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Herontdek die tydlose verhaal van Gouelokkies en die drie
bere met ons betowerende opwipboek! Wanneer Mamma Beer, Pappa Beer
en Baba Beer in die woud gaan stap, gaan die ondeunde klein
Gouelokkies hulle huisie binne. Toe die bere terugkom, wag daar ’n
groot verrassing op hulle . . .
Jason wil graag eendag 'n fyngebaksjef word. Hy en sy twee beste maats, Tando en Claudia, neem saam bakklasse en besluit om in te skryf vir Bohaai! 'n bakkompetisie wat op TV uitgesaai word. Maar gaan Minette, Jason se grootste kompetisie, ook deelneem? Wie moet hy kies om in sy span te wees? Hoe gaan hy keer dat Minette wen? Veral as hy met goed soos deegmonsters, stink koekies en resepte in vreemde tale te doen kry?
’n Wetenskapsfiksieverhaal wat in die Klein-Karoo en Kaapstad afspeel. Die agtienjarige Laela Nix se ouers word deur die gevreesde Genmodregering vermoor. Sy slaan op die vlug en beland op die plaas Swartfontein, ’n insekteelstasie. Sy leer die bestuurder van die plaas, Finian, en sy twee mak rooijakkalse ken. Maar die vrae bly knaag, oor haar ouers se dood, oor haar vervreemde, beeldskone en gewetenlose suster Jessi. Wie kan sy vertrou?
"Dit was 'n besige dag. Tjoppie maak gereed om te gaan slaap. Hy pak sy
speelgoed weg, baljaar in die bad en lees 'n lekker slaaptydstorie.
Laerskool Klipdassie kry besoek van Dr. Ragno en sy dogter, wat vir die leerders 'n demonstrasie kom gee van die robotiese spinnekoppe wat hulle bou. Maar 'n juffrou stuur Georgi, Frikkie en Enzo uit die saal! Die drie maats sluip na 'n kamertjie onder die verhoog, vanwaar hulle steeds alles sien.
George en Harold het al vir amper almal in Leergierig Laer ’n poets of twee gebak. Wanneer hulle nuutste poets veroorsaak dat die skool se kostannies bedank, stel mnr. Mor drie ongewone tannies aan – wat boonop baie soos aliens lyk! Sal Kaptein Onderbroek, die held met die rooi mantel, die skool en kinders kan red? Of sal die drie kostannies uit die ruimte hom vir middagete verslind?
Zander mis sy sussie. En daarmee saam voel dit vir hom asof hy besig is om sy ouers ook te verloor. Maar gelukkig is daar genoeg om sy aandag van dinge by die huis af te lei. Hy en sy pelle, Mieke, Bongani en Ruben, gaan ’n kortfilm maak vir die kunsfees en hulle gaan seerowers wees! Hulle het selfs die perfekte plek om die video te skiet – die vervalle ou huis in die doodloopstraat se vuil swembad. Maar dan ontdek hulle iets skokkends . . . en dit word ’n saak van lewe of dood.
In the heart of Soweto, Gogo's Goodies Spaza transforms into a culinary
battleground during The Great Soweto Cook-Off! When Gogo Tina decides
to enter the prestigious competition, Tumi thinks she has the perfect
plan: she and her twin cousins will surprise Gogo and help her win the
competition by any creative means necessary. But they soon realise
there’s more to cooking than they thought, as things go from bad to
worse. Will this culinary catastrophe be too much to handle?
In die tweede boek in die reeks hou die kosskool hou 'n filmkompetisie en almal gebruik hulle talente om die wonderlikste tonele te skiet. Alva en haar vriende wil baie graag wen, maar vreemde kragonderbrekings plaas die groot premieraand in gevaar. Kan die vriendegroep betyds uitvind wie verantwoordelik is? En sal die geheimsinnige kennisgewingbord weer help om lig op die duisternis te werp?
Van ’n teddiebeer wat lewend word, tot ’n snotmonster wat ’n koshuis terroriseer en ’n spookmeisie wat in die middel van die nag in jou oor fluister. Hierdie bundel bevat 11 naelkou-lekker kortverhale deur twee skrywers wat presiés weet hoe om al die hare op jou kop regop te laat staan. Die laaste storie is boonop ekstra spannend en onvoorspelbaar, aangesien dit as ’n aflosverhaal geskryf is – een hoofstuk elk, afwisselend deur hierdie twee grilverhaal-meesters.
"Elzandri, ’n holderstebolder plaaskind uit ’n groot, hegte familie,
het een jaar om aan haar pa te bewys sy kan haar eie toekomsbesluite
neem voor hy haar dwing om ná matriek universiteit toe te gaan.
Wanneer haar oudste niggie verloof raak en Elzandri vra om die
troufoto’s te neem, is dit die perfekte geleentheid om haar geliefde
stokperdjie in ’n besigheid te omskep. Daar’s net een probleem: sy moet
die knorrige buurseun vra om haar te help."
