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EM and the big HOOM
Staking all on gamble of his art, using all the strength of his enormous talent, his natural empathy, Pinto chases the elusive portrait of a mother who simply said of herself that she was mad.
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A Bear For Felicia
I am brown with a nubbly coat, red button eyes and a black nose,
and this is my true story.
My name is Thurston Gustavus Buckridge III. This name was given
me by my clever friend Felicia who is also small and brown, with
a fringe, a tendency to lose crayons, and a playground of crazy
games in her head.
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Shockwave!:
And Other Cyber Stories
Zip down the cyber superhighway as these fast-paced,
breakthrough stories plunge you into a perhaps not-too-distant
future and a thrilling, often chilling, present. It’s
a heady cyber-zone where a portal mercilessly demands
your soul, a blogger unwittingly sets up an armed conflict
with a rapacious alien empire, a cyber-spook reveals
an intriguing, hidden past, a ruler controls an entire
city through neural networks, teddy bears store intimate
technology, and humans and spirits slip through firewalls
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The Puffin Book
of Funny Stories
Is your biology teacher driving you batty? Did the dog
eat your homework again? Are you beginning to suspect
the boy next door is really an alien? Time to relax and
have a good laugh. Dip into these pages and meet the oddest
cast of characters ever put together – a savvy witch
adviser, a time-travelling great-granduncle, a man who
can do a million things while picking his nose, and a
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Favourite Stories
for Boys
Witty boys, sporty boys, befuddled boys, mean boys. You’ll
find all kinds of boys in these pages—there is a
rising cricket star who finds himself dangling from a
tree on the day of the big match; a grandson with a great-grandfather
whose dark secrets appear from beyond the grave; a fat
boy bullied by his classmates till he is helped by an
unexpected person. There is also one who can’t tell
left from right, much to his teacher’s fury; Amin,
who faces up to a terrorist in the middle of a dog show;
and Kari, who gets sucked into a parallel universe on
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