STAR READS : Snicker the and other stories By Enid Blyton Snicker the Brownie is always playing mean tricks but when he causes trouble for the witch-cats he gets more than he bargains for. Joining Snicker are Neddy the donkey, Peter Penny and Bimbo the kitten, who all add to this fantastic collection of fun and frolics. Other stories in this volume: The Boy Who Wanted a Pet. The Gre…
Amelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book, Sidney, the selfish teddy bear, has just come to the toy-cupboard. The toys are at their wits' end. If only they could teach Amelia Jane a lesson once and for all!
Jane titles. Amelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book, she gives the toys some terrible scares with her mischief and gets poor Teddy to carry her home without him knowing it. Sometimes the toys get their own back, but it's never long before Amelia Jane's back to being just as bad as ever!
THE SECRET SEVEN: Secret Seven Win Through by Enid Blyton. The Seven have a fantastic new hiding place. But someone else is using it at night - and it's Jack's little sister Susie who helps them catch the intruder.
The Secret Seven 2 : Secret Seven Adventure by Enid Blyton. A priceless pearl necklace has been stolen - and the Seven witnessed the thief making his escape! But where has hidden the necklace?
Author Meg Cabot is ready to put her tiara back on [with] a new character, Olivia Grace. She's a middle school girl in New Jersey who discovers she is Princess Mia's long-lost half sister.
The youngest of seven children, Jane was born to George and Cassandra Austen, a Kentish family, in December 1775. Her early childhood was influenced by her father's parsonage and close companionship with elder sister Cassandra. After schooling at Oxford, and on recovering from a bout of long illness, Ms Austen began writing, initially as an entertaining pre-occupation; and gave up formal educat…
Lily isn't home ALONE – but she wishes she was. Looking after her three younger siblings is a lot of responsibility. When Mum goes off on holiday with her new boyfriend and leaves Lily, six-year-old twins Bliss and Baxter, and little sister Pixie on their own, Lily is determined to keep the family together and show they can cope without any grown-ups. But when she fears their secret is goi…
'I want Facts, Sir,' said Mr Thomas Gradgrind. 'Only Facts will ever be of use to these children. Coketown was full of Facts. Its buildings shook all day with the thunder of its great machines. But are the people happy with their Facts?'asks Dickens. Are Thomas Gradgrind's own children happy? If so, why does his daughter marry so unhappily? Why does his own son waste his life? This is a n…
I wanted to climb to the summit of challenges, attack my way through hardships as solid as granite, tempt all sorts of peril, and break through mysteries with science. I longed to inhale all sorts of experience and then explore the labyrinthine ins and outs of life that in the end cannot be guessed. I yearned for possibilities that react with each other, like the collision of uranium molecules:…