What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finge…
Welcome to Absurdia: a strange and wonderful land where nothing is quite what it seems. Trees are birds, umbrellas are trees, and the sky is thick with snoring fish. Join one small boy as he tumbles out of bed into a crazy dreamland of wardrobe monsters, dragons—and amazing adventure.
The story begins with a mysterious egg washed up on a Scottish beach, the morning after a great storm. Kirstie and her brother Angus find the egg and take it home. The next day it has hatched into a tiny greeny-grey creature with a horse's head, warty skin, four flippers and a crocodile's tail. The baby sea monster soon becomes the family pet – but the trouble is, it just doesn't stop growing!
'Riding a broomstick is no easy matter!' Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred is a trainee at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to scrape by until she turns Ethel, The teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy and chaos ensues . . . Jill Murphy's much-loved classic if full of fu…
Masuk sekolah baru, bertemu gadis manusia yang bisa melihat menembus Kabut, dan lagi-lagi dituduh membakar gedung sekolah. Awal petualangan yang menjanjikan, bukan? Misi teranyar: menjelajahi Labirin ciptaan Daedalus, pencipta terhebat dalam sejarah. Variasi teror: terancam gila, tersesat selamanya, bertemu monster dan kemungkinan besar—lagi-lagi—berakhir tewas, dan salah langkah akan me…
Aku tidak menyukai para Pemburu Artemis. Mereka angkuh, galak, dan benci lelaki. Lebih tidak suka lagi karena mereka berhasil merekrut Bianca di Angelo, blasteran baru. Dia sangat egois karena tega meninggalkan adiknya, Nico, sendirian. Ya, ya, tahu apa aku tentang isi hati para gadis? Tapi, alasan utama aku kesal adalah karena Annabeth sepertinya tertarik untuk ber—ah, membahasnya pun aku ma…
"'The Boy Who Grew Dragons' is good-hearted fantasy fun."-New York Times Book Review "Never has so much toilet humor been so charming."-Kirkus Reviews "Readers will be eager for more."- Booklist This hilarious middle-grade novel with illustrations throughout sees Tomas discover that he can grow dragons in his own garden! When Tomas discovers a strange old tree at the bottom of his g…
At night, this mischievous bunch peeks out from under your bed. When you hear that creak . . . creak . . . THE CREAKERS are there! Discover a hilarious and eerie middle-grade story by a UK star. What would you do if you woke up to a world with no grown-ups? When all the parents in the world disappear, most kids think this is amazing! They can finally run wild and eat candy for breakfast, …
Everyone in the village where Lizzie lives thinks that she's a dreamer - so it's no wonder that they don't believe her when she says she's seen a witch. But Lizzie doesn't care because she knows it's true and having a witch for a friend makes life much more exciting. BLHelen Cresswell is a well-known writer and has written more than forty books. She has adapted stories such as The Phoenix and t…
Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? …