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The first audiobook in a brand-new series from award-winning children’s author Laura Wood. Join Effie Kostas as she fights to become Student Council President in her new school. With a campaign team of loveable misfits, she tackles the truly important subjects: gender imbalance, outdated school conventions...and good-looking boys stealing the last slice of chocolate cake at lunchtime. A laugh-out-loud rallying call for switched-on kids everywhere.

Willkommen in Poppys Welt! Hier gibt es Zuckerwatte und Popcorn zum Frühstück, einen zahmen Löwen namens Butterblume als besten Freund und Jonglieren und Seiltanz als Lieblingsfächer. So sieht Poppys Zirkusleben aus - bis kurz vor ihrem zwölften Geburtstag. Da nämlich kommt sie aufs Internat. Dort sorgt nicht nur Poppy, sondern auch eine ägyptische Ausstellung für Trubel.

Nach einer kunterbunten Kindheit im Zirkus stolpert die quirlige Poppy kopfüber ins aufregende Internatsleben. Und weil sie Zuckerwatte zum Frühstück verspeist und Saltos im Klassenzimmer vollführt, finden ihre Mitschüler sie ganz wunderbar. Vor allem Ingrid und Kip entpuppen sich als wahre Freundschaftswunder. Und Freunde für gemeinsame Abenteuer sind auch bitter nötig, denn es häufen sich Gerüchte über einen verborgenen Internatsschatz, und das nahegelegene Rathaus wurde angezündet. Außerdem scheint die aktuelle Macbeth-Theateraufführung in der Aula verflucht zu sein. Poppy, Ingrid und Kip wollen die Geheimnisse lüften...

From the winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing - it's Halloween at Saint Smithen's. When the Brimwell town hall burns down, the amateur production of Macbeth is moved to the school and it's all hands on deck. But when the play is struck by a series of mysterious attacks, it's up to Poppy, her friends and her circus family to save the play and unmask the culprit.

Poppy Pym has grown up in the circus, taming lions before lunch and learning acrobatics in the afternoon. But when she turns eleven, her circus family decides she needs a more traditional education, and she is sent to boarding school. At first Poppy doesn't fit in at St Smithen's, a school that is very different from the circus. Then an ancient Egyptian ruby arrives at school, and dangerous accidents start occurring. Suddenly it's up to Poppy to save her new school and solve the mystery of the pharaoh's curse!

A secret spy threatens St Smithen's, and Poppy Pym must solve her most difficult mystery yet! When a mysterious runaway van crashes into St Smithen's on the first day of the new school year, Poppy knows it's going to be an action-packed term! But when accidents continue to happen at St Smithen's, Poppy can't shake the feeling that her every move is being watched. With the Christmas holidays looming, secrets lurking in every corner and rumours of a dangerous beast on the loose....

Another great adventure in the Poppy Pym series! A school trip to the seaside couldn't come at a better time - sea and sand could be just what I need to take my mind off my past. But things are not what they seem here at Crumley Castle, and it's not long before I, Poppy Pym, find myself in the middle of my most dangerous case yet. Impossible disappearances, long-buried secrets and dangerous threats. Can the ghost stories be true? Or is the real villain right under our noses?

Effie is changing the world, one classroom at a time. Dark forces are at work at Highworth Grange school: the student council has been taken over by a tyrannical villain with his own agenda. But Effie Kostas isn't about to stand by and watch democracy crumble! She's leading the resistance - but politics can be a dirty game, and Effie will need to keep her wits about her as she faces down the enemy. With the help of her brilliant band of misfit friends, a bad-tempered parrot and a former nemesis, can Effie save the school she loves before it's too late?