New girl Millicent clashes with the feisty June over the schools priorities: a music concert or tennis tournament? But both pale into insignificance when its found theres a thief in the fifth form.
Fatty and the Find-Outers are plunged into an exciting mystery. Who stole the valuable picture from the art gallery? What connects the glamorous Lorenzos with the old Larkins? How does a poodle called Poppet fit into the puzzle? When the truth comes out, Fatty works once more with Inspector Jenks, and solves a mystery that […]
In a middle-eastern state not far from the border with Syria, Bill takes his wife and children on a river trip, the family holiday acting as cover for his undercover surveillance operation on a suspicious character – Raya Uma.
For Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack, the holiday in Cornwall was everything theyd hoped for – until they began to realize that something very sinister was taking place on the Isle of Gloom.
In an adventure involving political intrigue and succession to a foreign throne, Jack finds himself on his own, living with a travelling circus in the country of Tauri-Hessia, trying to rescue the other three and the young Prince of Hessia from their captors.
Family friend Bill Cunningham plans a trip for the four children in his aeroplane. Its clear soon after take-off, however, that somethings amiss. The plane is heading in the wrong direction and the pilots are on the trail of some treasure.
Come along with Wishbone as he sniffs out hidden treasure with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in Mark Twains classic story of boyhood adventure.
Contents include: The Silver Trails / Mrs. Tap-Tap-Tap / Twinkles Fur Coat / Green Caps / The Magic Duster / Nobody Came to Tea / The Clever Little Cat / Sneezing Powder / The Giant Limber-Lumber / The Robber Who Wasnt There / Poor Mister Booh.
Concluding the journey that began in?ÿDestination Moon, Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus are on their way to the moon, but unforeseen circumstances–innocent and otherwise–threaten the best-laid plans. Ever since it was first published in 1953, this technologically fascinating tale has probably been many kids first glimpse of the mechanics involved in space travel, but […]
Tintin is informed by the Thompsons of a case involving the ramblings of a drunken dead man, found with a scrap of paper from what appears to be a tin of crab-meat with the word Karaboudjan scrawled on it. His subsequent investigation and the kidnapping of a Japanese man interested in talking to him leads […]
Captain Haddock and Tintin are walking through the countryside when they come across a Roma community camped in a garbage dump. They investigate and upon learning that the community chose that site on account of being forbidden by the police to use any other location, the Captain invites them to his grounds of his estate, […]
Can there still be smugglers at Smugglers Top? The Famous Five go to stay at the large old house, and discover lots of brilliant hiding places, even underground tunnels! Then they catch people signaling out to sea – who are they?
A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around…
Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air – but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?