Download or read book Silas and the Marvellous Misfits written by Tom Percival and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tom Percival, the creator of Ruby's Worry and the Big Bright Feelings series, comes Odd One Out – a new title exploring big emotions through exciting adventure! When Silas disappears, it's up to the Dream Team to get him back. But things get tough when they discover he has gone back to his family, the Glooms, and is desperately trying to fit in with them – Silas is warm, friendly and bubbly but the Glooms are all very sombre and cold. And to make matters worse, they are trying to take over the dreams of children all over the world! Can the Dream Team stop the Glooms' evil plan and help Silas to discover the joy of being himself? Odd One Out is packed full of brilliant and engaging illustrations from the author. Perfect for newly independent readers, it helps kids to deal with their worries in a fun and accessible way.
Download or read book Silas and the Marvellous Misfits written by Tom Percival and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Marcus Rashford Book Club Choice! Silas and the Marvellous Misfits by Tom Percival is an action-packed adventure that shows kids the joy of being themselves. 'Engaging and action packed. I would have loved this book as a child!' – Marcus Rashford MBE Erika has a BIG secret. She’s a member of the Dream Defenders – a top-secret organization that banishes your worries while you sleep! And tonight they're on a mission to rescue Erika's best friend Silas from the clutches of the evil Glooms – creatures who want everyone in the dream world to look and think exactly the same way! Can the Dream Defenders save Silas and help him to see that being a misfit can be a truly marvellous thing? Discover more of the Dream Defenders adventures in Erika and the Angermare and Chanda and the Devious Doubt. The Marcus Rashford Book Club is a collaboration between Marcus Rashford and Macmillan Children's Books, inspiring children to develop a love of reading and literacy as a life skill.
Download or read book Silas and the Marvellous Misfits written by Tom Percival and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Marcus Rashford Book Club Choice! Silas and the Marvellous Misfits by Tom Percival is an action-packed adventure that shows kids the joy of being themselves.'Engaging and action packed. I would have loved this book as a child!' - Marcus Rashford MBEErika has a BIG secret. She's a member of the Dream Defenders - a top-secret organisation that banishes your worries while you sleep!And tonight they're on a mission to rescue Erika's best friend Silas from the clutches of the evil Glooms - creatures who want everyone in the dream world to look and think exactly the same way!Can the Dream Defenders save Silas and help him to see that being a misfit can be a truly marvellous thing?Discover more of the Dream Defenders adventures in Erika and the Angermare and Chanda and the Devious Doubt. The Marcus Rashford Book Club is a collaboration between Marcus Rashford and Macmillan Children's Books, inspiring children to develop a love of reading and literacy as a life skill.
Download or read book Chanda and the Devious Doubt written by Tom Percival and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chanda and the Devious Doubt is an exciting adventure that will help children to overcome their doubts! From Tom Percival, the creator of Silas and the Marvellous Misfits – a Marcus Rashford Book Club Choice! – and Ruby's Worry, comes the second title in the action packed Dream Defenders series (previously published as A Case of the Jitters). Erika has an amazing secret. She’s a member of the Dream Defenders – a top-secret organization that will banish your worries while you sleep! When Erika gets an emergency call from the team, she dives into the dream world and meets Chanda – Chanda is struggling with her confidence and a terrifying Doubt is attacking her dream! Can the Dream Defenders help Chanda believe in herself and banish her Doubts, before they take over completely? Discover more incredible Dream Defenders adventures in Erika and the Angermare and Silas and the Marvellous Misfits.
Download or read book The Genie s Curse written by Tom Percival and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jack and his talking chicken Betsy, Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and a host of other Little Legends as they have fantastic new adventures! Get to know your favorite fairytale characters like never before in this magical new book series. For Rapunzel, being a princess has been nothing but fun. But everything goes wrong when she breaks a magical urn and blames it on her new friend, Ella. It turns out that the urn was home to a very cross (and now very homeless) genie, who casts a spell making everyone blame Rapunzel for everything that goes wrong in Tale Town! With the help of her friends and a mysterious green monkey called Alphege, can Rapunzel lift the curse and make things right?
Download or read book The Great Troll Rescue written by Tom Percival and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What starts as an adventure ends in disaster when Rapunzel, Anansi and Jack and his talking chicken, Betsy, are captured by a wicked witch and locked up in a tower! It's up to Red (the sustainable woodcutter's daughter) to save the day. With the help of the witch's servant, Ella, and her magical fairy god-brother, can Red save her friends and all the other magical creatures the witch has kidnapped - including a fearsome troll? The Great Troll Rescue is the second book in this brilliant new highly-illustrated series by Tom Percival, featuring all the fairy-tale characters you know and love having brand-new adventures!
Download or read book Erika and the Angermare written by Tom Percival and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Dream Defenders - they're on a mission to banish your worries while you sleep!
Download or read book The Spell Thief written by Tom Percival and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack (of the beanstalk fame) and his magical talking chicken, Betsy, have always been great at making new friends. But when Jack spots Anansi, the new kid in town, talking to a troll in the Deep Dark Woods, everything changes. Everyone knows that trolls mean trouble, and Jack will do anything to prove to the rest of his friends that Anansi is a troll spy. Even if that means using stolen magic! The Spell Thief is the first book in this brilliant new highly-illustrated series by Tom Percival, featuring all the fairy-tale characters you know and love having brand-new adventures!
