Silly Sausage is a mini-series of four books within the Rockets series for children who are just beginning to enjoy reading. The stories, linked by either key character or place, are designed to develop reading ability. The illustrated text has speech and thought bubbles and sound effects.

As if life at Freekham High isn’t weird enough, now someone’s trying to make it even weirder by filming lots of fake and freakish accidents to send to a TV show. Catching the school bully’s gruesomely grotty grundies on camera could be a dangerous move and when one of the teachers takes a sudden interest in getting hold of the evidence, Sam, Sara and their friends are more determined than ever that it shouldn’t fall into the wrong hands.

This hilariously surreal story is perfect for readers who prefer their humour a little on the dark side

Getting a place at Rockley Park school for talented young performers involves struggle and sacrifice, and that’s just the beginning! Life at Rockley Park is packed full of new friends, potential enemies, crises and triumphs. Since Tara and her band won the international Battle of the Bands competition, they’ve become famous across the country, and are in huge demand. But Tara hates the limelight and is dreading performing at a massive summer gig. So when the band’s drummer falls ill, she sees it as the perfect excuse to avoid performing at all. Will she really make the band pull out of their biggest concert ever?

In The Power of the Cell Nadim, Kipper and Wilma go back in time to find the Cell (the ‘battery’ of the TimeWeb machine). They get help from the young Michael Faraday and his friend, Tyler. Can they outwit the Virans and rescue the Cell?
Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends are older now and their true destiny is about to be revealed… Can they stop the evil Virans from destroying history as we know it? The Time Chronicles are exciting chapter books following your favourite characters on a series of adventures through time.

Neena goes back to medieval Germany and meets the young Johann Gutenberg. Their mission is to find and retrieve the Matrix (the keyboard element of the TimeWeb).

Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends are older now and their true destiny is about to be revealed! Join them as they embark on the mission of a lifetime in this exciting time travelling adventure series.

When a visiting croc expert invites Akimbo along on a field study, Akimbo is thrilled. But when the crocodiles attack the guide, injuring him gravely, it will be up to Akimbo to cross a crocodile-infested river and jump start a truck to bring back help. A rousing new Akimbo adventure from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith.

Akimbo helps his father set a trap for a lioness that has been attacking cattle on nearby farms. But when the lion they catch turns out to be a cub, Akimbo must find a way to care for the young lion until it’s old enough to be released in the wild in this title of Smith’s early chapter-book series.