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  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    Quirky tales of derring-do and mystery, from a much-loved and multi award-winning author. Perfect to thrill and chill. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+

  • by Anne Fine
    £5.99

    A surprising and entertaining story from former children's laureate and multi-award winner Anne Fine, perfect for children learning to read.

  • by Anne Fine
    £5.99

    Nicky, Tasha and Joe's mum leaves for work early one day and she leaves instructions for them on a cassette-player - all they have to do is press play! Nicky and Tasha must get themselves ready for school and get baby Joe ready for playgroup without waking Dad! They have to get dressed, make porridge for breakfast and find Joe's toy rabbit.

  • by Anne Fine
    £5.99

    Perfect for children learning to read, this is a wonderful story about facing fears as a family from Anne Fine, a former Children's Laureate whose awards include the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Book Prize.

  • - Blue Banana
    by Anne Fine
    £5.99

    A royally entertaining story by former children's laureate Anne Fine for Egmont's Blue Banana series. Pip's class are sending big red helium balloons off to celebrate their school's 100th anniversary.

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and fro between their volatile mother, Miranda, and Daniel, their out-of-work actor father. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will supervise the children after school - and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This is a bittersweet, touching and extremely funny book.

  • by Anne Fine
    £8.49

    Twelve dancing princesses, Snow White and Rose Red, and Drusilla and Isidora are the sixteen sisters of these enchanting fairy tales. TreeTops Greatest Stories is a series of timeless classics for children aged 711. Its much-loved stories, beautiful artwork and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will love.

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    It's war in the Flowers household. Will's sister Estelle has turned overnight into a screaming, screeching banshee whose moods explode throughout the household. Mum and Dad have surrendered. Inspired by an author visit to his school, Will decides to keep a record of his life on the front line . . .

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Rescue comes, but lasting damage has been done. Sent to live with a kindly foster family, and then adopted, Edward struggles to adapt to normal life. Even as a teenager it s still clear to his new family and schoolmates there s something odd about him. Then one fateful day, Edward catches a glimpse of himself in a photograph. What he sees shocks him to the core a vision of Harris. Was this monster his father all along? And does that mean that, deep down, another Harris is waiting to break out? Every step of progress Edward has made swiftly begins to unravel, and he has to decide whether his blood will determine his future.

  • by Anne Fine
    £6.99

    Light-hearted comedy from an award-winning author about a pesky uncle who won't seem to leave! Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 7+

  • by Anne Fine
    £8.99

    Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, Robet Browning, Leonard Clark, Adele Geras, Seamus Heaney, A E Housman, Philip Larkin, Pablo Neruda, Brian Patten and Derek Walcott are amongst the poets featured and there are over 100 poems in total.

  • - The Devil Walks
    by Anne Fine
    £15.99

    Anne Fine's adaptation of her chilling gothic novel tells the story of Daniel, a young foster boy, who discovers that his mother's doll's house holds the key to a sinister family secret.

  • by Anne Fine
    £6.99

    Tuffy doesn't feel wanted at home any more. His owners just don't appreciate him. So what if he broke the new TV? Got fur on all Dad's clean clothes? Ate Tinkerbell the kitten's special kitten-food? All accidents! But they're making such a fuss!So Tuffy decides to make a break for it. He bids farewell to the gang - Snowball, Tiger and Bella - and runs away. But starting a new life isn't easy, and soon Tuffy starts to wonder if he's made a terrible mistake . . .

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    A classic Fine tale of bravery and friendship from a bestselling author of great repute. Tom has to pass his exams to join the army - but uniform woes keep getting in the way! Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers of 8+

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    'The devil walks . . . But the devil can make no headway if he has no help. We must invite him in . . .'Raised in secrecy by a mother everyone thinks has gone mad, Daniel's only link to his past is the intricately built model of the family home - High Gates. The dolls' house is perfect in every detail.As Daniel is reunited with the last remaining member of his family - his 'uncle' Severin, who bears an uncanny resemblance to a sinister wooden doll he has found hidden in the house, he begins to suspect that this vicious, haunted puppet of a figure has a chilling influence, bringing cruelty and spite in its wake. Now Daniel's very life is at risk as his uncle is determined to get his hands on the figure . . . The menace builds throughout in this deliciously creepy Gothic tale.

