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Mafalda is a nine-year-old girl who knows one thing: some time in the next six months her sight will fail completely. Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat? With the help of her family and her friends, Mafalda needs to discover the things that will be important to her when her sight has failed. A moving, empowering tale of courage and determination that will inspire young and old.

The third installment of Edith Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy continues to follow the lives of the original five children and their magical endeavors. The children once again encounter the Psammead, but this time they also discover an ancient amulet that contains time-traveling powers and fuels their adventure throughout the novel. As the children experience different civilizations through time, they meet a multitude of new characters and explore many notable locales such as Atlantis before the flood, Babylon, and the Tin Islands.

Continuing the magical adventures of siblings Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, the sequel to Edith Nesbit's Five Children and It opens with the hatching of a phoenix in the children's very own home. The phoenix, whose egg was contained in a magical carpet, tells the children that the carpet may grant them three wishes a day. As the bird accompanies the children on many adventures - sometimes enlisting the help of the Psammead - the children begin to wear out the magic carpet as well as the phoenix, bringing their time to an end.

Rose loves horses - from a distance. She's always found them a bit scary up close. When she wins a pony in a competition, she has to face her fears and learn to ride. But this is no ordinary pony: Maltie Delight is a bona fide superstar, and he knows it. How will this selfie-loving prima donna ever settle for shy Rose as his owner? Can a Wild West riding camp help them learn to live together - or will it be a diva disaster?

THE MIDNIGHT MOON FEAST. The friends are having a sleepover when they discover that the usually fearless Zia always sleeps with the light on. To help her, they plan their first ever magical midnight feast! THE SECRET JUNGLE HIDEAWAY. Katy has adopted a Sumatran tiger - the most endangered tiger in the world - and she'd love to go on an adventure to meet her. While on a playdate, Luca's garden magically transforms into the Sumatran jungle.

The Great Safari Rescue. When Cassie's cousin Luca joins the girls' school, they invite him on a magical playdate adventure. They decide to go on a wild journey to the African savannah. But when they arrive, the animals are in a frenzy. Their watering holes are drying up and soon there won't be anything left for them to drink! The Honeybee Treasure Hunt. Eager to learn more about honeybees, the friends shrink themselves down to take a closer look. But when they find a lost bee in a sticky situation, this miniature adventure turns out to be their biggest yet!

When a pangolin bursts out of Hattie Brown’s kitchen fridge, it comes with a warning: Somewhere-Nowhere is in the most danger yet. Once again, Hattie finds herself returning to save the whimsical world - but with Arthur nowhere to be found, and her mum now dangerously involved, can Hattie rescue everyone in time? And will the true Nimbus ever be revealed? As Lord Mortimer’s rule pushes the magical realm to its breaking point, Hattie and her new friends must come together or risk losing the world they love entirely.

When Hattie Brown is pulled into a new world, she has no idea why. And not everyone in this 'Somewhere-Nowhere' world is welcoming. Guards want to arrest her because she's there without a permit. Sir Gideon, a dragon, want to see Hattie go so he doesn't get blamed for her sudden appearance. And even Victor, the elephant who brought her there in the first place, wants to send her back one moment and keep her there the next. To top it all off, everyone around her seems to be looking for someone important - someone called 'Nimbus'.

When Hattie Brown is tricked back to Somewhere-Nowhere, she’s walked into a trap. There’s a drought in the realm and Lord Mortimer, its brutal leader, wants to capture her and her friend Arthur because he knows they can make rain. But Hattie isn’t about to go home. She’s discovered that Lord Mortimer has thrown her friend Victor into prison for his part in helping her and Arthur free an army of kidnapped children, and she’s determined to rescue him.

Renee keeps a diary after she finds out her daddy is sick with cancer. She even starts praying and asking God to make him better. But what if he doesn’t get any better? She is worried that she won’t be able to talk to her daddy after he has gone, but her daddy encourages her to keep talking to him, no matter what.