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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5457" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Roald Dahl, illus. Quentin Blake Young George mixes a medicine to make his nasty grandmother more likeable, and once she drinks it she grows to immense proportions. George’s father wants the formula...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5447" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Helen Rutter Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream. He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up: delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5445" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Jennifer Killick It’s basically the worst school detention ever. When classmates Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a SATURDAY, they think things can’t get much worse....

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5443" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Rachel Delahaye ‘Follow the big blue’. That was the last thing Cam’s father said to him. Cam follows Big Blue - everybody does on the island of Cetacea. Their lives take place...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5441" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Louise Finch Spence and Anthony have been friends for years, but it’s only when he witnesses a classmate die in what looks like a tragic accident at a house party that a...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5439" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Simon James Green Freddie is unremarkable - too unremarkable. He doesn’t stand out in any way, and in fact teachers and fellow students keep forgetting who he is. Even his mum thinks...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5437" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Elle McNicoll Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5433" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Rebecca Stead Peter can’t wait to join his parents on an expedition to the ice caps of Greenland to study global warming. But while he’s there, he begins to suspect there might...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5431" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Maisie Chan, illus. Anh Cao Eleven-year-old Danny Chung loves drawing more than anything—certainly more than maths, which, according to his dad and everyone else, is what he is ‘supposed’ to be good...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5293" img_size="medium" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Jeffery Boakye Kofi is used to stuff going wrong, he’s usually in detention or about to be. But when he finds out his best friend Kelvin has a photographic memory, he comes...