English Chapter Books

Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr

Eight-year-old Ben takes a fortune cookie literally, and believing he has only one day left to live, tries to do everything he has always wanted to before nightfall.

Annie Barrows

Iggy Frangi is a 9-year-old boy who loves facts and sweets, but he doesn't love the consequences of his actions. He's not a bad kid, he's really not. He just does a few (a few is anything up to 100) bad things, such as ruining his sister's birthday party, covering his teacher's car with shaving cream, and breaking his dad's nose. He doesn't mean to cause trouble, he just gets carried away by his impulses and curiosity. But he also learns from his mistakes and tries to make things right. "The Best of Iggy" is a funny and relatable story about a kid who always finds himself in sticky situations, but also has a big heart and a lot of charm.

Blake Morgan

When Buddy is paired with Noah as a Detection Dog, he can't believe his luck! Here is a special, loving boy that he has the important task of looking after. Noah has anaemia and it's up to Buddy to protect him if he faints. It's a huge responsibility, but to Buddy it's the best job in the world! Then Noah gets into trouble in the water on a trip to the seaside and everyone turns on Buddy. Noah is safe but the adults have lost their trust in his canine companion. Buddy knows what really happened, but how can he convince everyone he wasn't to blame?

Joseph Coelho

Mr Buxton is always having a go at Miles and his friends for climbing the trees outside their tower block. Miles thinks he's just a grumpy old man but when he finds a lost little budgie, Miles also discovers that he and Mr Buxton have more in common than he could ever have imagined.

Kita Mitchell

Percy's mum has invented a machine that changes DNA to bring extinct species back to life. And when the scientist next door suddenly turns into a talking rat, Percy is roped into a hilarious adventure in which everyone seems to want to get their hands on the species machine - and Percy comes to appreciate what his activist parents are fighting for.

Pablo Cartaya

To prove that she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed, twelve-year-old Yolanda learns that her survival rests on the rediscovery of a long-extinct beehive that could be the answer to everything.

Kirsty Applebaum

Lonny is a lifeling. He has the power to heal any living creature and bring it back from the dead. But he pays a price for this gift - by lengthening the creature's life, he shortens his own. So Lonny has to be careful, has to stay hidden in the forest. Because if people knew what he could do, Lonny would be left with no life at all. 

Note: Alernate title is Lifeling.

Emma Carroll

A powerful, feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic. Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only three matches left, the magical strike of each one sees her tumble into visions of a brighter future. Realizing she has the power to change her own fortune, Bridie leads the match factory workers out on strike, achieving the remarkable through their unity and courage.

Emi Watanabe Cohen

Running out of time to make his grandfather smile once again before it's too late, Kohei searches for a ryū--a dragon of legend--in this multigenerational story about the lengths to which people will go to protect those they love.

Victoria Hislop

The absorbing story of the Cretan village of Plaka and the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga - Greece's former leper colony - is told to us by Maria Petrakis, one of the children in the original version of 'The Island'. She tells us of the ancient and misunderstood disease of leprosy,

Jennifer Gennari

When fifth-grader Amelia learns to cope with her noise sensitivity, she steps outside of her comfort zone and makes new friends. Includes information about noise sensitivity.

Jasmine Warga

Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.

Hannah Moffatt

When Harvey accidentally sets fire to his headteacher's trousers, Mum decides it's time for a BIG change. So, she packs him off to Madame Bogbrush's School for Gifted Giants. He'll grunt. He'll clomp. He'll bash things with clubs. But Harvey's not a giant. He's a boy on stilts. And if his classmates find out, they'll stomp him into a sandwich! Then the Beastly School Board arrives for a surprise inspection and Harvey realises he's not the only one in danger.

Jenny Pearson

Eleven-year-old Freddie collects and relies on facts until he and his best friends trigger a series of miracles while on an adventure in Wales searching for his biological father

Sachiko Kashiwaba

One rainy night, Kazu sees a strange figure in a white kimono sneak out of his house--was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? The next day at school, the very same person is sitting in his class--and all his friends are convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years. If that isn't weird enough, Kazu learns that his house is in the exact location of an ancient temple called Kimyō, which, legend has it, could bring the dead back to life! Kazu sets out to discover what happened to Kimyō Temple and if the rumors of its power are true. His investigation draws the unwanted attention of his neighbor Ms. Minakami and his mysterious new classmate Akari, who is definitely not what she seems. Now, Kazu and Akari must join forces to find and protect the source of the temple's power, before it's too late.

Varsha Bajaj

A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity--an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she just started to work, she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and there's even a rooftop swimming pool. What Minni also discovers there is one of the water mafia bosses. Now she must decide whether to expose him and risk her job and maybe her life. How did something as simple as access to water get so complicated?