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Product Description: It's been a year since Tom Pellow's dad was lost at sea. He was a sailor, and Tom also finds himself drawn to the vast ocean; it holds so many possibilities, dangers, and secrets. After hearing a song on the radio, Tom decides to write a message in a bottle, and throw it out into the sea...read more

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9781848125698 | Bonnier Zaffre, October 1, 2016, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: It's been a year since Tom Pellow's dad was lost at sea.

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Product Description: When they ring the bell at the house with the dusty windows and tarnished nameplate to inquire about the advertised “Saturday Person,” Thruppence and Tim don’t know what they’re getting themselves into. A Saturday job sounds ideal! But had that nameplate been properly cleaned, Thruppence and Tim might not have been so keen to enter ...read more

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9781510704732 | Sky Pony Pr, May 3, 2016, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: When they ring the bell at the house with the dusty windows and tarnished nameplate to inquire about the advertised “Saturday Person,” Thruppence and Tim don’t know what they’re getting themselves into.

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Product Description: Peggy Piercy, a 112-year-old crofter, lives on a remote island farm, raising her great-great-grandniece Gemma and her great-great-grandnephew Martin. Eight years ago, Gemma and Martin were brought to Peggy and entrusted to her care, having been orphaned after their parents disappeared while traveling between the Isles of Night...read more

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9781628735932 | Perseus Distribution Services, May 6, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Peggy Piercy, a 112-year-old crofter, lives on a remote island farm, raising her great-great-grandniece Gemma and her great-great-grandnephew Martin.

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9780007529711 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, February 27, 2014, cover price $21.50

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9781476764405 | Washington Square Pr, February 3, 2015, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Hunting the skies is not for the faint-hearted. In a world where water is scarce and deadly jellyfish swim through the sky, overprotected Christien dreams of excitement, adventure, and even a bit of danger. When he meets the exotic and alluring Jenine and her family of cloud hunters, he becomes determined to fulfill his dreams and see what this nomadic tribe of people is all about...read more

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9781626362161 | Sky Pony Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hunting the skies is not for the faint-hearted.
9781471400186 | Gardners Books, November 1, 2012, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: Hunting the skies is not for the faint-hearted.

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Product Description: When visiting a museum of horrors, the protagonists of this fun and chilling adventure ignore the most important rule: don’t touch any of the exhibits. Now they’ve become the victims of a terrible curse: one child’s canine teeth are starting to grow longer and another is becoming invisible...read more

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9788479421977 | Italian edition edition (Macmillan Iberia S A, June 1, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When visiting a museum of horrors, the protagonists of this fun and chilling adventure ignore the most important rule: don’t touch any of the exhibits.

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9780439903097 | Scholastic, March 1, 2008, cover price $16.99

Clive and Eric are back on dry land. This title is a sequel to 'Sea Legs'.

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9780340902295 | Gardners Books, April 5, 2007, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Clive and Eric are back on dry land.

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A new and hilarious adventure from the author of Sea Legs!

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9780340930281 | Gardners Books, November 2, 2006, cover price $10.60 | About this edition: A new and hilarious adventure from the author of Sea Legs!

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Twin brothers Eric and Clive are ready for adventure on the high seas, so instead of staying with their grandparents yet again, they stow away on the cruise ship on which their father serves as Senior Steward. Reprint.

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9780689871436 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, March 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Twin brothers Eric and Clive are ready for adventure on the high seas, so instead of staying with their grandparents yet again, they stow away on the cruise ship on which their father serves as Senior Steward.

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9780689871443 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, September 12, 2006), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Twin brothers Eric and Clive are ready for adventure on the high seas, so instead of staying with their grandparents yet again, they stow away on the cruise ship on which their father serves as Senior Steward.

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Product Description: Harry se ha dicho sin haber dicho adiós, y eso le da mucha rabia, porque, entre otras cosas, quiere decir a su hermana que la quiere mucho, y que siente haberse peleado con ella justo antes de aquel incidente. Así que junto a su nuevo amigo Arthur, consigue volver al colegio y a su casa para echar un último vistazo...read more

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9788467511215 | Ediciones Sm, August 29, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Harry se ha dicho sin haber dicho adiós, y eso le da mucha rabia, porque, entre otras cosas, quiere decir a su hermana que la quiere mucho, y que siente haberse peleado con ella justo antes de aquel incidente.

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Product Description: Hodder Literature: an exciting series of literature titles for Key Stage 3 for whole class use. Bill Harris could not be more different from Benny Spinks, the son of a famous footballer and his pop singer wife. Bill knows nothing about football, is never picked for teams and on one occasion scores 6 own goals in a 7-0 defeat...read more

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9780340941447 | Hodder Murray, January 30, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Hodder Literature: an exciting series of literature titles for Key Stage 3 for whole class use.

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9780340884034, titled "The Great Switcheroonie" | Gardners Books, April 14, 2005, cover price $10.35 | About this edition: Bill thinks switching lives with Benny, the son of a world-famous footballer, for a day is going to be brilliant.

