STOP PRESS: Orphan Algae exposes the High Council’s pipe shattering deception.‘Pa-ding!’Flames lick the tops of the pipes, machinegun sounds echo and black acrid smoke billows from the burning buildings! High Council troopers come up against stiff opposition from the inhabitancy of the pipes as Revolution gushes through like a breach in a blocked sewer.Algae from the Need Name orphanage, as tradition dictates, set off along the fibre optics to prove his adulthood, and...

The bestselling story about love, loss and hope that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children's book of the Year Award.When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain.Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature...

When everyone around you is panicking, it's time to take control and be everyone's hero. This book explains all the skills you'll need to get through even the toughest day. Entries include: how to survive a tornado; how to build an igloo; how to carry someone to safety; how to read an orienteering compass; how to survive a snakebite; how to survive an avalanche; how to make a catapult; how to make your own survival pack, and much much more.

Even bugs can be heroes! Join the Bug Buddies on bug-tastic adventures, as they pit their wits against the dreaded spider Spinner, creepiest of all creepy crawlies…Spinner's Wood is full of sticky mud, tall trees and long grass. But most of all, it's full of bugs!Meet the Bug Buddies – four best friends called Zap, Buzz, Lurch and Crunch. Their life would be perfect if it weren't for Spinner, who has eight legs and one mission: to trap the whole wood in his evil web. But ev...

In this rollicking middle-grade adventure and national bestseller, Michael Fry's witty text and hysterical artwork combines superhero action with classic fish-out-of-water humor.Victor Spoil comes from a long line of famous supervillains and he's fully expected to join their ranks one day. But to his family's utter disappointment, Victor doesn't have a single bad-guy bone in his body. He won't run with scissors, he always finishes his peas, and he can't stand to be...

Even bugs can be heroes! Join the Bug Buddies on bug-tastic adventures, as they pit their wits against the dreaded spider Spinner, creepiest of all creepy crawlies…Spinner's Wood is full of sticky mud, tall trees and long grass. But most of all, it's full of bugs!Meet the Bug Buddies – four best friends called Zap, Buzz, Lurch and Crunch. Their life would be perfect if it weren't for Spinner, who has eight legs and one mission: to trap the whole wood in his evil web. But ev...

Griff is a happy Miniature Schnauzer puppy who is thrilled to have just been adopted into a new human family. Outside in his yard, he soon meets other neighborhood animal residents and realizes there is a bucket of trouble brewing as someone is spreading gossip and hurting others. They hatch a plan for Griff to help expose the vicious gossip and return the beautiful neighborhood to peace.

When MrE, an idealist street artist and acolyte, leads the citizens of a politically and religiously oppressed dystopic city to the truth of their existence, the military regime targets him for elimination. But when he is suddenly discovered by a pretty street artist named OZone, revealing the truth takes on a whole new importance. Love will set them free. Or will it?

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It is among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet

Never bargain with the fae . . .A dying man delivers a terrible warning: civil war has broken out between neighboring clans. As healer and clanmistress, Ilyenna is tasked with keeping the wounded refugees alive and her people fed in the midst of a seemingly endless winter.But when the war moves to the heart of her village, Ilyenna looks into her enemy’s eyes and sees more than just cunning. There is also lust—lust for power and lust for her. She could save ...

“There was once” is a collection of fairy tales, stories and nursery rhymes retold by Constance Wilde (Constance Lloyd), the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. “There was once” includes such fairy tales and nursery rhymes as: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss-in-boots, Little Bo-peep, Cinderella, Old Mother Hubbard, The three bears, Babes in the wood, Jack the giant killer, The three kittens.The “Animedia Company” e-book edition (2013) contains the original colorful illustrations by ...

There are literally millions of books written about animals, but only two books written specifically for animals and this is one of them.* Originally these stories were published on the wind as an olfactory collection for dogs, but when they soared to #1 on the bestseller lists, other creatures demanded versions for themselves. Thus they were published with vegetable based inks for the edification of rabbits and slugs; converted into a vigorous waggle dance for honeybees; transcribed into ...