Die verhaal neem die lesers op ʼn lugballonavontuur saam met Katerien, Stef, Ouma Katie en ʼn Great Dane-brak – Krummel. Ouma Katie se emmerskoplys neem hulle letterlik na hoër hoogtes. Die titel vorm deel van die Best Books vir klaslees-reeks wat fokus op leesboeke wat EAT-leerders in die klas kan lees.
Wanneer Helena se vervreemde pa toevallig by haar ma se werkplek inloop
en sy besluit om hom vir onderhoud te dagvaar, gebeur daar iets wat
hulle lewens onherroeplik verander. Soos 'n hedendaagse Aspoestertjie
verruil Helena die gehawende wendyhuis op die plot vir al die luukses
wat haar hart begeer. Maar selfs in hierdie idilliese bestaan kan
Helena nie van die werklikhede van die lewe ontsnap nie.
WJ, sy suster Mindie, en hul beste vriend Raj, wil graag iets
asemrowends aantrek vir die skool se kostuumdag aan die einde van
Boekeweek. Hulle moet soos karakters uit hulle gunstelingboek aantrek
en besluit op Die Drie Musketiers. Maar wanneer hulle in 'n vreemde
oudhedewinkel op die perfekte bykomstighede vir hulle kostuums afkom,
loop dinge lelik skeef. Nou is hulle Die Drie Muskiete! En hulle moet
'n wêreld van insekte en monsters oorleef om weer hul pad terug te vind
huis toe.
Dit is 'n nuwe dag en die son skyn buite. Tjoppie en sy maats verken
die tuin en baljaar in die park. Wat gaan hulle nog alles doen?
Wat as jou bekende wêreld skielik verander en dit voel asof niks ooit
weer "normaal" sal wees nie? Die krieketmal stadskind Ben bevind hom
uit die bloute op die plaas by sy grootouers. Hy weet nie wanneer hy
weer sy ouers sal sien nie, en die Gr 7-jaar waarna hy en Alvin so
uitgesien het, is skielik vervang met praatjies oor lammers en weiding.
Maar gaandeweg begin Ben die groter prentjie sien. 'n Diepsinnige, dog
ligte grootwordstorie.
Wanneer die elfjarige Drico van Vuuren en sy ouers in nuwe ’n spogbuurt
intrek, dink hulle aanvanklik die ou, vervalle huis langsaan is
onbewoon. Maar dan ontmoet Drico vir Blanche Winterbach – die
spookmeisie wat saam met haar spookouers en hulle eienaardige
huishoudster daar woon. Drico en Blanche het skaars vriende geraak
voordat hulle moet saamstaan om die verkoop van die spoke se huis te
keer. Veral omdat Drico se melodramatiese kleinniggie,
Kirna-Aubrecia, langsaan wil intrek.
Enzo, Frikkie en Georgi neem deel aan die Wêreld-Robotolimpiade se
kompetisie vir robotte van Lego-blokkies. Een van dr. Ragno se
spinnebotte kom handig te pas en word met Lego-blokkies gepantser.
Georgi is bekommerd oor die spinnebotte se ingeboude lasers. Die
kompetisiereëls verbied wapens. Toe die Dassie-span met Skerpioen 8 by
die kompetisie opdaag, sien hulle ’n lang skraal man en ’n meisie wat
baie bekend lyk. Maar dr. Ragno en Veronica moet mos in die tronk wees
. . .
Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She's married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she's paid for this fairytale. She doesn't know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts. Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.
Six of Crows meets Graceling with a dash of Winter is Coming in Katy Rose Pool's second installment of the action-packed and swoon-worthy Age of Darkness series--As the Shadow Rises. As the Shadow Rises solidifies Katy Rose Pool's status as one of the best fantasy writers of the 21st century. --Popsugar The Last Prophet has been found, yet he sees destruction ahead. In this sequel to the critically-acclaimed There Will Come a Darkness, kingdoms have begun to fall to a doomsday cult, the magical Graced are being persecuted, and an ancient power threatens to break free. But with the world hurtling toward its prophesized end, Anton's haunting vision reveals the dangerous beginnings of a plan to stop the Age of Darkness. As Jude, Keeper of the Order of the Last Light, returns home in disgrace, his quest to aid the Prophet is complicated by his growing feelings for Anton. Meanwhile, the assassin known as the Pale Hand will stop at nothing to find her undead sister before she dies for good, even if it means letting the world burn. And in Nazirah, Hassan, the kingdom-less Prince, forms a risky pact to try to regain his throne. When the forces of light and darkness collide in the City of Mercy, old wounds are reopened, new alliances are tested, and the end of the world begins. The Age of Darkness trilogy is perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Children of Blood and Bone, and An Ember in the Ashes. * Adventurous relic-hunting, mind-blowing twists, budding love, and terrible betrayals feature in this multiple-narrator, character-driven study of power, agency, and identity. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Praise for There Will Come a Darkness Reading this intricate YA fantasy, you get the feeling Katy Rose Pool's plot is always seven steps ahead of you. You'll want to catch up as quickly as possible. --Refinery 29
