huntingtower (John Buchan)
Hush, Hush (Becca Fitzpatrick)

I

I am the King of the Castle (Susan Hill)
If Only They Could Talk (James Herriot)
I, Juan de Pareja (Elizabeth Borton de Treviño)
I'll Go My Own Way (Mollie Hunter)
Indigo's Star (Hilary McKay)
Inventing Elliot (Graham Gardner)
It's Not the End of the World (Geraldine McCaughrean)
I Was There (Hans Peter Richter)
Izzy, Willy-Nilly (Cynthia Voigt)

J

The Jacaranda Tree (HE Bates)
Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves (Carol Hughes)
Jake's Tower (Elizabeth Laird)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jimmy Coates: Killer (Joe Craig)
Jimmy Coates: Revenge (Joe Craig)
Joan of Arc (Michael Morpurgo)
Johnnie's Blitz (Bernard Ashley)
Johnny and the Dead (Terry Pratchett)
Journey to the River Sea (Eva Ibbotson)
Just Henry (Michelle Magorian)

K

King of Shadows (Susan Cooper)
The King's Head (Susan Price)
Kit's Wilderness (David Almond)

L

The Lady and the Squire (Terry Jones)
The Lake at the End of the World (Caroline Macdonald)
The Lantern Bearers (Rosemary Sutcliff)
Larklight (Philip Reeve)
The Last Battle (C.S.Lewis)
Leaving Emma (Nancy Steele Brokaw)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula LeGuin)
A Likely Lad (Gillian Avery)
Lion Boy (Zizou Corder)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis)
A Little Bush Maid (Mary Grant Bruce)
A Little Love Song (Michelle Magorian)
A Little Lower Than the Angels (Geraldine McCaughrean)
A Little Princess (Frances H Burnett)
Little Soldier (Bernard Ashley)
Little Women (Louisa M Alcott)
The Load of Unicorn ()
The Looking-Glass Wars (Frank Beddor)
Look to the Lady (Margery Allingham)
Lord Loss (Darren Shan)
Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore)
The Lost Hero (Rick Riordan)
The L-Shaped Room (Lynne Reid Banks)

M

The Machine-Gunners (Robert Westall)
The Magician's House Quartet (William Corlett)
The Magician's Nephew (C.S.Lewis)
Magnus Powermouse (Dick King-Smith)
Man in Motion (Jan Mark)
A Map of Nowhere (Gillian Cross)
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (James Patterson)
Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever (James Patterson)
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (James Patterson)
Meltdown (Andy McNab)
The Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars)
The Midwich Cuckoos (John Wyndham)
The Midwinter Watch (John Gordon)
Minnow on the Say (Philippa Pearce)
Mirrors (Wendy Cooling)
The Missing Link (Kate Thompson)
Mission Telemark (Amanda Mitchison)
The Mist in the Mirror (Susan Hill)
Monk's Hood (Ellis Peters)
Moonfleet (J Meade Falkner)
The More the Merrier (Anne Fine)
Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve)
The "Mortal Engines" Quartet (Philip Reeve)
Mostly Harmless (Douglas Adams)
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Robert C O'Brien)
Mr Standfast (John Buchan)
My Friend Walter (Michael Morpurgo)

N

The Named (Marianne Curley)
The Night-Watchmen (Helen Cresswell)
Ninny's Boat (Clive King)

O

Only Human (Kate Thompson)
Operation Red Jericho (Joshua Mowll)
The Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
Origins (Kate Thompson)
Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)
Over Sea, Under Stone (Susan Cooper)
The Owl Service (Alan Garner)

P

A Pack of Lies (Geraldine McCaughrean)
Paper Faces (Rachel Anderson)
The Paranormal Puppet Show (Justin Richards)
A Parcel of Patterns (Jill Paton Walsh)
Pawnee Warrior (Chris d'Lacey)
The Pearls of Lutra (Brian Jacques)
The Penderwicks (Jeanne Birdsall)
Pendragon - The Lost City of Faar (D.J.McHale)
Pendragon - The Merchant of Death (D.J.McHale)
Pendragon - The Never War (D.J.McHale)
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Rick Riordan)
Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse (Rick Riordan)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)
Peter Raven: Under Fire (Michael Molloy)
The Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay)
Point Blanc (Anthony Horowitz)
Postcards from No Man's Land (Aidan Chambers)
Predator's Gold (Philip Reeve)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

P

Prince Caspian (C.S.Lewis)
The Princesses of Barmarre (Gail Carson Levine)
The Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
The Prisoner of Zenda (Anthony Hope)
Private Peaceful (Michael Morpurgo)
Prove Yourself a Hero (KM Peyton)
Pure Dead Brilliant (Debi Gliori)
Pure Dead Magic (Debi Gliori)
The "Pure Dead" Series (Debi Gliori)
Pure Dead Wicked (Debi Gliori)

Q

The Quantum Prophecy (Michael Carroll)

