Titles in the Nitty Gritty Novels. Series I Series

Rom lives two thousand metres under the sea and has never seen the sun. His dad runs Deep Ark 6, an underwater zoo that is home to the most venomous snakes and spiders that ever crawled the Surface. The place gives Rom the living creeps.

Aaron Bindon dreams of being as powerful as one of the superheroes that soar through the skies above his town. But Aaron's life starts to get more interesting when the government declares that, for reasons of security, all the superheroes in the community need to come out from be ...

Ben's nanna has been sharing Ben's room since his grandad went to work overseas. The black stone in the pendant around her neck talks to her, tells her stories from its life. She retells the stories to Ben after dark. Ben's nanna explains that the stone is neither good nor bad lu ...

Meg's new stepfather, Mike, has given her cat to the animal refuge and Meg's mum doesn't seem to care. But Meg has a cunning plan to get Starry back, and it involves Ryan Stark, one of the meanest boys in school, and his pet rats.

In the earliest years of the nineteenth century, Mary Anning spends her days scouring the cliffs near her Dorset home. She looks for the fossilised remains of sea creatures to sell to the gentry for money to feed her stricken family. Only Mary seems to have the determination and ...