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Terry Deary | Helen Flook The Goose Guards
"387 BC. Rome is under attack from the vicious Gauls and the barbarianarmy is now preparing to besiege the Temple of Juno on Capitol Hill,home of Brutus, a trainee priest. The temple's inhabitants are offeredhelp from the army of Lord Furius, but are not sure if he is to betrusted. However, when rescue eventually comes it is from an even moreunlikely source... A tale based on one of the most famous of all Roman legends, full of Terry Deary's dark humour and dry wit."
Engels | 64 pagina's (2,2 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Terry Deary | Helen Flook The Grim Ghost
"AD 113. The young boy Pertinax helps his grandmother prepare a feast inPliny's household. As all the workers are busy in the kitchen, theyoung boy keeps Pliny company in the garden. He is told a story by thegreat Pliny himself. The tale is of a terrifying ghost that haunted agarden.But there's no truth in ghost stories ... or is there?"
Engels | 64 pagina's (3,2 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Sally Prue James and the alien experiment
"An engaging, well-written, humorous story about a perennially popular subject. James and the Alien Experiment is a comedy about a boy who is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though, who want to improve his rather useless human body - which proves not to be entirely a bad thing (just mostly a bad thing). Ross is given super-strength, super-brains and super-speed and in the end he succeeds in sorting out his truly loathsome form teacher."
Engels | 96 pagina's (3,1 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Sam Hay Billy Angel
"Plumbing. This is what the future has in store for Billy Box - to follow in the footsteps of generations of Boxes and spend his life with his arm down people's toilets. Or so he thinks... For when an angel appears on his 11th birthday, Billy's life suddenly takes an unexpected turn. His destiny is now to be a Guardian Angel and his first task is to protect Thelma Potts, the toughest girl in school. Billy soon finds himself caught up in a world of competitive pie eating, skeletons and magic, not...
Engels | 112 pagina's (3,1 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Sam Hay The Spoon of Doom
"`It was never meant to feed the needy; but to serve up grief to the mean and greedy'Theunfortunately named Albert Grub (A. Grub) has parents who are obsessedby mini-beasts; there are insects in the fridge, woodlice living in thehall and spiders dwelling in the cupboard under the stairs. Buteverything changes one day when Albert discovers that his dad is heirto the factory of the legendary Piddler's Porridge. Why is the town's noodle King, and owner of the adjacent factory so keen to get his handson...
Engels | 112 pagina's (3,4 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Fairy dust
"Twink has completely settled in to the wonderful, great, oak tree that is Glitterwings Academy. She has two great friends - Bimi and Sooze. Bimi is quiet, thoughtful and supportive, and Sooze is full of energy, a little thoughtless and great fun! It is Sooze who persuades Twink to take some Fairy Dust to perform a prank on some of the other students, but it all goes horribly wrong ...Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods. Readers...
Engels | 128 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Fledge star
"Twink can't wait to start her second year in Bluebell Branch at Glitterwings Academy. And even more excitingly she finds out that she is to be substitute for the Glitterwings Fledge team - a fairy flying sport that is high speed and takes skill and daring to play well. But when Twink is unexpectedly called upon to play she fluffs her chance. Twink is so disappointed. How can she get back on the team? And why is Mariella being so nice to her when the rest of the team is being rather horrible to her?...
Engels | 128 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Flying high
"Glitterwings Academy is the fairy school to go to, and Twink is so excited to be starting her first term. But she is also a little nervous. Will she make friends? Will she be able to find her way round the dizzying, huge oak tree that is Glitterwings Academy? And will she be able to pass the all-important test for new students - that of learning to fly?Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods. Readers of the series can be assured...
Engels | 128 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Friends forever
"Twink can't wait to get back for her Autumn Term at Glitterwings Academy. She loves the lessons - especially the lessons where they learn how to look after other creatures. One day Twink hears a cry for help and discovers that it is a baby wasp. She wants to help it, but is told that wasps and fairies have been enemies for centuries and that she must leave it to its fate. What will Twink do?Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods....
Engels | 128 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Midnight feast
"Twink can't wait to start her second term, the Summer term, at the fairy school, Glitterwings Academy. She loves the wonderful, huge oak tree that is Glitterwings Academy, and all the exciting new lessons. Best of all, she has made some new friends, Sooze and Bimi. But friendships can sometimes run into difficulty, as Twink is about to find out.Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods. Readers of the series can be assured of accomplished...
Engels | 128 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Isobelle Carmody The farseekers
"Plans to rescue a powerful Misfit, it is foreseen by a futureteller that the fate of Obernewytn is inextricably bound up with their quest.Led by Elspeth, whose extraordinary powers set her apart from her Misfit friends, the expedition sets out on its danger-filled task."
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #15
Toxic
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe fifteenth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna barely survived their most recent encounter with A. And it's not over yet . . . The police don't believe that the real A is still out there, but the girls know whatand whothey saw. If they don't track down this final tormentor soon, A will silence them forever.Full of unexpected twists and...
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #16
Vicious
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe explosive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have been through a lot since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared five summers ago. A stalker named "A" has harassed them for their past mistakes and revealed their darkest secrets to the world. They've been on TV, hounded by the press, kicked out of school, arrested,...
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Celia Rees Pirates!
"When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young women have...
Engels | 384 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Herbie Brennan Faerie wars
"Attack by the Faeries of the Night. But time is against Pyrgus Malvae and soon he is relying on Henry and Mr Fogarty not just to get him home but also to solve the puzzle that surrounds his exile.A wonderful, gripping, page-turning read full of the kind of detail that will ensure that this fabulous fantastic novel will have readers young and old holding their breath as the story unfolds."
Engels | 368 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Marie Lu The Young Elites
I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina''s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family''s good name and standing in the way...
Engels | ePub3, 3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2014
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Emerald Fennell Shiverton Hall
"They slowed as they reached the gate; two stone columns, each with its own crumbling angel perched on top. The angels held up a rusty, wrought-iron arch that read, in curling, serpentine letters: SHIVERTON HALL.Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly accepted into Shiverton Hall, which, as it turns out, is an incredibly spooky school, full of surprises. And it is just as well that Shiverton Hall has made its offer, because Arthur had a horrible time at his previous school, and was desperate to leave....
Engels | 300 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Dominic Barker Blart
the boy who set sail on a questionable quest
"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 thing in common: they're all wrong. They must"
Engels | 336 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Ian Beck Pastworld
"Figure stopped play-acting and really started killing people?For Caleb, a tourist from the present day, his visit goes terribly wrong when his father is kidnapped and he finds himself accused of murder. Then Caleb meets Eve, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no idea the modern world exists. Both Caleb and Eve have roles to play in the murderer's diabolical plans - roles that reveal disturbing truths about their origins."
Engels | 368 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Gareth P. Jones Space crime conspiracy
Stanley wordt van de aarde geplukt, omdat hij wordt verdacht van de moord op een buitenaardse president. Maar hoe moet hij zichzelf verdedigen als hij niet eens weet dat er buitenaards leven bestaat? Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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