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The Mighty Skink

Author : Paul Shipton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 16,47 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780192752017

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Giz is a rhesus monkey and he's full of Big Questions. Like what's onthe other side of The Fence. Living in a zoo enclosure with the rest of thetribe, Giz is desperate to find out what happens in the land of humans. Then,out of the blue, a newcomer arrives. Skink is an outrageous, fast-talkingmonkey who's had time in a lab cage, a pet shop and a circus. Full of mischiefand fun, he helps Giz escape and together they try to find out more about wherethey come from - and decide where they're going to end up.BLPaul Shipton is the author of the massively popular BUG MULDOON booksBLLike Animal Farm, this is a book that explores big themes through animals :social order, animal rights, bullying and self-realization



Bug Muldoon and the Killer in the Rain

Author : Paul Shipton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 40,29 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780192751355

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A sequel to the popular book, 'Bug Muldoon', about a beetle detective told in a Raymond Chandler-type narrative. Bug's latest case is to find out who the killer in the rain is - and this means a treacherous trip to the House, where the Humans live. No insect in their right mind would go there- except Bug. * Humorous detective story with a twist that will appeal to boy readers who are into comics and young detective stories (and insects!!). * US film interest in first 'Bug Muldoon' story. * Second in series, with a third story to come. * Being reissued in mass market format with a new cover. * Paul Shipton lives in the USA with his wife and two daughters.



Bug Muldoon

Author : Paul Shipton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 50,16 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780192752741

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The original 'Bug Muldoon' book, about a beetle detective told in aRaymond Chandler-type narrative.There's weird stuff going on in the garden and Bug has to get to the bottom ofit. It started off as a run-of-the-mill missing insect case, but now the antsare acting strange and the Wasp Queen is threatening to kill him. Just what isgoing on...



Space Lizards Stole My Brain!

Author : Mark Griffiths

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 48,25 MB

Release : 2013-01-17

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1471117901

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When Admiral Skink, an alien-lizard warlord from the planet Swerdlix, is attacked by The Hideous and Unimaginably Vast Comet Creature of Poppledock he faces a certain death… but luckily his underlings have installed the BrainTwizzler 360 Mind Migration SystemTM. This nifty invention safely transfers Skink's mind on to a memory wafer and jettisons it through space to find a suitable temporary "home" until he can be rescued by his fellow Swerdlixians. Unluckily for eleven-year-old Lance Spratley it just so happens that the temporary home for Admiral Skink's mind is his body! And while Skink deals with being trapped in Lance's useless body - it can't even breathe fire! - Lance is transferred to a virtual waiting room surrounded by the lizard race who seem intent on destroying Earth when they have successfully retrieved Skink.Will Lance ever get his body back? And even if he does will he be able to thwart Admiral Skink and the Swerdlixians plans to invade Earth…



So You Want to be the Perfect Family?

Author : Josephine Feeney

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 39,47 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780192752338

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Katie and her family are chosen to appear on a new TV show, 'So You Want to be the Perfect Family?' A panel of experts try to bring the family to perfection, tackling one 'problem area' (such as clothes, eating habits and inter-personal relationships) each week. The ensuing chaos thrusts the family into the limelight, and eventually they begin to wonder whether becoming 'perfect' is really such a good idea...



The Man Who Was Hate

Author : Paul Shipton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 24,10 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780192751454

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A gripping story about the Man Who Was Hate - Victor Grundy. He has been chosen to awaken the Sleeper, who is going to bring destruction to the world. To fulfil his destiny Victor is transformed from a man into a terrifying basilisk. The only two people who can stop him are Danny and Hope, two teenagers who are trapped in the same apartment block as Victor.



The Pig who Saved the World

Author : Paul Shipton

Publisher : Candlewick Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 42,63 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780763634469

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After saving the Cosmos, Gryllus the Pig is tired of being a hero and longs to return to human form, but the only person who can change him back is the demi-goddess Circe, who, along with all the other Olympians, is nowhere to be found.



Geek Inc. : Technoslime Terror

Author : Mark Griffiths

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 41,81 MB

Release : 2013-01-03

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0857075381

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Somewhere in the small, dull town of Blue Hills, the impossible is happening. Inanimate objects are coming to life. Time travellers from the future are mingling unnoticed with the shoppers in the high street. School children are developing uncanny powers. Strange creatures are lurking within the grounds of a forgotten stately home. And with each of these mysteries comes a terrible threat that just might endanger the entire world... Fortunately, help with these extraordinary phenomena is at hand in the form of Gabby Grayling and Barney Watkins aka Geek Inc.! Gabby and Barney are set to investigate all the odd happenings in their town and find out the truth… In the first book in the series, Barney and Gabby meet and form a friendship when they investigate a top secret Government technology that brings inanimate objects to life. They also have to contend with the evil machinations of Gloria Pickles, the terrifying eleven year old editor of the school newspaper and would-be dictator.



Double Whammy

Author : Carl Hiaasen

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 391 pages

File Size : 19,75 MB

Release : 1988-01-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101436646

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“Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida—and a lot that’s rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she’s in bed with her new husband; and face deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. And here his own life becomes part of the stakes. For while the “double whammy” is the lure, first prize is for the most ingenious murder.



The School Librarian

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Publisher :

Page : 254 pages

File Size : 48,81 MB

Release : 1998

Category : School libraries

ISBN :

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