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Grisly history and fiery accusations await in this piping hot history of the Great Fire of London!As if the plague wasn't bad enough, here comes the fiery antidote! As famous diary-keeper Samuel Pepys, you'll witness four ferocious days of fire and smoke, and live to tell the tale. Find out how people survived in the tightly-packed, plague-ridden streets of London in 1666, how they coped in the aftermath of the Pudding Lane disaster and all importantly, whodunnit! - or at least who we think dunnit!The ever-popular You Wouldn't Want to Be series transports readers to the grisliest times and places in history, perfect for reluctant readers. The first-person narrative approach puts children in the shoes of some of the most unfortunate people ever to have lived.Humorous cartoon-style illustrations bring the characters to life, while informative captions explain processes or chronological events.

We rely on our mobile phones all the time, whether it's to keep in touch with friends, to play games, or to access the Internet. As phones become smaller, cheaper and more powerful, we find it difficu

Details techniques and strategies for staying alive while marooned on a desert island, including how to start a fire, find food and water, and deal with mental anguish.

Decorate your very own doll's house inside the pages of this stunning colouring book. Colour and doodle your own Victorian doll's house and its inhabitants. With gorgeously detailed illustrations, and

Explains the history and causes of Sudan's civil war and the crisis in Darfur that followed through written correspondence between two children, one from Northern Sudan and the other from Southern Sud

Featuring Captain Henry Skull and the rascally crew of the Scurvy Dog, this book helps you uncover fascinating facts about a pirate's life at sea, and includes unexpected surprises and the answer to a

Presents a history of games, from the first known dice game in Ancient Iran and checkers to video games and virtual reality.

Presents information about vampires, looking at traditional and modern lore about their characteristics, vampires in literature, and some of the historical figures thought to be vampires.

Discusses the 2003 Iraq war and includes a few letters between an Iraqi child living in Baghdad and an American child whose father is serving in Iraq.

Discusses the history of Iran along with the current political situation, and includes a few letters between an Iranian-American girl living in Los Angeles and an Iranian boy living in Tehran.

Presents information about space aliens and ufos, looking at sightings of them, aliens in literature, some of the controversial evidence for them, and some of the ways that strange phenomena can be ex

Come aboard the Scurvy Dog—if you dare! Captain Skull and his rascally pirate crew await you. Your job: to take the reusable stickers and get the galleon ready for battle. Equip the ship with a Jolly

Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, and diet of the creatures of the deep.

This fact-packed series gives creative young people all the advice they need to enter into exciting, aspirational fields like film and music production.

From gigantic lizards to hideous-looking mutants, monsters come in all shapes and size. In Monsters, young students will read hair-raising stories of dangerous monsters as they discover how these fear

In this spine-tingling book of haunted houses and mysterious thumps in the night, children will follow the trail of ghosts through history--from Sleepy Hollow to the Chinese Ghost Festival. Thrill-see