As ' Scarecrow' Schofield watches his mission to eliminate a Siberian turn into a bloodbath he realises he has been tricked
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One night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind & rain taking no notice.. .until a bolt of lightning struck his turnip head. The scarecrow blinked with surprise & came to life. So begins the story of the Scarecrow a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas. He meets a boy Jack who becomes his faithful servant & they set out to journey to Spring Valley together. Along the way there's no end of excitement
- battle & shipwreck brigands & tricksters
- & it's up to Jack time after time to save the day.

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At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic a battle to save all life on Earth is about to begin...THE SECRET BASE It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Isl&. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force a weapon that has just been re-activated...AN ARMY OF MURDERERS When Dragon Island is seized by a brutal terrorist force calling itself the Army of Thieves the fate of the world suddenly hangs in the balance. But there are no crack units close enough to get to Dragon in time to stop the Army setting off the weapon. ONE SMALL TEAM Except that is for a small equipment-testing team up in the Arctic led by a Marine captain named Schofield call-sign SCARECROW. It's not a strike team; just a handful of Marines & civilians. It's not equipped to attack a fortified island held by a small army. But it will go in anyway because someone has to. THE ULTIMATE HERO IS BACK FACING THE ULTIMATE ARMY OF VILLAINS. ...

Two delightful Farmyard Tales stories in a single book. Read the first story flip the book over & read the second story on the reverse. Specially written with the help of a reading expert to ensure young children succeed in their first efforts at reading. Illustrated by Stephen Cartwright theres a little yellow duck to find on every page! ...

There were three people standing in the darkest place watching him. Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can't bear her new fiance or the way his mother & sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred & anger he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another powerful hatred lingers within its walls. & it is about to be unleashed... Westall's immense talent is evident from the opening line
- Simon's anger & unhappiness are tangible & the Scarecrows' ill-intentions terrifying.
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This book tells the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades showing for the first time how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. From salmonella in eggs to BSE from the Millennium Bug to bird flu from DDT to passive smoking from asbestos to global warming scares have become one of the most conspicuous & damaging features of our modern world. It analyses the crucial role played in each case by scientists who have misread or manipulated the evidence; by the media & lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; & finally by the politicians & aofficials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response leaving us all to pay a colossal price which may run into billions or even hundreds of billions of pounds. The book culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what it shows has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through man-made global warming. In an epilogue the authors compare our credulity in falling for scares to mass-hysterias of previous ages such as the post-mediaeval witch craze describing our time as a new age of superstition. ...

Late one night after a strange tube journey to Whitechapel in East London Paul makes a new friend John Redman
- daring & enigmatic
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A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry & Ben Cooper in which a small community is ripped apart by arson & murder. ' Ingenious plotting & richly atmospheric' -- Reginald Hill. An assassination in the night -- an open window & three bullets from the darkness -- the victim a harmless middle-aged woman. But can she really be quite as innocent as she seems? The death of Rose Shepherd swarms with questions -- unlike the deaths of a woman & her two children in a house fire. A tragedy yes but an everyday one. Then DS Fry discovers a link between the two cases a link that crosses the borders between nations between right & wrong between madness & sanity. She & Ben Cooper discover why some people are scared to live -- & others are fated to die! ...

TWO WOMEN DEAD It was a vicious calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station followed her home on the tube strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time killed in the same way a second body is discovered at the back of Kings Cross station. & this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women stabbed to death months before on the same day. TWO KILLERS WORKING TOGETHER It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link & comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them
- & two killers are way more deadly than one.. .
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The fourth hilarious story about Splat the Cat the irresistible character from Rob Scotton bestselling creator of Russell the Sheep Its Halloween & Splat is determined to be the scariest cat in the class. Unfortunately hes just too much of a scaredy-cat. Hes afraid of a little spider & everyone says his costume looks more silly than scary. & when the teacher tells a ghost story in the dark Splat gets so frightened that he tips over his pumpkin jack-o-lantern. But when the lights go back on the entire class is scared silly by a small black furry creature with a big pumpkin head. Whoooo could it be? ...