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When the Russians come, where do you go? Fritz loves his vegetable garden. His tomatoes are delicious, he's attentive to the asparagus, and he remembers how to keep slugs off the strawberries. But his tranquil life on the family farm is about to endthe Russians are near, Hitler has died, and known Nazi sympathizers like the Friedrich family brace for the Bolsheviks to take over their town. Local German supporters of the Bolshevik regime seize the Friedrich farm in the name of Communism, forcing Fritz's family to flee to the distant house of his grandmother, Oma Clara. Life there for Fritz is horrible, made even worse when Communists arrest his mother and Lech, the Polish farmhand who has tended the Friedrich land, for hiding weapons. Though there is no evidence to support the accusation, Gertrude and Lech are taken away, and Fritz commits to finding where they are imprisoned. Despite the boy's heroic efforts, the story ends with one of the war's ambiguities: that Lech and Gertrude may not return home.

As World War II threatens the United States in 1941, fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe fights his own battles at home. Junior struggles with school and with angerat his father, his insufferable granddaddy, his neighbors, and himselfas he desperately tries to understand himself and find his own aim in life. But he finds relief in escaping to the quiet of the nearby woods and tinkering with cars, something he learned from his Pop, and a fatherly neighbor provides much-needed guidance. This heartfelt and inspiring prequel to the author's Blue and Comfort also includes an author's note and bibliography.

The step-by-step process of air travel from the perspective of a young girl on a trip with her parents is revealed in this informative picture book.

In this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek picture book about manners, zoo animals attempt to follow proper etiquette when they are accidentally invited to tea with the queen.

This appealing book for young children is filled with vibrant full-colour Hidden Pictures puzzles featuring trains, planes, cars and other things that go, plus classic black-and-white puzzles and eight pages of high-quality stickers to mark the hidden objects.

This book is filled with vibrant full-colour Hidden Pictures puzzles, plus classic black-and-white puzzles with a special bonus: 12 pages of colourful stickers to mark the hidden objects!

This irresistible book is packed with more than 100 puzzles straight from the Highlight's magazine. Drawn in Highlights' classic black-and-white style, each puzzle is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills and attention to detail.

This irresistible book is packed with more than 100 puzzles straight from the Highlight's magazine. Drawn in Highlights' classic black-and-white style, each puzzle is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills and attention to detail.

Rhyming board book highlighting love that features photographs of adorable babies with baby animals, plus a shiny Mylar mirror.

From the author-illustrator of the award-winning 'Goose and Bear' series comes an endearing picture book about friendship and tolerance for children ages 3 to 7.

In this book, beloved author-illustrator Suzanne Bloom counts down to bedtime from ten terribly tired tigers to one really weary wombat.

With the help of Goose and Fox, Bear learns a valuable lesson in Suzanne Bloom's lovable new story, the seventh in this popular series.

Bear is quietly sitting by himself so Fox wonders if Bear is sad or mad or lonely. NoNBear just enjoys a little quiet time alone. Not to be outdone, Fox decides that she would like quiet time alone, tooN"with" Bear! Needless to say, Fox's version of quiet time is very different from Bear's. Full color.

Tells the story of Tess's first day of school and her very first ride on a school bus in this reassuring back-to-school classic.

Discover favourite vehicles by pointing to and finding them in every illustrated scene, while touching and feeling the embossed pages.

Touch and feel the embossed pages whilst searching for a star, book, teddy bear and more!

Touch and feel the embossed pages while finding and pointing to all of the fun that happens on the farm.

A supernatural historical mystery that sees Bone unravel the mysteries of her mother's death

With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.

In this nature-inspired poetry picture book, contemplative poems and photos about water combine allowing young readers to see the world in new ways.

Stinky is a monster who loves pickles and possums but is terrified of people.

KIDS LOVE COMICS!

The attributes of 28 different lizards are revealed in this STEM non-fiction picture book.

Toys, food, and other everyday household objects have wild adventures at night, while the humans in the house sleep, in this imaginative collection of 26 poems.

This collection of poems for two or more voices explore the myriad sounds animals make.

This picture-book biography illuminates the life of activist Belva Lockwood, a woman who fought for equality for women in the classroom, the courtroom and politics.

For fans of Stuart Little and Poppy, here is a middle-grade adventure in which a mouse and a shrew, lost at sea, try to navigate to their home in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Braving multiple dangers, they discover they have more in common than they could ever have imagined. Mr. Popli, the mouse Mayor of Garbage Island, is always at odds with Archibald Shrew, a brilliant but reckless inventor. When Garbage Island splits apart, they're trapped together in Mr. Popli's houseboat, desperate to find their way home. At first, they only argue, but when they face a perilous thunderstorm and a series of predators, they begin to work together and recognize--in themselves and in each other--strengths they didn't know they had. Nonstop action and deep emotion intertwine in this tale of opposites who discover that with bravery, creativity, and friendship, they can triumph.

In his hilarious new sci-fi series, Jim C. Hines introduces the unlikely heroes that may just save the galaxy: a crew of space janitors.The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know-your standard apocalypse. The Krakau's first impulse was to turn around and go home. (After all, it's hard to have diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your diplomats.) Their second impulse was to try to fix us. Now, a century later, human beings might not be what they once were, but at least they're no longer trying to eat everyone. Mostly. Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos is surprisingly bright (for a human). As a Lieutenant on the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish, she's in charge of the Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation team. When a bioweapon attack wipes out the Krakau command crew and reverts the rest of the humans to their feral state, only Mops and her team are left with their minds intact.Escaping the attacking aliens-not to mention her shambling crewmates-is only the beginning. Sure, Mops and her team of space janitors and plumbers can clean the ship as well as anyone, but flying the damn thing is another matter. As they struggle to keep the Pufferfish functioning and find a cure for their crew, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could threaten the entire alliance… a conspiracy born from the truth of what happened on Earth all those years ago. Jim C. Hines has proven himself a master of humorous fantasy with his Jig the Goblin novels, and has turned the usual fantasy tropes sideways and upside down with his Princess and his Magic Ex Libris series. With Terminal Alliance, the debut novel in his humorous military science fiction series, Jim takes us into a brand-new universe of entertainment certain to appeal to fans of both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

This brand-new collection of 365 rib-tickling, laugh-out-loud jokes is guaranteed to bring loads of giggles to children and their grown-ups.

This side splitting humour collection features 365 uproarious knock-knock jokes, with tons of funny cartoons to complement the jokes.