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Amy Miller is a very positive person and she is fully prepared to be the star of the Lower School Comedy Review. But evil genius Harry is put in charge and he decides that Amy isn't allowed to perform or write sketches or do anything fun. Amy can't understand what's happening until her sister tel...

Uh-oh. Frank isn't doing well at school, and he has just been told off by his head teacher again. He has one last chance to prove himself: all he has to do is follow the rules on his class trip to Chiltern House, complete his worksheet and stay out of trouble. But when a girl steps out of a paint...

Molly's dad seems so lonely. He lives on his own, he won't get a pet, he doesn't get on with his brother ... Best friends Molly and Beth suspect his problems lie in his past, but what can two thirteen-year-olds do about that? Well, when they have a time-travelling door, maybe they CAN do somethin...

The fantastic follow-up to Time After Time and Stand By Me Families are so complicated! Molly's dad seems so lonely. He lives on his own, he won't get a pet, he doesn't get on with his brother ... Best friends Molly and Beth suspect his problems lie in his past, but what can two thirteen-year-...

Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas - and nearly that long waiting for the chance to participate in the regional robotics competition, which he just knows he can win. Only, this year is going to be more difficult than he thought. Because this year is the twentieth ...

Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq surrounded by music. She was a curious and confident child, who designed her own modernist bedroom at nine years old. As a young woman studying at University in Beirut, she was described as the most outstanding pupil the teacher had ever met. With her spectacul...

Sam has been best friends with Cal, Fin and Jay forever. They're all about to move up to a new school together - scary but exciting. But then he overhears them saying they're not going to put him on their Friends Lists! So Sam will be stuck in a different tutor group with a lot of kids he doesn't...

When Zeina isn't busy reading the latest on her hero adventuress, Vivianne Steele, or helping her father in the workshop, she spends her days collecting scraps to build her own inventions. All while navigating the thick smog that blankets everything. Everything - that is - except the Upper Atmosp...

"Evil wizard Malvel has stolen the magical golden armour and scattered it throughout Avantia. Tom vows to find the pieces - but they are guarded by six terrifying Beasts! Will Tom win an underwater battle against Zepha the Monster Squid?" _ cover.