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A boxset of four titles from the internationally bestselling author
of ONE OF US IS LYING. Secrets. Lies. Murder. The Karen M. McManus
boxset has it all: ONE OF US IS LYING Five students go to
detention. Only four leave alive. ONE OF US IS NEXT Truth or dare
turns deadly. Who would you believe? TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET Two dead
homecoming queens. Who's next? THE COUSINS Secrets. Lies.
Inheritance. Family first always. Right? 'It's easy to see why
queen of teen crime Karen McManus is a bestseller on both sides of
the Atlantic' - Guardian
It's a rainy day when Cam and her classmates arrive at school.
Their classroom is neat and clean, but there is something there
that does not belong. Meow A cat with a spot on its tail is napping
near the coat rack. How did a cat get in their classroom? Did it
run away? Read along as Cam solves this easy-to-read cat caper.
It's Katie's 17th birthday - the dancefloor is packed, the drink is
flowing and Rave-fess, the Raven's Hill School confession site, is
alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests
fleeing. When Frankie, Jess and Sorcha go back to help Katie clear
up her wrecked house before her parents get home, they find more
than broken bottles ... There's a body on the living room floor.
The gripping teen thriller that will keep everyone guessing.
Illustrated in full color and packed with character and humor, this
is the fifth whodunnit mystery in the awardwinning Detective Gordon
series, fun to read alone or aloud. A Case with a Bang is the final
book in the series of funny detective stories for early readers set
in a friendly forest in which two determinedly fair
police-retired-toad Gordon and the indefatigable mouse Buffy-solve
the mystery and stop regularly to eat cake. Night brings a horrible
humming, scraping sound in the forest. Someone has wrecked the
badger's trash can. Later, three large creatures are spotted up on
the mountain. Detective Buffy discovers this seemingly small case
really is a dangerous mystery-she comes back from her first
investigation flat as a gingerbread, rolled over by something huge
and terrifying. Back at the station, retired Detective Gordon is
training a new young police assistant, and the cakes have run out
in the forest bakery! While all the animals cower at the police
station, Buffy remembers Gordon's stories about trolls. Is it
possible they do exist? Taking Gordon's advice about how everyone
thinks differently, she finds a way to communicate with the giant
creatures-perhaps not so terrifying after all. The book leaves
readers with a memorable Gordon message: Everyone thinks
differently, strangers are welcome, cakes for everybody! This final
instalment in the awardwinning Detective Gordon series is a
multi-layered philosophical story about good detective work
involving all, kindness to newcomers and doing the right thing.
Winner of multiple awards and accolades, Detective Gordon is a
mystery series with depth-perfect for reading alone for emerging
readers, wonderful for reading aloud together as a chapter book.
Translated from the Swedish edition by Julia Marshall.
In order to unlock his family's past and how he became an orphan,
Leo will need every skill and invention he has-even if his
inventions don't always work. This middle-school adventure mystery
is perfect for puzzle solvers, as Leodiscovers a series of tunnels
below his school filled with clues, riddles andpuzzles to
solveabout his identity and his family. A "lifer" at the secluded
Academy of Florence, Leo has never met his parents ... or anyone in
his family for that matter. His current "family" is his mechanical
monkey and robot lion, who along with his charming best friend and
fellow lifer, Savvy, only get him into trouble. But after Leo's
latest experiment goes catastrophically wrong, he finds a
mysterious clue that opens an underground maze-one that seems to
have been created for him to solve. Leo hopes the tunnels will help
him discover the identities of his parents and the reason he's an
orphan in the first place. Instead, he finds that his past and
possibly even his future is somehow linked to the innovative Wynn
Toys company, whose genius president mysteriously disappeared years
before. Leo must use his creativity and scientific know-how to
revive the toy company, oust its dastardly leader, and discover the
fate of his real family. LEO, Inventor Extraordinaire: Is perfect
for kids 8 to 12 who enjoy action, adventure, humor, and mystery Is
likeThe DaVinci Codefor kids, with robots, wacky inventions, and
puzzles to solve Contains almost 60 pieces of original black and
white artwork Encourages imagination and the development of STEAM
skills LEO, Inventor Extraordinaire is a Northern Lights Book
Awards Winner in the Middle Grade Fiction category for 2021 -- The
Northern Lights Book Awards
An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic
Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of
all ages! Also includes a QR code for the free audiobook! I shall
now reveal the truth of the legend behind the hound of the
Baskervilles ... No Baskerville should ever cross the moor at
night. With a deadly phantom hound on the loose and a mysterious
man living on the moor, Devon is a dangerous place to be. But
Holmes and Watson must put their fears aside. The country's
favourite crime-fighting duo need to unravel the strange case of
Sir Charles Baskerville's murder before his nephew meets the same
fate.
Winner of the 2012 Roald Dahl Funny Prize! Thirteen-year-old
schoolboy, Dirk Lloyd, has a dark secret - in fact he is a dark
secret. Dirk - according to his own account - is the earthly
incarnation of a Dark Lord, supreme ruler of the Darklands and
leader of great armies of orcs and warriors, intent on destruction
and bloody devastation. Following a colossal final battle between
the forces of good and evil, the Dark Lord was defeated and hurled
by his arch-foe's spells into the Pit of Uttermost Despair. At the
bottom of the Pit lies...a supermarket car park in the municipal
town of Whiteshields, somewhere in modern day England. And when he
is found, and tries to explain that he is the Dark Lord, people
think he means Dirk Lloyd. The fact that he's trapped in the puny
body of a schoolboy doesn't help. And so begins Dirk's battle to
recover his dignity, his power, and his lands... Along the way he
faces the inconvenience of being fostered by a do-gooding family,
the Purejoies; the torture of endless hours of drudgery at the
Whiteshields Brainwashing Centre (aka school); a vengeful
Headmaster; two interfering Psychotic Persecutors
(psychotherapists); and constant laughter and disrespect when he
attempts to marshall his lackeys and lickspittles (friends) to do
what he wants them to. Dirk makes friends with the son of his
foster family, Christopher, and the local Goth Girl, Sooz, and
together they attempt to cast a spell that will transport Dirk back
to his homeland. Inevitably, not everything goes to plan... But
that's for book 2 Roald Dahl Prize winner, 2012.
