“ Trouble in our family is spelled with a capital C & has been as long as I can remember. The C stands for Charles.” From the outside, Rachel looks like the perfect daughter in the perfect family. She’s a straight-A student, a gifted musician & she’s got amazing friends. The problem is her big brother, Charles – a rude, manipulative troublemaker who makes a point of spoiling things for her. & now her best friends are falling under his charming spell. They tell Rachel to lighten up & enjoy the end of seventh grade. Easy for them to say. Not so easy for Rachel to do. Not even when Jeremy Dragon, the coolest boy in ninth grade, notices her… ...

Oh so cuddly! (You’re going to love the lift-the-flap letters.) A gorgeous look at staying friends to the end, however near or far you are. What do you do when your best friend in the whole world has to move really far away? Promise to write to each other ALL the time & stay best friends FOREVER. That’s what. But it’s easier said than done – especially when your best friend seems to be having much more fun than you are… One epic journey. One very special letter to deliver. Can Herman the bear show Henry the racoon that they’re still forever friends? A heartwarming delight from a rising star of children’s books Children will love lifting the flaps to read each letter Calming snowy pictures make this ideal for winter bedtimes A must for any child who has ever had (or lost) a friend bedtime-stories-1016 pboffer-1016 ...

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The Hero Foundation is a shadow of its former self & Lord Eon &8211; the most terrible supervillain ever &8211; is still at large. Worse, he has hatched a plan to tear apart time. Toby & his superhero friends should be able to stop him &8230; but Pete has woken from his coma a different person & Lorna has disappeared. In the titanic struggle that will follow, friendships will be tested & superhero powers strained to the limit as time runs out for the world&8230; ...

Two devious masterminds have infected the hero.com website with a virus potent enough to bring down the whole Hero Foundation. Archfiends Basilisk & the Worm have dreamt up a plan so cunning it will strike fear into the heart of the bravest superhero. They will infect hero.com with a virus that will cripple it & ultimately destroy Hero HQ. Toby, Lorna, Pete & Emily have the task of stopping them. Hard enough at the best of times, but particularly tricky when Hero.com is on the blink & their superpowers keep failing! & when Pete is kidnapped & cryogenically frozen, it looks as if super-evil might be about to triumph after all…. ...

PM is a firm favourite amongst Primary Schools due to its reputation for reading success. Offering over 800 carefully levelled fiction & non-fiction books, PM builds confidence through gradual progression & step-by-step support. ...

We thought it was all over for Percy & the gods of Olympus. But not so! Rick Riordan’s storming new series sweeps you back into his world of demigod heroes & ravenous mythical monsters! ...

Muscle-flexing myths: awe, power, bloodlust. Told for over 2000 years. They must be doing something right. ...

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2014 The author of Being Billy tears it up again in this slamming thriller. Brothers, battles & a savage ‘hero’ full of anger, just back from Afghanistan. ...

In 1876, a tiny baby is abandoned at the Foundling Hospital. Through hardships & adventures at the Travelling Circus, Hetty dreams of finding her real mum… strong-female-characters bookadventure 2016-9to 11 dayout-reads 2016 bookadventurers-010716 primary-092016 readandrespond-0816 top 100-092016 top 100-ages 9to 11 rrchildrens top-100-201718-primary top-100-201718-911 top 100age 9to 11 top 100-all top 100-all 1718 top 100age 7to 11 readandrespond-reading-collections reading 3for 2 bestchildrensbooks 3for 2 summer-18 sum-18 sum-18-ie unexpected-twist-reading-list read-&-respond-2018 pm 19-offer ...