Short and Shocking! is full of stories with a twist in the tail - each surprising and stimulating in its own way. Over forty stories in one book - all of them very, very short! None of the stories are more than two pages long, but each of them is special and thought-provoking. Drawn from a range [...]

Gwion drinks from the witch Cardiwen's magic cauldron of knowledge and is reborn as Taliesin: magician, poet, prophet, weathermonger and trickster. Adopted as a baby by Elphin, the unluckiest man in Wales, over the next 12 years Taliesin transforms Elphin's fortunes.[...]

Bored of scary videos at Hallowe'en, four friends make up details about a fake 'ghost' to see if their collective imaginations will create messages from it on a Ouija board. It's just a bit of fun at first - but then the messages start to come. And so do the accidents...[...]

A famous fairy tale character makes a surprise appearance to a young school girl. Although Rumpelstiltkin is a reformed character he still ends up causing lots of trouble...Race Ahead with Reading is the perfect introduction to reading chapters with brand new page turning reads in five short bite si[...]

If you dance round the stones at midnight, the story says you'll turn to stone. Kelly says that's rubbish, and she'll prove it! But then the clock begins to strike...Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.[...]