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An enchanting companion title to Andy Shepherd and Sara Ogilvie's bestselling THE BOY WHO GREW DRAGONS seriesTomas, the boy who grew dragons, is officially the Grand High Dragon Master. He's lived with his dragons - Flicker and Zing - and grown dozens more. He's an expert at caring for the dragonfruit tree. He knows all the tricks for training dragons, nurturing dragonfruit seedlings and defusing dragon poo. So - he has this brilliant idea. He and his friends have got to get all their dragon expertise down, in one easy-to-read place, for them, and anyone else who might find themselves growing dragons!The only problem is - Tomas's friends Ted, Kat, Kai, Liam and Aura are currently scattered all around the world, from Suffolk to Mexico to China. Perhaps, though, if they can get their heads together, they can figure this all out together, and create the most brilliant ULTIMATE GUIDE ever, together?Of course, what they don't release is they still have a lot to learn about dragons!

Book five in the OFFICIAL Minecraft fiction series for readers age 7 years and up. Morgan, Ash, Harper, Po and Jodi return in another adventure in the world of Minecraft. Perfect for fans of the Minecraft game, Jumanji and Wreck it Ralph.

Another laugh-out-loud monster adventure in the Billy and the Mini Monsters chapter book series, perfect for newly independent readers aged 6+ and fans of Claude and Horrid Henry. Billy's Mini Monsters really want to go to school with him. But Billy really doesn't want them to. He's got enough trouble with the school bully, Basil Brown.

Melanda's monstrous aunts, The Notwitches, treat her more like aservant than a niece. Her life seems hopeless until an older girl,Mitch, knocks at her door offering the chance of freedom. Mitchknows a thing or two about magic and for this special spell, allthey need is one magical ingredient . . .

Flora Stormer has a brush with death when she finds an ancient Egyptian amulet and meets Rana, the ghost of its former owner! Rana needs Flora's help - she's afraid tomb raiders will steal the magical feather given to her by the god Horus. The powerful feather would be very dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands . . . Flora's relaxing Nile cruise becomes a race through the desert as she searches for Rana's hidden tomb. From angry hippos to lethal booby-traps, there is danger at every turn!Can Flora find the feather and protect it for eternity?

Roommates Skunk and Badger face a winter they'll never forget whenyoung rats Zeno and Zephyr arrive in need of a place to live andadult supervision...

Beginning in 1939, young Solly in London exchanges letters with histeenaged cousin, Bernie, in Poland. While Solly is evacuated andadjusts to life in the English countryside, Bernie flees Warsaw,is sent to a Russian labour camp, and then joins the 'Anders Army'and fight the Axis powers. A powerful story of the enduranceof family bonds.

In Chicago, Christie and Agatha meet composer Florence Price at a small gathering. But any hopes the twins have of hearing Miss Price play are quickly shattered - much like the host Mrs Bond's wrecked piano!

During a holiday in Edinburgh, Suhana, Mia and Ayaan are transported back to India in 1799. They realize their mission is to prevent the betrayal of the Sultan of Mysore during a battle, but will they be able to convince the soldiers to change their plans in time?

An irresistible series about chosen family, high stakes thievery, and what it really means to do good. Perfect for fans of M.G. Leonard and Anthony Horowitz.

'Some bright kid's got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. And that gun's no pea-shooter. It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile.' Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods - its shiny, black machine-gun still intact - he grabs his chance. Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous and unexpected results . . . The Machine Gunners is Robert Westall's gripping first novel for children set during World War Two and winner of the Carnegie Medal. Now with a brilliant cover look celebrating its fortieth anniversary. Includes a bonus short story - 'The Haunting of Chas McGill' - and an extended biography of the author.

She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety, out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives . . . From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat. Blitzcat by Robert Westall is the Smarties Prize-winning book about one brave cat's experiences during World War Two. Now with a brilliant new cover look and including an extended author biography.

As the end of the world approaches, is there time for one final love story?An apocalyptic storm has wreaked havoc on the world. Haunted by the memories of those she couldn't save, Liz returns to the only place she felt safe before the world fell away: the bookstore where she used to work. She settles into a routine - operating the shop as a trading post, welcoming stragglers who want to trade supplies for a book or leave behind messages for loved ones. Then she learns another life-ending storm is coming and she's nowhere near ready. Until she finds an intruder breaking into the bookstore late at night. Enter Maeve, a guarded, spikey, and potentially dangerous out-of-towner. When Maeve's secrets come to light and Liz's inner demons come back to haunt them both, the pair find themselves fighting for their lives in more ways than one.

This should be the best holiday ever. Fayson is turning 12 and the DI Island Crew are throwing her a party, even Tia is being nice! But this summer Fayson has a secret, one that she can't even tell her closest friends... When one of the crew go missing, the summer takes a turn for the worse. It's up to the rest of the gang to find their lost friend - before Fayson's secrets break up the crew for good.

