The Boy Who Cried Vampire - A Graphic Novel
In Transylvania, a boy cries
vampire! Young Ion is bored b...
Aesop's Fables the Boy Who Cried Wolf
The much-loved tale of The Boy who Cried Wolf has been beaut...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Picture Book Edition
Japanese edition of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. True sto...
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition - And Othe...
What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does ter...
The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, wh...
The Boy Who Was Wanted Dead or Alive - or Both
Inventive, charming and very funny The Observer Just as ...
The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
Amber Walker and her older brother, Jake, have an abusive fa...
Makeshift Miracle Book 2 The Boy Who Stole Everything H...
Colby has fallen into a surreal realm of dream and imaginati...
The Boy Who Cried Fabulous
The Man Who Climbs Trees
A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance Helen Macdonald A great read incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective Chris Packham (A) delightful, endlessly fascinating book Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEK This is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, who has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the ...
The World of David Walliams CD Story Collection - The Boy in the Dress/Mr Stink/Billionaire Boy/Gangsta Granny/Ratburger...
Five screamingly funny stories from number one bestselling childrens author David Walliams, in this big, bumper CD boxset, performed by the King of Comedy himself. THE BOY IN THE DRESS Denniss very ordinary life is about to get a lot more extraordinary. Why? Theres a clue in the title of this book
MR STINK When Chloe decides to hide a homeless man in her garden shed, she discovers ...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Camel Who Crossed Australia
Third in Jackie Frenchs Animal Stars series, featuring the animals who contributed to historys most famous events. the story of the famous Burke and Wills expedition
as it has never been told before the humans called him Bell Sing, but to the other camels he is known as He Who Spits Further than the Wind. transported from the mountains and deserts of the Northwest Frontier (p...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the Fury? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to Out-With ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The gro...
The Boy Behind The Curtain
Being a coppers son, Ive always got one eye out for trouble. I cant help it. But I dont go looking for it anymore. In Tim Wintons fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Wintons own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtain take us behind the scenes, revealing the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, who wants to marry her. Cue damsel in distress to be rescued by none other than our own heroic Blart. He sets out on the good ship The Golden Pig with Olaf the innocent who believes what everyone says all the time and Kupverstich the Strange an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one ...
The Boy Who Cried Vampire - A Graphic Novel
In Transylvania, a boy cries
vampire! Young Ion is bored by life in the village. So to spice things up, the imaginative prankster runs false vampire drills, much to the annoyance of the villagers. But one night, a shadow passes by Ions window. This time its no joke. Its a REAL vampire! Have all of Ions fibs come back to bite him, or can the boy find a way out of this batty situation? In ...
The Girl Who Rode the Wind
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day. When Lolas grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her familys history of heartbreak and adventure, stretching back to the Second World War. In 1945, Lorettas nickname was `The Daredevil due to her fe...
The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger
An exciting new tale of a brumby, a boy and a bushranger in the Animal Stars series. (Book 5) Ages: 9 13 A story of survival, second chances
and a dance with danger. Young Billy Marks is a pickpocket, transported to the penal colony of New South Wales. He and his mate reckon theyll become bushrangers- but thats before Billys had a chance to see the bush up close. And when he buys th...
Dingo - The Dog Who Conquered a Continent
Jackie Frenchs critically acclaimed and best-selling ANIMAL STARS series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. Ages: 9-13 All of Australias dingoes may be descended from one south-east Asian rubbish dog who arrived here over 5,000 years ago. this is a story about the first dingo. It is also the story of Loa, who heads off across the sea in his canoe when the girl he loves ma...
The Viscount Who Loved Me
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, Londons most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And, in all truth, why should he When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better . . . Lady Whistledowns Society Papers, April 1814But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bri...
The Boy with the Biggest Head in the World
Meet classic comic-strip character Big Nate The Boy with the Biggest Head in the World as he stars in his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of `Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Big-head Nate Wright truly believes he is destined for greatness! Hes a table tennis champ, a genius comic book artist and the self-proclaimed king of his class....
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
The Boy in the Dress
The sparkling debut childrens novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing childrens author in the country, with sparkling new cover look to tie in with later books. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book
Charming, surprising and hilarious The Boy in the Dress is everything you would expect fro...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it! Anthony Horowitz Six gentlemen, one goal the destruction of Hitlers war machine In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitlers war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was to prove every bit as extraordinary as the ...
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing horse sense is based o...
The Boy Who Knew Everything
Conrad Harrington III doesnt want to be a super genius; he just wants to live a normal life. But his father is the newly elected president of the United States, so he knows being normal isnt really an option. When suspicious disasters suddenly start happening all over the globe, his best friend, Piper McCloud, knows the world needs Conrads gifts and that all of the exceptional children ne...
The Boy Who Fell To Earth
Meet Merlin. Hes Lucys bright, beautiful son who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlins father left them in the lurch, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising her adorable yet challenging child (if only Merlin came with operating instructions), Lucy doesnt have room for any other man in her life. By the time Merlin turns ten...
The Cow Who Climbed a Tree
Tina isnt like the other cows. She believes that the sky is the limit, that everything is possible. But her sisters arent convinced and when Tina tells them she has climbed a tree and met a dragon, they decide that her nonsense has gone too far. Off they go into the woods to find her
and soon discover a world of surprises! A richly atmospheric, thoughtful and funny picture book from rising...