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Product Description: Hodder Literature: a new and exciting series of literature for Key Stage 3 for whole class use. Tarrin is a natural-born child living in a world where children are rare. Medical science has enabled people to live to a vast age whilst still looking youthful...read more

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9780340913215 | Hodder Murray, November 30, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Hodder Literature: a new and exciting series of literature for Key Stage 3 for whole class use.

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9780330431903, titled "The Hunted" | Pan Macmillan, January 1, 2005, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: When Deet wins Tarrin in a card game he rents him out to childless couples.

Harry, a boy who has died, tries to describe what it is like on the 'other side,' a place known as the Other Lands.

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9780618212576 | Clarion Books, April 22, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Harry, a boy who has died, tries to describe what it is like on the 'other side,' a place known as the Other Lands.

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9780439561273 | Reprint edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, September 1, 2004), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Harry, a boy who has died, tries to describe what it is like on the 'other side,' a place known as the Other Lands.

Reinforced:

9780606327602 | Demco Media, November 30, 2004, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: Harry, a boy who has died, tries to describe what it is like on the 'other side,' a place known as the Other Lands.

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In this atmospheric thriller, Jonah chases after a fire engine and mysteriously disappears. His best friend, Joe never stops believing that he is alive and that one day he will find him. Years later, Joe meets Anna. When he finds Jonah's rucksack on her land, he realises Anna has a terrifying secret.

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9780330431880 | Pan Macmillan, July 2, 2004, cover price $10.60 | About this edition: In this atmospheric thriller, Jonah chases after a fire engine and mysteriously disappears.

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On the run after blowing up a deserted building with dodgy fireworks, Davy and Mike are taken in by a passing couple who witnessed their misdemeanor. It's almost like the loving family they never had, except it's not. Events take a sinister turn and things will never be the same again.

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9780340875735 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 15, 2004), cover price $10.35 | About this edition: On the run after blowing up a deserted building with dodgy fireworks, Davy and Mike are taken in by a passing couple who witnessed their misdemeanor.

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A snow dome was a strange thing to find nailed to anyone's desk. Especially the desk of Chris Mallan, an obsessive scientist with a mysterious past. Then Chris disappears leaving behind nothing except the dome and a manuscript telling the story of his life.

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9780330415385 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, February 6, 2004), cover price $10.60 | About this edition: A snow dome was a strange thing to find nailed to anyone's desk.

Ally Morgan is in love, and not with just anybody - she's fallen for Stevie: good-looking, talented, popular and unattainable, Stevie Manns. But Ally hasn't just fallen for the boy next door: Stevie is the lead vocalist in Five - Britain's boy band phenomenon. Still, Ally knows that she and Stevie are meant to be together.

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9780340882078, titled "Crush" | New edition (Gardners Books, November 13, 2003), cover price $10.35 | About this edition: Ally Morgan is in love, and not with just anybody - she's fallen for Stevie: good-looking, talented, popular and unattainable, Stevie Manns.
9780340716403 | Hodder & Stoughton, June 1, 1999, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Ally Morgan is in love.

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Meredith is a new girl at school, an orphan, living with her elderly granny. She must be lonely - or so Carly thinks, trying to be nice. But sometimes nice doesn't work. Sometimes people are worse than you could ever imagine. And Meredith has a secret - a story Carly can hardly begin to believe.

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9780330398923 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, April 1, 2003, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Meredith is a new girl at school, an orphan, living with her elderly granny.

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Product Description: A single mother takes her children, Olivia and Angeline, to live in a department store - just until they get proper housing from the DSS. But how are they going to survive without being discovered?

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9780340743362 | Hodder & Stoughton, December 1, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A single mother takes her children, Olivia and Angeline, to live in a department store - just until they get proper housing from the DSS.

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Michael accidentally gets trapped inside his father's new computer, which he it is not supposed to touch on his own, and only the Computer Wizard, who has himself escaped from a computer game, can get him out again
By Chris Fisher (illustrator) and Alex Shearer

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9780141300115 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Michael accidentally gets trapped inside his father's new computer, which he it is not supposed to touch on his own, and only the Computer Wizard, who has himself escaped from a computer game, can get him out again

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P.J. Sniff collects wind from around the world, cultivates it at his farm, and sells it to kite flyers, boaters, windsurfers, and others, but a Florida hurricane that grows into a typhoon nearly sweeps away the entire Callender Hill.
By Tony Kenyon (illustrator) and Alex Shearer

Hardcover:

9780531300794 | Orchard Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After Trevor the Typhoon grabs up all the spring breezes and makes them his own, he compensates in a very unusual way for the damage he creates

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9780531330791 | Orchard Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: After Trevor the Typhoon grabs up all the spring breezes and makes them his own, he compensates in a very unusual way for the damage he creates

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A trio of young entrepreneurs experiments with Native American rain dances and sun dances to supply the right weather for their patrons' vacation needs, but they sometimes find the dance steps a little tricky.
By Tony Kenyon (illustrator) and Alex Shearer

Hardcover:

9780531300800 | Orchard Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When the Summer sisters go into business not only to forecast weather but also to sell the weather which they dance into existence, one serious misstep leads to disaster

School and Library:

9780531330807 | Orchard Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: When the Summer sisters go into business not only to forecast weather but also to sell the weather which they dance into existence, one serious misstep leads to disaster

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