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Looking at the sky one frosty night, Marty sees the Dog Star, in all its brilliance, for the first time. Although she has Tiggy, her cat, Marty longs for a dog; she’d call it Star.Later that night, when the Dog Star’s light beams into her room, she discovers a real, live dog beneath her bed, and it seems that her wish has come true. But will Star bring Marty and her family happiness?

The owl tree is not like any tree Joe has ever seen. It’s huge and leafy and shivers at times like a person; it even seems to speak. Granny Diamond once saw an owl perched among its branches and she has loved the tree ever since. It means the world to her. But her neighbour, Mr Rock, wants to cut it down. Why does he dislike the owl tree so much? Does the tree have a secret to tell Joe? And how can he, a boy too scared even to climb the tree, be the one to save it?

A dark secret is emerging from Bloor's Academy. A boy was once lost in the attics and never seen again. Charlie Bone is intrigued, but he has problems of his own. Uncle Paton has disappeared.

Gabriel Silk's family have been the Keepers of a magical cloak for centuries. But when Gabriel is entrusted to take the cloak to his uncle, who lives under the curse of an evil sorceress, it goes missing. Gabriel and his cousin Sadie are determined to find the cloak before the sorceress does. But someone, or something, is following Gabriel. Have the Sleepers awoken?

Elliot, grieving for his dead mother, is sent to stay with his cousins. There he is haunted by Mary-Ellen, who was once kept prisoner in his room. The loss of her fiance, Orlando Rinaldi, killed in World War I, threatened her sanity - or so everyone thought.

Deliliah - huge, fluffy, grey, wide-golden-eyed - is a cat who specializes in dogspells. When dogs start shrinking - and worse - Annie steps in, but she has a soft spot for Delilah. The author's other books include The Snow Spider, winner of the Smarties Grand Prix.

Charlie Bone has finally found his father, but he’s disappeared again - on a second honeymoon with Charlie’s mother. But there’s no time to miss them, for there’s a strange salty mist in the air, and chilling howls in the night. And someone has been searching Charlie’s house. What are they looking for? And could Dagbert, the new boy with pale lips and cold aquamarine eyes, have something to do with it?

Charlie Bone wakes one snowy morning to find every creature in the city has vanished. What strange forces have been unleashed - and does the portrait of the Red King have something to do with it? The sixth thrilling story in the Charlie Bone series, from acclaimed author Jenny Nimmo.

Charlie and his friends are back in danger, and the balance of power between the Children of the Red King has never been more dangerous. In a dark laboratory deep within Bloor’s Academy, Manfred and Ezekiel are brewing up a very nasty kind of trouble for Charlie Bone...The fifth fantastic story in the Charlie Bone series, from acclaimed author Jenny Nimmo.

Dando the dragon can't fly. And he's lost in the land where the dreadful Doggins lurk and where dangerous humans have arrived. But with the help of an orphan girl, Dando finds himself on an incredible adventure to find his way home in The Dragon's Child. In the Night of the Unicorn Amber feels the shooting stars she saw in the night were trying to tell her something.

An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy. Join Charlie Bone as he discovers the truth about the Red King, and the key to his own past....January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam's cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor's in the 21st century, and realises Henry's cousin is none other than old Ezekiel Bloor.

The first installment of the international best-selling series from Jenny Nimmo starring Charlie Bone. Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices. Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone and her scary sisters soon find out and send him to Bloor's Academy.

Tatty Apple enters Owen-Owen’s life all of a sudden, one cold spring day when the wind is high on the wild mountainside. Owen has never seen such an extraordinary rabbit before - green and brown, like an apple that’s waited too long.‘A mischief maker!’ says Mrs Owen, when she finds the family sitting room turned upside down. ‘Stop thief!’ cries Mrs Price as the shiny box of chocolates vanishes from her shop. Only Owen-Owen knows the secret of the green rabbit’s extraordinary powers....

On his ninth birthday, Gwyn is given a brooch and told to cast it into the wind. Later he discovers the wind has sent something back: the snow spider.So begins Gwyn’s journey as a magician. Against the shimmering backdrop of a magical domed city, Gwyn has to battle evil and heal a fractured family... A spine-tingling story, full of magic and power, from acclaimed author Jenny Nimmo.

The enchanter Count Harken – the shadow in the painting of the Red King – is determined to stop Billy from discovering a life-changing family secret. His incredible power reaches out from the dark land of Badlock to wreak revenge on Charlie and his friends. Charlie’s ancestor, Otus Yewbeam – a giant, married to Amoret, the Red King’s daughter – has been imprisoned in Badlock by Count Harken. Charlie is sucked into a painting of Badlock and tries to rescue Otus. But can he outwit the shadow’s troll army?

The yellow letter arrived on a Saturday, otherwise Henry would have been at school. The envelope was such a bright, sunny colour, no one would have believed that it contained a bombshell. Less than 10 minutes after the arrival of the mysterious letter, Henry is on the run with his Auntie Pearl, possibly never to return home. Henry has a secret.

Noch nie waren Charlie Bone und seine Freunde in größerer Gefahr. Der finstere Schattenlord will ihre Stadt unterwerfen. Dafür schart er mächtige Verbündete um sich: die habgierigen Bloors, Hexen und Magier, einen Schwertkämpfer aus der Vergangenheit und Steinmonster, die ein dunkler Zauber zum Leben erweckt hat. Charlie ist fest entschlossen, den Schattenlord aufzuhalten, und bekommt unerwartet Hilfe von einem geheimnisvollen Ritter.

Ein düsteres Gemälde bringt Charlie Bone und seinen Freunden jede Menge Scherereien. Wer in das verhexte Bild hineingezogen wird, landet im Reich des finsteren Schattenlords. Dort funkeln niemals die Sterne und fiese Wächter lauern überall. Charlie will die Gefangenen des Lords befreien und bekommt dabei am eigenen Leib zu spüren, wie überaus mächtig sein Gegner ist.

Charlie Bone ist mal wieder in Schwierigkeiten. Ein äußerst widerlicher Schüler klebt wie ein Blutegel an ihm und vertreibt seine Freunde. Dabei braucht Charlie seine Vertrauten gerade jetzt ganz dringend. Der Wolfsjunge Asa ist spurlos verschwunden, grässliche Steinfiguren werden von einem Zauberer zum Leben erweckt und der geheimnisvolle Rote Ritter lässt sich ein Schwert schmieden, das ihn unbesiegbar macht.

Ein Sturm zieht auf, dunkle Wolken jagen über die Stadt und ein Schatten streift durch die Straßen. Mitten in der Nacht schreckt Charlie aus einem schrecklichen Traum hoch und spürt: Etwas ist geschehen. Etwas ist unterwegs und hinter ihm und den anderen Kindern des roten Königs her. Doch es sind weder die fiesen Bloors noch Charlies schreckliche Tanten: Lord Harken Badlock geht um, und dieses Mal wird es Charlie nicht ohne die Hilfe des roten Königs schaffen.