R

The Rag & Bone Shop (Robert Cormier)
The Raven in the Foregate (Ellis Peters)
Red Leech (Andrew Lane)
Red Shift (Alan Garner)
Red Sky in the Morning (Elizabeth Laird)
The Rinaldi Ring (Jenny Nimmo)
Ring out Bow Bells! (Cynthia Harnett)
Room at the Top (John Braine)
Room for a Stranger (Ann Turnbull)
Ruby Holler (Sharon Creech)
Ruler of the Realm (Herbie Brennan)
Running out of Time (Margaret Haddix)
Running Scared (Bernard Ashley)

S

Sabriel (Garth Nix)
Saffy's Angel (Hilary McKay)
Sakkara (Michael Carroll)
The Sanctuary Sparrow (Ellis Peters)
Sandwriter (Monica Hughes)
Scavenger Hunt (Christopher Pike)
The Scent of Magic (Cliff McNish)
Scorpia (Anthony Horowitz)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson-Burnett)
The Secret of Castle Cant (K.P. Bath)
Seed Time (Nick Manns)
Shadow Beast (Justin Richards)
Shadowmancer (G.P. Taylor)
The Shakespeare Stealer (Garry Blackwood)
The Shapeshifter Series (Ali Sparkes)
The Sheep Pig (Dick King-Smith)
The Ship That Flew (Hilda Lewis)
The Silver Branch (Rosemary Sutcliff)
The Silver Chair (C.S.Lewis)
The Silver Child (Cliff McNish)
SilverFin (Charlie Higson)
Silver on the Tree (Susan Cooper)
The Silver Sword (Ian Serraillier)
Skeleton Key (Anthony Horowitz)
Skellig (David Almond)
Skybreaker (Kenneth Oppel)
Slaves of the Mastery (William Nicholson)
The Sleeping Sword (Michael Morpurgo)
Smith (Leon Garfield)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
A Song for Summer (Eva Ibbotson)
Song Quest (Katherine Roberts)
Space Trap (Monica Hughes)
Spellfall (Katherine Roberts)
Spindle's End (Robin McKinley)
A Spoonful of Jam (Michelle Magorian)
Stan (Ann Pilling)
Standing in the Shadows (Jennie Walters)
Starcross (Philip Reeve)
The Star of Kazan (Eva Ibbotson)
Starseeker (Tim Bowler)
Step By Wicked Step (Anne Fine)
The Sterkarm Handshake (Susan Price)
The Stone Book Quartet (Alan Garner)
Stone Heart (Charlie Fletcher)
The Stones of Green Knowe (Lucy Boston)
Stormbreaker (Anthony Horowitz)
Strange Meeting (Susan Hill)
A Stranger at Green Knowe (Lucy Boston)
Stravaganza - City of Masks (Mary Hoffman)
Stravaganza - City of Stars (Mary Hoffman)
The Swallow and the Dark (Andrew Matthews)
The Swallows and Amazons Series (Arthur Ransome)
The Swish of the Curtain (Pamela Brown)
The Sword of Shannara (Terry Brooks)

T

The Talent Thief (Alex Williams)
Talking in Whispers (James Watson)
The Tar Man (Linda Buckley-Archer)
Test ()
That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis)
These Old Shades (Georgette Heyer)
They Came Like Swallows (William Maxwell)
They do things differently there (Jan Mark)
The Thief Lord (Cornelia Funke)
The Thieves of Ostia (Caroline Lawrence)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)
The Three Hostages (John Buchan)
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome)
Time Stops For No Mouse (Michael Hoeye)
The Time Witches (Michael Molloy)
Tintin: The Complete Companion (Michael Farr)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Tom's Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce)
A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)
The Transformation of Jennifer Howard (Anthony Masters)
A Traveller in Time (Alison Uttley)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasures for Cousin Crystal (Rachel Anderson)
Tree by Leaf (Cynthia Voigt)
The Tripods (John Christopher)
Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)
Tug of War (Joan Lingard)
A Twist in Time (Jean Ure)

U

Up on Cloud Nine (Anne Fine)

V

Viaduct Child (Patrick Wood)
Victory (Susan Cooper)
The Village by the Sea (Anita Desai)
Voyage (Adele Geras)
Voyage of Slaves (Brian Jacques)
The Voyage of the Arctic Tern (Hugh Montgomery)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S.Lewis)
Voyage to Valhalla (Robert Swindells)
Voyage to Venus (Perelandra) (C.S. Lewis)

W

The Wall and the Wing (Laura Ruby)
Warrior Scarlet (Rosemary Sutcliff)
Warriors of Camlann (N.M. Browne)
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Alan Garner)
Wendy (Karen Wallace)
What Katy Did (Susan Coolidge)
Which Witch (Eva Ibbotson)
The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy (Penelope Lively)
The Wild West Witches (Michael Molloy)
The Willows and Beyond (William Horwood)
The Wind Eye (Robert Westall)
The Wind Singer (William Nicholson)
The Wish List (Eoin Colfer)
Witch Child (Celia Rees)
The Wizard's Promise (Cliff McNish)
The Wool-Pack (Cynthia Harnett)
Worlds Apart (Jill Murphy)
The Worst Witch (Jill Murphy)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
The Writing on the Hearth (Cynthia Harnett)

Y

Yaxley's Cat (Robert Westall)