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The Houdini Inheritance

Author : Emma Carroll
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571341429

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The Houdini Inheritance by Emma Carroll Pdf

Magic shows and mysteries abound in this showstopping new standalone from a bestselling author who has sold close to a million copies of these middle-grade adventures! The English seaside, 1920s A world famous escape artist . . . A suitcase full of secrets . . . And a death-defying stunt . . . When Harry Houdini comes to visit the seaside town of Sidford-on-Sea, Glory and her friend Dennis are first in-line to see him. He is there to perform a daring trick: he will jump off the town pier in chains, pitching himself into the water below. But when Glory outsmarts the infamous Houdini, she is suddenly sucked into his world, and finds herself tasked with looking after his precious trunk - the one that contains all his secrets. With Houdini in danger, Glory and Dennis are thrown deep into an adventure that takes them all the way to Coney Island in America, and the dark underbelly of its amusement parks . . . ' Utterly thrilling.' Abi Elphinstone ' Magical.' Katya Balen ' An absolute cracker.' Hilary McKay ' A page-turning, plot-twisting, mind-bending treat.' Piers Torday 'Bursting with excitement, action and heart.' Jasbinder Bilan 'Emma Carroll at her dazzling, storytelling best.' Phil Earle

Inherit the Wind

Author : Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 082220570X

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Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee Pdf

Presents the script of the 1950s play loosely based on the events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee, during the Scopes Trial in July of 1925 which opened the debate over the teaching of creationism and evolution.

Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am?

Author : Gemma Elwin Harris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780571301959

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Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? by Gemma Elwin Harris Pdf

"This book is invaluable!" Alexander Armstrong Children ask the funniest questions: Why does sweetcorn come out the same as when I ate it? Do spiders speak? Why does Daddy never win the lottery? Which is faster, a Velociraptor or a cheetah? How does the lady in the satnav know where to go? Does my goldfish know who I am? (Do you think fish have two-second memories? Find out the truth on page 94!) This book takes real children's questions gathered from primary schools across the UK and asks some of the greatest thinkers and experts of our time to give short and accessible answers. Brian Cox explores the edge of the universe, Sir David Attenborough tells us whether monkeys could ever turn into men, and Miranda Hart ponders why it's funny when someone farts. Other contributors include Bear Grylls, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Quentin Blake, Heston Blumenthal, Kate Humble, John Lanchester, A. C. Grayling, Jeremy Paxman, Dan Snow, Jojo Moyes and Tony Robinson. Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? is a treasury of surprising facts and insights inspired by the curiosity of children. It is the perfect family gift - because sometimes grown-ups need help with the answers too. At least 33% of the publisher's advance payments and 67% of net royalty income in respect of sales of this book is donated to the NSPCC (Registered Charity Numbers 216401 & SC037717).

The Moth Diaries

Author : Rachel Klein
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571296569

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The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein Pdf

At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her obsession is her room-mate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark secrets and a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school, fantasy and reality mingle into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fuelled by the lusts and fears of adolescence. And at the centre of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or is the narrator trapped in her own fevered imagination?

Chicken Mission: Danger in the Deep Dark Woods

Author : Jennifer Gray
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571298280

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Chicken Mission: Danger in the Deep Dark Woods by Jennifer Gray Pdf

Hilarious, hen-sational new adventure series by the author of bestselling ATTICUS CLAW Young chicken Amy Cluckbucket dreams of escaping from Perrin's farm to a life of chicken adventure. One day Amy receives a summons to the Kung Foo School for Poultry in Tibet where she learns she is to become part of an elite chicken squad whose mission is to defeat their evil predators. It sounds like a dream come true for Amy but she's disappointed to find that fellow squad members, Ruth and Boo, don't seem to want to make friends. Ruth is too busy inventing things and Boo has problems of her own. The chickens travel to Chicken HQ to meet their mentor, Professor Rooster. When their first mission flops it is Amy who persuades the others that they should stick together to restore Professor Rooster's faith in them. Through a series of egg-citing adventures and hilarious mishaps the three young chickens learn the value of friendship and teamwork. But will they be ready for their biggest mission so far - to save the chicks of St Eggbert's Primary School from the jaws of their mortal enemy, Thadeus E Fox?

Atticus Claw Breaks the Law

Author : Jennifer Gray
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571284504

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Atticus Claw Breaks the Law by Jennifer Gray Pdf

When Atticus receives an anonymous message summoning him to a meeting in a sleepy English coastal town, he packs his bags and sets off. The world's greatest cat burglar likes a good mystery and this time curiosity has got the better of him. The writer of the message, it turns out, is none other than Jimmy the Magpie, gang leader. He is morning the death of his friend Beaky, who has been run over by a Rolls Royce. Now he wants Atticus to steal all the jewels in town and leave the humans baffled. What could be more straightforward? But when Atticus moves in with Inspector Cheddar and his family, he starts to wonder if a life of crime is really for him . . .

