Frank Culver

Book 2 of The Dragonriders of Pern, sequel to 'Dragonflight' (5852).The bold dragon riders take to the air once more to destroy the deadly silver threads.

When Skipper finds a building that looks like the Masked Mutant's secret headquarters, he has to go inside and soon finds himself in big trouble.

Larry Boyd just found the coolest thing in the trash. It's an old bottle of INSTA-TAN. "Rub on a dark suntan in minute" - that's what the label says. So Larry and his friends do. But nothing much happens.Until Larry notices the hair. Dark spiky hair growing on his hands and face. Really gross shiny hair. Hair that keeps growing back even after he shaves it off...

An entertaining story in which Jennings and Darbyshire succeed in getting permission for the Linbury Court School boys to make wooden huts during their leisure time.

Term is over and, after a short camping expedition that leaves poor Mr Wilkins determined never to go through such an horrific experience again, Jennings is off to stay with his Aunt Angela. There, he meets Emma Sparrow who needs to hide her collection of stray animals from the exasperated caretaker. When Jennings comes up with a seemingly flawless plan, he congratulates himself on his quick thinking. But with Jennings at large, things can always be expected to go disastrously wrong!

In Winchester, roles are clearly defined. Warriors fight battles every spring. Dwarfs make the swords and the shields. Grotesque mutants are the servant class. Seers interpret the wishes and predictions of the spirits. And the Prince is the ruler of the city.

Thirteen-year-old Luke has no reason to suspect that any of this will change. It's been this way for centuries...at least since the year 2000.

But things are not what they seem, and soon Luke is thrown into a story of ambition and adventure in the primitive world of the future.

As the Prince in Waiting, Luke has been protected by the High Seers since his father's murder and his half-brother's ascension to the throne of Winchester. But after hiding for months in the underground Sanctuary, Luke discovers a shocking secret: in a world where mechanical devices have been forbidden, the Seers themselves are secret technologists.

Now restless, Luke seizes the chance to explore the world around him. His quest leads him to unimaginable dangers and unexpected delights...but the most dangerous part of his journey awaits him at home.

Moral tales told in rhyme.

When Saddlebottom, the piglet, runs away from home his life becomes a series of unexpected events.

Why is Zillah so different from other girls? An entertaining school story with a difference.

When Pete meets his cousins, he discovers that being a member of the Fortune family requires qualifications.

Joe and his friend Donna discover that pet rats can be fun!

Farmer's boy fights for survival of family's farm.

Jack thinks his father's geese would make perfect foster parents for his ostrich eggs. But what will they make of a giant son who sinks when he should swim and runs faster than any bird on earth?

Hilarious story about a boy who wants to be a Knight.

Harry isn't very pleased when he inherits a parrot from Great-Uncle George, but Maddison is no ordinary parrot. Not only can he talk, but you can have conversations with him and he and Harry quickly become great friends - but then Maddison is stolen... Will he and Harry ever be reunited?

James's difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger.

When Brett and his friend make a corn circle in local field, they suspect an old village woman of reporting them to school.

Michael Foreman looks back on his wartime childhood in a village on the Suffolk coast. He captures the strangeness of a British coastline hastily fortified with pillboxes, barbed wire and barrage balloons; a normally quiet seaside town swarming with servicemen; and how, in this stragely altered world, the eternal childhood preoccupations endure.

From spooky school dinners to the grubbiest ghost in the world, here are fifteen scary tales full of ghostly, ghastly, gruesome goings-on.

The Grange Hill pupils are determined to enjoy the school camping holiday their way. In the end it didn't work out as anybody had planned - even the staff.

Problems face Grange Hill when the school is threatened with closure by the Education Authority.

Mrs Barleylove is horrified to discover that her latest litter contains a dag - a weakling of a piglet with strangely misshapen feet. But after his miraculous escape from an early and ignominious death at the hands of the pigman, the dag assumes a unique and favoured position in the sties.

A teenager in the late 21st century discovers a way to travel in time as a way to escape the dystopian world he inhabits, only to learn that time travel introduces dangers of its own.

When Rat takes refuge in Hamblington Public Baths, he meets a homeless boy and between them they campaign to save the Baths from closure.

An intriguing story of a boy's desire to be one of the lads and all the difficulties this involves him in.

Kasper Whisky lives with his mother, Pumpkin, far away from the City dangers, but the arrival of a boy called Hearthrob Mink changes his life.

Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods - its shiny, black machine-gun still intact - he grabs his chance. Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous and unexpected results...

Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can't bear her new fiancé or the way his mother and sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred and anger he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another, powerful hatred lingers within its walls. And it is about to be unleashed...

An exciting sea adventure for David and his friends.

Set against a background of political unrest in Syria, this novel, written in diary form, describes a teenage boy’s life in Damascus and his attempt to set up an underground newspaper.

A thrilling assignment for Hal and Roger who travel to the Congo jungle to capture a giant gorilla.

A parachute drop into enemy territory in World War II leads to a thrilling adventure and dramatic rescue.

Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law - and on the run. As he makes his way to London he meets Kit, another runaway, and with luck on their side they find jobs as apprentices to William Shakespeare.

But then a chance discovery endangers their lives once more...

An action-packed spy thriller set in Elizabethan times, Cue for Treason is a masterpiece of historical fiction, widely considered to be a modern classic.

She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea.

She led the way to safety, out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives...

From her beginning to her end she never wavered.

She was the Blitzcat.

Wartime London - Johnnie, accused of stealing a gold watch, escapes to clear his name, but finds new responsibilities.