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Horrible Histories Handbooks: Villains
- Terry Deary, Martin Brown
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9781407103051
- Published: 01-03-2008
From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were tu...
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Peter Pan in Scarlet
- Geraldine McCaughrean, David Wyatt
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192726216
- Published: 04-10-2007
Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of war paint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help, and so it is time to do the unthinkable and fly to Neverland again. But back in...
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Stop the Train
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192718815
- Published: 04-10-2007
It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma and they and their fellow settlers prepare for steady business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad company, the boss swears that his trains will nev...
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I Know What You Did Last Wednesday
- Anthony Horowitz, Martin Chatterton
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406308501
- Published: 04-06-2007
There's been a murder on a remote island ... but the Diamond Brothers are on the case! eBook available.When the Diamond Brothers receive an invitation to a school reunion on a remote Scottish island, things seem to be looking up. But Nick's got a bad feeling, and it's not indigestion. And when...
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Shadow Forest
- Matt Haig
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780370329369
- Published: 03-05-2007
Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever. He doesn't know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway...
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Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
- Louis Sachar
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9780747589785
- Published: 05-03-2007
'Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?' 'Because dead ones squeal when you stick the fork in.' Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It is the rest of the kids in the class who think he is a fool. Then the Floyd Hicks Junior High School Talent Show is announce...
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Dustbin Baby
- Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780552556118
- Published: 01-03-2007
April knows she was abandoned in a rubbish bin as a newborn baby, fourteen years ago. Now she's happily settled with her foster mother, Marion - but there's a part of April that's desperate to know where she really came from, and who she really is. If only she could remember her real mother -...
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Jacky Daydream
- Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780385610155
- Published: 01-03-2007
Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, discover: how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in \"Dustbin Baby\"; how she dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in \"Love Lessons\"...
