Trains and time travel spur one boy's thrilling adventure as he seek to rejoin his father in this new classic.
One day in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, on the Mississippi River side of Cairo, Illinois, eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvee's life is changed forever. The Crash of 1929 has rippled across the country, and Oscar's dad must sell their home – with all their cherished model trains – and head west in search of work. Forced to move in with his humourless Aunt Carmen and his teasing cousin Willa Sue, Oscar is lonely and miserable – until he meets a mysterious drifter and witnesses a crime so stunning it catapults Oscar on an incredible journey from coast to coast, from one decade to another.
In the darkness, a shadow moved, and something green glinted in a patch of moonlight. Another shadow drifted among the trees...Green eyes and grey shadows, all about them, watching...Abandoned in the forest by parents who can no longer afford to feed them, Daw and Elke are full of fear as night falls and animals surround them. But, instead of attacking, the circling wolves offer them a chance to join the pack - just one drink from the water pooling in a wolf's footprint will transform them...
Axel Storm's parents are rock stars - and they just want Axel to be a normal boy! But when he goes to stay with his crazy uncles, Axel always ends up stealing the show...Axel has always wanted to sail the high seas. But when he joins his uncle on his yacht, Sea Wolf, he gets more than he bargained for! Can Axel survive the mighty waves, or will the power of the ocean defeat him?
Fresh from their weird, wonderful but highly dangerous adventure in Qullipoth, Otto, Juliet and Cornelius are now a part of The Magical Detective Agency - along with the curious, lemon-sherbet eating Maximilian Hawksmoor. But they are about to embark on a much more risky journey - to the very heart of magic. The future is in their hands...
In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been.
In book ten, Elizabeth is overjoyed to be appointed monitor again. But one of the second form boys is turning all the other boys against her, starting with a nasty note in her desk and ending with a false tip-off about a midnight pillow fight in the boys' dormitory.
Can she find out who has a grudge against her - and why?
Between 1940 and 1952, Enid Blyton wrote four novels about Naughtiest Girl, Elizabeth Allen. Books 5-10 are authorised sequels of the series written by Anne Digby in 1999. Both cover and inside illustrations were created by Kate Hindley in 2014.
Bonus material:
A rare, complete serial story about a very special school.
An interview with Enid Blyton about her school days.
Enid Blyton's experiences as a teacher.
A timeline of the author's life.
Photos from Enid Blyton's younger days.
The Green Men of Gressingham are medieval outlaws. When a new tax is introduced, they turn to kidnapping! A hilarious play on Robin Hood. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.
CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS returns for a twelfth adventure in this highly
illustrated comic book style series!
George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday
Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while
the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all
day -- then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr.
Meaner, creates a method of mind-control that turns their fellow
students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future
of all humanity will be in George and Harold's hands!
Discover a stunning new children's tale from the bestselling,
Pulitzer-nominated author of Heroes of the Frontier
and What Is the What.
When things fall down, who lifts them up?
What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth
and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways?
What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels,
mere inches below you as you sit in class or eat a banana?
What if it were up to just two kids to stop these forces? What
would it feel like to know the
fate of an entire town rested on your shoulders?
Twelve-year-old Gran Flowerpetal is about to find out.
When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan,
presses a silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway to underground,
he knows that she is extraordinary and brave, and that
he will have no choice but to follow her, and help her save the
town (and the known world). With luck on their side, and
some discarded hockey sticks for good measure, they might
just emerge as heroes.
Critically acclaimed author Dave Eggers establishes himself as
a storyteller who can entertain and inspire readers of
any age.
Exquisite interior illustrations by Aaron Reiner,
this middle grade adventure has all the makings of a classic.
It's not easy being the daughter
of Captain Hook. Twelve-year-old
Jocelyn dreams of following in his
footsteps - but her grandfather
sends her to finishing school
instead.
When her father meets his
unfortunate end, Jocelyn sails to
Neverland to avenge his death.
But she hadn't bargained on
ticking crocodiles, lazy pirates and
a troublemaking boy called Peter
Pan.
On a distant planet, GREEN LANTERN battles an attack of formerly peaceful robots. He learns too late that the mechanical marauders are infected by an ultra-evil, ultra-advanced nano virus hungry for power. The wizard quickly invades the nearest form of high tech energy: GREEN LANTERN’s ring. HAL JORDAN must shrink to microscopic size and enter the ring itself, or else his unlimited power will turn against the very galaxies he has sworn to protect!
