A Handful of Thieves: Nina Bawden
Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother’s savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the thief. Unfortunately their detective work leads them nowhere fast and very soon they decide the best way to track a thief might just be by acting like one themselves.
Resorting to cunning of their own, the children find their doings attracting the attention of the police. Can they - a handful of well-meaning thieves - find the criminal and vindicate themselves in the process?
Pacy and suspenseful, A Handful of Thieves is another vivid and colourful novel from one of Britain’s most inventive children’s authors. More
Septimus and the Stone of Offering: Stephen Chance
A mysterious fire on a Welsh hillside on a clear April morning; the remains of a white bird lying in ash on a tombstone with a dagger in its breast; ... More
Juniper: Gene Kemp
At Cricklepit School Juniper feels safe with Ranjit and the reassuring presence of teachers like Mr Merchant and Miss Plum. But at home life is sometimes as frightening as her ... More
Just Ferret: Gene Kemp
Jason Bodger and the Priory Ghost: Gene Kemp
Septimus and the Minster Ghost: Stephen Chance
The strange events begin with the breathless tale of a mysterious light shining from inside the Minster. Added to reports of ghostly organ music and a piercing scream heard at ... More
The Magic Bottle: Cyril Hare
The Magic Bottle - originally published in 1946 - is the only book for children by much-loved Golden Age crime writer Cyril Hare.When Philip and his sister Mary opened the oddly-shaped bottle ... More
The Well: Gene Kemp
Drawing on the author’s memories of her own childhood, Gene Kemp’s The Well is the account of Annie Sutton’s growing up in a Midlands village during the years before the ... More
No Place Like: Gene Kemp
A Handful of Thieves: Nina Bawden
Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother’s savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the ... More
On the Run: Nina Bawden
Ben, eleven years old and the youngest of the Mallory children, has left his aunt and siblings to come to London where his widower father wishes to introduce him to ... More
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