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Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World
₹199.00Add to CartBuy NowThe classic stories of Pandora’s Box and Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head are re-told here in master storyteller, Marcia Williams’ inimitable comic style. These splendid adaptations have easy-to-read, accessible text and brilliantly witty illustrations, making them a perfect introduction to the classic legends of adventure and endeavour! Ideal for newly-confident readers – the classics have never looked so good!
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Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World
₹199.00Read MoreThe classic stories of Daedalus and Icarus and Orpheus and Eurydice are re-told here in master storyteller, Marcia Williams’ inimitable comic style. These splendid adaptations have easy-to-read, accessible text and brilliantly witty illustrations, making them a perfect introduction to the classic legends of adventure and endeavour! Ideal for newly-confident readers – the classics have never looked so good!
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Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World
₹399.00Read MoreFormer children’s laureate Michael Morpurgo remembers the post-war Britain of his childhood in this unflinching and deeply poignant tale of the physical and mental scars of war. From a young age, Michael is both fascinated by and afraid of his grandfather. Grandpa’s ship was torpedoed during the Second World War, leaving him with terrible burns. Every time he comes to stay, Michael is warned by his mother that he must not stare, he must not make too much noise, he must not ask Grandpa any questions about his past. As he grows older, Michael stays with his grandfather during the summer holidays, and as he finally learns the story behind his injuries, he gets to know the real man behind the solemn figure from his childhood. Michael begins to see beyond the burns, and this gives him the power to begin healing some of the scars that have divided his family for so long.
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The Squad: White Fear
₹250.00Read MoreThe Squad have been summoned to the deadly and frozen land of the Arctic Circle by the British Prime Minister who has heard of their growing reputation as brilliant young spies. An unknown criminal is trying to hijack a world conference about the precious and much fought-over fuels that lie below the arctic ice. To prevent an international war breaking out, Lily, Lesh, Hatty, Adnan and Kester go undercover to find out who it is and stop them.
But the beauty of the icy mountains and deep fjords hide some dangerous secrets and someone will do anything to make sure that the Squad don’t discover them . . .
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The Squad: Black Op
₹250.00Read MoreThe Squad – kickass teenage spies with the perfect cover. They are also part of an England youth football team. Wherever trouble is kicking off, the Squad are sent in. They’re more than a match for any kind of enemy. In the first book in this exciting new series from Foul Play author Tom Palmer, the Squad are sent to Krakow, Poland just before the Euro 2012 tournament there.
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Foul Play: Off Side
₹250.00Read MoreWhen Danny Harte finds out there’s been an anonymous foreign buy-out of his favourite club, City, he’s furious – the fans were about to buy it themselves. The club is being secretive and Danny is determined to find out what’s going on – until he’s caught staking out the club by the police and cautioned. His parents are furious, and his friends too. No one is talking to him.
But when Danny discovers Adam, a kid from Ghana, dumped by his agent who’d promised him a place as a junior at City, and lost in a foreign country he knows nothing about, Danny realizes there are worse ways of being alone. He decides to take Adam’s story to the press – with terrifying consequences for them both . . .
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Foul Play: Killer Pass
₹250.00Read MoreIn recent months there has been a spate of burglaries at the houses of players from Danny’s favourite football club, City FC. Danny wants to know who’s behind it all and is on the case.
But after scouting out the crime scenes, there are newspaper reports of a young boy having been seen hanging around.
Danny needs to find out who’s behind these crimes – and fast. If he doesn’t, he might have turned from crime detective into the biggest suspect of them all…
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Foul Play
₹250.00Read MoreDanny is obsessed with two things: football – especially City Football Club – and investigating crimes. So when England and City footballing hero Sam Roberts is reported missing the day after Danny saw him being taken, blindfolded, into the bowels of the City FC stadium late at night, he’s determined to get to the bottom of it. But is Danny getting into something he can’t handle?
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Extra Time
₹299.00Read MorePremiership football as you’ve never seen it before. Morris Gleitzman, bestselling author of Bumface and Two Weeks with the Queen, introduces us to a marauding fluffy mascot, a wise-as-an-owl landlady and a WAG called Terrine, in an irresistible story of how one boy helps stressed-out top footballers find the fun in a kickabout again, with help from his fearsome agent (and little sister), Bridie.
