Книги жанра Scholastic
Название: Raiders and Ruins
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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Another horribly hilarious story from the creators of Horrible Histories. Eric is a young novice monk in the abbey at Lindisfarne. When he faces a lashing from fearsome Father Patrick, Eric flee in a small boat and is captured in a storm by Norse men. When h befriends Hilda, a young English slave girl, they plan their esape. But the youngsters uncover a secret plan to raid English monasteries and find themselves part of the raiding party on Lindisfarne itself. Can they save Eric's beloved monastery, its treasures and habitants?
Название: Smashing Saxons and Stormin' Normans
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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This book features history with twice the nasty bits... in a horrible new edition! The Smashing Saxons tells the terrible truth about the pillaging people who bashed the Brits but got nobbled by the Normans. The Stormin' Normans follows big bad Bill the Conqueror who battled at Hastings, stormed Europe and joined the crummy Crusades. This book features curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests... for your teacher! History has never been so horrible.
Название: Stratford-upon-Avon
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2010
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It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: The rules of the orful Olympic sport of shin-kicking? Why locals like toob cheese in the river? Which of Shakespeare's characters was baked in a pie? Plot your path to the past with the frightful full-colour map — pay your respects at the playwright's grave, then brave spooky Sheep Street, home of an awful axeman, a weird witch and possibly the most haunted house in England.
Название: Vicious Vikings and Measly Middle Ages
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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This book features history with twice the nasty bits... and in an incredible new edition! Readers can learn what life was really like in the Measly Middle Ages — in days of old when knights were bold, women wore tall pointy hats, and the peasants truly were revolting. In Vicious Vikings, readers get all the frightening facts about these vile invaders and their savage Saxon enemies, from cruel kings and vengeful Viking warriors to their suffering slaves. With curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests... History has never been so horrible!
Название: Angry Animals
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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Science with the squishy bits left in! Take a walk on the wild side. With Angry Animals Dare you discover: who made false teeth for an elephant; where you can find dragons with bad breath; and, which scientist ate a poisonous snake for dinner. If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go on the hunt for the cruellest creature of them all. Get to grips with gruesome grizzly bears, wolf down some facts about, er, wolves and snap up some savage shark stories. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, Angry Animals is a book to sink your teeth into! Science has never been so horrible!
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2010
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Everybody knows that Albert Einstein was the smartest scientist in the universe and that he also had some very bad hair days. But in this Horribly Famous title readers can find out everything they didn't know, including how Albert was actually expelled from school, and how he was spied on by the Nazis and the FBI. With Albert's lost notebook readers can at last get inside his super-brain, and in The News of the Universe, they can get to grips with all his amazing theories without making their brains hurt.
Название: Roald Dahl and His Chocolate Factory
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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Everybody knows that Roald Dahl wrote brilliant books for children and created a fantastic chocolate factory. But did you know that Roald was a fighter pilot, and a spy in the Second World War? Everything you ever wanted to know about the man with the chocolate factory.
Название: Jungle Jive
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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Please come to...Monkey's birthday party! There's going to be dressing up, dancing and fun for birds and beasts and everyone! Don't miss the most funky-monkey party of the year!
Название: A Darkling Plain
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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This is an extraordinary fiction from a brilliant author. It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart — the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Until a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the ruins of London and the possibility of going back... Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London... In a Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve brilliantly completes the breath-taking adventures that began with Mortal Engines.
Название: Fever Crumb
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2010
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Fever Crumb is a stunning, stand-alone prequel to Philip Reeve's brilliant science fantasy quartet. It is set many generations before the events of Mortal Engines, in whose dazzling world huge, predatory cities chase and devour each other. Now, London is a riot-torn, ruinous town, clinging to a devastated landscape and hiding an explosive secret. Is Fever, adopted daughter of Dr Crumb, the strange key that will unlock its dangerous mysteries?
Название: A Web of Air
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2010
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Two years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a travelling theatre. Now she arrives in the extraordinary crater city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on funicular rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs — but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets. This is the fabulous sixth book in the Morta Engines series, from the brilliant and award-winning Philip Reeve.
Название: Noisy Farm Animals
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2008
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Little ones will love listening out for the noisy farm animals in this big, bright pop-up book. Everyone can join in with the noisy 'moo's', 'baa's', 'neigh's and plenty of real' farm animals noises. With simple, rhythmic texts and playful illustrations this book is guaranteed to be a real page-turner.
Название: Numbers
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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Since her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret. When her eyes meet someone else's, a number pops into her head — the date on which they will die. Knowing that nothing lasts forever, Jem avoids relationships, but when she meets a boy called Spider, and they plan a day out together, her life takes a new twist and turn. Waiting for the London Eye, she sees everyone in the queue has the same number — something terrible is going to happen.
Название: Numbers 2: The Chaos
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2010
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Adam sees 'numbers' — when he looks in peoples' eyes he can see their death-dates, just like his mum Jem used to. Adam has trouble dealing with his awful gift, and when he realises that everyone around him has the same series of numbers, he becomes deeply afraid of what might happen in 2025. Desperate to find out what could be about to go wrong, Adam spends hours researching possibilities — war, nuclear accidents, killer viruses. He knows something big is coming, but what? And is there anything he can possibly do about it?
Название: Octopus Socktopus
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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Who will be your favourite octopus? Will it be the Cuckoo Clocktopus, the Scary Shocktopus or maybe even the Party Frocktopus? This work is a colourful sequel to «Elephant Wellyphant», shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
Название: One Drowsy Dragon
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2010
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One drowsy dragon is exhausted, because 10 noisy little dragons are keeping him awake! As he tries and tries to find some peace and quiet, he worries that he will never fall asleep... One Drowsy Dragon is the perfect story to teach counting — the fun way!
Название: Shiver
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2009
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Grace is fascinated by the wolves in the woods behind her house; one yellow-eyed wolf in particular. Every winter, she watches him but every summer, he disappears. Sam leads two lives. In winter, he stays in the frozen woods, with the protection of the pack. In summer, he has a few precious months to be human... until the cold makes him shift back again. When Grace and Sam finally meet they realize they can't bear to be apart. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human — or risk losing himself, and Grace, for ever.
Название: Trapped
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2010
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Old secrets make new trouble for our heroes as they try to track down their latest enemy.
Название: The Thief Lord
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2006
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Winter has come early to Venice. Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city. Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with disguises and the health of his pet tortoises. But a greater threat to the boys' new-found freedom is something from a forgotten past — a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.
Название: Tiddler
Жанр: Scholastic
Год: 2008
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The smallest fish can tell the tallest tales... Sorry I'm late, Miss. I set off really early but on the way to school I was captured by a squid. I wriggled and I struggled till a turtle came and rescued me. Oh, no, he didn't. Oh, Yes, He did. Tiddler is a little fish with a big imagination. What ever will he come up with next?
