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The fun of scratch art, puzzles and colouring, with bright, beautiful butterflies This scratch activity book is filled with amazing butterflies and inviting patches to scratch, along with colouring, puzzles and interesting facts about the real-life species. Using the wooden scraper provided, scratch...

Captured by a giant no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon bec...

Everyone knows about Anne Frank, and her life hidden in the secret annexe - or do they Peter van Pels and his family are locked away in there with the Franks, and Peter sees it all differently. He's a boy, and for a boy it's just not the same. What is it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank...

A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed. but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the...

This incredible story begins with a mysterious treasure map and an old buccaneer in an English country inn: soon we are on the high seas in a dangerous Caribbean quest that becomes a desperate battle of wits between young Jim Hawkins and the unforgettable wily old pirate Long John Silver. As the ten...

Arthur Penhaligon's first days at his new school don't go too well, particularly when a fiendish Mister Monday appears, gives Arthur a magical clock hand, and then orders his gang of dog-faced goons to chase Arthur around and get it back. But when the confused and curious boy discovers that a myster...

Can the future ever erase the past Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father...

Laugh out loud with Captain Underpants, the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Dog Man George and Harold have played a trick or two on nearly everyone at Jerome Horwitz Elementary. When their latest prank causes the school's cranky cafeteria ladies to quit, Mr. Krup...

Just this once. Please let me get away with it just this once. Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few deliveries', just this o...

Frank Li is a high school senior living in Southern California. Frank's parents emigrated from Korea, and have pretty much one big rule for Frank - he must only date Korean girls. But he's got strong feelings for a girl in his class, Brit - and she's not Korean. His friend Joy Song is in the same bo...

This series looks at the nastier side of science. Ugly Bugs looks at some grim families of bugs and tests the theories of disguise. It explains what slugs do with their slime, why flies throw up in your tea, and how insects drink your blood. Science has never been so horrible. Illustrated by Tony De...

Discovering happiness amid uncertainty and finding a love that transcends the boundary between life and death. Seventeen year old Alex Byrd is about to have the worst day of her life, and the best. A routine blood test that will reveal her leukaemia has returned, but she also meets Jamie Orange. Bot...

When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones: He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the great Caesar and is filled with a magic once reserved for the G...

Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society. Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought - a colourless" member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been...

Are you dying to find out what happens to food after you swallow it Why dead people need a haircut Which animals live on your eyelashes This book will get right under your skin as the human body goes under the scalpel. Please note this copy has some light creases on the cover. ISBN: 9780439944496 Si...

Sally Lockhart's father was an unconventional man who preferred to teach his daughter how to run a business and shoot straight from a pistol, rather than school her in the social graces expected of a young lady. When he dies suddenly and unexpectedly, on a voyage to the Far East, Sally receives a my...

Look down your microscope and dare to discover the terribly teeny world of Microscopic Monsters. Discover what makes our guts a brilliant home for bacteria, how germs make dead bodies explode and which creature lays its eggs between our toes. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generat...

Bestselling Kapai story which introduces Kapai and his mates in a Northland adventure. Another colourful and captivating adventure from Kapai and his mates Tamatea, Pipi and Uncle Slim. In characteristic Kapai style, the rhymes are cute and the illustrations engaging. Please note this copy has light...

After battling the impossible, Zlie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they couldve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too. Now, Zlie struggles to unite the maji in...

The dark forest of has never seen the likes of Cecilia Undergarment before Cecilia Undergarment likes a challenge. So when she discovers a sad and neglected dog, she is determined to rescue him. No matter what. But her daring dog rescue lands her in deep trouble. Trouble in the form of being lost in...

Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family's she's got left is her o...

The Alex Quartet presents Tessa Duders four seminal Alex novels in one paperback 600 page edition, just over thirty years since the strongminded teenage character made her debut in New Zealand fiction. Now, at long last, these wonderfully human and feminist books are being made newly accessible to a...

"Mummy," said Lucy, "can I have a hug before I go to bed I promise I'll give it back." Lucy shares a hug with everyone in her family. Along the way it becomes softer, sleepier, bigger, even peanut-buttery. But when the hug runs away, Lucy discovers that it's not so easy to get it back. Please note t...

rom the author of Hot Dog Girl comes a fresh and funny queer YA contemporary novel about two teens who fall in love in an indie comic book shop. Jubilee has it all together. She's an elite cellist, and when she's not working in her stepmom's indie comic shop, she's prepping for the biggest audition...