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Amy Wild has a secret - she can talk to animals! She and her best friends - a dog, a parrot and four squabbling cats - love to help out creatures in need. So when a squirrel tells them someone wants to cut down his oak-tree home, they jump into action! Can they come up with a plan to save the tree and the amazing animals and birds who live there? Welcome to the world of Amy Wild, where dogs tell their secrets, cats perform rescue missions, and an entire island is squeaking and squawking with animal magic!

Hope Jones' New Year's resolution is to give up plastic, and she's inspiring others to do the same with her website, hopejones.com. When she realises her local supermarket seems to stock more unnecessary plastic than food, she makes it her mission to do something about it. She may be just one ten-year-old with a homemade banner, but with enough determination, maybe Hope Jones really can save the world.

Zoe's dreams of becoming an animal-keeper look set to come true when her family take over the running of Tanglewood Animal Park! But Oliver, the park vet's son, is used to having Tanglewood to himself, and he's not happy to be sharing it. Then disaster strikes when the park's newest arrival, baby Zebra Flash, escapes from his paddock just before the park's grand reopening. Can Oliver and Zoe join forces and rescue the missing baby zebra so Tanglewood can open in time?

When nine year old Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House she is delighted when she's asked to watch over four abandoned pale blue duck eggs. Her grandmother's warm kitchen is the perfect place for them to hatch. Soon the ducklings are making mischief as they learn how to waddle and swim. But they can't stay indoors forever. It's up to Tiger to find them a brand new home...

It’s Ella’s first day at her new school and she wants to find a friend. She tries some tips which she finds in a library book but things don’t work out quite as she planned…

Yanka has always felt like an outsider. Found in a bear cave when she was a baby and raised by her foster mother Mamochka, she's always wondered where she came from.

However, when something very unusual begins to happen to her, it's the push she needs to leave her village on a quest to discover her family, her origins and who she really is. It's impossible not to root for Yanka, who is growing and learning as she goes, making some valuable discoveries along the way.

Izzy and Asha need a space to call their own, where they can practise their skateboarding away from the Skull brothers and escape from trouble at home.

But the derelict gasworks where they stake their claim already belongs to something else - a wilderness they never expected to find and an injured wolf that desperately needs their help. Can they reconnect to the wild and save the wolf? Or is their pack too weak to fight much stronger powers?

Our Jacko is a poignant story inspired by the metal helmet worn by soldiers, known as the Brodie helmet. Throughout brothers Michael and Otto’s childhood there was an old metal helmet in their home. Firstly it was a play accessory, then an animal feeder and later a planter. They didn’t know where it came from but it always came in useful.
After the brothers discovered the helmet belonged to their great-grandfather, they uncovered a story and an ancestor, they never knew: Our Jacko is a multi-layered story that can be appreciated by readers young and old.

As the summer holidays approach enjoy Swallows and Amazons, a children's classic adventure story. The Walker children are excited to set sail on their boat Swallow and camp on Wild Cat Island. Camping under the open skies, swimming in the lake and fishing for their dinner would be adventure enough - but then they meet two fierce Amazon pirates who challenge them to a war.