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Two quirky and hilarious stories from the best-selling Diana Wynne Jones. Two groups of children learn that while you can choose your friends, dealing with your family can make you wish you could choose a different one….

Grab your glow in the dark trousers, Casper’s back in this third ridiculously hilarious, hilarously ridiculous madcap adventure. Most villages have an idiot but Casper's village is full of them. So being bright makes poor Casper something of an outsider. A side-splittingly funny for girls and boys, featuring a massive food fight, an evil French chef and a machine that fires omelettes….

The Hueys have an important question about counting in this hilarious new book from international bestselling, award-winning author/illustrator, Oliver Jeffers, creator of How to Catch a Star and Lost and Found. The thing about the Hueys was that they loved numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3.... Wait! 0? Is 'none' a number? Join the Hueys for a counting conundrum! This witty and lively pictorial debate makes numbers interesting and fun!

Meet the amazing monster customers and sample the foul-food served up daily at Fuzzby's diner - the third book in this innovative series from incredibly talented author, David O'Connell. Roll up, roll up… it's Chips for everyone at the Monster Fair. Joe works in a monster diner flipping squashed-frog burgers and serving the best soggy boggy sausage to the monster customers. Now he and his monster friends are off to cook at the monster fair. Has Joe got the stomach for the Big Squeal, and the Splodgem Dodgems?

A fabulously funny Rock Chick -lit series for teens from uber-cool celeb Lauren Laverne. Tune in for a hyper-real rollercoaster ride to Glasto and beyond!Candy Caine is fifteen years old and she's on a mission: to escape dullsville! Candy knows she's destined for bigger things and is determined to leave boring small town Bishopspool and make it big in the music business.

Introducing the Hueys - a fabulously quirky group of characters from internationally best-selling, award-winning author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers, creator of How to Catch a Star and Lost and Found. The thing about the Hueys is that they are all the same…. They all look the same, think the same, and do the same things. Until one day, Rupert knits himself a new jumper.… How will the other Hueys react? A hilarious story about individuality.

A hilarious new adventure featuring the infamous Duck and his long-suffering friends, Sheep, Goat and Frog.Duck and friends go out one daywith a bat, a ball and a glove to play.Duck hits the ball – but where does it fall?On a branch in the tree, now they can’t play at all.Frog has an idea, Duck lends a handbut nothing turns out quite as planned.

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yeah. And dead. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back - just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down. With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world....

The loudest kid in fiction is back in a brand-new story. And he's still got a lot to shout about! Follow Harry's hilarious ups and downs told through laugh-out-loud letters, emails, texts and more.

The third book in this gripping, high-impact, high-energy new series. Orphan boy Caw has done battle with the most terrifying villains ever to stalk the city of Blackstone. But now he must face his toughest adversary yet - his friend, Selina, bitten by the Spinning Man's spider and transformed into the White Widow. The city is drowning in a crime wave masterminded by Selina. Caw must stop her before the Spinning Man consumes her completely - and regains all of his terrible powers.

The second book in this gripping, high-impact, high-energy new series. After the Spinning Man was banished to the Land of the Dead in an epic struggle between good and evil Ferals, Caw's life has become safer, free of the darkness that had stalked Blackstone for so long. But there's a new villain in town - and the Mother of Flies will stop at nothing to make crime, corruption and chaos descend once more.

The funniest kid in fiction is back, and he's got a lot to shout about! Hi there. So I've joined a band with Jess and this new kid, Kevin, who is pretty annoying but also a really talented guitar player. We've got a good shot at winning the Battle of the Bands competition for our school as long as Kevin doesn't get expelled first. But here's the thing: my dad has this crazy idea to take me, my mum, my evil sister and my twin brothers sailing round the world.

A hilarious collection of poems from the creator of the best-selling Duck in the Truck series. We learnt about acorns and planted a tree, Nigel fell over and bashed up his knee. Rosie Rawlings cried at play - Her pet rabbit’s run away. In English, Miss Chadwick was in a bad mood. At lunchtime we all made a mess with our food. And you’ll never guess what happened to Claire. She leaned back too far and fell off her chair! Jez Alborough’s hilarious rhymes describe a typical day at school, as seen through the eyes of various pupils.

A quirky Valentine's Day comedy from children's book award-winner Simon Puttock.... 'Dear 'Red', Your wings are so beautiful! I wish you were my friend. Or EVEN my valentine? From 'Blue' Love is in the garden air on Valentine's Day, but Ladybird is feeling all left out - until she opens a letter from a secret admirer. Could it really be from the handsome blue Dragonfly?

Meet the Hueys - a fabulously quirky group of characters from international bestselling, award-winning author/illustrator, Oliver Jeffers, creator of How to Catch a Star and Lost and Found.A fight has broken out amongst The Hueys. “It was not me! It was him!” But no one can remember what they’re fighting about. If only they could find an interesting distraction....

For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle - time and time again - by Skulduggery Pleasant’s side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in danger, as a ruthless killer snatches her little sister in order to lure Valkyrie into a final confrontation. With Skulduggery racing to catch up and young sorcerer Omen scrambling along behind, Valkyrie has only 12 hours to find Alice before it’s too late. The clock is ticking....

The funniest kid in fiction aka Shoutykid is back and has more to shout about than ever! When he's packed off on a school trip to 'Adventure Camp' for half term Harry is less than thrilled. He'd planned to spend his holiday shooting zombies, not kayaking, abseiling and perfecting his archery skills! Even worse than all the outdoor activities, Harry's been put in a dorm with his arch-nemesis Ed Bigstock!

"How little you know of your own father. He took something I cherished long ago and hid it away. You will help me find it". The legendary Luck Uglies are the most deadly, dangerous band of men Ryley O'Chanter has ever met - and her father, Harmless, is their high chief. Having been in exile for ten years the Luck Uglies are back in Village Drowning, but bringing them out of the shadows and back together was never going to be without its perils.

The Hole-in-the-Tree gang are not happy when they find another group of raccoons raiding their favourite food stores. The town isn’t big enough for the both of them, but can Quick-paw Cassidy and friends come up with a plan to drive the raiders out?

Quirky, witty, and brilliant, Marshall Armstrong is new to school and he definitely stands out from the crowd; but will he find it easy to make friends? A highly original take on a perennially popular theme, performed by Stephen Mangan. Marshall Armstrong is new to our school. He looks different to me. His laces are straight, not criss-crossed like mine. Marshall Armstrong doesn’t fit into our school. Not one bit.... But it doesn’t take long for Marshall to prove that you don’t have to follow the crowd to be the most popular kid in the playground.