Join Bertie as he takes a reluctant trip to the dentist, tries to keep his cool on the hottest day of the year, and causes a mid-air emergency whilst flying with a very nervous Dad!
Reading is UNdead! Everyone has zombies on the brain as Stink's school and a local bookshop cook up a frightfully fun Main Street event.
Guts! Brains! Eyeballs! There's only one week before the new book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series comes out. Of corpse Stink will be first in line at the Blue Frog Bookstore to buy his copy and join the town's Midnight Zombie Walk! Until then, Stink and his friends keep busy making ketchup-stained zombie costumes, trying to raise money to buy the book and racking up points for Virginia Dare School's race to one million minutes of reading. But with all that talk about the undead, Zink – that is, Stink – starts to wonder: is he being hunted by zombies? He does have a very delicious – er, superb – brain, after all. Readers will just have to open ze book and zee! Mwa ha ha ha!
Enter the Grishaverse with the second book of the Shadow & Bone bestselling trilogy and international Netflix sensation by no. 1 New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Laini Taylor.
Praise for the Grishaverse:
""This is what fantasy is for."" The New York Times Book Review
Now with exclusive bonus material: Nikolai Lantsov character art and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo.
Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Alina Starkov's power has grown, but not without a price. She is the Sun Summoner - hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Shadow Fold. But she and Mal can't outrun their enemies for long.
The Darkling is more determined than ever to claim Alina's magic and use it to take the Ravkan throne. With nowhere else to turn, Alina enlists the help of an infamous privateer and sets out to lead the Grisha army.
But as the truth of Alina's destiny unfolds, she slips deeper into the Darkling's deadly game of forbidden magic, and further away from her humanity. To save her country, Alina will have to choose between her power and the love she thought would always be her shelter. No victory can come without sacrifice - and only she can face the oncoming storm.
Read all the books in the Grishaverse!
The Shadow and Bone Trilogy
Shadow and Bone
Siege and Storm
Ruin and Rising
The Six of Crows Duology
Six of Crows
Crooked Kingdom
The King of Scars Duology
King of Scars
Rule of Wolves
Demon in the Wood (a Darkling prequel story)
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
The Lives of Saints
Praise for the Grishaverse
""A master of fantasy."" -The Huffington Post
""Utterly, extremely bewitching."" -The Guardian
""The best magic universe since Harry Potter."" -Bustle
""[A] world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp."" -NPR
""The darker it gets for the good guys, the better."" -Entertainment Weekly
""Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down."" -USA Today
""There's a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo's original epic fantasy that sets it apart."" -Vanity Fair
""Unlike anything I've ever read."" -Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent
""Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery!"" -Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series
Ludo, Noah, Jamie, Phillip and Jennifer are The Bare Bum Gang! The newest member of the gang is Rude Word, the world's ugliest dog - and he's causing trouble. He's throwing up strange furry body parts, and Mrs Cake's dog Trixie is missing! Ludo and the gang have to turn detective and get to the bottom of this gross mystery.
Bestselling author Vashti Hardy transports us to a world like no other in a steampunk, fantasy adventure with family at its heart.
""Warden Griffin at your service. Can I ask if you've seen a monster in the area …?""
Grace's family are wardens of the Griffin Map, using its teleport technology to fight crime across Moreland. Although Grace is still too young, she longs to go on missions herself. After all, if her brother, Bren, can do it, why can't she?
So when Grace finds herself alone with the map when a distress call comes in, she jumps at the chance to prove she's up to the task. But the map transports Grace to a remote village where nothing is quite as it seems … Has she taken on more than she can handle?
Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
'A delight for its warmth and humour, but principally because the writing is alive and stunning.’ The Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week.
For readers aged 9+ comes a sparkling new series about family, friends and finding the joy in life! From award-winning author Jenny Valentine, this is the perfect series for fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Cath Howe and Lara Williamson!
Meet ten-year-old Joy Applebloom, a girl with a knack for finding the silver lining in even the darkest of rainclouds.
After years of travelling the world with her parents and older sister, Claude (Claude rhymes with bored, which is just about right), Joy and her family move to suburbia – back to school, back to her grumpy, rule-obsessed grandad and back to normality.
Joy soon finds her usual irrepressible positivity and zest for life waning, but when the powers that be threaten to pull down a mighty oak tree, Joy decides to fight back, and realizes that not all magic requires wands and spells, and perhaps the most important sort of magic is the power, resilience and courage that was there all along . . .
Includes beautiful illustrations from Claire Lefevre
Ray-Chay is the new virtual reality game that everyone’s playing and the world loves its eccentric billionaire creator, Kody Crunch.
Ant loves gaming and feels like the only person who can't get into Ray-Chay. But when something goes very wrong with the game, Ant is determined to help.
Can Ant and his friends work out the real deadly game behind the game?
A hundred years ago, in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar, the daughter
of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In
a secret valley Agatha Farlingham is introduced to a family of
motherless yetis and devotes her life to their upbringing. She teaches
them to speak, tells them stories and insists on polite manners.
But as the decades pass, tourists come to the mountains,
a hotel is built and yeti-hunters arrive. Agatha knows that there
is one place in the world where they would be protected - her ancestral
home at Farley Towers. When a boy and his sister stumble
upon her hidden valley, she knows she has found the courageous
people who will carry out her plan.
The excited yetis are smuggled into the bridal suite at the hotel.
A freezer lorry is waiting to put them into semi-hibernation on
the long trip home. But the baby yak that has fallen in love with
the youngest yeti foils the refrigeration plan and they set off
on a hugely entertaining road trip half way across the world.
In the Sultan of Aslerfan's kingdom the yetis release all the animals
from his zoo. In the Alps they rescue a lost child in a blizzard.
In Spain, the yak creates chaos at a bullfight. But when
they arrive in England, a terrible shock awaits them at Farley
Towers...
This early novel, never submitted for publication, contains all the
trademark qualities that made Eva's subsequent books so successful;
comedy, loveable and eccentric characters, perfectly-crafted
plotting, and inspiring themes of tolerance, kindness to animals,
and the defeat of cruelty.
Lulu loves animals. When Lulu's family go on holiday to the seaside, the last thing they expect to find is a stray dog living on the beach. Everyone in the town thinks the dog is trouble. ""He's a menace"" they say. But Lulu is sure that all he needs is a friend. And that he's been waiting for someone just like her...
From the author of Escape Room, science and
laugh combine in this out-of-this-world adventure, featuring illustrations
by Ben Mantle!
'[A] warm, funny alien read' VASHTI HARDY
'A bright, brainy book’ THE TIMES
You might think that this story is going to be an intergalactic
adventure filled with UFOs, black holes, killer robots and some
very foul-smelling aliens. And you'd be right.
But it's mostly about a boy called Jake, his embarrassing dad,
and the mind-boggling question ... are we really alone in the universe?
Funny, easy to read and hugely likeable, Space Oddity
combines science, comedy and adventure for ages 7 and up.
A new, younger story from award-winning writer Christopher
Edge, author of The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day.
Came out of The Big Idea Competition, from a story entry
by scientist Dr Sarah Ryan.
Cover and inside illustrations by Ben Mantle (The
Land of Roar and I, Cosmo).
