Karen McCombie
Ally's World: Friend's, Freak-Ourts & Very Secret Secrets

OK, so I did have a best friend called Sandie, but I think she's been replaced by a Star Trek type android. She still looks like Sandie, but since when did my real friend copy everything I do, and storm off in big huffs over nothingl Have all my mates gone mad, or have I stumbled into Crouch End in a parallel universe!

Jean Ure
Sugar and Spice

Geeky Ruth Spicer hates school. When super-cool Shayanne Sugar comes along and - shock horror! - wants to be her friend, things begin to look up. But Shay is hiding something. Do best friends tell each other everythingl

A fantastic story for older children about an unlikely friendship.

Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories. These fairies are armed and they're dangerous. Artemis thinks he's got them just where he wants them - but then they stop playing by the rules....

Karen MeCombie
Ally's World: Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing

Boys are weird things, and just lately the boys in my life have been acting even more weird. Take Billy, for example. He's been behaving like a total muppet and what's worse is I've been having unexplained feelings for the big dweeb. Tor's been acting strange too - something to do with boy mice, girl mice and Mum....