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Mark was holding his knee. His trousers were torn, and I expected to see loads of blood where he'd cut himself - but there was none of that. Mark's skin was ripped back and, inside his knee, there was a long, metal bar and loads of coloured wires.
"I didn't mean to kill my best friend. It was an accident. You have to believe me. But now, ever since I buried his body in the woods, he keeps ringing me. Using our own secret ringtone. He won't leave me alone ..."--Back cover.
Robbie and Jenna have a problem – Tiddles, the class hamster, has eaten their teacher! As the two friends stumble upon more overgrown and threatening school animals, they start to discover that all is not as it seems in their school, and something desperately needs to be done...This quirky story was written by Tommy Donvaband.
Perfect for pupils with a low reading age of 8 to 9, but a high interest age of 12 to 15, our Teen Reads will have readers on the edge of their seats. Just the right level of challenging vocabulary and plot-lines make these books highly accessible, drawing readers into exciting worlds whilst simultaneously developing their reading skills. Fourteen-year-old Mark Jackson has broken his leg - but that's the least of his worries. Lying in a hospital bed, waiting for an operation on his shattered bone, he begins to realise that several of his fellow patients have not returned from their own trips to surgery. Patients with no one to visit them in the evenings, or miss them should they vanish without a trace. Patients just like Mark, in fact...
HORROR & GHOST STORIES, CHILLERS. When Nathan and his sister visit their grandfather's grave the last thing they expect is to be accosted by a zombie. A zombie looking for some lemonade. For a party. Can they help him? And will he be able to help them see their granddad again? A fun packed spooky story from a hugely successful author. Ages 9+.
It's the middle of December, but Shiverton has been hit by a heat wave. All the snow is melting and running downhill. Could this be the work of Ray Burn and his giant pair of sunglasses? Why does he want to flood the Shiverton Museum of Really Expensive Stuff? To find out, Cole will have to munch on a carrot and become the world's coolest superhero - Snow-Man. Aimed at 9-12 year olds, each story in the Snow-Man series has a low reading age of 7-8, combining accessible language with exciting and witty plotlines that are appropriate to the age of the reader. This series has been created by popular author of comic stories for reluctant readers, Tommy Donbavand. It follows a not-so-ordinary boy called Cole Day and the various adventures of his chilly superhero alter ego, Snow-Man, plus sidekicks Thin Ice and Frostbite. Readers are sure to be entertained by the storylines in this series, as well as the array of ingenious villains such as Ray Burn, Gail Force and Chuck Ingit-Down. As always, the aim of these books is to draw and hold the attention of reluctant readers, in order to inspire confidence and to ensure that the reading experience is a positive and fun one.
Join Special Agent Fangs Enigma - the world's greatest vampire spy - and his werewolf sidekick Puppy Brown as they battle society's worst criminal monsterminds. Second in a new series of comedy horror adventures from the bestselling author of Scream Street.Special Agent Fangs Enigma and his sidekick, werewolf Agent Puppy Brown, were recruited by secret intelligence agency MP1 (Monster Protection, 1st division) to stop the world's super(natural) villains and monster criminals from realizing their evil plans. In Codename: The Tickler, MP1's expensive mind-control technology, the Will Pill, has been stolen by an ogre named Snores. He is only a goon for hire, though - so who is the real culprit? Can Agents Enigma and Brown solve this ticklish case or will the mysterious Tickler have the last laugh?
Fans will scream for this book, based on two adventures from the new CBBC TV series that feature the nefarious Sir Mayor Otto Sneer, Scream Street's lead villain.Welcome to Scream Street, where mummies rub shoulders with vampires, leeches and half-skeletal dogs are pets, and where witches sell their wares to zombies. It's a sanctuary that the government has prepared for monsters of all kinds. It's safe most of the time, but corrupt, evil Mayor Otto Sneer is always coming up with plans to profit from Scream Street at the residents' expense. It's up to the wits and talents of werewolf Luke, mummy Cleo and vampire Resus to save the day. This book presents two humour-filled adventures from the stop-motion animated CBBC television series.
Written by the author of CBBC's Scream Street TV series! Nothing ever happens in the sleepy town of Badger's Bottom. In fact, its only claim to fame is that it's the most BORING place to live in the universe. That's until a UFO lands in Jamie and Megan's back garden and invaders leap out to begin their conquest of Earth, under the command of Major Pain... Tommy Donbavand's Funny Shorts is a series of 4,000-word colour illustrated, chapter-based readers, which are perfect for bridging the gap between first chapter books and independent reading. Published by Franklin Watts EDGE, using off-white paper and a font recommended by the British Dyslexia Association.
After Luke Watson transforms into a werewolf for the third time, he and his parents are moved by the Government Housing of Unusual Lifeforms (G.H.O.U.L.) to Scream Street - a community of vampires, zombies, witches and more.In Scream Street, Luke and his parents discover a nightmarish world of the undead. Luke soon makes friends with vampire Resus Negative and mummy Cleo Farr, but he remains determined to take his terrified parents home. After liberating the powerful book Tales of Scream Street from his new landlord, Otto Sneer, Luke learns that the founding fathers of the community each left behind a powerful relic. Collecting together all six is his only hope of opening a doorway out of the street, so with the help of Resus and Cleo he sets out to find the first one, the vampire's fang. But with Otto Sneer determined to thwart him at every turn, will Luke even get past the first hurdle alive?