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Rugby activity book for young rugby fans is jam-packed with rugby facts galore, heaps of quizzes, games and word puzzles and engrossing information about the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

Henry is in the pet shop to get himself a new pet but he doesn't want anything ordinary, like a kitten or a puppy. To his mum's dismay, he chooses Mr Eight, a giant octopus, who is more than the usual handful. And, he has a troubled past.

John finds himself caught up in an Antarctic adventure that happened in 1911 when he travels back in time using one of his inventions. A chance to discover the Antarctic through the writing of someone who has been there.

Fred Hollows qualified as an eye doctor in New Zealand and later moved to Australia. He restored sight to more than one million people. He worked in remote and Aboriginal communities, providing much needed aid, often for free. Working in Nepal and Eritrea, his factories, run by local people, produced three million lenses for ten dollars each. He believed that curing blindness gave people back their independence.

Lyli lives in the distant planet of Motika, in a city surrounded by great crystal mountains. One day, her mother tells her about a great green stone-muncher who ate a path through the mountains. Lyli is curious and knows she should be afraid, but she sets out with her cat, Tyki, in search of the stone-muncher.

Lucy is about to start high-school. She has a cool new friend, Briony, and feels she's outgrown the school holiday 'Overseas Adventure Days' she shares with her grandfather, a retired geography teacher. When Lucy asks to spend those days with Briony, instead of doing geography research and international craft and cookery with Gramps, her mother refuses and reveals a poignant reason. However, when an emergency threatens more than just Lucy's Fridays with Gramps, she reflects on all they've shared, and what is most important in her life.

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Trudie Cooper can't paint portraits, solve difficult sums in her head, write riveting novels, speak six languages, or do other clever things like that. But Trudie has a secret talent. She is a cookery genius! She can whip up any dish, feed a famished family, come up with yummy flavour combinations, and create original recipes that are all her own. She's been doing that since she was two!

Trudie Cooper can't paint portraits, solve difficult sums in her head, write riveting novels, speak six languages, or do other clever things like that. But Trudie has a secret talent. She is a cookery genius! She can whip up any dish, feed a famished family, come up with yummy flavour combinations, and create original recipes that are all her own. She's been doing that since she was two! In 'Saves the Day', Trudie's cooking skills and fast actions come to the rescue when catastrophe strikes a very special event.

"Trudie Cooper can't paint portraits, solve difficult sums in her head, write riveting novels, speak six languages, or do other clever things like that. But Trudie has a secret talent. She is a cookery genius! She can whip up any dish, feed a famished family, come up with yummy flavour combinations, and create original recipes that are all her own. She's been doing that since she was two! In 'The Secret is Out', Trudie is on a mission to save the school library. She enlists the support of a TV personality, but as events unfold her secret is also revealed......What will happen next?"

The gang are off on another adventure to find the next missing piece of the Evoker King. What they find is buzzare! Harper and her friends tackle a real-life ecological crisis. The bees around their school and the Stonesword Library are disappearing - and a splinter of the Evoker King has taken on the form of a bee colony with a hive mind! Could there be a connection with the rip they've seen growing bigger and darker in the Minecraft sky? And will their actions make things better or worse?

A wonderful collection of poems that tell us what cats get up to when we aren't watching. Some are sane, some are mad, some are good and some are bad. Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But, you'll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity's not there.

Bushfire and the island's pig infestation make Kuula and Wurrtoo's adventure across the island dangerous and challenging.But Wurrtoo's desire to marry the Sky by climbing the tallest tree in the Forest of Dreaming on the Mainland is unstoppable and his unassuming heroic character and love of his world and his new best friend together with the Seven Sisters save the island from a terrible fate.

Jess sets out to find her father and rescue him from Pigtales, the pirate.

Baabwaa is a sheep who loves to knit. Wooliam is a sheep who loves to read. It sounds boring but they like it. But one day, they decide they could do with a bit of an adventure, so they set off for a walk around the field. Just then, quite unexpectedly, a third sheep shows up. A funny-looking sheep who might just be that wolf in sheep's clothing Wooliam has read about.

Sam wants to go to sea again but Albert is reluctant. Every day he comes up with a different excuse. The funny thing is Sam is a cat and Albert is the sailor. Perhaps there is a reason why Albert is not so keen.

Even though Ben saved the school from total destruction last year, he feels like a fake. He still hasn't managed to find out his superpower and he is finding it harder to keep it a secret. However, with a well-meaning fan-club, scheming school bullies and nightmares about worm-eaters, Ben's got his hands full making sure no-one finds out the truth.

From the author of Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja comes this new funny, action series of books about Ben Braver. Ben is selected to go to a school with super powers, even though he doesn't seem to have a super power and is just an ordinary kid. After arriving at the new school he discovers the bully from his old school is also there, which isn't a good thing. Soon after a strange sickness spreads through the school causing the students to act like zombies and eat worms. It's up to Ben and his friends Noah and Penny to solve the mystery. This book is hilarious and if you like superhero fiction you will love this book.

While Lizzie is in charge of the antique shop and grandpa is sleeping on the Louis XVI sette, she has a customer. But, amongst other things, Mrs Bradley Larchmont, the Third, wants to buy grandpa and she doesn't like no for an answer.

As Lucy's fingers trace each crease on her Grandad's lined face, she wants to know why Grandad's skin doesn't fit anymore. He tells her what joyful event caused each wrinkle to appear.

Sami lives with his Grandfather Ali on a vegetable farm. Sami would love to go to school but, instead, he helps his grandfather who is old and can't cope alone with all the hard work. They sell their produce at the town market. One day, Sami trades some eggs for a box containing four dirty old lamps.

Katie is surprised to discover a feisty leprechaun lurking in her local park. Together, they go on an adventure to hunt down the ideal footwear for a leprechaun shoe maker.

Toad, Rat, Bat, Hyena and Spider are anything but beautiful but the ugly outcasts learn that beauty comes in many guises.

Zazie has begun writing in her new diary, filling it with all her thoughts and feelings about her friends, school and family, knowing that at least here she will not get into trouble for speaking her mind. School has become much harder work now that their regular teacher is away and the replacement is a particularly strict task master who just happens to bare a striking resemblance to the main character of the book Zazie is currently reading - Dracula. Zazie determines it is up to her to save the situation, using the advice contained within Dram Stoker's book. However not all goes according to plan, with one mishap after another.

Suri lives with other children behind a wall. She is much taller than the others and they are frightened of her. But, one day, Suri has grown tall enough to see over the wall and she begins to describe to the children the beautiful things that she sees.

A book about trying to describe the impossible, the highly improbable and the most likely to be extinct creature, rarely ever seen.