Philip Reeve

Hamsters - small, cute and cuddly. Except when you feed them weird brown gloopy stuff and they're cute, cuddly and the size of a house. Buster Bayliss is in really big trouble.

Is maths making you miserable? Are you traumatised by triangles and anxious about angles? Fear not: this book will help you solve the most testing of trigonomogeometric tasks.

Borgon the Axeboy is the last barbarian in the Lost Desert and he's on a mission to track down the most dangerous breakfast ever! He sets out to find the scariest dragon on the plains, but his annoying neighbour insists on tagging along. Grizzy is a little savage and far too nosey for her own good! But their adventure turns to peril when breakfast draws near. They'll have to learn to get along if they're ever going to survive.

When Borgon the Axeboy goes hunting for a blue rattlesnake, he discovers an abandoned temple. Then a band of thieves arrives to steal the temple's treasures, and everybody gets locked in! That's when some very mysterious things start to happen. Can Borgon and his friends defeat the slimy Zaffar, escape the deadly fire-wasps, survive a 200-year-old picnic and make it out of the whispering temple alive?