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Alex English
Sky Pirates: Echo Quickthorn and the Great Beyond

Look out for pirates, strange islands and a town that you're never allowed to leave in ECHO...

Big Dreams online festival

Authors including Jacqueline Wilson, Robin Stevens, Nick Sharratt, Dapo Adeola...

Is this class worse than yours?

Look out for biscuit battles, killer dogs and escaping rats in THE WORST CLASS...

Professor James Campbell
The Funny Life of Sharks

Are sharks dangerous, human-munching monsters? Or have we got it all wrong?...

Michael Morpurgo
Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver

I really liked it, but it's just got too much like boring talk - I mean I...

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