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Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > Adventure Stories
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Pretties
(Paperback)
Scott Westerfeld
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R297
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The second installment of Scott Westerfeld’s international bestselling
Uglies series – the global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.
In Tally’s world, looks are all that matters. And now that she’s
finally undertaken the surgery to become a ‘Pretty’, everything seems
perfect: her looks are flawless, her clothes are cool, her boyfriend is
totally gorgeous, and she's completely popular.
But beneath the fun of non-stop parties, high-tech luxury and apparent
total freedom, Tally can’t stop a nagging sense that something is
wrong. Something important. Then a message from her ‘Ugly’ past
arrives, forcing Tally to remember the truth she learned before her
transformation, and the fun stops cold. Because the true price of this
perfect world is more than Tally is willing to pay…
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy
called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he
witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the
hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the
guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a
place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where
all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive
alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered
for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn
thin, and creatures are breaking through. Then a girl, Mal, appears
in Christopher’s world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is
being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby
griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest
across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold
secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truth – with
unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two
must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love
demands of us.
An instant no. 1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of CrimeFest Best
YA Crime Fiction Prize Winner of the YA Fiction Goodreads Choice
Awards Shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize A Time
magazine pick for Best YA of All Time Keep the Secret. Live the
Lie. Earn your Truth. For fans of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange
comes a ground-breaking YA thriller about a Native American teen
who must root out the corruption in her community Eighteen-year-old
Daunis has always felt like an outsider with her mixed heritage,
both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When she
witnesses a murder, Daunis reluctantly agrees to go undercover. But
secretly she pursues her own investigation, tracking down the
culprits with her knowledge of traditional medicine. As the bodies
pile up, Daunis finds herself caught in a web of deceit that
threatens the people she loves the most. 'Raw and moving'
Cosmopolitan 'A story that grips like a bulldog clip on your heart'
Katherine Rundell, author of The Good Thieves 'Thrilling and
heartwrenching' Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars 'A
swift-paced, compelling thriller' Guardian
Book 3 in the Christie and Agatha's Detective Agency series! 'The
truth of the matter is that a number of valuable artefacts have
been stolen. There is a thief at the dig!' During the excavation of
an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, Christie and Agatha find themselves at
the heart of a mystery. Lord and Lady Carnarvon's dig is in
jeopardy unless the thief at the site can be found. But time is
quickly running out for the twins to wrap up the case and recover
Tutankhamun's treasures. About the Christie and Agatha's Detective
Agency series: It's not easy growing up in the 1920s. While
Christie can usually be found up a tree or trying a spot of amateur
engineering, her shy twin Agatha buries her nose in books and
dreams of being a writer. The pair couldn't be more different. But
when a scientific discovery goes missing, they find that together
they make a winning combination and Christie and Agatha's Detective
Agency is born. Join the twin detectives as they solve thrilling
mysteries all over the world!
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Graveyard Hounds
(Paperback)
Vi Hughes; Illustrated by Christina Leist
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R206
R190
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When lightning strikes the school playground, Annie's dog loses her
bark. After Mike's dog loses his bark as well, they decide to do
some investigating. They discover that the new school custodian is
somehow involved in these strange events. Can Annie and Mike solve
the terrible secret of the graveyard hounds?
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