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Dullandon Primary School runs strictly by the headmaster's timetable - until Miss Pandemonium arrives. Within a week she has everyone trying to fly in home-made helicopters and making Friendship Cake, which turns out to be far too friendly.

When George stays with Aunt Primrose, certain doubts start to creep into his mind. Has she really got exploding hair? What is she keeping in the cellar? Gradually he begins to realize that Primrose has been kidnapped and in her place is her evil sister: Violet the sea hag. Can George rescue Primrose and outwit Violet? And how will he deal with the astonishing family secret that is finally revealed to him?

Lucy King is no ordinary girl - she has extra-special powers! Lightning Lucy can fly, make objects float, or burst into flames! In these adventures, Lucy rescues a kitten, washes the dishes, and manages to disrupt the school music festival.

The youngest of 16 princesses, Belinda is not very beautiful or clever - but she is very good at one thing: karate, which she learns from her Japanese tutor. Her skills come in useful when she is snatched from her own wedding to help with a dangerous mission. It’s up to the Karate Princess to outwit the Grand Oompah of Pomposity and stop him from capturing the Last Griffin....

"We have to leave our house in London," Mother said to the children. "We’re going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line." And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?

Three vivid and entertaining short stories about teenagers, from Carnegie Medal-winning author Jan Mark. In 'Frankie’s Hat', it’s Frankie’s 17th birthday. Finding herself unexpectedly free of her baby, she has a carefree day buying a crazy hat and playing football. In 'Like It Is Round Here', Yo-Yo discovers her new boyfriend would rather spend time with her brother than with her.

Some children can waggle their toes, some can waggle their ears, but Lucy King has extra-special powers. She shimmers, she crackles and she zooms through the air like a streak of lightning! When Lucy's parents discover that she can fly, they try to keep it secret. But wherever she is at the Christmas play, on a school outing, filming a TV commercial Lightning Lucy always ends up in the limelight. As her fame grows, Lucy begins to wonder if it might be better to be just a little more ordinary.

What's a nice girl like Lorna Wright doing with an East-End bad boy like Richie Clayton?The world is changing and London is swinging: it's the 1960s. But in the East End the docks are closing and life will never be the same for the families who have worked there for generations, among them the Wright family.Lorna Wright is a nice girl, but Richie Clayton is bad news: a violent thug who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the top of the East End underworld.

There has never been another novelist like Dickens. In his novels and stories, loved throughout the world, he created a host of fictional immortals, reflecting their eccentricities, their wit, their violence, and their pathos. They live today as vividly as ever. This engrossing dramatisation shows how his most famous creations were derived from his own experiences and from facets of his complex, almost demonic personality.

Bertie Boggin is the smallest of the Boggins. His older brother and sister won't play with him and he has nothing to do. Then he sees the notice on the coalshed - and there inside is the Ghost!

Sam, Jamie and Luke have a band called 'Fireballs from Hell'. They’ve got somewhere to practise; they’ve even got a demo tape. But now the girls in their class want to be in it... ‘Over my dead body’ says Sam. But the girls have talent, and they have Victoria Topping. When Victoria takes over, and the man from Mega Records shows up, the boys’ dreams of stardom start to look seriously rocky...