Charlie and the Haunted Tent and Charlie and the Big Snow


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Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he's trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! Haunted Tent Charlie sees his chance to be a hero when he finds out Max is scared of Aunt Emma's spooky house. Those ghosts had better watch out . . . Big Snow Charlie has waited his whole life for it to snow, but now it has no one will let him play in it! First no one wakes him up, then he has to go to school . . . Will he ever get to build his snowman?




Charlie and the Tooth Fairy and Charlie and the Big Birthday Bash


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Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he's trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! Tooth Fairy Charlie has four wobbly teeth and cannot wait for the tooth fairy to arrive. There must be some way to make them fall out quickly . . . Big Birthday Bash Why doesn't Max want a party to celebrate his birthday? It doesn't matter, Charlie is going to throw him one anyway!




Charlie and the Rocket Boy and Charlie and the Great Escape


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Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he's trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! Rocket Boy The new boy at school says his dad is on a rocket, flying to a star. Charlie knows Zachary is lying. No one has a dad that cool - do they? Great Escape Fed up of being picked on by his family, Charlie runs away - to Henry's house. The only problem is, Charlie forgot how QUIET runaways need to be . . .




Charlie and the Cheese and Onion Crisps and Charlie and the Cat Flap


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Charlie is an irresistibly funny little brother who manages to get into all kinds of scrapes. Whether he's trying to hinder or help his brother Max and best friend Henry, trouble is guaranteed! Cheese and Onion Crisps Henry knows there's something wrong when Charlie gives up cheese and onion crisps. Will the Truly Amazing Smarties Trick bring things back to normal? Cat Flap Charlie and Henry are planning the best sleepover ever, and have even laid down some ground rules: no itching powder, no dead flies and no super soakers. But the evening doesn't turn out quite how they planned . . .




Rose's Blog


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From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. It's tough being the youngest in the Casson family! It is nearly the end of Year 6, and Rose is preparing for Big School. With absent siblings, a perpetually-in-the-shed mother and finally-here-again-father, Rose's Blog reveals what happens to the Cassons - and Tom, of course. Hilary McKay's Casson family was first brought to life in the Whitbread Award-winning Saffy's Angel. Fierce as a small tiger, Permanent Rose has her own way of seeing the world. After Forever Rose (the last of the books following the Casson family), the eponymous Rose continued to grow up. Hilary posted entries from a blog Rose was keeping on her website, chronicling the further adventures of the Cassons. They are available here as one collection for the first time.




Binny in Secret


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From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. With her awful secondhand uniform and stuck-up classmates, Binny's new school is horrible. And life gets even worse when a storm damages the roof of her house, forcing Binny and her family to move to the countryside whilst it's being fixed. Binny, her sensible older sister Clem and her rambunctious brother James (and his chickens) begin adjusting to life in the country. Then one of James's beloved chickens vanishes and Binny finds strange footprints in the mud. What kind of creature is lurking in the undergrowth?




Charlie and the Tooth Fairy


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Charlie has four wobbly teeth| He can hardly wait to put them under his pillow for the tooth fairy| If only there was a way to make them fall out faster... The seventh book in this hilarious series, which also includes: Charlie and the Cat Flap, Charlie and the Great Escape, Charlie and the Big Snow, Charlie and the Rocket Boy, Charlie and the Cheese and Onion Crisps and Charlie and the Haunted Tent.




The Writers Directory


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Charlie and the Big Birthday Bash


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Charlie can't believe his big brother Max hates parties and doesn't want to celebrate his birthday| So Charlie sets out to give him a surprise birthday bash that he'll never forget| The eighth book in this hilarious series, which also includes: Charlie and the Cat Flap, Charlie and the Great Escape, Charlie and the Big Snow, Charlie and the Rocket Boy, Charlie and the Cheese and Onion Crisps, Charlie and the Haunted Tent, Charlie and the Tooth Fairy




Dead Lies Dreaming


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When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.