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The brand new feel-good, laugh-out-loud Tom Gates story featuring LOADS of doodles, starry-eyed dreams and some diva behaviour from Marcus. From Liz Pichon, the multi-million copy bestselling author and illustrator. It's SHOWTIME at Oakfield School and RUMOURS are FLYING around that the local theatre group 'DramaLamaDingDong' are coming to visit with a...REAL LIFE celebrity. The whole school is buzzing with excitement. Whose play will IMPRESS the most? Could this be a LIFE-CHANGING moment for one of the kids? Tom's written a comedy with roles for all his friends, but limelight-hogging Marcus is more annoying than ever.Will everyone realize that friendship is more important than being famous? Written in diary form Every page STUFFED full of laughs, stories, doodles and creative FUN The Brilliant World of Tom Gates was the winner of the 2011 Roald Dahl Funny Prize! Perfect gifts for boys & girls who love to laugh themselves silly The first animated series of The Brilliant World of To

St Trinian’s meets the legend of Faust in A Scholars Guide to Demonology & Other Dark Arts from Sunday Times bestselling author Genevieve Cogman. In this fun occult dark academia, a former Cambridge scholar takes a teaching post at an all-girls school, only to discover the students are summoning demons in the cellar . . .In the start of an original fantasy series, Genevieve Cogman, the author of the bestselling The Invisible Library, welcomes you to Graynes, a magical school for demon-summoning. This is St Trinian’s meets the legend of Faust.Philomela once enjoyed the carefree life of a Cambridge Classics PhD - until her father’s gambling debts forced her to trade prestigious academia for a job on the windswept Yorkshire Moors.Graynes, an isolated all-girls school, offers a quiet - if terribly damp - lifeline. As the new Latin mistress, Phil expects nothing more taxing than dreary weather and making dead languages interesting. Instead, she finds unsettlingly eccentric staff, frankl

An all-new, action-packed novel from New York Times bestselling author T.Z. Layton! Cat Griffin cares about three things: her mom, her friends, and volleyball. But when tragedy strikes, Cat's life is turned upside down in the middle of her sophomore year. She is uprooted from her quiet Kentucky town and moves across the country to live with her estranged father in Silver Beach, California. Cat suspected the transition would be rough. But the reality is much worse.California might as well be a foreign country, and from day one, Cat is bullied by a group of girls on the varsity volleyball team, the most popular sport at Silver Beach High. Life at "home" isn't much better. Her dad can barely make a sandwich and has no idea how to raise a daughter. With nowhere to turn, and all her friends a thousand miles away, Cat has never felt so lost. Her only hope is something she discovers about her father: He used to play beach volleyball and agrees to train her for the all-important school volleyb

Bluey 和 Bingo 原本正跟著全家前往 Nana 家，卻發現 Mum 和 Dad 打算把她們留下，兩個人自己度過一天！姊妹倆當然不肯錯過，立刻想出追上爸媽的辦法。一場熱鬧的追逐就此展開，從火箭、直升機到夢幻屋汽車，Bluey 和 Bingo 發揮最拿手的想像力，看看最後究竟是爸媽成功逃脫，還是孩子們追得上？本書是一本附有 18 個按鍵的聲音書，孩子可以一邊閱讀故事、一邊按下按鈕，讓聲音加入 Bluey 一家的追逐冒險。熟悉的家庭互動加上遊戲與想像，延續 Bluey 輕鬆活潑的趣味。● 配有 18 個聲音按鍵，閱讀時按一按，讓故事情境更加生動● 火箭、直升機與夢幻屋汽車輪番登場，跟著 Bluey 和 Bingo 展開追逐● 改編自 Emmy Award 得獎澳洲兒童節目 Bluey，延續一家人的遊戲與想像力Join Bluey and Bingo as they chase Mum and Dad in this 18-button sound book.The Heeler family are on their way to Nana’s house. When Bluey and Bingo realise that Mum and Dad are spending the day together without them, they come up with a plan to join in. Can Mum and Dad outrun the girls and escape? Join the chase with Bluey and Bingo in their rocket ship, helicopter and dreamhouse car!Press the buttons in this 18-button sound book to bring the adventure to life!“NO KIDS ALLOWED”Don’t miss these other awesome Bluey books:Bluey: Dance ModeBluey: Bluey and Bingo’s Book of Bugs: A Push-and-Pull BookBluey: Bluey and Friends Jigsaw BookB

透過描寫上海的風月場所，折射出當時官場、商界所涉及的各種社會面相。本書以趙樸齋兄妹在上海的經歷為主線，從一獨特的視角反映上海開埠後的另一個面貌──即對當時風月場所的描寫。小說內出現眾多人物，上至官吏富商，下至妓館幫傭，性格無一雷同，足見作者塑造人物之功力。全書用吳語創作，使作品具有一種地域特色。本書針對其中較難懂的吳語均詳細注解，讓讀者能細細品味作品中的人物樣貌與作者所要表達的主要精神。

Return to the world of Truly Devious as Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but even she can't figure out what happened with her boyfriend, David. What she needs is a distraction: a good old-fashioned murder. Stevie is much happier dealing with dead people. They're a lot less confusing--they don't send cryptic texts and make out with other girls in British pubs.But then Stevie gets exactly what she wanted when a dead body turns up in the middle of a Manhattan apartment complex, and this one is . . . complicated. Caught in a web of messy alive-people feelings, Stevie finds herself questioning all human connection. Is magnetism only manipulation? Can you trust anyone? Does anyone realize that they're joining a cult--before it's too late? And are things with David really over?Read al

Ami 和 Ivy 是最好的朋友，個性卻完全不同：Ami 安靜、愛幻想，Ivy 活潑得停不下來。兩人最大的共同興趣是拍電影，放學後總忙著製作一部關於地球遭小行星摧毀、太空任務就此展開的科幻鉅作。然而升上六年級後，她們被分到不同班組，生活也開始走向不同方向。Ivy 很快交到新朋友，Ami 卻遲遲無法適應，又不好意思坦白自己的孤單。當學校宣布才藝表演，Ami 認為公開兩人的電影能讓一切變好，但 Ivy 卻不希望別人看到作品。這部由 New Yorker 漫畫家推出的首部圖像小說，在幽默與淡淡苦澀之間，細膩描寫友情變化、創作與成長，也穿插兩人電影的分鏡稿，讓故事中的拍片過程更加鮮活。推薦給喜歡 Raina Telgemeier、Kayla Miller、Jennifer L. Holm 的讀者。A middle grade graphic novel debut by a New Yorker cartoonist following two best friends who share a passion for DIY filmmaking until the move to middle school sparks growing differences between them. Best friends Ami and Ivy couldn't be more different: Ami is quiet and loves to daydream, while Ivy is loud and in constant motion. What they do share is a love of filmmaking, and spending their free time working on a sci-fi epic about a space mission following Earth's destruction by a giant asteroid. But lately the girls are faced with something even scarier than asteroids: sixth grade. At their new school, students are divided into different tea