Tilly and Billy are the bestest of friends who enjoy creating silliness wherever they go, after all, being silly sure is FUN! Whether they are spying on Tilly’s lovestruck teenage sister, antagonizing Tilly’s cat, Mr. Fluffypants, pestering the people of town square, in the best way one could pester, or admiring the beautiful starry night sky, Tilly and Billy are the BEST at creating silliness wherever they go, especially when they are together. Come along with Tilly and Billy, in book one of ‘Tilly and Billy’s Silly Adventures,’ to see just what kind of silliness they create around them.

Something spooky is happening in Bywater-by-Sea... Victor, the ghost, is desperate to get off dreary Black Hall Island, so he steals a ride on an unsuspecting tourist boat back to Bywater-by-Sea. Two other ghosts - the terribly vain Flora Rose and the lonely but friendly Billy - know he is up to no good, so they follow him. Victor soon realises that the town is not what it seems, and his new ordinary friends, Tom, Jacob and Eric, have some very unusual powers. While Tom is distracted, trying to stop a corporation from building a theme park over his Field Craft hut, Victor sees his opportunity to take over the world. This SHRUNK story was created on The Story Adventure website, where each week, Fleur wrote a new chapter inspired by ideas from hundreds of school children, whose names are printed in the back of the book.

Cattle stealing Daniel Kroff did not like especially on the ranch where he worked "He ain't that fast...is he?" Dave asked. "Pretty fast." Scooter warned. "I wouldn't try if I were you, Dave." Was Daniel's response. Skeeter sweated, his cheeks twitched, his lips tight. He was nervous. Scooter being unsettled exposed shock. I stared at them sternly. (The brothers had seen that before) My eyes steadfast, my blood flowed fast through my body. Calmly waiting for their first move. It happened, Dave went for his gun. My pistol cleard leather and fired instantly...

A playful goose entertains her barnyard friends

Indexes popular fiction series for K-6 readers with groupings based on thematics, consistant setting, or consistant characters. Annotated entries are arranged alphabetically by series name and include author, publisher, date, grade level, genre, and a list of individual titles in the series. Volume is indexed by author, title, and subject/genre and includes appendixes suggesting books for boys, girls, and reluctant/ESL readers.

'Full of heart, humour and larger-than-life characters' Debbie Johnson Here comes the bride... but how long can she hide? When Kitty Clayton flees her wedding, her life seems worryingly futureless. All she knows is she'd rather sleep on the streets than go back to cheating Ethan. After picking her up hitch-hiking, widowed children's author Jack Duffy takes Kitty under his wing until she gets back on her feet. And it's not long before the two grow close... But with Jack struggling to recover from the guilt he feels over his wife's death and Kitty refusing to face up to the problems she's running away from, will the two ever manage to share a happily ever after? A heart-warming novel about love and new beginnings, you won't be able to put it down! What readers are saying about Runaway Bride: 'Deliciously funny and the characters are adorable. I could not put it down! I relished every page.' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars 'Oh, how I loved this book. I didn't want to put this one down.' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars 'Wow! I Loved The Runaway Bride!' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars 'A five-star read to run away with. This was such a glorious read, it was funny and brutally honest.' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars 'Really enjoyed this book and tore through it in a day!' NetGalley Reviewer, 4 stars 'This book is well worth a read.' NetGalley Reviewer, 4 stars

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BEAST QUEST meets PERCY JACKSON in this epic new fantasy series for 9+ readers! Deep within the mountain, a great creature stirred in its sleep. Its eyes rolled back in its head, and its wings jerked wide open... When 12-year-old Billy Chan finds out his parents are sending him to a summer camp in middle-of-nowhere China he doesn't know what to expect. There he meets fellow campers Dylan, Charlotte and Ling-Fei and together they stumble upon an age-old secret: four powerful warrior dragons, hidden deep within the mountain behind the camp. They have been trapped since an epic battle with the Dragon of Death and need the children's help to set them free before terrible evil is unleashed on the earth. Billy and his friends must set off on a dangerous adventure that will take them to the heart of the Dragon Realm. But can they save the dragon and human worlds from destruction? DRAGON MOUNTAIN is the first book in the DRAGON REALM series by Katie and Kevin Tsang, co-authors of SAM WU IS NOT AFRAID Praise for DRAGON MOUNTAIN: 'Rollicking, escapist storytelling with a dragon-sized heart'- Kiran Millwood Hargrave, bestselling author of THE GIRL OF INK AND STARS 'A wonderful warm-hearted and action-packed adventure' - Katherine Woodfine, author of THE SINCLAIR'S MYSTERIES 'DRAGON MOUNTAIN is a joy of a thing: funny, sardonic, generous, with jokes so large-hearted you could swim in them. It's for every child who has ever longed to bond with a dragon' - Katherine Rundell, bestselling author of THE ROOFTOPPERS 'Packed full of fun, heart and imagination, it will make you wish you had your own dragon bond' - Anna James, author of the PAGES & CO. series 'Brimming with warmth and originality, DRAGON MOUNTAIN combines edge-of-your-seat adventure, laugh-out-loud humour and hugely exciting dragons to create a sweeping fantasy that will captivate readers of all ages.' - Catherine Doyle, author of THE STORM KEEPER'S ISLAND 'DRAGON MOUNTAIN has all of my favourite things! A rich mythology and a tale of friendship, snarky dragons and daring deeds...this is the kind of breathless tale that leaves you hungry for the next instalment.' - Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of the ARU SHAH series 'DRAGON MOUNTAIN is a joy to read - adventurous and enchanting, with a heart of gold. It will make you re-live the moment you first looked at the sky and longed to see a dragon looking back.' - Samantha Shannon, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE and THE BONE SEASON series

Elner is a lonely child, raised in a remote valley in postwar North East England, mainly by paternal grandparents. Her mother, a young Italian woman, finds living in with the paternal grandparents difficult. Her father, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders, seeks his lost adolescence with a motorcycle gang. The parents start divorce proceedings as Elner starts school, aged four. Just as Elner begins to feel accepted and befriended, problems over family finances cause her grandparents to move, with her grandmother taking work as a cook-caretaker in a tied cottage home. Elner is made to change schools, wasting a yearaEUR(tm)s progress and having problems making new friends. Her father finds work away from home, returning to his girlfriend at weekends. When Elner is eleven, her father and stepmother marry and move away. Elner passes her eleven-plus exam and enters a large highly competitive school of a thousand students aged eleven to eighteen. Her grandfather dies, and in a role reversal, she becomes her grandmotheraEUR(tm)s carer.