The ghostly spirit of Jupiter has returned, more terrifying than before. Bent on revenge, he smothers the world in an eternal winter of snow and ice. The Deptford Mice are worried: the mystical bats have fled from the attic, and a new rat army is gathering strength. With food short and no sign of spring, the mice know there's a desperate struggle ahead. Who knows how many will survive and at what cost?

The whole of Pirate Academy is abuzz with anticipation for the upcoming Oceans Bound weekend. It's the first time the young pirate apprentices of Barracuda Class will set sail as five independent crews - with no teacher oversight! Excitement reaches fever-pitch as Commodore Kuo and Captain Salt reveal which of the fifteen Barracudas will act as captains for Oceans Bound. Jacoby is devastated when he isn't picked, which makes things difficult for Jasmine when she is chosen. But worse, much worse, is in store, when Jasmine is told that her Uncle Noah - a ringleader of the League of True Pirates - has, against all odds, broken out of the Pirate Federation's maximum security prison. Fearing that he will try to make contact with Jasmine, the Head and Deputy give Jasmine the chance to opt out of Oceans Bound. But Jasmine is not about to let her renegade uncle ruin everything. The five Barracuda crews set sail with hope and adventure in their hearts, beginning a complex trail of tasks, each delivered to its crew via a note in a coloured glass bottle. For one crew, the tasks quickly become much more dangerous. As they bravely navigate poisonous snakes, venomous spiders, sharks and skulls, it becomes clear that someone else is now in control of Oceans Bound. It's going to take everything they've got for our plucky young pirates to complete the course and triumph against their fiendish enemy.

Join Marvel's fan-favourites Rocket and Groot in this delightfullyspooky graphic novel adventure!

This is the follow-up story to Zinc about three Jewish siblings John, George and Eva who continue to play different roles to help the war effort in WW2. George trains in Scotland for his SOE mission to Poland to help the fighters in the Secret Army. After his work at Bletchley Park, John is now stationed in Cairo in Egypt working on plans to deceive Field Marshall Rommel about the location of the impending battle, while sister Eva in Hungary is finding life for anyone Jewish getting harder and harder as the Nazis harden their grip over the country. Will the siblings ever manage to get together? They share so many memories, but war keeps them apart. Based on the extraordinary real-life experiences of Sue Klauber's father (Coding at Bletchley Park), uncle (SOE in Europe) and aunt (Resistance), she wrote Zinc and now Cobalt  to illustrate the courage of her Jewish family.

From sparkling new duo Cressida Gaukroger and illustrator Andrew Joyner comes this wickedly funny cautionary tale about naughty babies and their exasperated parents learning to get along, with a little help from the storks. When the parents of naughty babies realise they can send them back, the storks' village is suddenly inundated! Will the babies settle into their new home, or will they be returned to sender? Back to the Storks is an fun picture book that can be used for supporting older siblings and fostering affection for new additions to the family. Perfect for fans of I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen) and Not Now, Bernard (David McKee), Back to the Storks is both uproarious and blessed relief for frazzled 'gentle parents' everywhere! For ages 3 and up.

Anne of Survivor follows the journey of a defiant young woman who refuses to compromise her identity, forging an unconventional path filled with unexpected allies, profound adventures, and a destiny intertwined with the fate of a kingdom.Anne may not know exactly what she wants in life, but she knows who she is and is not willing to change that for anyone. Anne resides in post-war Ryland, where everything’s civilized. A lesser noble, she should be grateful to have garnered Duke Saben’s interest; it’s everything her family desired for her… and themselves. But Anne humiliates the duke’s son instead. Punished and told to heed her place in society, but feeling the pull to be herself, Anne trades societal comforts for adventures she’s sure are waiting. Creating a new family consisting of her crew, a prostitute, and mute boy with a donkey, Anne begins anew, leaving Saben’s sad-looking boy to her sister. But nothing and no one are as they seem, and her departure, as it turns out, can make or break a kingdom.

A dynamic reimagining of Osamu Tezuka's classic UNICO manga for anew generation of readers.

"Zoe is a shy girl struggling to fit in at her new school when she finds a mysterious gem left to her by her birth mother. All of a sudden, darkness-spewing dragons are chasing her down in the schoolyard, and a squad of crystal-wielding girls is there to save her! Welcome to the Crystal Cadets, Zoe--you're now the Diamond Cadet! Join Ruby Cadet Jasmine, Emerald Cadet Gwen, Garnet Cadet Olivia, Pearl Cadet Liz, and Sapphire Cadet Milena as a member of the toughest, smartest, and best-dressed team of evil-fighting girls in the world!"--