Little Island Books: 48 books

‘Beyond the fence everything is dark, but in here is our own lit-up world. Just me and Flight. Our breath snakes into the night like the aftermath of a firework.’ The only riding fifteen-year-old Declan has ever done is joyriding. When he’s forced to stay with his snobby cousin ‘Princess’...

Did you ever hear that telling a nightmare makes it fade away? It doesn’t. Not here anyway. Welcome to the Nightmare Club’s Halloween Sleepover. You might not last till morning. When Dolly goes off to Irish College, she leaves her brother Sandy in charge of Princess Snowflake. But the thing about guinea pigs is that you kind of need to feed them. Or else…

Welcome to the Nightmare Club, the sleepover that is definitely not for wimps. Annie Graves is your host, and she only invites guests who can tell really creepy stories. You’ve heard of Dr Frankenstein, right? Freaky guy who cobbled together a MONSTER out of bits of people – spare parts, you might...

Did you ever hear that telling a nightmare makes it fade away? It doesn’t. Not here anyway. Welcome to the Nightmare Club’s Halloween Sleepover. You might not last till morning. This is the story Jack told. His older brother Stephen was a great friend … until he started to change. His smell. His face. His friends. His diet.

See, the thing is, new babies are empty-headed. Total smushfaces, nothing in their brains, and they can't do anything. So, how come Barry's baby sister can draw pyramids? This baby is draining all the knowledge out of Barry's brain - wom, wom, WOM - and his mum's and dad's too. If Barry can't find...

Ruán, Emma, and Colm are from different worlds despite living in the same city: their schools, houses, and groups of friends mark them as snobs or scobies in each other's eyes. When a terrible accident devastates Ruan's family, he must find a way of coping, with help from Emma. Meanwhile Colm goes...

Dervla is the babysitter from hell – literally. She's very strict, she eats spiders, and ... are those horns? No wonder Becky is everybody's hero when she manages to rid the neighbourhood of the demon babysitter. Don't ask how, but hey, pssst, there are vomit-coloured stink bombs, there is an abandoned...

Previously published in 1997, the themes of identity and truth skillfully explored in White Lies are more relevant than ever Nance, a young black gir in small-town Ireland, is trying to piece together the true story of her adoption, beginning with a newly-discovered photograph of herself as...

It’s New Year’s Eve, and Beth plans to spend a whole year alone, in her snug, safe house. But she has reckoned without floppy-eared, tail-wagging Mouse, who comes nosing to her window. Followed shortly by his owner, Alice. As Beth’s year of solitude rolls out, Alice gently steals her way first...

Bumpfizzle is an alien, sent to Earth from Planet Plonk on a research mission. Or is he really just a ten-year-old boy who is feeling a bit disgruntled at all the attention his parents are lavishing on The Baby? It is up to readers to make up their own minds. Either way, Bumpfizzle’s confusion at...

Irish folklore is alive and well, as Arthur "Dark" McLean finds when he's wrenched from his city life and Playstation into a fairy fort and a world of legends Uprooted from city life by the death of his father, Arthur "Dark" McLean is beckoned into a rath—a circular settlement...

'I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.' Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without...

Belfast in 1916. Fourteen-year-old Helen is shaped by her mixed background—rural, Catholic Irish values from her mother Kathleen; urban, Protestant Ulster ones from dad James. Her parents are relaxed in their politics but others in the family circle are more extreme: Aunt Violet is a die-hard anti-Home...

An ordinary schoolgirl with a carefree bunch of friends, Miriam's just embarked on her first relationship with her loving boyfriend Toby. She lives with her dad and she has a good relationship with her grandparents. All this ordinary happiness is shattered when one of Miriam's schoolmates goes berserk...