While Ireland has always been a perennial favorite among travelers, with some 6 million visitors last year, Irish culture has a stronghold in the United States: of the 70 million people of Irish descent worldwide, 44 million are American. Ireland-its landscape, religion, history, arts, and eternal romance-are all an integral part of the American ...
Jenny is tall, so tall that when she turns up at her new school, everyone assumes that she is really the new teacher. Suddenly she finds herself having to rescue pupils, deal with a stray rat, teach chemistry and escape the clutches of Miss Ice, the headmistress.
"Room 13" - Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing. There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room 12. And something is happening to Ellie-May ...
From the author of "Mike's Magic Seeds", "Alix and the Tigers" and "Suzy Magician", this story is about Tim who lives with his house-proud aunt. The trouble begins when Uncle George makes Tim a tin dog and they take it to the circus.
No matter how hard Annie tries, she just cannot do even the simplest sums. Until one day, that is, when she goes to sleep with a calculator under her pillow, and a strange thing happens.
Last conker season Little Alpesh had lost every single game! That's why he's determined this year's going to be different. This year he's going to win, and he won't stop until he's Conker Champion of the Universe.
The trouble starts when Jacob Two-Two's father brings home a little green lizard from abroad. Unfortunately, the little lizard grows into a huge dinosaur, as fat as an elephant, as tall as a giraffe, and with a huge appetite. When Dippy is threatened, he and Jacob take to the road.
A collection of new sports stories which cover popular sports such as cricket, tennis and football, as well as trampolining, skateboarding and other less-familiar events. The authors include Robert Leeson, Anthony Masters, Jean Ure, Jan Mark, Brian Morse and Michelle Magorian.
Ten football stories from a selection of children's authors, including Rob Childs, Paul Stewart and Narinda Dhami. Meet Craig, who takes advice from a phantom footballer, and Dave, an inexperienced goalie who has to make split-second decisions in a penalty shoot-out.
Neil finds himself in the "Thought Domain", but this place where the thoughts of every single person are organized, is being paralyzed by a great evil. Unless Neil can destroy the wicked Gander, people everywhere will be unable to think properly, and catastrophe will follow.
Ten-year-old Bella is bored when she's sent to stay with her grandmother - until she's given the old Sunday school piano to play. As she begins to practise, she realizes with a growing sense of horror that the piano is alive, and that it demands to be played.
Danebridge school football team - captained by goalie Chris Weston - have had a shaky season in the league, but a good Cup run. Now they face a crucial semi-final replay - a match they must win if they are to meet their arch-rivals, Shenby, in the Final.
Two children, Joe and Gemma, become intrigued by a weird magician called Abednego and when things start to disappear they set out to find him. He reveals he has invented a formula that makes animals disappear and wants to try it on people, himself being the guinea pig.
Pocket Tales is part of Pocket Reads, a superb collection of quality books that really capture children's imaginations! Pocket Reads have fantastic breadth and variety of genre, with Pocket Sci-Fi, Pocket Facts and Pocket Chillers making up the rest of the collection of independent readers. The fiction books are beautifully illustrated and are ...
Twelve year old Neil is frustrated and walks out of school only to find himself in a strange world. He has entered the thought domain, where all humanities thoughts are stored and processed. It is under threat from an evil creature and Neil's mission is to destroy it, before the world is destroyed.
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