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    Everyone thinks they know what it's like, going to school. But have you ever wondered what life must be like at a boarding school? A school for young offenders? A school for the blind? With her trademark humour, insight, sensitivity and razor-sharp wit, Anne Fine explores these different worlds in a short story collection that will fascinate young readers.

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    Light-hearted comedy from an award-winning author. Sam's a bit obsessed with making gnomes - the garden shed is full of them! When Mum says they have to go, Sam and his sister decide to throw them a party - one the entire family will never forget! Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    Bliss! A lovely, quiet, nothing-to-do and nothing-on-the-calendar Sunday . . .Well, that's until bossy Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force - is on the phone insisting that Harry and his family come down to help her a local event she's promised to organise: the Great Toadpool Show.It means swinging from a trapeze. Or walking on stilts. Or riding a unicycle . . . And that's not counting the fortune-telling tent, the tombola, or the choir singalong.Aunt Susan has no idea of the mayhem she's about to unleash.

  • by Anne Fine
    £6.99

    So go on, ask me. 'Dear, dear Tuffy. Why was your Christmas so horrible?'Well. I couldn't climb the tree.I couldn't touch the dangly decorations.And Ellie made me part of her sing-along Christmas performance.Horrible, horrible, horrible!But I showed them. I was Tuffy the Acting Cat, superstar. How was I supposed to know things would get so . . . messy?

  • by Anne Fine
    £12.99

    Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, and listens to her grumbles. He also keeps in touch with his sister Dilys, in a vain attempt to maintain family ties. But neither Dilys, Norah nor Colin's colleagues know about his secret...

  • by Anne Fine
    £6.99

    Harry is in trouble. He's burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who's heading off to stay with a new girlfriend - Morning Glory - on a tiny British island.Harry doesn't expect it to be a lot of fun - with just a wacky competition at the end of the week to look forward to.He certainly didn't expect to discover all the beards.Or the angel on the mountain.Or the helicopters circling overhead all week.And he definitely didn't think it would be so wet . . .

  • by Anne Fine
    £6.99

    It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party around town on that dark and dreary Halloween night?So things ended up in a bit of a mess. (Well, more than a mess, really. A complete disaster.) But it was not my fault so don't blame me . . .Another laugh-out-loud Killer Cat adventure, by the award-winning and celebrated Anne Fine. Perfect for readers of 7+.

  • by Anne Fine
    £12.99

    Guilt is in the eye of the beholder ... When her cold and indifferent husband vanishes, so does Lois's old life.

  • by Anne Fine
    £8.99

    Christmas comes but once a year. Luckily . . . The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time when families gather together. In Ralph's case this means ten or more relatives coming to stay, including assorted aunts and uncles, nutty Great-Aunt Ida (the Home tells them to be careful not to let her out) and his ghastly cousins: Titania in her silly, sick-making frilly fairy dresses and the twins Sylvester and Sylvia (it took until Easter last year before the family dog got over them).Jammed into one small house for three days of merriment and family fun, with the tv on the blink and Mum on the verge of a breakdown, it soon becomes obvious that, in this house, more definitely does not mean merrier . . .

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one's neighbours are encouraged to report any dissension to the authorities. But it is still a shock when a few careless words lead him to a virtual death-sentence - sent on a nightmare journey up north to a camp amidst the frozen wastes. What, or who, can he possibly believe in now? Can he even survive? And is escape possible . . . ?

  • by Anne Fine
    £6.99

    'Okay, okay. So stick my head in a holly bush . . .'Tuffy, the Killer Cat, knows what he likes. And he isn't loving the 'art' that Ellie's mum brings home from her new class! So what's a cat to do . . .Mischief and mayhem rule in Anne Fine's brilliant new story, with hilarious illustrations by Steve Cox throughout. Perfect for developing readers aged 5 7.

  • by Anne Fine
    £7.99

    How stupid do you have to be to fall out of a top floor window?Or was Stolly trying something else - up on cloud nine, even then?Stolly has always been so alive, so inspiring, taking risks, hiding nothing, notorious for being the school's most imaginative liar (or fantatist, as he calls it). But now he's lying in a hospital bed and Ian, his best friend who's as close as a brother, is watching, waiting and remembering . . . A characteristically funny, moving, life-affirming novel about a most remarkable character and the truly inspirational effect he has on everyone he meets.

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