' Give me your buns & your biscuits! Give me your chocolate eclairs! For I am the Rat of the highway & the Rat Thief never shares!' Life is not safe for the other animals as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel
- he even steals his own horse's hay. Will he finally meet his comeuppance in the form of a cunning duck? A fabulous rollicking rhyme in the style of the famous Alfred Noyes poem ' The Highwayman' from the authors of ' The Gruffalo' & ' Zog'.
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Alfred Noyess famous poem still has the power to thrill us as we read the story of the highwayman & his doomed love for Bess the landlords black-eyed daughter. Charles Keepings stunning illustrations won this book the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1982. The paperback is now reissued with a new cover. ...

On the run from the redcoats the two young highwaymen Will & Bess find themselves in Galloway Scotland blamed for a murder they did not commit. Here they are captured by smugglers & become embroiled in a story of hatred & revenge that goes back for generations to the days of the Killing Times. Whose side will they take? Can anything they do end the cycle of religious hatred? & will their own friendship survive? ...

Young William de Lacey is high born the son of a gentleman. But he's on the run having stolen money & a horse & has taken up with a highwayman. It's enough to hang him three times over. Despite struggling with his conscience Will feels free for the first time in his life
- & it's all down to the mysterious Bess. Now can they survive the risks of the eighteenth-century highwayman's harsh life?
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Twenty-three years after the terrible Hinamizawa Disaster five strangers are drawn together to the abandoned mountain village by fate. One of them claims to be Mion Sonozaki who was supposed to have died in the incident that claimed the lives of all the villagers. But only one thing is certain: Oyashiro-samas curse did not die with the village. Will these five be able to survive the night? ...

After a year at boarding school Shion Sonozaki flees the oppressive institution & secretly returns to her hometown in the mountains telling only her twin sister Mion of her arrival. Though the Sonozaki family has kept the sisters apart to prevent conflict over who would become the next family head Mion & Shion have remained close
- close enough that Shion can easily impersonate her identical twin. When Shion encounters Satoshi Hojo in town he is completely taken in by her Mion disguise. & Shion is quite taken with him... As she spends more time as Mion Shion learns that Satoshis kind face masks a terrible pain. His parents were one of the few couples in Hinamizawa to support the controversial dam project. When the construction was put on hold the Hojo family was seen as an enemy of the town & Satoshis parents were the second pair of victims claimed by Oyashiro-samas curse. Forced to move in with his abusive in-laws Satoshi & his sister Satoko are at the mercy of his aunts temper...
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The further embroiled in the investigation he becomes the more Keiichis suspicions about his new friends grow. Their strange behavior only gives rise to more questions. Keiichis paranoia reaches a fever pitch...with good reason. Assaulted by one terror after another he nears the inevitable bloody solution to the series of mysterious deaths caused by Oyashiro-samas Curse"!" ...

When her parents are killed in a terrible train accident a young Miyo Takano is sent to live at an orphanage deep in the mountains. Little does she know that her parents deaths are just the beginning of her hell; the institution is run by a group of greedy cruel men who care nothing for the grief-stricken girl. Subjected to abuses beyond imagining Miyo & her roommates plan to escape despite rumors of the terrible punishments that befell past runaways.. . ...

After reliving the events leading up to the tragedy in Hinamizawa again & again Rika notices that things are strikingly different this time around. Key events that drove her friends to madness & self-destruction in earlier incarnations are resolved & Rika suspects that her classmates are beginning to remember the horrors that resulted from choices made in those previous lives. Though the change in her friends gives Rika hope some people in town will never change. When Satoko's uncle returns the bruises on the little girl's body are proof of his cruelty. Will a tragedy Rike did not forsee rekindle the madness in Hinamizawa? ...

Watching the people of Hinamizawa rally together to liberate her friend Satoko
- once shunned by the village now defended by it
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