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Big science concepts are explained simply to introduce little minds to big ideas! ‘Planets’ combines bold, colourful illustrations with jokes and incredible science facts to take young readers on a fun-filled journey across the solar system. On the way they will learn all about the planets, and find out the answers to such important questions as: Why does Venus smell so bad? Why aren’t there many birthday parties on Neptune? and What would happen if you tried to eat your dinner on Mars?
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One of the King’s knights has gone missing. Sent to explore the mysterious Wild Wood, which no-one dares visit and some say is enchanted, he has vanished in the snow. Tiuri – now Sir Tiuri after carrying out his last perilous mission – has to find him. With his best friend and squire, Piak, he must journey into the heart of a terrifying, secret forest realm, where danger is all around and every path leads you astray. It is a place of lost, overgrown cities and ancient curses; of robbers, princesses and strange Men in Green; of old friends and treacherous new enemies and a secret plot that threatens to bring down the entire kingdom.
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A quest and mission is entrusted to a young man on the eve of becoming a knight, which requires him to turn his back on knighthood for a perilous journey and a greater good.
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Tibble is a reporter. He only ever writes about cats, and he’s about to be fired. Minou is a young woman who has moved into Tibble’s flat. She hates dogs, likes rooftops, loves the fishmonger, and happens to have been, until very recently, a cat. With her feline friends listening out for all the local human news, is Minou the answer to all Tibble’s problems – or just the beginning of them?
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It’s the oddest of all odd things, when two girls who have never met before suddenly stand before each other at summer camp – and discover that they’re the spitting image of each other. Louise is from Vienna and has long, curly locks; Lottie is from Munich and wears her hair in two severe plaits – but that’s truly the only difference between them. Louise and Lottie decide to discover the secret behind their similarity: when the holiday is over, Louise returns to Munich as Lottie, and Lottie to Vienna as Louise.
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Claudia decides to run away from home and run to somewhere – a large, comfortable, indoor and preferably beautiful place. She decides upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and once there finds herself involved in an intriguing art mystery.
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Meet Zezé – Brazil’s naughtiest, and most loveable boy, his appetite for mischief matched only by his capacity for kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a ‘poet with a bow-tie’ but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the other residents of his family’s impoverished Rio de Janeiro shanty town and conjuring a varied cast of friends into being with his imagination. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change.
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Pluto Rocket and her all-knowing life coach Joe Pidge are back with a blast – and this time they are leaving the safety of their neighbourhood! But Joe is way out of his comfort zone, and it turns out that even the most daring of pigeons gets scared sometimes! So it’s up to the intrepid Pluto Rocket to make him feel safe. When the friends embark on a rocket building quest, they realise they both have a lot to learn – but are the dynamic duo up to the challenge?
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In the Land of Magic, children never grow old. Gifted with marvellous powers, they spend their days being taught by the magical books of Library Island. But for one child, this life is not enough, and the call of the Island of Darkness is too strong to ignore. When Grace wakes up in Wasteland, the colourless city where grown-ups live, she no longer remembers the Land of Magic. She doesn’t even remember her own name. Alone and afraid, Grace discovers that Wasteland is no place for a child. A terrifying figure called the Catcher is looking for her, and the only clue to Grace’s past is guarded by a group of mysteriously invisible children, who have branded her a traitor. Can Grace uncover the secret of the invisible children, and find her way back to the Land of Magic, or will she be trapped in Wasteland for good?
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You were born on a spaceship travelling between galaxies and raised by parents from two different planets. You are now old enough to decide your citizenship: Will you choose planet Kenda or planet Croyd to be your home? Do you peacefully join a group of aliens or fight them off? How should you thwart a curse placed upon you? What do you do in the face of dinosaurs? how can you work as an agent of intergalactic peace?
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You are a brave, quick-thinking kid searching for a magical unicorn’s horn. You set off with a talisman in hopes of solving the town riddle and saving your village. Will your enchanted net catch a unicorn or a dragon? Can the sorceress help? Or will she cause even more trouble?
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You are a deep sea explorer searching for the famed lost city of Atlantis. You pilot your personal submarine into the murky depths of the ocean. Do you descend into a deep, dark hole you discover, or call for help? Do you join the underwater civilisation or try to escape back to the surface? Explore the depths of the ocean in search of this mysterious and beautiful world, escaping giant squid and shark attacks, discovering shipwrecks, helping the merpeople rebel against a cruel monarchy, and even escaping imprisonment!
