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Ross Montgomery

Ross Montgomery

Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at university. His More...

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The Adventures of Billy Shaman

The Adventures of Billy Shaman

In Roland Chambers' The Rage of the Sea Witch, Billy meets More...

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What is an Actor?

What is an Actor?

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Latest Books & Extracts

  • Just Like Everyone Else

    A coming-of-age story for tweens exploring identity, family and self-acceptance, from award-winning author Sarah Hagger-Holt.

  • Fablehouse

    Unlock the legends. Unleash the magic. Save your home. 'An exciting, heartrending story with a magical twist' - Jacqueline Wilson

  • Until the Road Ends

    Until the Road Ends is the eagerly awaited new novel from the bestselling author of When the Sky Falls: The Times Children's Book of the

  • Deadlock

    Perfect for fans of Alex Rider and Artemis Fowl, Simon Fox's latest action-packed thriller is ideal for readers too young for Jack Reache

  • Away With Words

    When Gala moves to Scotland from Spain, she feels lost and lonely. Just as she's making friends and settling into her new life, the actio

  • Small Bites Back

    Funny and heartwarming, brilliantly illustrated throughout. The sequel to best-selling Small!

  • Time to Shine at the River School

    Welcome to a new term at the River School! Best friends Jummyand Caro are attending together and they're thrilled to discoverthey both ge

  • The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    A brand-new young-reader adventure series from Katya Balen, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal and Shadowers' Choice Award 2022

  • Serpent of the Sands

    Gan is back home in Nadvaaryn after her epic adventure with the Brightstormtwins in the north. But her uncle is ill, so she needsa cure i

  • Forest School Handbook

    Forest School Handbook is lively collection of activities, crafts, bushcraft skills and nature-based play which will inspire kids to thri

Featured Authors

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis: Ben Davis is an award-winning children's author whose books include <a href="/books/the-private-blog-of-joe-cowley-strai

  • Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons: Francesca Gibbons has been telling tall tales for as long as she can remember. She had the idea for The Shadow Moth when

  • Skye McKenna

    Skye McKenna: Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel, and the foll

  • Roland Chambers

    Roland Chambers: Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and illustrator

  • Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar: Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for a Master's d

  • Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner: Skye Melki-Wegner is a YA and children's fantasy author and dinosaur lover. Over the years, she has worked everywhere from a cinema (wher

  • Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef: Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Iranian grandmo

  • Alexandra Beever

    Alexandra Beever: DC Alexandra Beever has been a detective with Thames Valley Police for 15 years. Following a science degree at universit

  • Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery: Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at university. His

  • MG Leonard

    MG Leonard: MG Leonard's Twitch series takes us into the world of birds and bird watching. She is also the author of bestselling ser

  • Cath Howe

    Cath Howe: Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroyed in a house

  • Nizrana Farook

    Nizrana Farook: The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also include The Girl

  • M.A. Bennett  (The Butterfly Club series)

    M.A. Bennett (The Butterfly Club series): M.A. Bennett, bestselling author of STAGS, introduces her time-travel adventure series, The Butterfly Club, for middle grade readers.

  • Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura: Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and middle grade fic

  • Cath Howe - Call the Puffins

    Cath Howe - Call the Puffins: Cath Howe is well known for exploring the everyday lives of children and her new series for younger children, Call the Puffins, explores

  • Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho: Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024.  He grew up in a tower blo

  • David Owen

    David Owen: Having worked as a freelance games journalist and taught on a BA Creative Writing course for three years, David Owen's debut novel,

  • : Philip Reeve has been writing stories since he was five years old but Mortal Engines was the first to be published and w

  • Charles Dowding

    Charles Dowding: Charles Dowding is an innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, who has built up a large and dedicated following

  • Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross: Alice M Ross has spent most of her career as a journalist at the Financial Times, where she was most recently Deputy News Editor. She is

  • Ruth Lauren

    Ruth Lauren: Ruth Lauren has been a teacher and worked in lots of different offices, but she likes writing best, as well as walking in the woods, chee

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant: Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the past ten. She g

  • Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence: Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbeard's Treasur

  • Gill Lewis

    Gill Lewis: After realising her childhood dream of becoming a vet, Gill worked in the UK and overseas, everywhere from Africa to the Arctic. L

  • Jarvis

    Jarvis: Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories is author and illustrator Jarvis's first chapter book. His picture books include Alan's Big,

  • Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo: Rachel Chivers Khoo was born in Belfast and spent most of her childhood sheltering in her local library from the endless