In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure. A stunning picture book from international bestsellers The Fan Brothers, joined by their brother Devin Fan. Deep underground beneath Perfect Pets, where children can buy genetically engineered "perfect" creatures, there is a secret lab. Barnabus and his friends live in this lab, but none of them are perfect. They are all Failed Projects. Barnabus has never been outside his tiny bell jar, yet he dreams of one day seeing the world above ground that his pal Pip the cockroach has told him about: a world with green hills and trees, and buildings that reach all the way to the sky, lit with their own stars. But Barnabus may have to reach the outside world sooner than he thought, because the Green Rubber Suits are about to recycle all Failed Projects . . . and Barnabus doesn't want to be made into a fluffier pet with bigger eyes. He just wants to be himself. So he decides it's time for he and the others to escape. With his little trunk and a lot of cooperation and courage, Barnabus sets out to find freedom - and a place where he and his friends can finally be accepted for who they are. This suspenseful, poignant and magical story about following your dreams and finding where you truly belong will draw readers into a surreal, lushly detailed world in which perfection really means being true to yourself and your friends. 'A stately, cathartic morality tale about freeing oneself from the tyranny of wanting to be perfect.' -The Financial Times 'ingeniously imaginative' - School Library Journal 'A heartfelt, timely allegory celebrating diversity, bravery, and solidarity.'- Kirkus
When Tom's granny returns from her latest world travels, Tom is alarmed to hear that not only is she moving in with them, but that Tom is expected to share a bedroom with her. Tom's granny is one of life's eccentrics and where she goes, chaos follows. True to form Granny immediately turns Tom's life upside down, not helped by Tom' super-hero obsessed dad, her quirky, yoga-teaching mum and weirdly obsessive little brother. Desperate to get things back to normal, Tom lists her granny for sale on e-Sellalot, more as a joke than anything else. But it's when bids actually start rolling in in ever-increasing amounts that the trouble really starts!
Ocellus: The Story of the Twelfth Stone, is the first book in the Ocellus Series, an epic fantasy-adventure for middle-grade to young adult. Shy, grieving, 11-year-old Joshua discovers a glassy-black, oval stone in a rock pool. Engraved on one face is a human eye, and Joshua senses the eye staring at him, so he decides to keep it. Later, he discovers there is much more to the mysterious artefact than meets the eye. Soon after, an alien confronts him, saying he has searched for the eye-stone (Ocellus) for trillions of years. He reveals that Ocellus, together with twelve other similar stones, is the source of all energy, matter and life, but trillions of years ago, evil creatures stole the thirteen stones and hid them across all the universes. Joshua naturally finds the alien's story too fantastic, so to prove his story, and promising no harm will come to him, the alien takes Joshua and his step-sister, Alessa, along with the stone, to his own universe where he becomes close friends with another alien his age. Together, they undertake a series of ever-more hazardous missions to help retrieve the missing stones. After one mission goes awry, the evil creatures attack and Joshua finds himself trapped in the other universe, where he discovers some information about Ocellus that calls into question everything the alien has told him. Can Joshua establish the truth about the thirteen stones? Can he help defeat the evil creatures, and bring peace to the universes? And can he ever find his way back to Earth? Immense in scope and deep in emotion, the story of Ocellus will live in the memory.
Ocellus: The Story of the Twelfth Stone, is the first book in the Ocellus Series, an epic fantasy-adventure for middle-grade to young adult. Shy, grieving, 11-year-old Joshua discovers a glassy-black, oval stone in a rock pool. Engraved on one face is a human eye, and Joshua senses the eye staring at him, so he decides to keep it. Later, he discovers there is much more to the mysterious artefact than meets the eye. Soon after, an alien confronts him, saying he has searched for the eye-stone (Ocellus) for trillions of years. He reveals that Ocellus, together with twelve other similar stones, is the source of all energy, matter and life, but trillions of years ago, evil creatures stole the thirteen stones and hid them across all the universes. Joshua naturally finds the alien's story too fantastic, so to prove his story, and promising no harm will come to him, the alien takes Joshua and his step-sister, Alessa, along with the stone, to his own universe where he becomes close friends with another alien his age. Together, they undertake a series of ever-more hazardous missions to help retrieve the missing stones. After one mission goes awry, the evil creatures attack and Joshua finds himself trapped in the other universe, where he discovers some information about Ocellus that calls into question everything the alien has told him. Can Joshua establish the truth about the thirteen stones? Can he help defeat the evil creatures, and bring peace to the universes? And can he ever find his way back to Earth? Immense in scope and deep in emotion, the story of Ocellus will live in the memory.
In this Christmas story starring the crayons from the #1 New York Times bestseller The Day The Crayons Quit, Green Crayon is certain that he is the only Christmas color in the box. Of course, Red, White, Silver and even Tan have something to say about that... When Green Crayon claims that green is the only color for Christmas, other crayons let him know that there would be no Christmas without them either. No candy canes or Santa without Red, no snow without White, no bells or stars without Silver, and no cookies or reindeer without Tan! The crayons agree that they all need to come together to make Christmas special. This humorous, small hardcover Christmas story is the perfect stocking stuffer and a great gift for fans of The Day The Crayons Quit-and all kids who like to color. |
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