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An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic
Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of
all ages! Also includes a QR code for the free audiobook! Be at the
third pillar from the left outside the Lyceum Theatre tonight at
seven o'clock. You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do
not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. When Holmes is
asked to look into a cryptic message received by Mary Morstan,
neither he nor Watson expect to be drawn into a decades-old web of
betrayal. Soon they're conducting dangerous moonlit expeditions to
uncover the meaning of the sign of the four, and resolve a
long-buried crime.
A spellbinding story from the Sunday Times-bestselling author of
The Girl of Ink & Stars, winner of the Waterstones Children's
Book Prize. 'A story bursting with imagination, sparkle and tender
heart ... I adored it!' JASBINDER BILAN 'Both souful poetry and
thrilling adventure; powerful and delicate, chilling and
comforting' SOPHIE ANDERSON 'Ripping propulsive plot, gorgeous
imagery, floating fairytale prose ... absolutely loved it' ROSS
MONTGOMERY In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia's mother
carves beautiful mementoes from the bones of loved ones. But one
day, she doesn't return home. Did her work lead her into danger?
Sofia and her little brother Ermin are sent to the convent
orphanage but soon escape, led by an enigmatic new friend and their
pet crow, Corvith. Together they cross the city underground,
following clues in bones up to the towers of Siena, where - circled
by magpies - the children find the terrible truth ... The fourth
children's novel by Times number one bestselling author Kiran
Millwood Hargrave, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year From the
author of The Island at the End of Everything, The Way Past Winter,
Julia and the Shark and The Mercies - chosen for the Richard &
Judy Book Club A darkly beautiful historical novel featuring
Kiran's trademark magical realism and an enthralling mystery,
presented as a gorgeous flapped paperback with stunning cover foil
Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021
When a girl with a troubled history of finding dead bodies
investigates the murder of her ex, she uncovers a plot to put
herself---and everyone she loves---on the list of who's next.Flora
Calhoun has a reputation for sticking her nose where it doesn't
belong. After stumbling upon a classmate's body years ago, the
trauma of that discovery and the police's failure to find the
killer has haunted her ever since. One night, she gets a midnight
text from Ava McQueen, the beautiful girl who had ignited Flora's
heart last summer, then never spoke to her again. Just in time to
witness Ava's death from a gunshot wound, Flora is set on a path of
rage and vengeance for all the dead girls whose killer is never
found. Her tunnel-visioned sleuthing leads to valuable clues about
a shocking conspiracy involving her school and beyond, but also
earns her sinister threats from the murderer. She has a choice---to
give up the hunt for answers, or keep digging and risk her loved
ones' lives. Either way, Flora will regret the consequences. Who's
next on the killer's list?
With a dad who disappeared years ago, and a mother who’s a bit too busy to parent, Emmy has always felt a little out of place. So when her mother announces she’s being shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, Emmy’s positive this will be the same.
Until she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home. Medallions that belonged to her father. Her father who may have gone to Wellsworth.
When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into the walls and books, which leads Emmy and her new friends to Wellsworth’s super-secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane.
Ellie's dream of being a flower girl comes true in the fourteenth
book of The Critter Club series! When Ellie learns that her cousin
is getting married, she's really excited! She has always wanted to
go to a wedding. But then she gets even better news when her cousin
asks her to be a flower girl! Then the Critter Club gets the cutest
guest Ellie has ever seen: a little French bulldog. Ellie works
hard to find a home for the puppy, but she's worried she won't be
able to. Suddenly she has an idea that will guarantee that the
puppy lives happily ever after! With easy-to-read language and
illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books
are perfect for beginning readers!
Amy Lennox doesn't know quite what to expect when she and her
mother pick up and leave Germany for Scotland, heading to her
mother's childhood home of Lennox House on the island of Stormsay.
Amy's grandmother, Lady Mairead, insists that Amy must read while
she resides at Lennox House - but not in the usual way. It turns
out that Amy is a book jumper, able to leap into a story and
interact with the world inside. As exciting as Amy's new power is,
it also brings danger - someone is stealing from the books she
visits, and that person may be after her life. Teaming up with
fellow book jumper Will, Amy vows to get to the bottom of the
thefts - at whatever cost.
Christopher's homecoming takes a sinister turn when a murderous
conspiracy is uncovered in this fifth novel of the award-winning
Blackthorn Key series. Christopher, Tom, and Sally are back in
London at last. Everyone is relieved at their return--the plague
has ended, and the king, pleased with their service, offers a
surprising reward. But trouble has followed them home... First, an
old friend is ambushed and left for dead. Then an anonymous letter
arrives at Blackthorn--a mysterious warning hidden inside a riddle
and secret code. As Christopher and his friends begin to
investigate, they soon discover they've stumbled upon a plot to
kill the king...and anyone else who dares stand in the traitors'
way.
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