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Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Best Friends Guide by Karen McCombie
Category: Early Reader
A guide to making and keeping friends. It features Indie and her friends who let us in on the stories of how they all came to be best friends. It gives tips on how to handle friends that are bossy or shy, in your family or, even, boys.
Indie kidd's (Most Excellent) Guide to Fun for Free (Indie Kidd Special #3) by Karen McCombie Illustrated by Lydia Monks
Category: Early Reader
This is an inventive book jam-packed with hilarious ways to have fun - for free. Stuck indoors? Run out of pocket money? Only the pets to play with? Find yourself in a fun-free zone? Faced with a boring holiday looming ahead of her, Indie comes up with a whole load of mad, brilliant and wacky ways to ...Show more
Life According to... Alice B. Lovely by Karen McCombie
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Edie Evans is sick of being treated like a kid. And she doesn't, repeat, doesn't need a babysitter! And then along comes the strange, the shy, the captivating Alice B. Lovely. But is she too good to be true
Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
Bridie lives on the remote Scottish island of Torrnish, the youngest of three sisters. Although she loves her island, with its wild seas and big skies, she guiltily nurses a secret dream of flight - to America and the freedom of the New World. But her family are struggling under the spiteful oppression ...Show more
Little Bird Lands by MCCOMBIE KAREN
Category: Junior Fiction
The sequel to Little Bird Flies sees Bridie settling into life in America, before a new crisis sends her and her family out West, to the prairies and a life of opportunity and risk. . .
Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness (Ally\'s World Book 9) by Karen McCombie
Category: Fiction | Series: Ally's World S.
Ally's not normally superstitious, but something freaky's happening in Crouch End. She knows her home is usually a complete madhouse, but lately it's even madder - paintings upside down, milk turning green. Then there are the noises at night. Ally's got to get to the bottom of this. Children's Paperb ...Show more
Me and the School (un)Fair (Indie Kidd #7) by Karen McCombie
Category: Early Reader | Series: Indie Kidd
This title is seventh in the pet-tastic series about ten-year-old Indie Kidd and friends!It's all hands on deck when Miss Levy announces plans for the School Fair. Indie Kidd soon sets to work, rallying round her furry friends at the Animal Rescue Centre to create a Petting Zoo. But not everything goes ...Show more
My Big (Strange) Happy Family (Indie Kidd #6) by Karen McCombie
Category: Early Reader | Series: Indie Kidd
Indie decides to try to get her separated parents to be friends - and comes up with some endearingly dopey, harebrained schemes. But when Mum and Dad eventually do get matey, it's because they're trying to figure out what on earth is up with their very strangely behaved daughter!
My Funny Valentine by Karen McCombie
Category: Fiction
Shaunna knows exactly the sort of boy she's looking for. So when she spots a broodingly handsome gu gazing at the stars she decides it must be fate Amidst the chaos of wedding plans, mad relatives and even more maddening mates, Shaunna makes some surprising discoveries about life, love and the pursuit o ...Show more
My (Most Excellent) Pet Project (An Indie Kidd Special!) by Karen McCombie
Category: Early Reader
Indie Kidd is potty about pets - her school project is crawling with them! Pore over these crazy pages for Indie's animal advice, stories of her pets, plus freaky facts about creatures great and small. Did you know that alligators have a food radar in their cheeks? That a group of hippos is known as a " ...Show more
Oops I lost My Best(est) Friends (Indie Kidd #2) by Karen McCombie
Category: Early Reader
Second book in the new Indie Kidd series about the world of this hugely likeable ten-year-old. Indie knows she has the best(est) friends when it comes to the two Sophies, so she feels really sorry for her stepbrother Dylan when he confesses that he doesn't have any close mates. So Indie decides to help ...Show more
Rainbows, Rowan and True, True Romance? by Karen McCombie
Category: Fiction | Series: Ally's World S.
Now Mum's home, Ally's family life is pretty much back to normal. Not that it is very normal to have a supermodel in the family. Rowan's practically turned into a local celeb. Everyone's dead chuffed for her, except for Lynn. Why on earth is Ally taking the Grouch Queen's side for once?