Anne Fine

Mel doesn't want to look after the new girl, Imogen, who has a special talent that Mel decides is more of a curse.

Bill Simpson wakes up to find he’s a girl, and worse, his mother makes him wear a frilly pink dress to school. How on earth is he going to survive a whole day like this? Everything just seems to be different for girls…

Inspired by a visiting writer and the diary of a young soldier from the trenches, Will decides to become a war correspondent and records his account of the battles with his sister.

If her mother is to keep her new job, Bonnie has no choice; she must take a one day course at Charm School.

This is the story of a chicken who flies "frillions" of miles to try to save humans.

Lance comes up with the most original fund-raising idea ever - all made possible because of his friendship with Flossie, the cow.

When the annual School Science Fair comes round, Mrs Cartright's pupils are given Flour babies to care for, to their initial dismay.

When Kelly Johnston is miserable because her mother is thinking of getting married again, forceful Kitty Killin comes to the rescue. Kitty's not noted for sensitivity or for tact, but she's been through it all herself with the man in her own mother's life : the silver-haired, chocolate-bearing Gerald Faulkner (otherwise known as Old Goggle-eyes).

Granny is a bit dotty, sometimes grumpy and lives in the family home. But when their mother and father decide to put her into a home, the children devise a plan to help Gran.

Usually Louis is a chatterbox, but can he stop talking for just one day to raise funds for his school?

Boggle hats are the latest thing. Everybody at school wants one - but only Lola actually has one. So she decides to form a club to show the other children how best to nag their parents into buying them one. However, the children get mixed results.

When Rupert's parents go to Great Uncle Perry's funeral, Rupert spends the day with his Great Aunt Ada, along with his unruly puppy, Roly. Great Aunt Ada is determined to teach Rupert some manners. Rupert thinks the day is going to be awful until hemeets Gordon, a very rude parrot. Gorden is even worse than Great Aunt Ada, and he bosses Rupert and Roly so much that they tidy the whole house. They are relieved to get back home, but they do remember their manners!

Maya longs to be in Mr Kelly's play and can already see herself on stage but then a problem arises.

Ally really doesn't want to go with his mum on her weekly visit to his fragile aunt Chloe at the big Victorian hospital - until he discovers a hidden garden in the grounds. Suddenly Ally begins to discover a new way of looking at the world - and to understand his aunt and some of her sensitivity.

Sent to tidy his room, Toby finds a brass lamp. When he cleans it out pops Hasan, a genie, who whisks Toby off on his magic carpet.

Jeanie finds a ring on the way to school. In the middle of class she rubs it and a genie appears on her desk, but a very grumpy genie!

William accidentally releases a genie, Mustapha, from a bottle in the junk room.

The Palmer sisters have never had any secrets between them but should Liddy be told the rumour about her new boyfriend?

Only Natalie wants to be friends with Tulip, but even she realises that Tulip's games are going too far.

In a hot, faraway land, two baby boys are born under the same silver moon: Haroun, son of the sultan and Akil, the son of the gardener. As children they play together until one day Haroun has to learn princely ways. But when he suffers pains that no doctor can cure, can Akil help him find a magic key to good health?