  • Alasdair Beckett-King

    Alasdair Beckett-King : Comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King's first book for children is the hilarious murder-mystery Montgomery Bonbon: M

  • Colm Field

    Colm Field: Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happiest when he's

  • Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan: Brian Conaghan lives and works in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He was a teacher for many years and taught in Scotland, Italy and Irel

  • Thomas Flintham

    Thomas Flintham: Thomas Flintham has always loved to draw and tell stories, and now that is his job! He grew up in Lincoln, England, and studied illustrat

  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart: Sinéad O'Hart was raised in a small house full of books in the south-east of Ireland. She has a degree in Medieval English and has had ma

  • Pamela Butchart

    Pamela Butchart: As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and weird things h

  • Leah Mohammed

    Leah Mohammed: Leah Mohammed's debut book for younger readers follows Luma who discovers a young dragon in her garden.  Leah has

  • Catherine Jacob

    Catherine Jacob: The adventures in Catherine Jacob's new series, Puppy Club, were inspired by her family's new puppy. Catherine is a writer, award-

  • Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes: Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people.  The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by The Night Ani

  • Kirsty Applebaum

    Kirsty Applebaum: Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess Minna and the

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen: Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - but neither is

  • Isabel Thomas

    Isabel Thomas: Isabel Thomas is a science writer and the author of a galaxy of books for young audiences, including Moth: An Evolution

  • Elys Dolan

    Elys Dolan: Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from Elys Dolan,</s

Your Reviews

  • Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body

    Maria

    Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body is the perfect book to share with developing youngsters as they navigate...

  • The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    Jacqueline

    Clem is part of a mudlarking club along with her friends Ash and Zara, looking for treasure on the banks of the Thames. Everything the club finds gets tak...

  • Just Like Everyone Else

    Sam

    Most teenagers work hard to 'fit in', knowing that there is nothing worse than becoming an obvious target for the group of boys or girls in school who lik...

  • Until the Road Ends

    Jacqueline

    Until the Road Ends is the story of Beau, a dog from the streets, who is saved by a girl called Peggy. When war breaks out, the two are s...

  • How to be a Detective and Other Crime-Fighting Jobs

    Lauren

    How to be a Detective and Other Crime Fighting Jobs is from a new series of books all about amazing and incredible jobs. The book is set...

  • Serpent of the Sands

    Sue

    Gan - Princess Ganzorig - has a real taste for adventure and when one of her beloved uncles, King Temur, falls dangerously ill, she sets off in her sky-sh...

  • The Stickleback Catchers

    Beverley

    Mimi has been brought up by her grandparents since she was a baby. Now they all live together in a flat over a bowls club in North-East England. Mimi ador...

  • The Glass Slipper Academy (Fairytale Ninjas, Book 1)

    Amanda

    Fairytale Ninjas is the amazing concept of Paula Harrison. Before launching a successful writing career, Paula was a Primary school teacher. Her years tea...

  • The Greatest Kingdom (A Clock of Stars, Book 3)

    Jacqueline

    In The Greatest Kingdom, the final instalment in the A Clock of Stars trilogy, Imogen and Marie once again return to the magical kingdom,...

  • Once There Was

    Donna

    Marjan's father has been killed. She doesn't know why, she doesn't know by who. What she does know is that since his death, she has been left to take on h...

Videos & Vlogs

Meet Lenny Lemmon - and an invincible rat!

Meet Lenny Lemmon - and an invincible rat!

Lenny Lemmon tries to do his very best in school, but things always seem to go wrong for him... Author Ben Davis reads from his h

A city of magic

A city of magic

Imagine if magic really existed, hidden just out of sight, in our towns and cities.... 

The Twitchers are back!

The Twitchers are back!

Author MG Leonard tells us more about twitchers, egg theft, and writing mysteries as she introduces her new book, Clutch.</strong

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This month’s highlights

  • Picture Book

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2023

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2023

    ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2023 ReadingZone is challenging those aged four to 18 years to make a picture book for the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2023,...

  • Book Trailers

    Make a Book Trailer

    Make a Book Trailer

    Create a Book Trailer Create a book trailer of your favourite book or your latest bookclub read for ReadingZone, and encourage others to read the book!  Or you can use it...

  • Podcasts

    Create your own Podcast

    Create your own Podcast

    Bex, a presenter for Fun Kids, has put together a simple guide for us about creating podcasts and gives us some top tips for starting your own podcast.

  • Videos & Vlogs

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Ever wanted to create your own vlog, but don't know how to get started? In these videos, author and book vlogger Lucy Powrie (lucythereader) gives her tips on getting started, what to inc...

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