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Life for Alice and the five other children living on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda was challenging enough, but when a strange time travel device shows up and they discover only Alice can control it, their whole world changes. This fast-paced eco adventure aimed at readers aged 7-13 features all three books of the series in one volume.

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A freak electro-magnetic pulse leaves 17-year-old Bo and six other teenagers trapped inside a building in the British seaside resort of Blackpool, desperately trying to work out what just happened, why they can’t get out, and how to survive the weirdest weekend of their lives. Dealing with each other’s egos and issues is nothing compared to the fallout unleashed by the solar event, because hidden beneath the building they discover it has activated a powerful energy device called blackloop. As blackloop starts affecting everyone and everything in its vicinity, can Bo, who’s still grieving the loss of her mum, summon the courage to confront her fears, realise she’s falling in love, and make a move on Karim before it’s too late?

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The mysterious black C-Bean is a remarkable device which, as Alice and her classmates discovered in SeaBEAN (the first book in The SeaBEAN Trilogy), knows just about everything and can take them anywhere in the world. But now it's broken and stranded on the rocks on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda. When Karla Ingermann, the C-Bean's designer, turns up from Germany to try to fix it, they perform a factory reset, which accidentally sends it back in time, and Alice's world is thrown into disarray. Chased by Victorian police, attacked by an enemy submarine, imprisoned with a madwoman, summoned to rescue a dying pilot and fired at by government agents, Alice, together with her parrot, her dog and her new wartime companions, embarks on a journey through time, uncovering dark secrets from St Kilda's past and safeguarding the future before it's too late.

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This collection of poems for young children is about celebrating the adventure of growing up, of belonging to a family, of coming to terms with our feelings. In lively, understated and often funny verse, Sarah Holding shares her love of words and nature. These read-out-loud poems will appeal to anyone who's got the hang of reading.

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In the thrilling final part of The SeaBEAN Trilogy, Alice and her five classmates are - for reasons they have yet to discover - abducted to 2118 in the C-Bean, their time-travel device, only to find the world is a difficult and alienating place. How will they survive their terrifying ordeal? Who can help them figure out a way to get back to their own time? Will they escape before their captor Commander Hadron catches up with them? Who is he anyway and what's his connection to the mysterious Dr Foster? Unsettled by the devastation they find everywhere in the future and armed with new knowledge about the C-Bean's ultimate purpose, Alice and Co scour the planet, confronting many challenges in pursuit of answers to their questions. But can they figure out a way to restore the Earth's delicate ecological balance for good?

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Shortly before the fall of Atlantis, genetic engineers create three new prototypes, Kam, Mel and Leon, the firsthumans to have blue eyes and shapeshifting capabilities.With climatic conditions on Earth spinning rapidly out of control, it seems the future of Atlantean civilizationdepends entirely on whether the three test subjects can find a way to work together to solve the deepening crisis.But first they need to find each other.

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