SKELLIG

BRAND NEW BOY

When a new boy joins the class, everyone thinks he’s a bit strange, but he’s brilliant at football and loves crisps, and that’s all that matters to Dan and Maxie. However, the truth about George is stranger than anyone could have imagined ... and more sinister, too. Can his new pals help him to become truly free?

CLAY

Stephen Rose has no parents and has come to live with Crazy Mary. There are many rumours about Stephen, but one thing is certain - he can make magical creatures from clay. Should David and Geordie befriend him, or should they stay away?

COUNTING STARS

A collection of stories that are filled with mystery and wonder!

HEAVEN EYES

Erin and her friend January are running away from Whitegates again, but this time they are going downriver in search of a tiny corner of Paradise. They never imagined that they would find Heaven Eyes, a girl with a secret history, there.

KIT'S WILDERNESS

In Stoneygate, in the empty space between the houses and the river, was a wilderness where an ancient coal pit had once been. In this wilderness Kit met Askew, a strange boy who ran a game called Death.

MY DAD'S A BIRDMAN

Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England. It's just the two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who pops round to check Lizzie's spellings and tell Dad he's daft. But today there's something unusual going on: why is Dad building himself a pair of wings and studying the birds to see how they fly?

WAR IS OVER

It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's dad is fighting in the trenches far away in France. His mum works in the munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like Jan and himself can come together, and scatter the seeds of peace.