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Jim Kay, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, conjures the wizarding world in stunning detail in this fully illustrated edition of the second book in J.K.Rowling's classic series.

"Foot-high words had been daubed on the wall between two windows,

shimmering in the light cast by the…

FOR OUR OLDER READERS...

For years, Gansey has been on a quest to find a lost king.

One by one, he's drawn others into his mission:

Ronan, who steals from dreams;

Adam, whose life is no longer his own;

Noah, whose life is no longer a life;

and Blue, who loves Gansey....and is…

The Eighth Story.

Nineteen Years Later

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it…

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They slowed as they reached the gate - two stone columns, each with its own crumbling angel perched on top.

The angels held up a rusty wrought-iron arch that read in curling serpentine letters:- Shiverton Hall.

Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly offered a place at Shiverton Hall, a…

He is Day, the boy who walks in the light.

She is June, the girl who seeks her brother’s killer.

On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. Irresistibly drawn together, neither knows the other’s past.

But Day murdered June’s brother

AND SHE HAS SWORN TO AVENGE HIS DEATH…

Based…

Terrifying warriors of the dark have formed an army, the like of which has never been seen before. They will spill human blood –

enough to make the waters that divide our lands from theirs run red.

The legend of the County’s new Spook continues…

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Thomas…

Contract killer Yassen Gregorovich has been given his orders: KILL ALEX RIDER.

As Yassen considers his mission, he remembers a secret from the past

that connects him to the fourteen-year-old spy. What is it that makes one of them

choose to do evil?

What does it take to make a…

The fate of the world is in the hands of the SOLDIER GIRLS…

Rio Richlin and her friends are going to war: But will they be strong enough to prove themselves on the front lines?

Am I a coward?

Her face is wet but her mouth is dry. Her heart is beating heavy and slow. Her breathing is…

Rose(rows) has a unique voice, and her story is very touching. Rose has a diagnosis of autism

and struggles to understand the unspoken social rules that are built in to the rest of us.

Her props are homonyms – she has an ever growing list of words pronounced the same as another but spelled…

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries – until now.

Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth’s radioactive surface.

Now 100 juvenile delinquents – considered expendable by society –

are being sent on a dangerous mission: to re-colonise the…