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Ever tried to get out of going to school by pretending that you're dead? Ever managed to convince a friend that they're invisible? Ever been stuck in a gorilla suit and nearly put in a zoo? Andy has. Andy's the greatest practical joker in the world ... well, almost. He would be, if only his practical jokes didn't have the annoying habit of backfiring on him.

Honest, silly, and laugh-out-loud funny...the first book in Liz Pichon's hugely popular, award-winning Tom Gates series. Tom Gates is the master of excuses for late homework: dog attacks, spilt water, lightning... Tom's exercise book is full of his doodles, cartoons and thoughts as well as comments from his long-suffering teacher, Mr Fullerton.

Is this the right book for you? Take the DOOMED TEST to find out. 1. Have you ever broken a mirror, walked under a ladder or opened an umbrella inside? 2. Do you often find yourself feeling that everything is about to go horribly, terribly and utterly wrong? 3. Have you ever lost or destroyed a valuable item that didn’t belong to you? 4. Have you just accidentally enraged a very large and bad-tempered bully? 5. Are you 120 years old or over? SCORE: One point for each YES answer. 3-5 – You are definitely DOOMED! You will love this book. 1-2 – You are fairly DOOMED!

From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Red House Children's Book Award, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award 2013 comes the seventh amazing installment of Tom Gates' adventures! Will Tom and his band, Dogzombies, be lucky enough to win the Rockweekly Bandbattle competition? They just might be if they could find time to practice!

Andy and Terry have a new book to write, but there's a problem. A BIG problem. Well, quite a few big problems actually.... On a hill not too far away there is a tree. And in that tree there is a tree house. And in that tree house there is a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a giant rope swing, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a vegetable vaporiser and a free marshmallow-dispensing machine.

Mem Fox is Australia's most successful author of books for young children. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the highest selling picture book ever in Australia. Baby Magic, narrated by Mem, is a selection of some of her favourite stories for toddlers and young children.

A fantastic compilation containing the first six Zac Power books: Poison Island, Deep Waters, Mind Games, Frozen Fear, Tomb of Doom, and Night Raid. Join Zac Power as he battles to save the world... and tidy his room!

Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has 13 new levels including a chocolate waterfall, a non-erupting active volcano, an opera house, a baby-dinosaur petting zoo, Andy and Terry's Believe it or Else! museum, a not-very-merry merry-go-round, a boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, an X-Ray room, a disco with light-up dance floor, the world's scariest roller-coaster and a top-secret 39th level that hasn't even been finished yet! Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!

Meet Billie B Brown! Do you know what the B stands for? It's for Brave, Brilliant, and Bold! The Billie B misadventures have quickly become favourites for girls all over the world. This audio collection brings together five favourite Billie B Brown audiobooks in one volume.

You’re probably wondering just how Andy and Terry met. Well, it’s a long story, but a pretty exciting one, and it’s mostly true! Come on up, choose a hammock, and they’ll tell you all about it. Andy and Terry's newly expanded treehouse, which now features 13 brand-new storeys, including a dodgem car rink, a skate ramp, a mud-fighting arena, an antigravity chamber, and an ice cream parlour with 78 flavours run by an ice-cream-serving robot called Edward Scooperhands. Just keep clear of the Maze of Doom....

Tom Gates Extra Special Treats is about hard work, annoyance and humiliation - and is as brilliantly entertaining as the rest of the series. It's really cold outside, and we're all hoping it's going to snow. Yeah! Derek and I could make a snow Rooster and have a snowball fight (look out, Delia!). Granny Mavis has started to knit me a new winter jumper, but by the looks of things I'm not sure it's going to fit....

Zack Freeman is ready to tell his story. The story of a boy and his crazy runaway bum. The story of a crack bum-fighting unit called the B-team, a legendary Bum Hunter and his formidable daughter, and some of the biggest, ugliest and meanest bums ever to roam the face of the earth. A story of courage and endurance that takes Zack on a journey across the Great Windy Desert, through the Brown Forest and over the Sea of Bums before confronting the biggest, ugliest, and meanest bum of them all.

Take the disgusting quiz and find out if this is the right audiobook for you!

Do you do any or all of the following: pick your nose, talk in burps, or wee in swimming pools? Do you ever wear the same undies two (or more) days in a row? Do you wish you knew the most disgusting thing in the world? Do you think brussel sprouts are a delicious mouth watering treat? Do you like stories about dead flies, giant slugs, and mysterious brown blobs?

Take one Shakespearan tragedy: Macbeth. Add Andy, Danny and Lisa - the JUST trio, whose madcap exploits have already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers for the last 10 years. Mix them all together to create one of the most hilarious, most dramatic, moving stories of love, Whizz Fizz, witches, murder and madness from the best-selling and funniest children's author in Australia. . Mix them all together to create one of the most hilarious, most dramatic, moving stories of love, Whizz Fizz, witches, murder and madness from the best-selling and funniest children's author in Australia.

Winnie the Pooh may be a bear of very little brain, but thanks to his friends, Piglet, Eeyore, and of course Christopher Robin, he’s never far from an adventure. In this story Pooh gets into a tight place, nearly catches a Woozle, and heads off on an ‘expotition’ to the North Pole with the other animals. In this stunning audio edition of Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne’s world-famous story is once again brought to life.

TOTAL DISASTER!!! Mean girl MacKenzie has stolen Nikki's diary! What if she tells everyone Nikki's totally secret thoughts?! But reading Nikki's diary isn't the only thing MacKenzie's interested in. Get ready for Dork Diaries with a twist as MacKenzie takes over and tells all about her GLAMFABULOUS life! What does the queen bee really think about Nikki and her dorky friends?

Warning! This book contains nothing but bad stories, bad poems, and bad riddles about bad characters doing bad things. It is a very, very, very bad book.

A young Aussie soccer genius and his 10-year-old manager take on the world. And win. For a time. A funny and moving story from one of Australia's most entertaining authors.

Congratulations Patrick! You are now invited to compete in Finders Keepers, the million-dollar TV game show. You're chosen by chance and you take your chances in Finders Keepers. Do you accept the invitation? One Saturday morning Patrick's life is changed forever as he is pulled through the television into a parallel universe to solve the mystery of the million-dollar game show Finders Keepers. He then discovers the world beyond the Barrier and along the way learns some valuable lessons.

Mem Fox is Australia's most successful author of books for young children. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the highest selling picture book ever in Australia. Classic Magic, narrated by Mem, is a selection of her most popular and beloved stories.