With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, Evil Inventions is buzzing with brilliant brainwaves.

Shortlisted for the 2004 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (age 6-8 category), an exploration of an unlikely friendship between two very different boys.

The story centres on Dylan Hughes, the only boy left in a small Welsh mountain town called Manod. This is an immensely entertaining book, about the power of art to bring about change and to redeem.

Ug and his parents live in the Stone Age. This means stone blankets, stone-cold food, an even colder cave and, worst of all, hard stone trousers!

Returning a lost dog doesn't usually involve running away to obscure European countries, stealing helicopters, masterminding jail breaks and fleeing despotic generals.

Coriander Hobie's happy childhood in 17th-century London is brought to an abrupt end when her mother is murdered by an evil fairy queen from the land of her youth.

Orphan Maia is thrilled to learn she is to live with relatives in South America. She cannot wait to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the Amazon.

A brilliant collection of funny, weird and whacky short stories in which, believe it or not, a kid can grow younger; birds can bury you; ghosts have exams; there are eyes in the milk. 

Poems about growing up, about placing ourselves in the world around us and discovering the imaginative world in our own heads.

This is an uplifting story about an eccentric family encased in chaos, but also full of intense warmth and loyalty.

Kevin and Max are both accustomed to ridicule but when fate throws this seemingly mismatched pair together the result is awesome: Freak the Mighty. A tragic, suspenseful and touching story that is ultimately uplifting.

Much to the disapproval of his parents, Baljit is mad on football and when he is invited to trials at Leicester City, he has to lie about his whereabouts.

This exciting novel offers action, romance, mystery, revenge, crime and horror. Tom, a Londoner, can't imagine a life not on the move, as the traction city of London trawls the world on wheels, capturing and eating smaller towns and cities.