Jane Considine Reading Units

A mean rabbit is befriended by a bear, who he has stolen food from whilst she was hibernating.

New cover reissue of this magical story from award-winning international bestselling picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers

Lenny wants a carwash for Christmas but doesn't anticipate receiving one with magical properties, changing the owners vehicle to one that they deserve.

Aliens have fun playing with human underwear.

A young boy's bottom makes a range of different noises and he discovers that he can make good use of them.

A boy travels to Mars and helps the Martians who are fed up with alien musicians making a racket on their planet.

A hardworking duck is rescued from life with a lazy farmer in this award-winning picture book classic from Owl Babies author, Martin Waddell, and Bear Hunt illustrator, Helen Oxenbury.

Follows the adventures of a young boy's action figure as he plays with him

40th anniversary edition of the story about a boy's parents ignoring his warnings about a monster and fail to notice when he is eaten.

A boy sails away to find the fruit of the flumflum tree which is a cure for his granny who has the moozles

A little girl has to think fast to save her animal friends when a monster in the woods tries to make them into soup.

A young girl celebrates the beauty and significance of her older sister's decision to wear the hijab.

Mog the cat catches a burglar

When their dog goes missing, Poppy and Cy play hide and seek in the woods to distract themselves.

Misery Moo is always miserable, until she upsets her friend, Lamby Poo , and has to cheer her up by being happy again

A little boy brings a stranded baby whale home and looks after him in the bath until his dad finds out and helps him return it to the sea.

30th anniversary edition of the classic story about a gentle chimp, who fed up of being bullied tries to bulk-up with training exercises

When the Bear family have a late night, the next day doesn't seem to go well for any of them.

Noi spends the summer on his Grandma's island, and with her help rescues a flock of migrating birds that have become stranded on a rock in a storm.

Facts about the lives and nature of trees.

When Jada Jinks discovers that her granny is a magician, she helps her realise her potential.

On an unwanted holiday in Scotland, Finn realises that even the smallest actions can make a difference in the quest to save the planet.

Follows the daily tribulations of a young Muslim boy as he deals with his family, moving house and starting a new school.

An African girl talks to the sky in the hope of saving her village from drought.

Katie and Jack are show the sights of London by a Trafalgar Square lion

A little girl creates a colourful garden in a disused airport car park and makes friends with a boy who finds it after seeing it from an aeroplane.

A pirate family move into a house in a small town

After saving his aunt from an ogre, a young boy is apprenticed as a monster hunter and begins to learn what turns out to be the family trade.

The livelihood and spirit of a small fishing village is saved when a young boy rescues and befriends a stranded dolphin

A baby barn owl is afraid of the dark until some exciting nocturnal adventures help him to overcome his fear

A 30th anniversary edition of the classic story of a lonely girl, a friendly gorilla and their amazing night out.

The story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell.

A little girl gets revenge on people with her magic finger

An orphan girl who longs to be adopted experiences a magical Christmas journey.

Two children go searching their block of flats in search of a mysterious cat

Once upon a time there was a Princess. She had everything a little girl could ever want, and she was happy. That is, until the fog came...

Biographies of 13 women who had an impact on society throughout history

A celebration of living things of many kinds, and the kindness we can show them as we wander through the world.

The blackbirds' song uplifts and restores in this captivating novella from one of the most exciting voices in children's fiction.

Picture book, full colour edition of the story about a married couple who are horrible to everyone but are taught a lesson by some clever animals

A young genius boy with cerebral palsy befriends an alien and together they defend the family's jam secrets from a rival.

A young boy timeslips to the Stone Age where he has a coming-of-age adventure with another boy from the era

Follows the eccentric residents of a small town, including an obnoxious old man who tries to poison a popular dog.

Meet ten-year-old Joy Applebloom, a girl with a knack for finding the silver lining in even the darkest of rainclouds.

Eleven-year-old Harrison, helped by his new friend Lenny Singh, solves the mystery of a jewel thief on while on a steam train trip with his uncle.

A boy and a bear meet, become friends and have the adventure of their lives.

Elsa's stepfather is out of work so the family have to live in one tiny room at the Royal Hotel.

Trixie Pickle becomes an Art Avenger, and tries to take down bullies using art.

A colour-illustrated version of Hughes' classic children's story.

A modern day boy visits the stone age and learns about prehistoric life.

George is left to look after his grandmother but gets into trouble when he brews a potion to make her more likeable

A young boy is in for a shock when he picks some fruit from the tree at the bottom of his garden and finds himself with a pet dragon.

Shows how two children escape from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii.

A young girl has an adventure with the Egyptian gods when she has to set off to rescue her adventurer father who has disappeared and is trapped inside the Sphinx.

Sulwe's skin is the colour of midnight. She's darker than everyone in her family, and everyone at school.

A boy finds a portal to a legendary world in his local barbershop, and learns he's the hero that everyone was waiting for.

Four best friends who have fallen out settle their differences to fight to save their school library.

Shen and Sika take part in a race to the Arctic with a sledge pulled by 66 pug dogs.

A rescued greyhound experiences life with three different owners.

A robot awakens on a remote island with no knowledge of her past, or how she got to the island.

When Marina discovers a boy with a head of tentacles and crab claws for hands, she resolves to help him unravel the mystery of his past.

Herbert Lemon and Violet Parma are caught up in an adventure concerning a legendary sea-monster when they try to find out what happened to Violet's missing parents.