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The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai, Book 1)
₹350.00Read MoreAugust 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan – his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates.
Rescued by the legendary sword master Masamoto Takeshi, Jack’s only hope is to become a samurai warrior. And so his training begins.
But life at the samurai school is a constant fight for survival. Even with his friend Akiko by his side, Jack is singled out by bullies and treated as an outcast.
With courage in his heart and his sword held high, can Jack prove himself and face his deadliest rival yet?
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The Way of the Sword (Young Samurai, Book 2)
₹350.00Read MoreOne year of training in samurai school and Jack Fletcher is in real trouble . . . Not only is he struggling to prepare for the Circle of Three, an ancient ritual that tests a samurai’s courage, skill and spirit to the limit, he’s caught in a running battle with fellow student Kazuki and his gang.
But these are the least of Jack’s problems. He knows his deadly rival – the ninja Dragon Eye – could strike at any moment. Jack possesses the very thing he will kill for.
Can Jack master the Way of the Sword in time to survive a fight to the death?
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The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3)
₹350.00Read MoreJune 1613. Japan is threatened with war and Jack is facing his greatest battle yet.
Samurai are taking sides and, as the blood begins to flow, Jack’s warrior training is put to the ultimate test. His survival – and that of his friends – depends upon him mastering the Two Heavens, the secret sword technique of the legendary samurai Masamoto Takeshi. But first Jack must recover his father’s prize possession from the deadly ninja Dragon Eye.
Can Jack defeat his ruthless enemy? Or will the ninja complete his mission to kill the young samurai . . .
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The Ring of Water (Young Samurai, Book 5)
₹350.00Read MoreJack Fletcher has been left for dead.
Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened.
Determined to discover the truth, Jack goes on a quest to retrieve his belongings – his precious swords, his friend Akiko’s black pearl and most important of all, his father’s prize possession. Relying on his samurai and ninja training, Jack realises The Ring of Water is the key to his survival.
But with only a washed up Ronin – a masterless samurai – for help, what will Jack manage to find? What will he lose? And what will he have to sacrifice?
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The Ring of Fire (Young Samurai, Book 6)
₹350.00Read MoreJACK FLETCHER FACES HIS TOUGHEST CHALLENGE YET.
After a snowstorm forces him to take shelter, Jack comes across a village in need of protection from raiding mountain bandits. Torn between moving on or helping, Jack is persuaded to stay and fight the villagers’ cause.
But Jack is the first and only samurai to do so. Now he must enlist other warriors to the villagers’ aid before the bandits return to steal their harvest. No easy task when the reward is so little and he is a foreigner. If only he had his friends to call on…
Using the Ring of Fire, can Jack overpower the bandits and win?
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The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4)
₹350.00Read MoreJACK FLETCHER IS ON THE RUN
With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home…But the Shogun’s samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs headlong into a trap. Kidnapped by ninja and led to their village deep in the mountains, Jack has no means of escape.
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The Ring of Wind (Young Samurai, Book 7)
₹350.00Read MoreJACK FLETCHER IS BATTLING THE HIGH SEAS
Ambushed by the Shogun’s samurai, Jack and his friends have only one hope of escape – the Seto Sea. But with ferocious storms, man-eating sharks and ninja pirates at every turn, their chosen route is fraught with danger.
A treacherous crew only adds to their problems as they flee south from a ruthless samurai sea lord. Unless Jack can harness the Ring of Wind, he and his friends are destined for a watery grave . . .
Book 7 in the blockbuster Young Samurai series by Chris Bradford. Visit http://www.youngsamurai.com for competitions and FREE teacher resources.
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Tennis Shoes
₹299.00Read MoreThe Heath children have tennis running through their blood – their father and grandfather were top players – and the twins are championship material. However, to everyone’s surprise, it is their lazy and rebellious younger sister, Nicky, who has the most natural ability. Nicky begins to practise in secret, but, talented at tennis as she is, she has battles to win with herself – on and off the tennis court.
