Straw Hat: 33 books

Fleur's an unusual superhero because she's a hen - a free ranging secret agent who's given a mission to release hundreds of her sisters from their grim prison camp.  Fast moving action and humour abound in this classic satire. First published in 1995 and still in print. Wonderful cartoon-style illustrations...

Ooh! A secret club, dedicated to finding the answers to mysteries. But who will prove to be the best detectives, the boys or the girls?   This is Book 1 of Anne Digby's highly-praised Jug Valley Mystery Series. First published by Puffin Books [as the Jug Valley Juniors Series], BOYS V. GIRLS...

'Please inform your father, Kate," said Annabel, still on her dignity, 'that I AM sensible.' Can Annabel persuade her best friend's father that she is indeed a fit and responsible person to go on holiday with Kate? Especially in view of the unfortunate episode of the Deputy Head catching...

In the first of these two long complete Annabel stories, the horrible Julia becomes the all-powerful Monitor of the school Band Room. Such is her reign of terror, Annabel is goaded into retaliation. Inspired by a story in an old comic that she saw the Deputy Head reading under her desk, she enlists...

Christmas is just a happy memory now and the spring vacation is coming up - and with it the chance to be selected a for a very special school camp with best friend Lindy.  A small group will be taken to a wild and remote little Scottish island called Scallish Beag - made up of the two girls from...

Rebecca can hardly wait to tell her friends the amazon news. But difficult choices lie ahead. Should she stick to tennis and become a professional, or concentrate on exams and try to get into university later on? And added to this is the worrying mystery of little Naomi Cook in the junior house. However...

When her parents are posted to Saudi Arabia, Rebecca finds herself uprooted from her London day school and sent to an elite boarding school on the coast, hundreds of miles from home. Lonely and anxious to prove herself she submits something to the prestigious school magazine - but something quite...

Rebecca is making sensational progress at tennis and gets into the school team. Her partner is Pippa, her favourite senior and she doesn't want to let her down. But when somebody plays a weird hoax on the school Principal, it looks as though Rebecca is the culprit. Even her friends begin to wonder...

Rebecca thought they'd told each other everything. But have they? Rebecca and her French pen friend have never met but from the beginning they've felt like sisters and shared their secrets. Emmanuelle's letters are safely tucked away inside Rebecca's bedside locker with her diary and other...

Just as Rebecca, Mara and Co are enjoying their new freedoms at Trebizon [now they've been promoted from the junior house], Mara's wealthy shipowner father sends her back to the famous English boarding school with her own bodyguard. He's convinced she's going to be kidnapped. Mara thinks it's silly...

After the traumas of her first term at the elite boarding school, Rebecca is settling in well at Trebizon and loving being friends with Tish and Sue, who have been best friends for years. But then Tish starts to behave very oddly towards Sue and Rebecca is caught in the middle. She can't believe that...

Rebecca has never been very good at maths and now, if she doesn't improve, she'll go into the B stream next year and be separated from all her new friends. So why does Max, the dishy new maths teacher, completely ignore her and concentrate all his efforts on lumpy Roberta Jones? And as if that isn't...

The six friends get a set of rooms together at the start of the new school year - but tension ensues when Mara is told to move out to make room for newcomer Ingrid Larsson. Tish calls Ingrid "the ice queen" -- a brilliant ice skater maybe but one who brings to the party a real touch of winter. As Rebecca learns to her cost. Book 8 in the classic school series.

Thirteen years old, it's high time to achieve something in life before it's TOO LATE, decides Annabel. In the first of these two hilarious novellas, she tries to impress a visiting publisher at the Addendon Book Fair with her poems - until her own ambitions are submerged in a far greater cause,...