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From the bestselling team behind Horrible Histories! It's time to delve into the totally true (sort of) and incredibly intriguing pages of William the Conqueror's Secret Diary. Horrible Histories' Secret Diaries of the most extraordinary (and Horrible) characters of all time will blow your mind.
Sunrise on the Reaping takes place over the 50th Hunger Games.
Uncovers the stories behind the inventions, ideas and uproars which have led to the world we know today. From epic power struggles to society-defining ideas and life-changing technology, discover how 12 upheavals around the globe have led to permanent changes in how nations are run, which values are held and how people live their everyday lives. From India’s long-fought fight for home rule to the Gay Liberation Movement and even the explosive digital revolution, explore the history that sparked each change and examine the ways the world was never the same after.
Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth book in the series, will revisit the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
What would happen if the US elected a 17 year old as President? Find out in this sizzling, genre-busting YA political thriller from bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil.
“Top marks” Observer
“Utterly fabulous” ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG
“The real thing” MICHAEL GRANT
“A thrilling read!” JONATHAN STROUD
“Propulsive pacing and action packed plotting” Publishers’ Weekly starred review
Royal maverick Niko and bodyguard Feldspar have been tasked to lead an exploration – to find a new world outside of their twisted monarchy. What they find on the other side of the Hive is a paradise – but not all is as it appears to be. When two brutal murders happen on the same night, the royal visitors are the obvious suspects …
Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It’s a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It’s a world without art, without books, without plays. Girls are sent away from home, forced to pollinate crops by hand with brushes and to marry as soon as they can. Inhabiting this world is Jess and her friends Cass, Deva, and Ruth. But even if one fourteen-year-old knows that brushes weren’t invented for pollinating, can she really stoke a revolution?
Every country in the world has a national flag – one country even has two – and there’s so much to be learned from these vibrant symbols about the people and places they represent. Discover the druk of Bhutan – its fierce thunder dragon – or how the stunning Southern Cross unites the nations of the Pacific. Learn how each UK country is represented by the Union Flag and how a banner falling from the heavens inspired Denmark to make the world’s oldest flag. Divided into sections covering each continent and featuring theme spreads discussing common similarities of flags around the world, this book celebrates each nation’s uniqueness and how our identities are closer than we might think! Unfurl each flag and explore the hopes, dreams and ambitions of our world’s great nations.
In the Hive, a monarchy of tomorrow, a young bodyguard awaits execution.Guilty of being alive when her charge lies dead. But theprisoner, Feldspar, has one defender – royal maverick Nico. Togetherthey have three days to question everything Feldspar knows aboutthe world that raised her to discover who the real murderer is.
Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth book in the series, willrevisit the world of Panem twenty-four years before the eventsof The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of theFiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
The first iconic book in the number one global YA blockbuster Hunger Games series, now sumptuously illustrated by Nico Delort.
This semi-autobiographical classic, written by the beloved Judith Kerr, tells the story of a Jewish family escaping Germany in the days before the Second World War
Matthew Syed helps readers to find their voice, flex their social superpowers, and speak up with kindness and confidence. What if you could disagree with someone without it turning into the argument of the century? He’s here to tell you that it can be done. If you’re the kind of person who: avoids disagreements because you don’t want to fall out; gets too embarrassed to say that you’ve changed your mind; feels so overwhelmed that you don’t know what to think – then this book is for you.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the worldof Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games,starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.
When eleven-year-old Gregor falls through a grate in the laundryroom of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland,where spiders, rats and giant cockroaches coexist uneasilywith humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor’s arrivalis no accident. He has a vital role to play in the Underland’suncertain future.
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