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When Lewis is given a spy kit for his birthday, he and his best friend, Frank Cosentino, form a secret club at school. It's great fun to start with, but soon Lewis and Frank find themselves in all sorts of trouble....

Natasha, the new girl at school, insists she's a Russian princess. Her life is in great danger. Could she be telling the truth - or is she the biggest whopper-teller ever?

Despite his heroic efforts to be cool, Al Capsella faces a crippling pair of obstacles: his mother and father. They're not just uncool, but a complete embarrassment. Along with schoolmates like Louis, also 14, Al has his own plans for surviving the abnormal antics of parents, grandparents, and teachers. But Al discovers that being really normal is the weirdest thing of all.

When Sebby starts quacking loud enough to wake everyone up, Mikey can't just leave him behind. So off they set together.... And that's when the adventure begins.

David was the best model maker in the world. But one day a strange man sent him a picture of a very strange ball. Could he build that?

Hayley wants to know why her best friend Spit has suddenly dumped her. What she discovers is very strange... stranger than she could have imagined.

It is Kerry's first day at her new school. Will she find a friend?

One beastly beast that's more than meets the eye.... Two aliens with slimy tentacles and too many eyes fixed on adopting a human son.... Three inventors and a sea serpent, a princess, an orphanage, and two ships full of pirates.... Here are four fantastic tales by renowned fantasy author Garth Nix.

Is there really a headless cat or ghost on the way home? Carla isn't sure until she has to walk home from school all by herself.

Jeremy has been looking forward to his 10th birthday for ages. But when his little brother, Oliver. goes missing, Jeremy's birthday seems to be spoiled....

Emma and her older sister, Charlotte, share the same birthday. They even want the same birthday present. But Emma and Charlotte are very different.

Specky has been selected to represent Australia in International Rules, taking on the Irish in a two-test competition in Ireland. Can the boys learn to play with a new set of rules and perfect their skills with the round ball before the Irish team wipes the field with them? And is someone trying to sabotage the Aussie team’s chances of winning?

Where did Bogasauruses live? How many cheeks did a Tricerabutt have? Find the answers to these and many other questions in this guide to prehistoric bumosaur life. Covering Pre-crappian time through to the post Crapaceous period, this essential reference will thrill, amaze and inform the whole family. Never again will you look like a fool when somebody asks: 'What bumosaur is that?"

Did you know that funnel-web spiders can bite through fingernails? That most piranhas are vegetarian? That killer bees are the result of an experiment gone wrong? That a man with athlete's foot once fed parts of his decaying foot to his pet Venus flytrap - and it ate it? Yep, I know a lot of cool stuff. Welcome to my world, where one weird thing leads to another.

Something is happening down in the dump, but Dinsmore's school principal doesn't want him to know about it....

Why does the weasel go pop in the nursery rhyme "Pop goes the Weasel"? Jack wants to know really badly, so he asks his computer. And out pops the most amazing cyber weasel who refuses to tell!

Holly dreams of life as a princess on a tropical island. Then, POW! Suddenly Xavier appears - a wish-fulfilment agent to make it all come true....

Frank, class clown, can't laugh any more. Has the wind really put a No Laughing Curse on him?

Isador and his friend Lulu have set out on a journey. They find a melting iceberg, a giant bird and some stampeding giraffes. And that's just the start of this very strange adventure!

This is a very funny book about running, jumping, throwing, winning, losing, cheating, chasing, biting and really hard squeezing.