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Dustbin Cat

Written by Ingrid Lee.

In Billy’s town, the stray cats are running wild and there’s growing pressure to exterminate them. So when he finds an injured cat and decides to help her, he has to be extra careful. However precious Conga may be to him, his dad would...

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Ghosthunters 1: Incredibly Revolting Ghost

Written by Cornelia Funke.

Watch out for ghost goo!  Tom’s stuck at home with his horrible sister, Lola. But there’s something stickier hiding out in his cellar – a slime-dripping ghost called Hugo! And harmless Hugo is in the goo too, because...

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Ghosthunters 2: Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghost

Written by Cornelia Funke.

No smoke without fiery phantoms! No ghoul has a chance against the new ghosthunting agency – made up of schoolboy Tom, Hugo (the Averagely Spooky Ghost) and world-famous spookhunter Hetty Hyssop – or does it? Things hot up when...

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Ghosthunters 3: Bloodthirsty Baroness

Written by Cornelia Funke.

Don’t lose your head! Hair-raising things are happening at Gloomburg Castle. Not least because the murderous spirit of a brutal baroness has bodynapped the owner! As ever, the ghosthunters rise to the challenge. But the job gets tricky when...

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Ghosthunters 4: Mud-dripping Monster

Written by Cornelia Funke.

Stuck in the mud!   Ghoulhunting is a riot, but exams are not, and Tom is taking his Third Ghosthunting Diploma. When he is sent to Bogpool, a misty, muddy village, it seems it’s bog-standard ghostcatching and his diploma is in...

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Igraine the Brave HB

Written by Cornelia Funke.

An adventure is what Igraine wishes for most in the world – and on her twelfth birthday she finds one!  Everyone at Castle Pimpernel is looking forward to Igraine’s birthday. But when her magical present goes wrong and her parents...

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Igraine the Brave PB

Written by Cornelia Funke.

An adventure is what Igraine wishes for most in the world – and on her twelfth birthday she finds one!  Everyone at Castle Pimpernel is looking forward to Igraine’s birthday. But when her magical present goes wrong and her...

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Muncle Trogg

Written by Janet Foxley.

Giants live on top of Mount Grumble, hidden from humans below. But not all of them are giant-like. Muncle Trogg is so small that he’s laughed at by the others for being human-sized. Fed up, he decides to take a look at the Smallings that...

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Saving Mississippi

Written by Cornelia Funke.

Emma loves to visit Grandma Dolly and her animal sanctuary in the summer holidays. At home, Emma isn’t even allowed a guinea pig. While staying with Dolly, Emma’s grandmother is asked to take in Mississippi, the beloved horse of her...

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The Boy in the Biscuit Tin

Written by Heather Dyer and Illustrated by Peter Bailey.

When Ibby is sent to stay with her aunt, she discovers her two troublesome boy cousins, Francis and Alex, playing with an old box of magic tricks they found in the attic. Ibby is sure that magic isn’t real – until she sees Francis...

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The Divide Series: The Divide

Written by Elizabeth Kay.

Felix is not your usual hero. Though brave and intelligent, he suffers from a rare illness. His parents take him on the holiday of a lifetime to Costa Rica, where they visit the high point where the waters that feed into the Atlantic and the Pacific...

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The Fish in Room 11

Written by Heather Dyer and Illustrated by Peter Bailey.

Toby lives a lonely life in his pyjamas at the seaside hotel where he was abandoned as a baby – until the day he’s sent down to the beach to look for Cook’s lost laundry. Instead, he finds a pale, thin girl, lying at the...

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The Girl with the Broken Wing

Written by Heather Dyer and Illustrated by Peter Bailey.

The twins are in bed when it happens. They hear a sound like a wet cabbage hitting the wall, then a clattering on the roof tiles, followed a little later by a tapping at the window. It’s a girl with a broken wing – and she’s come...

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When Santa Fell to Earth

Written by Cornelia Funke.

Mischievous reindeer Twinklestar has bolted – leaving his Christmas caravan to fall from the sky! Luckily the extraordinary passengers – Niklas, a real-life Santa Claus, two angels and assorted elves – crash-land in a friendly...

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Zac and the Dream Pirates

Written by Ross Mackenzie.

Everybody dreams. That’s the problem. Good dreams are sweet. Bad dreams are scary, but what happens if the worst sort of nightmares take over? Zac Wonder is about to find out. On the stroke of midnight, he is plunged into an extraordinary...

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