Skulduggery Pleasant 2: Playing with fire
£8.99He’s dead. She’s deadly. The bad guys don’t stand a chance.
The second book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.
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Rune
£10.99Chiri is a fun-loving super cook looking for fresh adventures and ingredients, but her love of exploration has landed her in some serious magical trouble and she’s going to need all the help she can get to find home again. Chiri and best friend Dai live in an orphanage right next to the deepest, darkest forest. On a scavenging mission to find some amazing new ingredients for her many culinary experiments, Chiri plunges both her and her best friend into the secret kingdom of Puddin’, a secret place plagued by the Thousand Faces Monster and inhabited by all sorts of magical people and critters. Befriending witches, bards, ogres and sorcerers, can our two protagonists make it home and more importantly, can they evade the darkness that has awoken on their arrival?
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Isadora Moon and the Frost Festival
£6.99Isadora is so excited to be going to the Frost Festival, a huge celebration of the winter fairies. But in the hustle and bustle Isadora loses sight of Pink Rabbit. Can she find him before the grand fairy lights are switched on?
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Nora and the map of mayhem
£7.99When Atticus and Autumn’s dads leave them with their eccentric great-grandmother Nora for the weekend, they’re hoping for a few days scoffing biscuits and playing video games. But when Nora’s around, nothing ever goes quite to plan. After a stranger from Nora’s past leaves a menacing note pinned to her front door, Atticus and Autumn are swept away on a hair-raising adventure dodging snot-flinging sea-monsters, battling thunderous electrosquibs, and trying to escape from a very flappy goose!
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Magicalia 1: Race of wonders
£7.99When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful bestiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become conjurors themselves, before following a trail of clues that will take them from London to India to Paris, in a race to rescue Bitsy’s dad from a mysterious villain.
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Lightfall: The dark times
£11.99The lights have gone dark in Irpa. Danger lurks as the air grows colder and threats lie in the shadows at every turn. While the rest of their fellowship seeks safety, Bea and Cad team up with a small group of survivors to travel to the Citadel of Knowledge, pursuing answers to their world’s darkest mysteries. But their journey reveals even more secrets. Until an unexpected ally shines a light in the darkness, providing a clue to a mystery from long ago – and a beacon of hope for the future.
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Gargoyles
£8.99Callen’s Dad has always been secretive of his past but when the family have to move into his childhood home, the last thing Callen expects is a boarded-up mansion covered in gargoyles. It’s enormous, the doors are nailed shut, the gardens are overgrown – and long-forgotten magic is returning. When a disgruntled gargoyle wakes up in his presence, Callen must befriend Zariel and earn her trust before it’s too late. A dark threat is growing in the shadows and only a Gargoyle Guardian can stop it.
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Lola and Larch Fix a Fairy Forest
£7.99Lola can’t believe her luck – the rabbit she’s rescued is actually a fairy in disguise. Now she has her very own fairy! There’s just one problem. Larch, the rebellious fairy she’s rescued, is convinced that Lola is her human. But while Larch and Lola discuss the merits of snail slime for breakfast and try to decide who should be in charge, there’s a bad fairy on the loose. Evil Euphorbia Spurge wants magic, and Larch is full of it. Soon it’s a battle of wits, wands and fairy wings as the new friends take on the wildest fairy in the woods.
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Isadora Moon helps out
£6.99When Isadora’s mum gets fairy flu, Isadora is determined to be the best nurse possible. But Isadora’s attempts to help go a bit wrong, and she accidentally makes baby sister Honeyblossom magically grow to giant proportions! Can she find a cure before the situation gets even bigger?
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My Sticker Dress-Up: Magical Creatures
£7.99Get ready for a magical tea party with your favorite fantastical friends!From unicorns and mermaids to dinosaurs and narwhals, My Sticker Dress-Up: Magical Creatures offers endless dress-up fun with reusable stickers and imaginative scenes.Why Kids (and Parents) Love It: Fantasy fun for everyone: Outfit and accessorize beloved magical creatures for a whimsical celebration. 350+ reusable stickers: Five full pages of repositionable stickers let children dress and redress their fantastical friends for endless mix-and-match fun.Built-in storytelling: Each backdrop invites kids to imagine, narrate, and build their own fantastic tales.Perfect for quiet time or on-the-go: Compact, engaging, and mess-free?ideal for car rides, plane trips, restaurants, and screen-free afternoons.A gift that delights: Whether for birthdays, holidays, or just because, this Magical Creatures sticker book is a treasured surprise for young dreamers.
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Mirabelle and the midnight feast
£6.99Best friends Mirabelle and Carlotta sneak into big sister Edith’s bedroom during a sleepover and accidentally break one of her prized possessions. If Edith finds out, they’re in big trouble. Does this mean the end of their planned midnight feast?
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Murray the Viking
£6.99A Waterstones Best Children’s Book of the Year
ADVENTURE LIES BEYOND THE CAT FLAP!
Meet your favourite new duo: MURRAY AND BUN!
Murray is a cat. Murray loves snoozing, fluffy blankets, and peace and quiet.
Bun is a bun. Bun loves? EVERYTHING!
And together they are unstoppable!
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Beastlands: Race to Frostfall Mountain
£7.99The island of Ramoa was once luscious and populated with mighty beasts. Now though, it is home to barren and tamed cities, where nature is locked out and trouble is brewing. When Kayla’s beloved animal companion, a rare winged pangron, is stolen, she’s determined to get him back. But to do so, she’ll have to leave her city and journey into the wild and forbidden Beastlands. There, she meets Rustus, an exiled young warrior, and Alethea, a healer desperately seeking a cure for a mysterious disease. As their quests unite them, they’ll adventure across the lands they know so little about, leading them to discoveries both great and terrifying. Not least that the beasts they’ve always been taught to fear might not be so terrifying after all.
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The Magicians
£25.00Magic gives three children the power to change their appearance and reinvent a world, but soon a a fierce young Huntress and a mechanical lion-dragon named Clinker are hunting them down and. will not rest until every magician is vanquished.
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The Court of Souls
£8.99Wiz and Mug are sent on a dangerous mission to raid a bountiful Ancient Egyptian tomb protected by skeleton guards and an Egyptian Pharaoh. However, in order to fulfil their mission, the pair must combine their brains and brawn, abide by the ancient law of the land, AND beat the Pharaoh in a game of basketball! The question is – can they trust their opponents to play by the rules? Or will they be stuck in the tomb – forever?
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Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting
£7.99Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown’s vampire slayer adventure influenced by Ghanaian folklore.For most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it’s a matter of life and death. That’s because Serwa, a Slayer, and knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from the forests of Southeastern Ghana. When an adze infiltrates her school, it’s up to her to whip some of her classmates into fighting shape before they all become firefly food. And when she uncovers a secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her family, Serwa will have to decide which side of herself–normal girl or Slayer–is the right one.