(Lythway Large Print Children's Series)

Relates the tangled events that lead the students of the Unexpected School on Hurricane Peak to foil the wicked Sir Quincey and his accomplices and to solve several mysteries.

Tris and Winola find the underrunners, a vast network of tunnels, the ideal place to escape their unhappy lives and act out their fantasies, but the tunnels become a dangerous place when invaded by an unseen stranger.

Two sisters look upon a beach vacation with their father, his woman friend, and her son, as two weeks in the wrong place with the wrong people.

As MCC Berkshire, the mysterious, book-obsessed man helping in Ailsa's mother's antique shop, tells wild stories that persuade customers to buy various items, teenaged Ailsa believes he is a liar but fears that he is not.

Under Plum Lake is a kid's book that also wowed the adults that read it. Right from the opening lines the reader is drawn into a world suffused with a poignant melancholy, and then dazzled by a pyrotechnic display of storytelling from a master of suspense (Lionel Davidson was a three-times winner of the Golden Dagger award for crime writers). But the eerily evocative Under Plum Lake is like nothing else he wrote. A genuine one-off.

The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.

Follows the amusing misadventures of a little girl as she shops for the perfect birthday gift for her mother, blackens a blackboard, and cares for a lost cat.

A sixth-grade boy deals with the prospect of a new baby brother and a long-distance love relationship.

As soon as Cybil grins and crosses her eyes at Simon, he's in love. But the road to Cybil's heart is bumpy—mainly because of Simon's best friend, Tony, whose outrageous lies keep Cybil and Simon apart. "Young love, fifth-grade variety, portrayed with warmth and humor and that extra, penetrating touch one expects of Byars".—Kirkus Reviews. 10 illustrations.

A blind girl who is sent to stay with her grandfather stumbles upon a kidnapping in their small town.

To escape his boring, lonely life and bad grades, Lennie loses himself in fantasies of being the star of his own imaginary television shows. But when he finds himself bitten by a rattlesnake and trapped beneath an abandoned house, the danger is all too real.

Yound Harry Bateman comes from London with his family year after year to spend the summer at Light Trees Farm in the Cumbrian free country, until he feels that it is his real home.

After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.

Matthew cannot resist the temptation to play practical jokes on his older sister and all the girls in his class at school, so by the time of the big party for his eleventh birthday they have all declared war on him.

Compelled to search for his half-brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.