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It's just a regular trip for Kevin, and he comes back with just the regular sorts of things. Some local fudge, a scented candle for his mum...and his own personal god. It's Abandinus, a little-known Celtic deity who has suddenly found a new purpose in his eternal life - sorting out Kevin's. With a god on your side, everything's going to get a lot easier, isn't it? After all, a god can get stuff done. The trouble is, it's not always the kind of stuff Kevin has in mind....

Tyrone Lewis is messing about in the woods, trying to keep out of trouble, when he stumbles upon something weird... a glowing lump of rock or metal. Whatever it is, it gives him an amazing power. Which is cool at first, until Ty’s new powers start attracting attention, and soon he’s being followed by two sinister agents who seem intent on ‘collecting’ him. But Ty has no intention of letting that happen. So now he’s got to run....

Jack and Lewis love drawing monsters – and their drawings have a funny habit of coming to life! But now everything is going horribly wrong. The dreaded Dahlia Dawkins has somehow managed to find out their secret – and now she’s created a monster of her own, Bashertaur! With monsters on the rampage in the playground, things are about to get very messy. How are the boys going to get out of this one?

Petty's back with a new kind of SWITCH spray - repto SWITCH! The lizard formula is ready for testing, and Josh and Danny are eager to help. But as Josh and Danny are trying it out in the safety of Petty's secret underground lab, they're interrupted by an intruder's attempt to get in to Petty's house! The intruder vanishes, but there is a package waiting for Josh and Danny at home containing a marble and a cryptic clue. Will Josh and Danny find the next mysterious marble? And will they be able to work out who sent the clue?

From the winner of the Blue Peter Books of the Year Award comes the fourth book in the unmissable Unleashed series. A group of very special teenagers. Each with an incredible power, they live together, protected by the government. Out in the ordinary world they know they must not use their powers. But good intentions are easy, following them through is another matter. One moment Alex Teller is joking around with his brother Jacob. A split second later he finds himself thousands of miles away in the Dominican rainforest.

Josh and Danny are on holiday with their parents in Cornwall - so the last person they expect to see is mad scientist, and next door neighbour, Petty Potts! So when the twins see her on the beach - holding a turtle under each arm - they can't help but wonder what she's up to. The thing is, the boys have got other things on their mind. They've found another mystery marble clue, and need to get out to the ruined fort on the rocky island. But they take too long and the tide comes in, trapping them.

Jack and Lewis love drawing monsters: the scarier the better! But they don't expect them to come to life! They've already set Electrotaur and Slashermite loose upon the world. Now they've created Stinkermite - but they didn't mean to set him on their horrible, guffy cousin Timmy!

Petty Potts has vanished - at least it seems that way to Josh and Danny. In actual fact, she's just relocated her secret lab… to the very pink and very girly Princess Land! Reluctantly, the twins fight their way through hordes of excited girls dressed as fairies to the back of the shop, where a single door stands between them and Petty's new lab. SWITCH-ing into geckos, the boys have no problems getting under the door and up the walls. It's on the way out that things start to get really tricky.…

Petty Potts' most recent repto SWITCH spray doesn't seem to be working… not that Josh and Danny were all that excited about being chameleons anyway - alligators would be way better! Plus, they're distracted by the mystery of who is sending them clues to find marbles filled with scientific code. But at school the next day, time seems to be going too fast for the twins, and when one of Danny's eyeballs rolls right round in its socket, they know things are getting weird. How long will it be before the boys are boys again?

It is 1956. Freddy and Polly have never minded helping their genius father with his experiments. Even when that means being put into cryonic suspension having their hearts frozen.... It is 2009. Ben and Rachel have resigned themselves to a long, dull summer when they find the hidden underground vault in the garden and inside it two frozen figures, a boy and a girl...Can Polly and Freddy adapt to the 21st century?

With his supernatural ability to conjure spectacular illusions, Spook Williams knows he is destined for greatness. So when he's kidnapped by a celebrity magician claiming to be his real father, he can't help but be intrigued... Very soon, Spook is living the dream: bathing in a jacuzzi aboard a luxury yacht, rubbing shoulders with billionaires, and spending time with gorgeous magician's assistant, Kamilah.

Eddie hates staying with his cousins - so it looks set to be a really long summer. But then they visit the amazing caves at Wookey Hole and Eddie is entranced. Until he wanders off down a secret passage and gets lost in the dark. Underground, on his own, and nobody knows where he is... Then someone steps out of the blackness to help him. A strange, pale girl called Gwerren who seems to treat the caves as a playground.

Eigentlich haben Elena, Matt und Tima genug Sorgen: Fiese Mitschüler abwehren, nächtliche Ausflüge geheimhalten und immer wieder vertuschen, dass sie die Sprache der Tiere und alle Menschensprachen verstehen - das kostet Kraft und Zeit. Doch dann häufen sich im Krankenhaus von Thornleigh die Todesfälle von Kindern, und die Leichen verschwinden. Da sind die Nachtflüsterer gefragt! Für die drei geht es auf den Friedhof - während Spin sich darauf vorbereitet, ans Tageslicht zu treten.

Band 2 der Reihe um die drei Tierflüsterer - Action und Spannung für Kinder ab 10! Es ist 1:34 Uhr. Erneut beginnt der Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. Elena, Matt und Tima begegnenbei einem ihrer nächtlichen Streifzüge einer seltsamen Fremden, und begreifen: Ihre Begabung lässt sie nicht nur Tiere, sondern alle Sprachen verstehen! So erkennen sie auch die nahende Bedrohung, die zunächst die Hummeln in Angst versetzt und schließlich die ganze Welt gefährdet: Eine übernatürliche Macht ist dabei, die Luft zu vergiften, um Menschen und Tiere zu vernichten.

Spannende Tier-Fantasy für Mädchen und Jungen ab 10: Es ist 1:34 Uhr. Alle Welt schläft. Bis auf Elena, Matt und Tima. Sie wissen nicht, warum sie jede Nacht um diese Zeit aufwachen, und sie können nichts dagegen tun. Nach und nach offenbaren sich ihnen ihre besonderen Gaben: Sie sind Nachtflüsterer und können jede Sprache verstehen, sogar die der Tiere. Doch die Tiere sind in Gefahr, eine seltsame Melodie lockt sie ins Verderben. Gelingt es Elena, Matt und Tima, die tödliche Bedrohung aufzuhalten?

1.34 a.m. It's always 1.34 a.m. Every night without fail, at 1.34 a.m. on the dot, Elena, Matt and Tima wake up. Except, something's changed. The beam that gave them the ability to communicate telepathically with animals has started to come through early. And that's because the Earth is slowing down. Just one second's delay is causing freak tidal waves, forest fires, chaos in the skies. And it's only getting worse. Do Elena, Matt and Tima have the power to get the Earth back on track? Or could this mean the end of everything?

Since the 1.34 a.m. wake-up calls began, Elena, Matt and Tima all had the power to talk to animals, birds and insects like no other human could. None of them would ever trade that for a full eight hours sleep. It was too amazing. But an amazing life has its complications. Like finding a body in the dark. Like having to stop the world from ending. You can fit a lot in your day when you don't sleep.