Karen Owen

Mum is going to America to visit family for a week and has left a very clear master plan for Dad, Finn and Emma to follow. But when the plan is destroyed, Dad goes rogue and starts organising a birthday surprise! From disastrous D-I-Y and cockadoodle-doo-ing cockerels to bonkers baking, Disaster Dad: Chicken Chaos is crammed full of chaos! This...

Join SPUD, the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives, on their first fast-paced detective adventure. Getting your first hearing aids can be nerve-wracking; especially when you have to wear them to school. When Callie realises her new hearing aids – 'the Slugs' – give her the unique ability to communicate with Bo the Mynah bird, some of her worries are lifted. In...

When Bo sneaks into Callie’s bag on her school trip to the Tower of London, she and Grace make plans to keep him secret. But when some gold coins and jewels are stolen from the site, having a spy in the sky comes in useful! Full of the same humour and mischief as book one, with added history surrounding the...

Major and Mynah: Project Puffin by Karen Owen follows the adventures of SPUD – the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives – who are on holiday, but soon find themselves in a race to solve a new mystery! When they discover puffins coated in waste oil that has been dumped in the sea, they must find out who is to blame. Can...

SPUD – the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives are back, and they have another mystery to solve. When Callie, Grace and Bo discover that a tarantula has escaped from the local wildlife park, they must find the spider and reunite her with her spiderlings before she dies from the cold. Can Callie’s magical hearing aids and mynah bird Bo, as the...