Download or read book The Breakfast Club Adventures written by Marcus Rashford and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into an exciting and mysterious adventure full of fun-filled friendships, fantastical creatures and incredible investigations by the #1 bestselling author Marcus Rashford! Inspired by Marcus’s own experiences growing up, The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence is the first fiction book by England International footballer, child-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE. Written with children's author Alex Falase-Koya it's packed with tons of illustrations by Marta Kissi, making it the perfect book for children aged 8-11. There's something fishy going on at school . . . When twelve-year-old Marcus kicks his favourite football over the school fence, he knows he's never getting it back. Nothing that goes over that wall ever comes back. But when Marcus gets a mysterious note inviting him to join the Breakfast Club Investigators, he is soon pulled into an exciting adventure with his new mates Stacey, Lise and Asim to find out what is lurking on the other side of the fence – and get his football back! Don't miss the Breakfast Club Investigators next adventure in The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Ghoul in the School! 'Breakfast Club guaranteed I had the best possible start to my day and welcomed me with open arms. It wasn’t just about food. It was about forming friendships, about togetherness, about escape. It was where some of my greatest memories were made. I want to capture that feeling in my debut fiction book.' - Marcus Rashford MBE
Download or read book Wilf The Mighty Worrier Saves the World written by Georgia Pritchett and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilf worries quite a lot. About quite a lot of things. Well, if we're being totally honest, he worries about almost everything. Stuffed animals for instance. And peanut butter makes him nervous, too. And, as for those awful insects that have waggly feeler thingies instead of eyes? Well, they're something he can't even bear to think about. So, when the most evil man in the world (named Alan) moves in next door one day, Wilf is understandably rather alarmed. Especially after he learns that Alan is a self-styled Evil Lunatic, with his own grumpy robot sidekick to complete the package. Wilf's only ally in his desperate struggle to put a stop to Alan's plan to destroy the world is his sticky little sister, Dot. Can Wilf stop worrying for long enough to save the world?
Download or read book Anti Intellectualism in American Life written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor
Download or read book The Magic Looking Glass written by Tom Percival and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jack and his talking chicken Betsy, Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and a host of other Little Legends as they have fantastic new adventures! Get to know your favorite fairytale characters like never before in this magical new book series. A cutting has been stolen from the magical Story Tree, and it's up to twins Hansel and Gretel to get it back. With the help of their new friend Wolfie, they find a secret fortress in the forest and a Magic Looking Glass that promises to help them. But things are not always what they seem! Can Wolfie and the twins save the day, or will the Magic Look Glass have the last laugh? Other books in the Little Legends series: The Spell Thief The Great Troll Rescue The Genie's Curse
Download or read book All about Feelings written by Felicity Brooks and published by All about. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are you feeling today? This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction to feelings is designed to help young children recognise, understand and name how they're feeling and learn to talk about and manage their emotions in helpful ways.
Download or read book The Dentist of Darkness written by David O'Connell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archie McBudge's lazy summer has just turned into a magical meltdown! The second adventure in this madcap magical mystery series is perfect for fans of How to Train Your Dragon, amateur detectives and anyone who loves SWEETS! Archie McBudge was planning a sweet summer at Honeystone Hall. Picnics by the loch, watching the honeydragons flying around the hillsides, chasing ghosts through the shadowy castle hallways, and of course, testing out all the new sweets from the McBudge Confectionery Factory. But now the Wyrdie Tree, source of all the magic in the town of Dundoodle, is dying, and the guardian must save it before Dundoodle's magic is gone for good. And who's the guardian, you ask? That's right, Archie McBudge. With enemies on every side, puzzles to solve and secrets to uncover – not to mention a very scary dentist to avoid – Archie's summer's looking less like a strawberry marshmallow dream and more like a super-sour sherbet lemon with exploding bits that make your mouth go numb for a week! The follow-up to David O'Connell's The Chocolate Factory Ghost, this is a must read for anyone who loves ghosts, monsters, toffee, marshmallows, and wants to explore more of the weird and wonderful town of Dundoodle.
Download or read book A Dinosaur Ate My Sister written by Pooja Puri and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dinosaur Ate My Sister is the first book selected in the Marcus Rashford Book Club. 'The perfect story to escape into and find adventure. Pooja is super talented and I'm a big fan!' - Marcus Rashford MBE This brilliantly illustrated, laugh-out-loud, wacky adventure through time by Pooja Puri is the perfect blend of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Jurassic Park. Before you start reading, there are a few things you should know: 1. I, Esha Verma, am a genius inventor extraordinaire. 2. There is nothing I cannot invent. This includes words. 3. I did not mean to send my sister back to the Age of the Dinosaurs. That was HER OWN FAULT (Mum and Dad, if you’re reading this, please take note). Esha Verma, her snotty apprentice Broccoli and his cunning pet tortoise have a dream. They are going to win the legendary Brain Trophy – the ultimate inventing prize. This year's entry: A TIME MACHINE. But the day before the competition, Esha's IGNORAMUS big sister hijacks the time machine and is lost in the Cretaceous age. With help from a new recruit for The Office of Time, Esha and Broccoli will have to face hungry dinosaurs, mysterious black holes and malfunctioning inventions to get them back in time. The Marcus Rashford Book Club is a collaboration between Marcus Rashford and Macmillan Children's Books, inspiring children to develop a love of reading and literacy as a life skill.
Download or read book Einstein the Penguin written by Iona Rangeley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An outstanding debut. Funny and surprising' The Times Best Books for Children 2021 ‘This debut novel is a delight . . . A joy to read aloud’ Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week
Download or read book Dream Big Little Mole written by Tom Percival and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dream big, Little Mole, be brilliant, be YOU ...” Join one little mole as she follows her dream of building the biggest hole ever, and learns along the way that everyone has something special to give the world – it just sometimes takes a little time (and a few mishaps!) to discover what that special something is. A powerful celebration of embracing who you are and finding your own unique talent from Tom Percival, the creator of Ruby's Worry. With charming illustrations by Christine Pym. This audio-enabled edition comes with a gorgeous reading by Sam Newton, along with music and sound effects.
