Introducing the first illustrated novel about hurling!Something has to be done…Ray is getting tired of losing every match he plays with his team, the Ballybreen Terriers. Not only are they constantly at the bottom of the league, they have to face the gloating of rival Dennis 'Dirty Den' Conway.Before they become the laughing stock, Ray persuades Fintan Heffernan, ex-star player of U10's to leave his early retirement and computer games to help bring...

Life could be better for Conor Corcoran. Class bully Damian Deegan is always teasing him about being small and having no friends – when in fact Conor has the only friend he needs in Charlotte 'Charlie' Finch, the toughest girl in school. But when Conor and Charlie accidentally uncover a prehistoric man who was flash-frozen in a block of ice, life suddenly gets a bit too interesting! How long can Conor keep his huge, hairy (and rather smelly) new 'uncle' a secret from his mum, his teachers ...

Dublin, 1937. A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films! Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film. But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her real-life heroes.

Sam Hannigan runs an animal shelter in Clobberstown, Co. Dublin with her creepy-crawlie-crazy best friend Ajay Patel and her just-plain-crazy granny Nanny Gigg. Oh yes, and her big bully brother Bruno.When a mysterious package arrives on the doorstep of Hannigan's Haven, Sam and the gang are astonished to discover that it contains a living, breathing Dodo bird! Where did the dodo come from, who sent it, and, most importantly, how is it not extinct? Being a lover of all animals, Sam...

Dublin’s dogs are mysteriously disappearing! No guard dogs means thieves are running riot, and with no sheepdogs to herd the animals in Smithfield market, the city is overrun with sheep and goats … and even worse, Dublin’s cats are having an absolute field day! The dwindling doggy population is being blamed on a curious creature known as the Irish Yeti, a tall, terrifying shaggy beast with snow-white fur and red, glowing eyes. Bram Stoker, Molly Malone and the Sackville Street Spooks are f...

Dublin, 1937A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films!Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film.But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her rea...

Life could be better for Conor Corcoran. Class bully Damian Deegan is always teasing him about being small and having no friends – when in fact Conor has the only friend he needs in Charlotte 'Charlie' Finch, the toughest girl in school.But when Conor and Charlie accidentally uncover a prehistoric man who was flash-frozen in a block of ice, life suddenly gets a bit too interesting!How long can Conor keep his huge, hairy (and rather smelly) new 'uncle' a secret from...

Dublin, 1937. When Sylvie meets tenement boy Jem and his daredevil sister Juno, they bond over their love of movies. But an accident means Juno will miss the latest film at the Grando, so they hatch a plot to hijack the movie reel and do a top-secret private showing instead! Meanwhile, a sneak thief called The Magpie has his eye on the Grand Central Cinema too. Can Sylvie and Jem revive Juno's ailing spirits by bringing the movies to her? And will they foil The Magpie's feather-brained pla...

Dublin & London 1859: A tale of two cities Bram Stoker: boy seeking adventure (and things to write about) Molly Malone: part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak legend! Best friends Molly and Bram are on a mission in London. Famous writer Charles Dickens has been kidnapped! The pals set out to search the darkest corners of the city. On their travels, they meet all sorts of characters, among them a foul-mouthed fowl and Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. Can they solve the riddle of the dis...

Dublin, 1858. Bram Stoker: boy seeking adventure (and things to write about) Molly Malone: part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief! When Bram runs away from boarding school and meets streetwise Molly, he finds all the excitement he's ever wanted. Together they explore the city, with its Sackville Street spooks, hoodlums and heroes – and let's not forget the very creepy Count Vladimir Grof-Constantin de Lugosi. As Bram looks for inspiration for the famous book he has yet to write – D...

Dublin, 1859. Bram Stoker – boy seeking adventure (and things to write about) Molly Malone – part-time sneak thief and full-time Dublin legend! When Bram and his best pal Molly meet a lonely boy called Sanjit in Dublin’s Natural History Museum, they can see he needs some friends. So, they, along with Molly’s gang, The Sackville Street Spooks, take him under their wing. Sanjit tells them the tale of the dread (and very dead) pirate, Captain Lamprey and his links to the Museum. Soon the new ...

Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery, and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate cause.Alan Nolan explodes these and other assumptions about Lee and the war through a rigorous reex...