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Are you ready to meet the worst parents ever? Sure, some parents are embarrassing - but they?re NOTHING on this lot. These ten tales of the world?s most spectacularly silly mums and deliriously daft dads will leave you rocking with laughter. Pinch your nose for Peter Pong, the man with the stinkiest feet in the world? jump out of the way of Harriet Hurry, the fastest mum on two wheels? watch out for Monty Monopolize, the dad who takes all his kids?...
122) Boogie Bear
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English
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Up at the North Pole, a big furry polar bear is swimming, fishing and eating. But when she nods off and finds herself far from home, she thinks things can?t get any worse.But they can?Much worse!An outrageously funny picture book with an incredibly heartwarming message about celebrating difference - in all its forms.
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Tom Gates volume 5
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English
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This work takes the form of Tom's battered homework diary - crammed with his doodles and stories. Exciting news! Mr Fullerman announces that class 5F are going on an activity break which should be fun! As long as I don't ge stuck in a group with anyone who snores or worse still with Marcus Meldrew. Delia is already threatening to paint my room funny colours while I'm away. Which is annoying. I just hope the only surprise I have when I get home is...
125) The last human
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Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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An unlikely friendship. A dangerous voyage. A story about what it means to be human. Humans went extinct thirty years ago. Now the world is ruled by machines. And twelve-year-old robot XR_935 is just fine with that. Without humans around, there is no war, no pollution, no crime. Every member of society has a purpose. Everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Until the day XR discovers something impossible. Until the day XR discovers a twelve-year-old...
126) Coraline
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English
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When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own - except that it's different. It's a marvellous adventure until Coraline discovers that there's also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them for ever.
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Think your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world?s most splendidly sinister teachers will have you running for the school gates. Dr Dread teaches science and is half man, half monster? Watch out for the ghastly Miss Seethe. She is ALWAYS furious - and she?s on a detention rampage. And as for Pent, he?s a teacher with a real difference. He is bone-shakingly terrified of? children!.
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How to train your dragon volume 4
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English
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Fishlegs has been struck with deadly Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find - a potato. But where on Berk will Hiccup find such a thing? He'll have to dodge Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs and outwit crazy Hooligans if he's going to be a hero again.
129) Master of disaster
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Middle School volume 12
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Rafe Khatchadorian, Max Einstein, Jamie Grimm, Jacky Ha-Ha, Pottymouth and Stoopid and The Kidds ? Our favourite characters come together to save the day! My buddy Jimmy and I are finally up to something good - throwing a huge festival dedicated to books! But when one tiiiiiny problem snowballs into a big one and threatens to derail the whole celebration, everyone?s gotta work together to keep things moving before the party gets shut down - permanently!....
130) Wildspark
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Ghost Machine Adventure volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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In Medlock, machines don?t come to life - life comes to machines. Prue Haywood is on a mission: getting the ghost machines of Medlock to remember the people they used to be. She needs to find her brother, Francis. If she fails, her brother will stay dead. And if she succeeds, all of society may fall apart. From the acclaimed author of Brightstorm comes a new, breathtaking world to discover.
132) Stormbreaker
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Alex Rider volume 1
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English
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In the first book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, fourteen-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger.
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Walker Books
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Nicola Morgan's accessible and humourous examination of the ups and downs of the teenage brain deals with powerful emotions, the need for more sleep, the urge to take risks, the difference between genders, the reasons behind addiction and depression, and what lies ahead.
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Isadora Moon volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Isadora Moon is special because she is different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and Isadora is a bit of both. So when they all go camping at the seaside some things might happen that are not quite normal.
135) My mum Tracy Beaker
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Tracy Beaker volume 4
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English
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Jacqueline Wilson's bestselling, ultra famous and TOTALLY BRILLIANT Tracy Beaker is BACK!! Tracy has returned, hand in hand with her daughter Jess, she?s ready to make her childhood dreams come true. Jess and Tracy Beaker are the perfect team. They do everything together. Jess thinks Tracy is the best mum ever, even when she shouts at her teachers! Tracy has made the perfect home for Jess, leaving The Dumping Ground far behind her. Yes, their flat?s...
136) Catching fire
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The Hunger Games volume 2
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Scholastic
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English
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Suzanne Collins continues the amazing story of Katniss Everdeen in the phenomenal Hunger Games trilogy. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion...
137) Yes! No. (Maybe...)
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Tom Gates volume 8
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English
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It's the car boot sale and Mum's all excited. Will I be able to find a scooter (YES!), get grumpy Delia out of her room (No) and save my comic book collection (Maybe).
138) How to be a pirate
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How to train your dragon volume 2
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English
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking hero who ever lived - but it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a hero.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy volume 1
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English
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Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams? On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity - The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy. It?s an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and his best friend has just announced...
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