Laura Wood

Poppy Pym has grown up in the circus, taming lions before lunch and learning acrobatics in the afternoon. But when she turns eleven, her circus family decides she needs a more traditional education, and she is sent to boarding school. At first Poppy doesn't fit in at St Smithen's, a school that is very different from the circus. Then, an ancient Egyptian ruby arrives at school and dangerous accidents start occurring. Suddenly it's up to Poppy to save...

A young girl who works for a secret agency in 1800s London finds herself in a plot to take down a sinister politician

When Marigold Bloom finds her family business in trouble a chance encounter with the devastatingly handsome and extremely bad-tempered Oliver Lockhart leads her to the Aviary, a secret agency of women who specialise in blackmailing troublesome men.

Set in the 1930s where a teenage girl runs away to London to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress.

Effie and her friends engage in a political battle with the tyrannical new leader of Highworth Grange school council.