Two fun stories featuring Mr Small and Mr Nosey.

How far would you go for a friend? Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, he has catered to his friends' needs: fetching drycleaning, sorting flowers for premieres. It's a noble effort, really - anything to keep his best pals Robert and Stanza happy. In return, his proximity to them might sponge the shame of his birth and violent past cleanly away. But the chink in his armour is his painfully...

In 2012, Elena Ferrante?s My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker?s James Wood described as ?large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,? Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy?s most accomplished...

With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin - where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.

A lonely boy who has just moved to the city finds a lost dog and eventually returns him to his owner who he makes friends with.

Two boys form a friendship despite being very different from each other and enjoying playing different games.

Two fun stories featuring Mr Greedy and Mr Topsy-Turvy.

Maddy has to decide whether dancing is her dream in life as the end-of-term summer show approaches.

When the McIntyre family moves in next door, Eva is intrigued - it is the first interesting thing to happen for ages. But her ever protective Dad - even more protective since Eva's mum died - does not agree. And the McIntyres are certainly noisy! But Eva is curious about Jamie, who she often sees on the roof of his garden shed, escaping the family chaos. Then Eva gets to know Jamie a bit better. And when he is accused of vandalising the local park,...

Spring 1935. Two girls meet by chance on Hampstead Heath. To an outsider, they could not appear more different. Verity is well-mannered and smartly dressed, living with her parents in a beautiful house close to the heath. Ruby is dishevelled and grubby, used to a life of squalor where she is forced to steal to survive. Yet there's an instant affinity and when their fortunes are shockingly reversed, it is the strength of their friendship that keeps...