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The World’s Worst Pets, from Children's author David Walliams. Marvel at Houdini, the magician’s rabbit. Take a trip around the world with Zoom, the supersonic tortoise. Gasp at the chaos created by Griselda, a grizzly bear with a big secret. And RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! It’s Furp, the...

The Blunders, from Children's author David Walliams. Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny, along with their beloved grandma Old Lady Blunder, and their pet ostrich, Cedric. An ostrich is not a sensible pet, but then the Blunders are not sensible people. This family...

Astrochimp, from Children's author David Walliams. Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He would: - make rude noises from BOTH ENDS… - pick his nose with his little toe… - eat the skins of bananas, hurling out the tasty part inside. NASA’s scientists thought he’d be the PERFECT...

On the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill uncovered shocking information about their past - from what happened the night their parents died to the shattering discovery of their family branch. Will Book Nine be the end of Amy and Dan? Or just the end of everything they think they know?

At only seventeen years old, Ian Kabra is head of the Cahills, the most powerful family in the world. He has presidents on speed dial, generals at his beck and call. Ian knows he's an ideal leader and the only man for the job. There's just one small problem: He's already messed up big time. A Cahill from the past calling himself the Outcast has risen to challenge Ian with an impossible test. The Outcast has re-created four of history's greatest disasters and dared Ian to stop him.

The Cahill family has a secret. For five hundred years, they have guarded the 39 Clues - thirty-nine ingredients in a serum that transforms whomever takes it into the most powerful person on earth. If the serum got into the wrong hands, the disaster would rock the world. So certain Cahills have always made it their mission to keep the serum safe, buried, locked away. Until now. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, are the latest guardians of the Clues. They think they've done everything right, but a tiny mistake leads to catastrophe.

Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, head to the Land Down Under to discover what their own mother and father knew about the hunt for the 39 Clues. But following in their parents' footsteps brings up lost memories for Amy so awful that she can't share them . . . even with Dan. Haunted by the ghosts of their past, chased by deadly competitors, Dan and Amy can't see who is an enemy and who is a friend. Their blindness leads to a terrible mistake . . and the death of a hidden ally.

"For many days we had been tempest-tossed...the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost." So begins this delightful adventure story. The Robinson family, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, will emerge alive from this terrible storm, bringing to land two dogs and a shipload of livestock: hens, pigeons, and geese.

The blockbuster series continues with a Cahill family member from the past bent on revenge! Who is the Outcast, and why is he threatening the lives of innocent people? Book 3 reveals a shocking secret that will send Amy and Dan - and the world - reeling.

What began with a reimagining of Peter Pan and Wendy now twists into a stunning version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass! Gwen, Pete, and the others have escaped from Everland. But the safe haven they hoped to find at Alnwick Castle doesn't exist. With the Queen of England on her deathbed, Duchess Alyssa has stepped in to lead, but things have gotten worse as the cure Doc created for the Horologia virus has mutated, accelerating the disease.

Svět je plný dětí tak hrozných, že na ně jedna audiokniha rozhodně nestačí. Tihle vejlupci jsou ještě mnohem horšejší než tlupa, kterou vám představil první díl. Tak třeba proti Hubertovi je Otesánek hadr. A Stáza nebo Simon tolik touží po slávě a vítězství, že se neštítí ničeho! Věřili byste, že někdo může být tak nemilosrdný, aby chtěl trápit roztomilá koťátka? A co kdyby na vás někdo nachystal vanu plnou slimáků, žížal, pavouků, housenek a švábů? Tahle banda odporníků zkrátka skutečně stojí za to!

Seznamte se s pěti příšernými kluky a pěti hroznými holkami! Třeba s Žofkou, která stojí jen o jedno: válet se celý den na pohovce a koukat na telku. Není divu, že se jí stane ta hrozná věc, o níž se tu snad ani nebudeme zmiňovat! Nebo se Samem, který slintá tak moc, že se na školním výletě dostane do strašného průšvihu! A nezapomeňte ani na Brečivou Bertu, ubulenou holku, která si příšerně vymýšlí! Svými superschopnostmi vás omráčí i Všivák Véna, Špindíra Štěpka či Dlouban Dan.

Has sentit a parlar mai de Guguengol? És un continent o una illa? No se’n sap gairebé res. Tret d’una cosa: a Guguengol qualsevol feblesa és condemnada, i no hi ha pietat per als dèbils. El Notlits està a les portes de l’edat adulta, però abans de ser considerat tot un home s’haurà de sotmetre a unes proves que li poden costar la vida.

Ten-year-old Nathan Abercrombie is having a really bad day. First, Shawna Lanchester, the prettiest girl in his class, doesn't invite him to her party. Then he gets picked last in gym class. Things couldn't get any worse…until he gets doused with an experimental serum that turns him into a...

Stupendous Drew Pendous' next adventure takes him to ancient Egypt, where he must stop Ray Blank from erasing history! Based on the popular YouTube series COOL SCHOOL. On a field trip to the art museum, the Cool Schoolers notice that the nose is missing from the Sphinx! Drew Pendous uses his...

Casper Candlewacks is the only boy with any sense in a village full of idiots… a hilarious debut novel from the funniest new voice in young fiction Most villages have an idiot but Casper's village is full of them. So being bright makes poor Casper something of an outsider. When famous magician...