Jacqueline Wilson
Starring Tracy Beaker

Tracy Beaker is back... and she's just desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to please one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Can she manage to act grumpy, difficult and sulky en play Ebeneezer Scrooge? Well, she does have a bit of help on that front from Justine Pain-In-The-Bum Littlewood. As Tracy prepares for her big moment, Cam is the one helping her learn her lines. But all Tracy really wants to know is if her film-star mum will make it back from Hollywood in time to watch her in her starring.

Geraldine McCaughrean
Peter Pan in Scarlet

Twenty years have passed since the Darling children visited Neverland. Grown-up now, with children of their own, they still dream of that magical place and the Boy who lives there. But their dreams come tinged with darkness. Something is wrong in Neverland and it will take courage to put it right. With a puppy in one pocket and a fairy in another, Wendy, John and the Old Boys set off on a journey. What begins as a rescue mission soon turns into a voyage of discovery, a treasure hunt, and an adventure that takes them further than they ever imagined. The official sequel to J M Barrie's masterpiece Peter Pan, Geraldine McCaughrean brings you all the danger and excitement you could wish for.

Lemony Snicket
A Seroes of Unfortunate Events: The End

Like an off-key violin concert, the Roman Empire, or food poisoning, all things must come to an end. This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents.

The final instalment in this baker's dozen of books will answer your most burning questions: Will Count Olaf prevail? Will the Baudelaires survive? Will the series end happily? If there's nothing out there, what was that noise? Then again, why trouble yourself with unfortunate resolutions? Avoid this thirteenth and final book and you'll never have to know what happens...