: Billy and his sister, Sheena are visiting their uncle Dr. Deep on a tiny Caribbean Island. It's the perfect place to go exploring underwater and Billy's ready for an adventure. There's one rule to remember, 'stay away from the reefs', but the reefs are so beautiful, so peaceful that Billy can't resist but he's not alone in the water. Something that's half-human-half fish.
: Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards? An exciting journey in an airship or down in a submarine? Would you like to meet the fastest truncheon in the Wild West?
The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner is the second fabulously funny short-story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series. A follow-up to Dragons at Crumbling Castle, this second batch of storytelling gems features stories written when Sir Terry was just seventeen years old and working as a junior reporter. In these pages, new Pratchett fans will find wonder, mayhem, sorcery, and delight—and loyal readers will recognize the seeds of ideas that went on to influence his most beloved tales later in life.
: Goosebumps : It Came From Beneath the Sink ! (No:8543)
: R.L Stine
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: Kat and her brother Daniel are so lucky. They just moved to a new house with ones of rooms, two balconies and a lawn the size of a football field, but all that good luck is about to move out. Something that's moving, watching, waiting. Something that comes from beneath the sink.
: Goosebumps Horrorland : The Barking Ghost (No:8542)
: R.L Stine
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: Scared of his own shadow, that's what everyone says about Cooper Holmes but when the Holmes' move into a new, deep house in the woods, scary things really do start happening, but then, no one else hears the bone chilling barking late at night or runs into evil-looking dogs who disappear in thin air.
: Goosebumps Horrorland : Let's Get Invisible (No:8540)
: R.L Stine
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: On Max's birthday, he finds a kind of magic mirror in the attic. It can make make him become invisible. So Max and his friends start playing "now you see me, now you don't." Until Max realizes that he's losing control. Staying invisible a little too long. Having a harder and harder time coming back. Getting invisible is turning into a very dangerous game. The next time Max gets invisible, will it be...forever?
: Goosebumps Horrorland #6: Who's your Mummy (No:8544)
: R.L Stine
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: Someone - or something - is inviting ordinary kids to HorrorLand and trapping them there. But they're not the only guests of the terrifying theme park where nightmares come to life. Slappy the Dummy, Monster Blood, and other vile villains have joined the terror trip, too. And HorrorLand is about to add one more old fiend to the guest list: a cursed mummy!
: When Milo finds an enormous package in his bedroom, he’s delighted to have something to relieve his boredom with school. And when he opens it to find – as the label states – One Genuine Turnpike Tollbooth, he gets right into his pedal car and sets off through the Tollbooth and away on a magical journey!
Milo’s extraordinary voyage takes him into such places as the Land of Expectation, the Doldrums, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. He meets the weirdest and most unexpected characters (such as Tock, the watchdog, the Gelatinous Giant, and the Threadbare Excuse, who mumbles the same thing over and over again), and, once home, can hardly wait to try out the Tollbooth again. But will it be still there when he gets back from school?
: Bracket Wood is about to be visited by the school inspectors. But there’s one big problem: Ryan Ward.
The maestro of practical jokes, Ryan has played so many tricks that in the end the Head Teacher just walks out. And then the new Head Teacher, Mr Carter, arrives. A man so strict even the teachers are scared of him. So imagine his surprise – and Ryan’s – when they swap bodies.
Now Ryan is Head Teacher – and his mortal enemy is one of his pupils. It’s every naughty kid’s dream!
: Geography with the Gritty Bits left in! Where in the world can you: watch tornadoes that rip houses from the ground? meet the man struck by lightning seven times? and, see frozen turtles fall from the sky? Get the Earth-shattering facts in "Stormy Weather".