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Author
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Freddie Yates loves facts. A fact can't leave you and no one can take it away. But when he learns the surprising fact that his biological dad might be living in Wales, Freddy and his best friends sneak off to find him, unwittingly causing a chain of 'miraculous' events involving an onion-eating contest, superhero scarecrows and life-saving sheep.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are lots of laughs at every level in 'The 130-Storey Treehouse', the tenth book in this series from Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. This is our treehouse, come on up! We've added 13 news levels to our treehouse, including a soap bubble blaster, a Grabinator (it can grab anything from anywhere at any time), a time-wasting level, a toilet paper factory (because you can never have too much toilet paper) and an extraterrestrial observation centre...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt?s Creek and Workin? Moms screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey. I feel like when you get a divorce everyone?s wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, at least people feel bad for you. Maggie?s marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she?s fine - she?s doing really...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they?re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un ?Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel...
Author
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
For his oddest job to date, Sam enlists the help of his friend and fellow courier Poyntz. But as they make their haphazard journey to Mr Sorensen?s mountain hut, its owner is attracting the attention of the Norwegian police. Have Sam and Poyntz become unlikely accomplices in one of the biggest crimes in the country?s history?.
6) Reaper man
Author
Series
Discworld Novels volume 11
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.' But it can. And it has. Death is missing - presumed.er.gone (and on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe). Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do...
7) Awful auntie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aunt Alberta is on a mission to cheat the young Lady Stella Saxby out of her inheritance, Saxby Hall. But, with the help of Soot, the Cockney ghost of a chimney sweep alongside her, Stella is determined to fight back. And sometimes, a special friend, however different, is all you need to win through.
9) Roar
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Have you ever imagined a different life?Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided?Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar?The women in these startlingly original stories are all of us: the women who befriend us, the women who encourage us, the women who make us brave. From The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared to The Woman Who Was Kept on the Shelf and The Woman Who Returned and Exchanged her Husband, discover thirty touching, often hilarious,...
10) Captain whiskers
Author
Series
Publisher
Barrington Stoke
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Cats in the bath. Cats in the cupboards. A hundred cats everywhere! Everyone in Jack's class has a pet, but all Jack has is his little brother Freddie. And little brother's don't make very good pets. But when Jack meets The Man With The Top Hat and his lovely cat Mrs Wilson, he's about to get the pet he's always wanted - and many, many more.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state. So, when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own, they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month - swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But then, unknown to each other, Stan and Charmaine develop...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jasper is not ordinary.In fact, he would say he is extraordinary?Synaesthesia paints the sounds of his world in a kaleidoscope of colours that no one else can see. But on Friday, he discovered a new colour - the colour of murder.He?s sure something has happened to his neighbour, Bee Larkham, but no-one else seems to be taking it as seriously as they should be. The knife and the screams are all mixed up in his head and he?s scared that he can?t quite...
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A Viking longship docks, and out leaps Loki, the Norse god of mischief. Much to brothers Lewis and Greg?s dismay, wise-cracking, havoc-wreaking Loki is back, but this time he?s been followed . . . The fate of St Andrews, and indeed the ENTIRE UNIVERSE, rests with our reluctant young heroes and their friend Susie. With a swashbuckling Valkyrie as their guide, they set out across the mythical land of Vanaheim to rescue Odin, King of the Gods, from imprisonment....
15) Ottercombe bay
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Daisy Wickens has returned to Ottercombe Bay, the picturesque Devon town where her mother died when she was a girl. She plans to leave as soon as her great uncle?s funeral is over, but Great Uncle Reg had other ideas. He?s left Daisy a significant inheritance - an old building in a state of disrepair, which could offer exciting possibilities, but to get it she must stay in Ottercombe Bay for twelve whole months. With the help of a cast of quirky locals,...
16) Why mummy drinks
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Boy Child Peter, Girl Child Jane and Daddy have exciting adventures with Mummy. Daddy likes gadgets. Peter and Jane like starting fires, trying to kill each other and driving Mummy to drink. Written from the point of view of an exhausted mummy at the end of the day, it?s honest, it?s funny, and it?s a little bit sweary.It is Mummy?s 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel at a future of people asking if she wants to come to their yoga class,...
17) Birthday boy
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
What if it was every day?This is the story of Sam Green, who really, really, really loves birthdays. He loves the special breakfasts in bed. The presents. The themed parties. Blowing out the candles on his cake. Everything.He is so excited about his 11th birthday, in fact, that he wishes it was his birthday every day.So, at first, it?s quite exciting when his birthday happens again the next morning. And again. And again. And again?But it?s not long...
Author
Series
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme volume 7
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Six more episodes of BBC Radio 4?s multi-award-winning sketch show, written by and starring John Finnemore. ?The best sketch show in years, on television or radio? Radio Times. John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore?s Double Acts, returns for a seventh series of his hugely acclaimed Souvenir Programme, which won him Radio Broadcaster of the Year at the 2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. Expect sketches! Expect songs!...
Author
Series
Hueys volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First.
Language
English
Description
In this 4th title in the series, the Hueys explore the concept of opposites in their characteristically quirky way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Izzy and friends are excited! The snow is falling fast and they're hoping they'll all be sent home early. But then they hear weird noises in the playground, and find a big footprint in the snow... And that's when they know! There's a YETI in the playground and it's HUNGRY! Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham. Read more of Izzy's adventures! Baby Aliens Got My Teacher The Spy Who Loved School Dinners...
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