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Books 9–16 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series! These eight titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the chapter-book series as a tool to promote reading, as even the most...

When you can't fix the present, the only solution is to change the past... Having taken down the Fate-Weaver and freed the future, Ember thought things in Everspring would be easier. But not everyone is happy. People don't know how to live their lives without the Fate Cards telling them what to...

Brought to you by Puffin. The first audio collection in the Doctor Who: Puffin Classics series featuring four adventures. Old legends and new worlds collide in this magnificent Doctor Who crossover with King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table While investigating a strange energy in...

When visiting a public house in the English village of Ombersley with her parents and brother, she suddenly finds herself transported back in time to 1651 during the reign of King Charles II and his escape after the battle of Worcester. How will she and her brother survive in these troubling times for the English Monarchy during the rise of Cromwell's army?

Arabella is cooking with her Gran one day when she opens the pantry door and is suddenly standing in a huge, old kitchen. Across the room is an open fire where a full pig is roasting on an old-fashioned spit. There she meets a kitchen boy who is preparing a big banquet for King Henry VIII and his guests.

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Who would burn books? Jack and Annie find out when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient China. There, a powerful emperor called the Dragon King has ordered...

The galaxy is at war and Jake Cutler is at the heart of it. With his friends and allies captured, it's up to teenage space pirate, Jake, to go into battle and take down the corrupt Interstellar Government once and for all. But in order to win this battle, Jake must find his father and confront secrets from his own past.

Arabella Twigg is studying history at school and her homework is to find out all she can about King George the Third. So she and Tom go to the local library, but as soon as they get inside, they find themselves in the King’s palace. Arabella and Tom are presented to the King and Queen and meet some of the children. However, the King is doing odd things and people are wondering if he is mad?

When a meteorite crashes to Earth near Crooked Oak, Pete, Nancy and Krish are determined to find it. But they’re not the only ones. After spotting one of their teachers up on the moor where the meteorite landed, they start to wonder if his strangely altered behaviour and appearance might be connected to the arrival from outer space. But nothing could prepare them for the horror they uncover deep down in Killburn Mine.

For the Tenth Doctor, the festive season always brought adventure. In fact, he's saved Christmas across space and time more times than we ever knew. Join the Doctor (and Donna and Martha and Rose, and other friends old and new) for incredible tales of daring and danger. From Daleks plotting to save humanity to Sycorax working to exploit it...from star-narwhals massing on the Moon to a toy factory in space. Because even in the jolliest of seasons there's a world or two to save.

Zac has to rescue one of GIB's best agents who has gone missing near the Vanishing Tomb, somewhere in the desert region of the Amber Sands. The Vanishing Tomb keeps vanishing and has ancient booby traps. Zac will need more than a bag full of super-cool spy gadgets to complete this mission and get out alive.

Zac is rocketed into outer space to stop the sabotage of a charity rock concert. An enemy agent is out to steal billions of dollars in donations and will stop at nothing to get them. This is Zac's toughest mission yet – can he handle the pressure?

Super-smart hackers are attacking the software that protects the GIB's ultra-powerful satellite, WorldEye. Sources lead Zac to Bladesville, a huge city where all the latest games and gadgets are developed. Can Zac track down the hackers, and outsmart them?