Showroom Sample Children's Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4031

Showroom Sample Children's Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4031

Eighteen titles dominated by the biggest names in UK children's fiction — David Walliams, Tom Fletcher, Pamela Butchart, David Baddiel, Sophie Anderson, and more — covering comedy, adventure, fantasy, and feel-good fiction for readers aged seven to twelve. Please note these are showroom sample copies and may have a small sticker on the cover and show light signs of wear.

1. My Gym Teacher Is an Alien Overlord — David Solomons — The second in Solomons's My Brother Is a Superhero series; a new gym teacher with suspicious powers can only be stopped by one boy with a very unusual brother. Funny, pacy, and brilliantly plotted.
2. Dork Diaries: Party Time — Rachel Renée Russell — The second in Russell's global bestseller series, in which Nikki navigates the perils of a school party and a rival determined to ruin it. As sharp and funny as the series opener.
3. Ratburger — David Walliams — A girl with a dreadful home life befriends a rat called Ratty, who is promptly threatened by the sinister Burger Van Man. Walliams at his most Roald Dahl-esque — dark, funny, and unexpectedly moving.
4. Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies — Pamela Butchart — Izzy and her friends investigate the alarming behaviour of the school dinner ladies in another Baby Aliens adventure. Butchart's books have become a fixture of the UK primary school classroom.
5. Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon — Pamela Butchart — A standalone Butchart comedy in which a girl must break a curse before her class trip is ruined by a series of increasingly bizarre disasters. Illustrated with great humour by Gemma Correll.
6. The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife — Maz Evans — The first in Evans's series following Scarlett, whose life is spectacularly falling apart in every direction at once; fast, funny, and capturing the chaos of being eleven with uncommon accuracy.
7. Umbrella Mouse to the Rescue — Anna Fargher — Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, this novel follows a mouse who joins the French Resistance in wartime Paris. A genuinely beautiful book — adventurous, emotional, and historically grounded.
8. Another Twist in the Tale — Catherine Bruton — A modern Oliver Twist retelling set in the care system, with warmth and a real understanding of what it means to belong nowhere. Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.
9. The Creakers — Tom Fletcher — All the grown-ups have vanished overnight, replaced by sinister creatures called Creakers who live under beds; a small boy must investigate in Fletcher's inventive, spooky, and very funny debut novel.
10. The Parent Agency — David Baddiel — A boy who complains constantly about his parents is transported to a world where children can choose their own, and quickly learns to be careful what he wishes for. Baddiel is one of the sharper comic voices in contemporary children's fiction.
11. The Boy in the Dress — David Walliams — A boy who loves fashion wears a dress to school with unexpectedly affirming consequences; Walliams's first novel remains one of his most thoughtful, and was adapted for television by the BBC.
12. Bad Dad — David Walliams — A boy's father, freshly released from prison, finds redemption in the most unexpected way in a Walliams novel that is funnier and more tender than his earlier work.
13. The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch — Tom Fletcher — The sequel to Fletcher's debut phenomenon, in which a new adventure takes William and his dinosaur friend into a frozen world ruled by an ice witch. Fletcher at his most ambitious.
14. The House with Chicken Legs — Sophie Anderson — Loosely inspired by Baba Yaga, this extraordinary debut follows a girl who guides the dead to the afterlife but longs for a living friend. A genuinely unusual and beautiful book.
15. The Shark Caller — Zillah Bethell — Set in Papua New Guinea, this novel follows a boy who can call sharks with his singing and a girl who disrupts his world when she arrives after losing her home to a cyclone. Lyrical, original, and unlike anything else in the box.
16. Storey Treehouse — Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton — One of the internationally bestselling Treehouse series, in which Andy and Terry's ever-expanding treehouse presents new floors and new chaos with each instalment. One of the great reluctant-reader phenomena of the past decade.
17. Murder in Midwinter — Fleur Hitchcock — A teenage girl witnesses a murder on a train in the run-up to Christmas, in a tightly plotted YA mystery from one of the genre's most reliably gripping writers.
18. The Lightning Catcher — Clare Weze — A boy must rescue a friend from a lightning storm connected to the mysterious lightning catcher his mother used to be. A debut novel of real atmospheric invention.