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Scat has had enough! Every morning, Bruiser, the bully from No. 62 Busby Lane, strolls over to his house and eats all of his breakfast.Scat decides it's time to teach Bruiser a lesson.But things are not always as they seem. Sometimes a bully is not necessarily an enemy.
The Hairs of Hairington are in a horrendous hullabaloo! Knotsvillians have surrounded their towns and want to teach these messy Hairs a lesson. There is only one hombre strong enough to stop them. Will there ever be law and order between the borders of Hairington and Knotsville? It's up to LeBrush to find out.
After five years of struggling to make a new life for herself, Amanda is called back to her past under the hot African sun. Dangers she thought she had left behind are waiting to haunt her and reveal the secret she ran away to protect. Alex is a man drowning in his own world of sorrow from his wife's death. Questions which plagued him for years are suddenly finding answers that he could never imagine. The woman he has sworn to protect might be his wife's murderer. The past might have found Alex and Amanda, but it is the future they have to fight for ... if they survive the truth.
We're going on a trip in Big Ox's canoe. Watch the fire bears roar on Venus as pepper pot trees grow on the moon. As Big Ox steers us to the planets, Litte One wonders if Mum will come home soon.
Julia Webster and Hugo del Fuego are missing from their third floor apartment in Bagley. The grisly display discovered in their home leaves Detectives Perkins and Jones with little evidence to follow and, as more remains turn up, the pressure mounts to find the killer. Time is the key element in solving a case riddled with dead ends and a strange family hiding its true evil behind the facade of money and power. Can they unravel the secrets hidden behind the closed doors and will it be enough to solve the case and rescue the couple in time?"
Cecil and his friends are the best at playing pranks on others, especially their teacher, Mr Barns. But, after a seriously bad prank involving exploding Easter Eggs, Mrs Palmer, the Head Teacher, decides that Cecil and his minions have gone too far! The Police are called in and a specialist teacher is sent to the school to teach those badly behaved Year 6's a lesson they won't forget.
A journey through trials to find out if life holds the answers, or if death is the ideal choice.
The adventures and misadventures of a teenage boy, Calum McDougal, as he grows up in Hong Kong in the early nineteen-seventies. There is plenty of mischief, but at the heart of his story is a remarkable little orphan girl whom he first meets at the Day Centre that his mother has recently founded. The little girl's disability leads to her peculiar nickname, Knitting, and influences Calum's life journey. The humorous and sometimes roguish background stories, and how Knitting and Calum achieve the seemingly impossible, are what make this book so readable.
Miranda is used to getting her own way all the time. Her tantrums, sulks and pouts are driving her family mad. One day the Police arrive with a strange, scary woman that looks like a raven. Their warning falls on deaf ears and Miranda thinks no-one can touch her. The summer family holiday sets the place where Miranda finds out what it's like to be on the other end of terrible tantrums!
Perhaps no one would be more shocked at the steady rise of his literary reputation—on a truly global scale—Than Edgar Allan Poe himself. Poe's literary reputation has climbed steadily since his death in 1849. In Poe Abroad, Lois Vines has brought together a collection of essays that document the American writer's influence on the diverse literatures—and writers—of the world. Over twenty scholars demonstrate how and why Poe has significantly influenced many of the major literary figures of the last 150 years. Part One includes studies of Poe's popularity among general readers, his influence on literary movements, and his reputation as a poet, fiction writer, and literary critic. Part ...