Item category 1: Literacy

Greedy Big Goat Gruff must prove his innocence before he's turned into goat pie in this hilarious gem from bestselling children's author Ross Montgomery.

Katy has always longed for a pet of her own, so when a cute ginger-and-white guinea pig turns up in her mum's vegetable patch, she thinks her dreams have come true! Katy calls the guinea pig Lettuce, as that seems to be her favourite food, and makes a lovely home for her in an old greenhouse at t...

The poor Mortmain family move to an old castle. Mr Mortmain's daughter Rose wants a rich husband. Her sister, Cassandra, wants to be a writer like her father. But when the Mortmains meet their two rich neighbours, Simon and Neil Cotton, both Rose and Cassandra have their lives changed forever.

'Penguin Readers' is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Hayley is furious that her beloved cat, Judy Garland, keeps sneaking off to the garden of the weird old lady across the street. Lillian, or Boo, as Hayley calls her, hasn't left her house for years, not since the council came up with their plan to knock down the row of houses to make way for a ne...

Jamie is in hospital waiting for a life-changing operation. And to make a difficult time even harder, he's fallen out with his dad and refuses to speak to him when he comes to visit. To keep his spirits up, nurse Shirley suggests he writes a letter to the dog he desperately wants to adopt from th...

This is a complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of 'Macbeth', Shakespeare's dark tragedy that blends the supernatural with prophecy, ambition and murder.

When her friend Sam's pushy mum suggests that Meg and Merlin attend a 'fun day' at the stables where she works, Meg doesn't really feel she can say no.She enjoys the chance to improve her riding skills, but when Sam's mum tries to force Merlin over a water jump, he refuses, and she ends up gettin...

Cousins Yasmin and Ruby have always been rivals, but both sides of the story are exposed in this cleverly composed clean-teen novella from Karen McCombie.