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  • Return to Groosham Grange

    Return to Groosham Grange

    • Anthony Horowitz
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9780744583458
    • Published: 05-05-2003

    The ghoulishly funny sequel to Groosham Grange by number one bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.Someone is trying to destroy David Eliot's school. A year ago, he'd have been happy to see the end of Groosham Grange and its ghoulish teachers. Now, he's on course to win the Unholy Grail, a cup o...

  • It Was You! Blue Kangaroo

    It Was You! Blue Kangaroo

    • Emma Chichester Clark
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780007130979
    • Published: 07-04-2003

    Lily and Blue Kangaroo are inseparable. Whatever Lily does, Blue Kangaroo does too. But Lily is not always fair, and when she is naughty it is Blue Kangaroo who gets the blame. One day Lily is very bad indeed, and Blue Kangaroo is taken away from her and placed on a shelf downstairs unt...

  • Egg Drop

    Egg Drop

    • Mini Grey
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780099432036
    • Published: 03-04-2003

    The Egg was young. It didn't know much. We tried to tell it,but of course it didn't listen. If only it had waited...  The Egg loved the sky. It saw all the birds, insects, aeroplanes, balloons, helicopters, bats and clouds. It dreamed of being up there, flying with them all. So the Egg went to...

  • The Dancing Bear

    The Dancing Bear

    • Michael Morpurgo
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780006745112
    • Published: 03-03-2003

    A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpugo. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the who...

  • The Monster Muggs

    The Monster Muggs

    • Jeremy Strong, Nick Sharratt
    • Penguin Random House Children's UK
    • ISBN13: 9780141315751
    • Published: 26-09-2002

  • The Frog Princess

    The Frog Princess

    • E.D. Baker
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9780747560746
    • Published: 02-09-2002

    Princess Emeralda isn't exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh sounds like a donkey's bray rather than tinkling bells, she trips over her own feet more often than she gracefully curtsies, and she hates the young Prince Jorge whom her mother hopes she will marry. But if Emeralda ever thought to e...

  • Mercy (PB)

    Mercy (PB)

    • Caroline B Cooney
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9780330400152
    • Published: 09-08-2002

    It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's about to get worse. When a group of Kahnawake raids...

  • Love That Dog

    Love That Dog

    • Sharon Creech
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9780747557494
    • Published: 17-06-2002

    Slowly Jack learns the pleasures of writing poetry as Miss Stretchberry encourages him to tell his own story through verse. What emerges is a moving and memorable story about a boy and his dog and his growing passion for poetry.