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Colt in the Cave

Author:  Lucy Daniels

Mandy and James are excited about their school trip to an old mine. Deep underground, Mandy starts to imagine how hard life must have been for pit ponies. Suddenly she spots eyes gleaming at her out of the darkness - but James can't see a thing. The very next night, Mandy dreams about a troubled pony. What can it mean...?

The Emerald Casket

Author:  Richard Newsome

What do you do when you’re a billionaire, you’re thirteen and you’ve just discovered your family tree goes back a thousand years to a pact made by three brothers to carry three caskets to three secret locations and to protect them for centuries to come?

What do you do when you know a bloodthirsty criminal holds the contents of one of those caskets and will stop at nothing to discover the others?

The One and Only Ivan

Ivan is an easy-going gorilla who has spent his life performing for the crowds at the Exit 8 shopping mall. He rarely misses life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly thinks about it at all. But everything changes when a baby elephant called Ruby arrives and Ivan realises he must find a new life for them both.

Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye

Who is Geronimo Stilton?

That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun-tastier than Swiss cheese and tangier than extra-sharp cheddar. They are whisker-licking-good stories, and that's a promise!

Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye

Thea Stilton and the Mystery on the Orient Express

Author:  Geronimo Stilton

The Thea Sisters are boarding the famouse Orient Express for a journey from Paris to Istanbul! The train is on a special trip to return a precious wedding dress stolen years ago from an Istanbul museum. But there's a rumor that the mysterious Acrobat Thief will steal the gown from the moving train! The Thea Sisters are determined to foil this sneaky mouse's plans.

Zero Hour

Author:  Leon Davidson

The First World War was only meant to last six months.

When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their place in a line of trenches that spread through Belgium and France from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps. Beyond the trenches was no-man's land, an eerie wasteland where rats lived in the ribs of the dead and the wounded cried for help. Beyond that was the German Army.

The Longest War

Author:  Nancy Antle

Can Lisa ever escape the shadows of Vietnam? The war has be en over for more than ten years, but its ramifications continue to haunt twelve-year-old Lisa Grey's life.

Geronimo Stilton: Valley of the giant skeletons

Author:  Geronimo Stilton

Who is Geronimo Stilton?

That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-licking-good tales, and that's a promise!

Valley of the giant skeletons

EJ12 Big Brother

Author:  Susannah McFarlane

Evil agency SHADOW seems to know everything SHINE is planning. Is there a connection between that are the new arrival at the SHINE animal training centre?

All eyes are on special agent EJ12. She will need to find out how SHADOW is spying on SHINE before SHADOW finds her!

That's the easy part. As EJ12, Emma Jacks can do anything. So why does she find her older brother so irritating?

Perhaps she doesn't after all...

Dog Gone

Author:  Carole Poustie

A best friend is worth everything

I darted into the cemetery and hid behind a tombstone. I hunched myself up, balancing on the balls of my feet, straining to peer into the night, listening anxiously for whoever was out there to make another sound. It was freezing-I had trouble keeping my jaw clamped shut so my teeth didn't chatter.