Vampyre Labyrinth: RedEye

Author : G.P. Taylor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571273775

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Vampyre Labyrinth: RedEye by G.P. Taylor Pdf

You will come to know hell better than most, Jago. I have waited all these years for you to come back to this town. England, 1940: Britain is entrenched in war with the Germans when young Jago is evacuated from the Blitz bombings in London to the Yorkshire coast. With just the memory of his dead mother for comfort, Jago is desperate only to survive the war in some peace. But arriving at the hostile Streonshalgh Manor in the town of Whitby, he is confronted with cruel and frenzied locals, seemingly possessed by ancient stories of clannish retribution and sadistic horrors. The RedEye comet hovers fatefully over the town; people are being viciously killed; and Jago's nights are spent as waking nightmares, darting through bloodstained and murderous streets. As shades of his past come rushing back to haunt him, Jago must confront the truth of this town - the perilous and violent truth of the ancient Vampyres.

You, Me and Thing 4: The Mummy That Went Moo

Author : Karen McCombie
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571272648

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You, Me and Thing 4: The Mummy That Went Moo by Karen McCombie Pdf

Want to know a secret? There is something very, very strange living in the trees behind my house. If you tiptoe slowwwwly and quietly (ssh!) to the bottom of my garden, you might hear it rustling and rootling and 'peh!'ing in the dark undergrowth, on the other side of the low stone wall. And if you peek over the wall - holding your breath - there's a chance youcould spot two saucer-round eyes blinking out of a strangely squareopening in the tree roots . . . Ruby and Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. But Thing is cute, and funny, even if sometimes whenit upset it gets a bit ARRGHH! And that's when the trouble starts. Like the time Ruby and Jackson sneak Thing along with them on a school trip to the museum. In case you're wondering, it goes very, badly wrong . . . !

Cora Ravenwing

Author : Gina Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571299973

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Cora Ravenwing by Gina Wilson Pdf

'The school where I first met Cora Ravenwing was called Okington School, and I was just beginning to have real ideas and opinions of my own when I first went there...' With Cora Ravenwing (1980) Gina Wilson began her acclaimed career as a novelist for young adults. As she describes in a new preface to this reissue, the idea for the novel 'took a grip' on her such that she wrote without 'planning', inspired by the theme of a child's growing sense of intuition. 'A sensitive, mystery-tinged portrayal of social tensions... Cora Ravenwing, village scapegoat, is the first child whom narrator Becky Stokes meets when her family moves outside London in the mid-1950s; and her reflections deftly pick up the undercurrents of gossip, hostility, and social pretension that power the story of their year's troubled friendship.' Kirkus Review

Nobody's Horse

Author : Jane Smiley
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571254651

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Nobody's Horse by Jane Smiley Pdf

Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares "Jewel" and all the geldings "George" and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone-for good, it seems-and now Daddy won't speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But there's one gelding on her family's farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who won't meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George.

The Runaway Summer

Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571309450

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The Runaway Summer by Nina Bawden Pdf

Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent away to live by the sea with her distant grandfather and the detestable Aunt Alice. Feeling abandoned, without even the company of her beloved pet cat Noakes, the summer looks set to become one long stretch of unendurable loneliness. But suddenly she is dragged, half unwittingly, into a situation that will force her to come to the aid of others more vulnerable than herself. So begins her runaway summer, as she sets about helping Simon, the son of a local policeman, and a young illegal immigrant boy arrived from Kenya, frightened and all alone. The Runaway Summer was first published in 1969 to typically universal acclaim. It is, in the words of the Times Educational Supplement, an 'unputdownable gem of a book. The tale is beautifully constructed in diamond-hard language.'

The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens

Author : Philip Ardagh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571310548

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The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens by Philip Ardagh Pdf

Eddie Dickens finds himself far from home in the heathery highlands of Scotland for some Further Adventures embracing a whole host of new characters and firm favourites such as Malcolm the stuffed stoat. Including Dubious Deeds, Horrendous Habits and The Final Curtain, fans of Philip Ardagh will gobble up this great gift edition.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Author : April Genevieve Tucholke
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571307913

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke Pdf

Faded Gatsby glamour and thrilling gothic horror meet in this gorgeously told, terrifying and dreamy YA romance. 'You stop fearing the devil when you're holding his hand...' Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White's sleepy, seaside town...until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet's crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard. Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with pretty eyes and a mysterious past? Violet's grandmother always warned her about the Devil, but she never said he could be a dark-haired boy who likes coffee and who kisses you in a cemetery... Violet's already so knee-deep in love, she can't see straight. And that's just how River likes it.

Magic Toyshop: The Naughty Croc

Author : Jessie Little
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571294589

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Magic Toyshop: The Naughty Croc by Jessie Little Pdf

When lonely Jack visits Auntie Suzy's toy shop, Willow and Freddie know just what he needs - a magical Hoozle! But soon Croc the naughty Hoozle is out causing trouble for everyone. Can they stop him and find Jack the perfect cuddly friend?

The Grave Robber's Apprentice

Author : Allan Stratton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571284085

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The Grave Robber's Apprentice by Allan Stratton Pdf

A classic swashbuckling adventure for children aged 8+ All is not well in the kingdom of Waldberg... The orphan Hans is desperate to escape his master, the grave robber Knobbe the Bent. The young countess Angela von Schwanenberg must rescue her parents from the mad archduke. But when fate flings them together, they find themselves on a daring quest, hurtling through haunted forests, racing down mountains in a coffin and sneaking along underground passageways with a travelling circus. And at every turn, the archduke's Necromancer is there to thwart their progress. Will Angela save her parents? Will Hans escape his past and find out who he truly is? Or will the evil Necromancer capture them first?