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TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code

Not sure what to get your 11 year old? Well the latest in Alex Scarrow’s time travel adventure series, TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code is perfect reading for them. This time our hero Liam O’Connor and his fellow TimeRiders are transported back to the year 1193, Sherwood Forest to decipher the code of an ancient manuscript. For a [...]

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Charlie Higson’s The Enemy

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Letter from Charlie Higson…

Dear Reader,   We all need to be scared. It’s good for the soul.   Having spent five years writing straight thrillers for kids I was tempted to try another genre. I thought I owed it to the children to scare the living daylights out of them. My boys love horror, and my youngest is obsessed by zombies. They fascinate [...]

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Betrayed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Betrayed PC Cast and Kristin Cast EAN: 9781905654321 Format: Paperback Release Date: 1 April 2009 Recommended Retail Price: R100 It seems that (un)life is going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She’s settled in at the House of [...]

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Guantanamo Boy by Ann Perera

Guantanamo Boy Ann Perera EAN: 9780141326078 Format: Paperback Release Date: 1 March 2009 Recommended Retail Price: R110 Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken [...]

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