Two boys in competition for a part in the school play are challenged by an urban myth creature.

A twelve-year-old boy discovers his dead dad's time machine and goes back in time to try to prevent the accident that killed him

A young lad determines to change his ways when the consequences of his bullying prank on a homeless man are laid bare.

Friends Rohan and Myra must pass three challenges in order to rescue Rohan's baby sister from the magical world of Otherland.

A young boy with a stammer dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.

A robot tries to find his way back to his owner after he wakes up damaged in a scrapyard.

Ten-year-old Leo dreams of performing in the West End. His love of dancing is getting him through the heatwave, but his selective mutism means he is unlikely to be able to perform in public and puts his spot in the end-of-summer dance show on the line.

A boy suspects something is not right when he is invited as part of a group of finalists in a writing competition to an old stately house where strange things start to happen.

Two sisters take it upon themselves to investigate the murder of one of the fellow residents of their housing estate

A young not-so-heroic Viking becomes a hero when he saves his tribe from a gigantic sea dragon.

An 11-year-old boy helps his 13-year-old super-powered brother stop an obsessed business man as well as an asteroid from destroying Earth

A young girl still coming to terms with her parent's separation meets a strange boy in the local churchyard and slowly comes to realise that he's not who he says he is.

Teenager Alice is whisked away from her life helping in her mother's bakery to carry out a spy mission to find a rogue agent

A young boy who survived the Nazi concentration camps arrives in the Lake District, where hopes of a new life await.

A group of children take part in an escape game, only to discover that the puzzles they have to solve are far more serious than they expected.

A lonely wolf yearns for company but must lose something of himself in exchange for friendship and comfort.

A brother and sister try to keep the bond with their cousin alive, despite the horrors of the Great War.

A boy. A wolf. A legend for all time. The first book in the internationally bestselling WOLF BROTHER (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) series by renowned author Michelle Paver.

When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, 14 year old Alex Rider becomes involved with MI6 and has to complete his dead guardian's mission.

A girl raised with wolf companions joins rebellious villagers against an oppressive general to rescue her mother from prison

A wealthy young girl learns to live at a boarding school when her life changes dramatically after her father's death.

A 13-year-old girl enters the dangerous underworld of Victorian London when her father goes missing

A boy contemplates the events that happened when an older boy is found dead in the town where he lives.

Explores the life of a young mixed-race boy, Ted, living with his mother and poorly older brother in Victorian Bradfield.

A girl fights to find a way back to her island home, and her mother, when a new government official bans anyone without leprosy from living there.

An eleven-year-old girl's world is turned upside-down when she has to go and live with her mother in the city after her father, with whom she lives in the woods, is seriously injured in an accident.

Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure

Elliot teams up with Olympian gods when he and the zodiac Virgo accidentally released the sleep daemon from his prison.

An eleven year old pretends to be a father in order to join a space mission.

A deprived and physically abused boy from London flourishes under the care of an old man when he is evacuated to the countryside during World War II.

During the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, two children discover a runaway girl in the coal shed, who tells them she's fleeing from people who are trying to poison her.

A boy with behavioural problems is given a second chance after a new boy befriends him

When Nancy overhears a secret conversation, and Sidney sees something smuggled into the stables at midnight, they must work together to find out what is really going on at Stanbrook.

A young girl campaigns for historic wrongs to be righted, whilst also dealing with her autism.

Three sisters must find three magical objects that will free them of the ancient curse they are all under.

When 14-year-old Mariel goes to live with her long-lost relatives in England, she discovers some strange family secrets

A young rabbit and his siblings embark upon a quest to defeat an enemy who has destroyed their family home.

An evacuated boy builds a relationship with the gorilla at the zoo owned by the woman with whom he's been billeted.

Set in 18th century on St Kilda, a fowling party must survive being stranded

The 50-year-old mystery of a missing girl sparks a battle between a girl and her faerie tormentors

A girl born under an unlucky sign and destined to die on her 11th birthday is given a chance to join a secret magical society which would save her from her fate.

An autistic girl learns to be herself instead of trying to hide her condition from people around her.

A girl finds comfort in ballet lessons as she adjusts to life in Britain after fleeing Syria with her family.

A human boy must team up with enemy aliens to fulfill his destiny of saving the galaxy from a lethal supernova.

A boy must make a radical medical decision.

A girl runs away with her guardian to Paris in search of her mother who she initially thought died in the shipwreck that she was rescued from as a baby.

Set in World War 2, a 12-year-old girl evacuated from London to Cornwall discovers a connection between the village and her missing sister

Four children endeavour to survive after the light aircraft they were aboard crashes in the heart of the Amazon jungle.

Follows a young boy as he escapes from a convent orphanage in the mountains of Nazi occupied Poland in search of his parents

The bestselling story about love, loss and hope that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children's book of the Year Award.

Two children set off on a quest to defeat the evil Ice Queen who keeps their world in her icy grip.

Two warring sisters learn to overcome their differences on a school holiday trip to Wales.

An 11-year-old Ethiopian boy hopes to realise his dream of becoming an athlete when he joins his grandfather on a trip to the capital city of Addis Ababa.

The antics of a pet pig help a family get through a difficult period in their lives.

A 13-year-old boy in denial about his mother's terminal illness imagines sharing stories with a yew tree

Two children brave the wilds of Russia after they flee a prison camp, pursued by a vengeful sorceress and her shadow wolves.