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Author: Philip Ardagh Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805071559 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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As his awfully exciting adventures continue, young Eddie Dickens finds himself grappling with a hot-air balloon and falling head-over-heels for a girl with a face like a camel's.
Author: Philip Ardagh Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805071559 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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As his awfully exciting adventures continue, young Eddie Dickens finds himself grappling with a hot-air balloon and falling head-over-heels for a girl with a face like a camel's.
Author: Philip Ardagh Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571275125 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 359
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AWFUL END When both of Eddie Dickens's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud, and it doesn't look as if the three of them are ever going to reach their destination ... DREADFUL ACTS Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids an explosion, a hot-air balloon and arrest, only to find himself falling head-over heels for a girl with a face like a camel's, and into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts who have 'one little job for him to do'. TERRIBLE TIMES Eddie had been given the task of travelling to America to look after his family's interests there. But his life is never that simple; especially with a potential stowaway in his trunk, and Lady Constance Bustle at his side. She's a professional 'travelling companion', whose previous employers seem to have died under the most remarkable and unfortunate circumstances ...
Author: Philip Ardagh Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805068283 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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When both Eddie Dickens' parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house, Awful End. This hilarious historical spoof, the first in the Eddie Dickens trilogy, has been called "a scrumptious cross between Dickens and Monty Python." Illustrations.
Author: Philip Ardagh Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805071566 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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In the final book, Eddie is on board a ship heading for America, but a stowaway and familiar faces from Eddie's past complicate matters, as does being set adrift in a leaky rowboat. Illustrations.
Author: Philip Ardagh Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805074772 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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In their second adventure, the four remaining McNally children are drawn to the mysterious Fishbone Forest in search of their dead brother's stolen brain, only to discover the terrifying Mr. Maggs and his sinister plan to change the world.
Author: John Irving Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307362019 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 635
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“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character—a “difficult” woman. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten. Ruth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her—on Long Island, in the summer of 1958—Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason. A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She’s about to fall in love for the first time. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
Author: Sampson Davis Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780142406274 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George,and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at their school made the three boys aware of the opportunities available to them in the medical and dental professions, they made a pact among themselves that they would become doctors. It took a lot of determination—and a lot of support from one another—but despite all the hardships along the way, the three succeeded. Retold with the help of an award-winning author, this younger adaptation of the adult hit novel The Pact is a hard-hitting, powerful, and inspirational book that will speak to young readers everywhere.
Author: Philip Ardagh Publisher: ISBN: 9781407114859 Category : Marine animals Languages : en Pages : 64
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A humorous, accessible entry into the world of information books for inquisitive young readers, in full colour with simple glossary and index. There's an octopus in the bathroom and a great white shark in the sitting room. Step inside Henry's House and join Henry, his dog Mothball and a quirky cast of characters as they find out everything there is to know about sharks and other sea creatures.
Author: Ernest Cline Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307887456 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: John Irving
Author: Sampson Davis
Author: Philip Ardagh
Author: Ernest Cline