Most Popular Books by Hilary Mckay

From the winner of the Costa Children''s Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy Casson. This colourful and hilarious series will make you wish you were part of the family! Best friends, boyfriends, problem parents, pink hair. Brothers, sisters, fireworks and unexpected babies. Welcome to Caddy''s World. Travel back to when Caddy was a young girl and Rose had not been born, in this moving and comical prequel to the award-winning Saffy''s Angel. ''Full of warmth, vitality and irrepressible good humour'' Guardian Saffy''s Angel won the Whitbread Children''s Book Award, and book 3, Permanent Rose, was shortlisted for the same award, celebrating McKay''s talent for conveying the anarchic bedlam of family life.

Lulu loves animals. She knows that the hedgehog she rescued isn''t really a pet, but Lulu does want to make sure she''s all right. And so the Hedgehog Club is born. Everyone on the street agrees to keep an eye on the little hedgehog and keep it away from the road. But come wintertime the hedgehog disappears! Where could she have gone?

When a mysterious bag is left on Lulu''s doorstep, the last thing her grandmother expects to be in it is a cat—a huge, neon orange cat. But Lulu knows this cat doesn’t mean any harm. In fact, it needs a lovely new home.

When Lulu''s next-door neighbor doesn''t seem to be looking after his rabbit properly, Lulu and her cousin Mellie devise a scheme to make him pay more attention to his pet.

I Was There... is a perfect introduction for younger readers into stories from the past. I Was There... Roman Britain is a fast-paced and fascinating account of a young girl in the Iceni tribe as Queen Boudica, the fearless leader of the Iceni, rallies her people to march on Roman-occupied Colchester.

Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he''s trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! Tooth Fairy Charlie has four wobbly teeth and cannot wait for the tooth fairy to arrive. There must be some way to make them fall out quickly . . . Big Birthday Bash Why doesn''t Max want a party to celebrate his birthday? It doesn''t matter, Charlie is going to throw him one anyway!

Eleven-year-old Binny struggles to cope with her father''s death and the loss of her beloved dog while she adjusts to a new home that might be haunted by her horrible Aunt Violet.

Love is in the air . . .The Exiles in Love is the third and final book in the award-winning The Exiles series, with Hilary McKay''s trademark wit and warmth.Ruth, Naomi, Rachel and Phoebe Conroy are all struggling to deal with the trials and tribulations of first love(s). Ruth develops a crush on the school bus driver, but finds herself conflicted when she also develops feelings for Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre, the temporary English teacher (who Naomi is also smitten with) AND Alan Adair who works in the butcher''s shop.Meanwhile, the younger two sisters have other things on their minds - Rachel is plotting to become May Queen at her school and Phoebe is in training to become an international spy. But when Big Grandma arranges for a French boy called Philippe to stay with the Conroy''s, it''s not long before all the girls fall head over heels for him as well . . .

Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he''s trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! Haunted Tent Charlie sees his chance to be a hero when he finds out Max is scared of Aunt Emma''s spooky house. Those ghosts had better watch out . . . Big Snow Charlie has waited his whole life for it to snow, but now it has no one will let him play in it! First no one wakes him up, then he has to go to school . . . Will he ever get to build his snowman?

Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he''s trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! Cheese and Onion Crisps Henry knows there''s something wrong when Charlie gives up cheese and onion crisps. Will the Truly Amazing Smarties Trick bring things back to normal? Cat Flap Charlie and Henry are planning the best sleepover ever, and have even laid down some ground rules: no itching powder, no dead flies and no super soakers. But the evening doesn''t turn out quite how they planned . . .

Beetle has been planning to climb the big tree for as long as he can remember. But now it''s on the other side of the fence-and suddenly it''s someone else''s tree. That posh kid on the other side of the fence is not going to get to the top of the big tree first...

The Exiles was the winner of the 1992 Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize and is the first novel in Hilary McKay''s wonderfully witty and warm The Exiles series. Ruth, Naomi, Rachel and Phoebe Conroy love reading and having fun more than anything else. So the sisters are horrified when they learn that their parents are sending them away to Cumbria for the summer, to stay with their fearsome grandmother: Big Grandma. Big Grandma is strict, makes them do chores and doesn''t let them have any fun – but worst of all, she refuses to let the girls read any books. Determined to enjoy their summer, the sisters decide they aren''t going to put up with their grandmother''s tough regime, and in doing so they somehow manage to cause inordinate amounts of chaos . . . But as the girls search for alternatives to Big Grandma''s way of life they slowly start to understand its appeal, just as she starts to understand them. Are the two generations more alike than they think?

Sent by their vacationing parents to visit Mad Aunt Mabel, Perry and Ant have an adventure, while their younger siblings Sun Dance and Beany stay at home making burglar traps and searching for a magic sword.

Queens have two birthdays, one on the day they were born and one on the day it would have been most convenient for them to have been born on. It is the convenient one that counts. This Queen is not a happy little Queen. It''s her unofficial birthday and no one had brought her a present. Not the Prime Minister, not the Treasurer, and not even her lazy Ladies-in-Waiting. All she wants is one small, one very cheap, present. Just because it has four legs and a tail and isn''t very easy to wrap up. Shouldn''t put anyone off...

When Saffy discovers she''s adopted, her life is turned upside down. Determined to learn the truth, she sets out on a journey to Italy to find the stone angel that her grandfather has bequeathed her, and unlock the key to her past...

It''s Valentine''s Day and everything''s changing. Indigo''s in love and wants to do something special to win over Sarah, Saffy has a strange new boyfriend who teaches her all about the stars and Caddy has fallen in love and is getting married... but not to Michael. With a wedding to plan, promises to uphold and hearts to protect, everything''s a little crazier than usual in the Casson household.