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This novel by J.K. Rowling continues the further adventures of boy wizard Harry and his friends. Harry is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School, and what he is about to discover will turn his world upside down.
This novel takes up the story of Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Voldemort’s power and followers are increasing day by day, in the midst of the battle of good and evil.
Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task – that of locating and destroying Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes. Harry must find the strength within himself to complete the tasks he has been given, leaving the warmth of The Burrow and following the inexorable path that has been laid out for him.
This is a follow up to ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, which won the 1998 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. Harry Potter is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and this year promises to be just as eventful as the last.
The holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can’t wait for the start of term. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School and there are spells to be learnt and potions to be brewed, but there are other events on the march that Harry is not expecting.
Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt and Uncle’s house. He is bullied by them and his spoilt cousin, and lives a very unremarkable life. But then Harry is transported to a world of magic and excitement.
A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman.
‘A visual delight’ The Times
‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times
First published in 1908, ‘The Old Wives’ Tale’ affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters – shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia – over the course of nearly half a century.
The Number One New York Times Bestseller!
Included in BookTrust’s 100 Best Books for Children
Debut author Drew Daywalt and international bestseller Oliver Jeffers team up to create a colourful solution to a crayon-based crisis in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.
When a little boy plants a carrot seed, everyone tells him it won’t grow. But when you are very young, there are some things that you just know, and the little boy knows that one day a carrot will come up. So he waters his seed, and pulls the weeds, and he waits.
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there’s a racket in the quiet carriage? Who are you supposed to kiss – and is it one kiss or two? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught – and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation at worst. Thankfully, Sandi Toksvig has come to the rescue with her entertaining guide to modern manners, with tips on what to do whether you’re talking to a bore, or forgot their name in the first place.
The Borrowers have lived in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They owned nothing, borrowed everything, and thought human beings were invented just for their use. Until one of the Borrowers made friends with a human.
In this novel Charles goes searching for his lost father through a wrinkle in time with his sister Meg and friend Calvin. They find themselves on an evil planet, where all life is ruled by a huge, pulsating brain known as IT.
This is the tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig, Wilbur, from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs.