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All Star High: Shout! (PDF)

All Star High is set in the coolest school in the UK, where the pupils are so desperate to attend they audition for a place! Each book follows wannabe actors, singers and dancers on their journey to become the next big thing. The All Star High series is designed to encourage reluctant readers using page-turning plots, engaging, likeable characters and short chapters to draw the reader through the stories. Reading age: 7 to 8. Interest age: 9 to 14.

All Star High: Superstar (PDF)

All Star High is set in the coolest school in the UK, where the pupils are so desperate to attend they audition for a place! Each book follows wannabe actors, singers and dancers on their journey to become the next big thing. The All Star High series is designed to encourage reluctant readers using page-turning plots, engaging, likeable characters and short chapters to draw the reader through the stories. Reading age: 7 to 8. Interest age: 9 to 14Natalie Caplan's vampire dance video becomes an overnight hit at All Star High. Will Natalie help her friends when they need her or is she too busy becoming a superstar?

All Star High: Trouble (PDF)

All Star High is set in the coolest school in the UK, where the pupils are so desperate to attend they audition for a place! Each book follows wannabe actors, singers and dancers on their journey to become the next big thing. The All Star High series is designed to encourage reluctant readers using page-turning plots, engaging, likeable characters and short chapters to draw the reader through the stories. Reading age: 7 to 8. Interest age: 9 to 14Can Fred the parrot save the day and work with superstar Callum Murphy on stage?

All Star High: Thriller (PDF)

All Star High is set in the coolest school in the UK, where the pupils are so desperate to attend they audition for a place! Each book follows wannabe actors, singers and dancers on their journey to become the next big thing. The All Star High series is designed to encourage reluctant readers using page-turning plots, engaging, likeable characters and short chapters to draw the reader through the stories. Reading age: 7 to 8. Interest age: 9 to 14Becca jumps at the chance to decorate an old house for the All Star High Zombie Bash. Everything is going well until she and Tom hear strange noises... will they make it out alive?

All Star High: Fame (PDF)

All Star High is set in the coolest school in the UK, where the pupils are so desperate to attend they audition for a place! Each book follows wannabe actors, singers and dancers on their journey to become the next big thing. The All Star High series is designed to encourage reluctant readers using page-turning plots, engaging, likeable characters and short chapters to draw the reader through the stories. Reading age: 7 to 8. Interest age: 9 to 14.There's a big TV talent show coming to All Star High and Zeke and Aaron are very excited. But their rehearsals keep going wrong! Is someone trying to stop the boys getting a shot at fame?

All Star High: Rescue (PDF)

All Star High is set in the coolest school in the UK, where the pupils are so desperate to attend they audition for a place! Each book follows wannabe actors, singers and dancers on their journey to become the next big thing. The All Star High series is designed to encourage reluctant readers using page-turning plots, engaging, likeable characters and short chapters to draw the reader through the stories. Reading age: 7 to 8. Interest age: 9 to 14.There is a new Talent Academy opening. Is there room for this new school and All Star High? Claire is worried until she sees the chance to make All Star High the talk of the town.

All Star High: Bad (PDF)

All Star High is the coolest school in England, where pupils are so desperate to attend they audition for a place. Wannabe actors, singers and dancers attend the school in the hope that they will become the next big thing. But super-stardom isn't as simple to achieve as some pupils think.

Ally's World: Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing (PDF)

There are days when Ally just doesn't get the male species. Take Billy, her so-called best mate, who's being even more annoying than usual - so how come she's having slushy love-type feelings for him? And then there's little brother Tor, and his habit of asking embarrassing questions (Ally, where do baby mice come from?). But right now, Ally's got more pressing concerns - like how to get rid of her love handles...

Ally's World, Book 14: Hassles, Heart-pings! and Sad, Happy Endings (3rd edition) (PDF)

Ally is shocked when she finds out that her best mate Sandie is moving away and even more shocked to find that Linn is considering going to university miles away from home. She's only just got her mum back and now everyone else seems to want to leave. Apart from Billy, that is.

Ally's World, Book 4: Friends, Freak-Outs and Very Secret Secrets (1st edition) (PDF)

Ally seems to have developed a Siamese twin - Sandie. Suddenly Sandie's trying to look like her, and won't leave Ally alone, except when Ally goes to the park with Billy and Sandie storms off. Ally's confused, and has the Nightmare School Project too.

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea (New Edition) (PDF)

'There were dozens of us on the ship, boys and girls. We were off to Australia. But it might as well have been the mon'. Orphaned in WWII, Arthur is separated from his sister and sent to the other side of the world. There his extraordinary journey continues as he and his friend Marty survive brutal captivity on a working farm, find a new family with the eccentric Aunty Meg and her animals, and discover their talent for designing yachts. Sixty years later, Arthur's daughter Allie sets sail single-handed in a yacht designed by her father, determined to find his long-lost sister in England. Can family love stretch across time and the vastness of the oceans? And will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together?

Alpha: The 1st Book of Mathsteasers

Alpha: The 1st Book of Mathsteasers is one of three question booklets aimed at advanced learners, written by Dr Tony Gardiner. The books, similar to the Maths — No Problem! Primary Textbook Series, follow the 2014 English National Curriculum. The problems in this book are ideal for children in Years 4 to 8 who have mastered the standard curriculum work and are looking for a further challenge. Questions featured in each book deepen pupils’ mathematical knowledge rather than advancing them through topics. This book contains 12 chapters, based on the national curriculum for Year 4 including topics such as place value, fractions and geometry, and over 140 challenging problems in total.

Amazing Adventures of Hercules (Young Reading)

Amazing Grace

Grace loves to act out stories. Sometimes she plays the leading part, sometimes she is 'a cast of thousands.'When her school decides to perform Peter Pan , Grace is longing to play Peter, but her classmates say that Peter was a boy, and besides, he wasn't black...But Grace's Ma and Nana tell her she can be anything she wants if she puts her mind to it...

Amazing Grace (PDF)

Grace loves to act out stories. Sometimes she plays the leading part, sometimes she is 'a cast of thousands.'When her school decides to perform Peter Pan , Grace is longing to play Peter, but her classmates say that Peter was a boy, and besides, he wasn't black...But Grace's Ma and Nana tell her she can be anything she wants if she puts her mind to it...

Amelia Earhart: The Pioneering Pilot

Traces the life of the pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.

Amelia Earhart: The Pioneering Pilot (PDF)

Traces the life of the pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.

Anisha, Accidental Detective: Holiday Adventure (Anisha, Accidental Detective)

The Mistrys are off on holiday, in the fifth hilarious mystery in the award-winning Anisha, Accidental Detective series! Pack your bags - we're off to a holiday camp! Milo can't wait to see the wildlife, Manny's learning survival skills, and even Granny's going to have a go at archery. Honestly, I just want to read my book, but there's NEVER any time to relax for Anisha, Accidental Detective. The holiday park's mascot, Delilah the duck, has been DESTROYED, and my new friend Cleo is everyone's number one suspect. But I'm sure she's innocent, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to prove it. Let's hope we can find the real culprit, and QUACK the case!!

Anna Witch (PDF)

Once upon a time, and not so very long ago either, a big witch and a little witch lived together in a gingerbread house deep in the dark forest. The little one was named Anna Witch, because witches are very fond of names that spell the same forward and backward. Her mother's name was Ada Witch, but sometimes Anna called her Mum, because that spells the same both ways too. Around their house was a white picket fence with a magic gate that opened only when Anna Witch or her mother asked it to.

Antur ar y Ffordd Adref (Saith Selog)

Addasiad Manon Steffan Ros o Adventure on the Way Home, un o deitlau'r gyfres Secret Seven gan Enid Blyton. Stori antur am saith ffrind yn ceisio datrys dirgelwch, a rhan o gyfres gyffrous wych sy'n addas i ddarllenwyr 5 i 8 oed, ac sy'n eu paratoi ar gyfer symud ymlaen i ddarllen y gyfres Pump Prysur. [Manon Steffan Ros's Welsh adapatation of Adventure on the Way Home, one of Enid Blyton's stories in the Secret Seven series. An adventure story about seven friends trying to unravel a mystery, which is part of an exciting series for 5-8 year old readers in an excellent series which prepares them for the Famous Five series.]

Antur Hanner Tymor (Pump Prysur)

Rhan o gyfres newydd o straeon byrion gan Enid Blyton sy'n gyflwyniad gwych i ddarllenwyr ifanc i anturiaethau'r 'Famous Five' yn Gymraeg. Yn y stori hon mae Twm y ci yn amheus o deithiwr ar y trên, ond tybed a all y 'Pump' ddatrys y dirgelwch? [One of the titles in a new series of Welsh-language short stories adapted by Manon Steffan Ros, and a perfect introduction to Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' books, available in Welsh for the very first time. In this story, the 'Five' try to solve the mystery of a suspicious train traveller.]

Antur y Da-Da (Saith Selog)

Addasiad Manon Steffan Ros o The Humbug Adventure, un o deitlau'r gyfres Secret Seven gan Enid Blyton. Dilynwn y saith ffrind wrth iddynt atal tân rhag lledu a chanfod pwy gynheuodd y tân. Rhan o gyfres o straeon cyffrous sy'n targedu darllenwyr 5 i 8 oed ac yn eu paratoi at ddarllen cyfres Pump Prysur gan yr un awdures. [A Welsh adaptation by Manon Steffan Ros of The Humbug Adventure, one of the titles of the Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton. We follow the seven friends as they raise the alarm about a spreading fire and find out who started it. Part of an exciting series that targets 5-8 year old readers and prepares them for the Famous Five series by the same author.]

Antur y Pen-blwydd (Pump Prysur)

Addasiad Cymraeg Manon Steffan Ros o The Famous Five: The Birthday Adventure. Stori fer gyda lluniau lliw newydd sbon. Mae Jo ar ei ffordd i barti pen-blwydd gydag anrheg arbennig iawn. Ond gwell iddi fod yn ofalus! Mae dau leidr yn dynn ar ei sodlau, ac maen nhw'n torri eu boliau i gael gafael ar yr anrheg... [A Welsh adaptation by Manon Steffan Ros of The Famous Five: The Birthday Adventure. A short story with brand new colour illustrations. Jo is on her way to a birthday party with a special gift, but she needs to be careful! Two thieves are hot on her heels, and they are intent on getting their hands on the gift...]

Ar y Fferm (Cyfres Bechgyn am Byth! #4)

Wrth i Twm a Jac fynd am dro i fferm ffrind, mae troi llaw at odro a rhedeg oddi wrth y teirw yn dipyn o helynt! Addasiad o On the Farm (cyfres Boys Rule!), Rising Stars. [A Welsh adaptation of On the Farm (Boys Rule!), Rising Stars. The Boys Rule! series has been written with the less able or more reluctant reader in mind, with funny storylines aimed especially at boys in Years 3 to 6 with a reading age of between 7 and 8.]

Arian Poced Morgan (Cyfres Lolipop)

Morgan oedd un o fechgyn mwyaf trwsgl Cymru - ble bynnag roedd e'n mynd a beth bynnag roedd e'n ei wneud, roedd rhywbeth yn mynd o'i le. Wedi gweld hysbyseb ar y teledu am degan deinosor Y Tanosorws Tanllyd am ddeg punt, roedd Morgan yn benderfynol o ennill digon o arian poced i brynu un. [Morgan was one of Wales's clumsiest boys - wherever he went, and whatever he did, something would go wrong. After seeing a TV advertisement for a #10 toy dinosaur, called Y Tanosorws Tanllyd, Morgan was determined to earn enough pocket money to buy one.]