From real-life flight attendant T. J. Newman, who wrote this book at 35,000 feet while crisscrossing the country on redeye flights when her passengers were asleep, FALLING is a high-concept thriller built around a chilling question Newman would ask pilots, only to watch their faces go pale with fear: What would you do if before a flight, terrorists kidnapped your family and told you that if you did not crash the plane, your family would be killed?
The brilliant follow-up to David Walliams' bestseller The World's Worst Children! Ten more stories about a brand new gang of hilariously horrible kids from everyone's favourite children's author, illustrated in glorious full colour by Tony Ross. If you thought you had read about the World's Worst Children already, you're in for a rather nasty shock. The beastly boys and gruesome girls in this book are even ruder, even more disgusting and WORSE than you could ever imagine! This gorgeous collection of ten stories from the master himself, David Walliams, will make you snort with laughter and thank your lucky stars that you don't know anyone like Gruesome Griselda or Fussy Frankie in real life. It also features a special appearance from fan-favourite Raj! Gloriously illustrated in full colour throughout by artistic genius Tony Ross, The World's Worst Children 2 is a side-splitting companion to David's blockbuster hit, The World's Worst Children, and the perfect gift for kids aged 9 and up.
'Mijn naam is Harriet Manners en ik ben een "geek". Ik weet dat omdat ik het net heb opgezocht in het woordenboek. Ik heb een vinkje gezet naast de symptomen die ik herken, en ze blijken allemaal op mij van toepassing! Eerlijk gezegd komt het niet als een enorme verrassing.' Harriet Manners weet best veel; zo weet ze dat een mens gemiddeld 15 keer per dag lacht, hommels niet kunnen lopen, en dolfijnen met één oog open slapen. Ze is geen nerd, maar een charmante allesweter - een geek, zeg maar. Er is alleen één ding waar ze absoluut niets van begrijpt: mode. Maar hier komt verandering in als ze op een dag wordt gecast als model en besluit dat dit dé kans is om van haar geeky imago af te komen. Terwijl ze in hilarische situaties belandt, komt ze erachter dat er niet bepaald een klik is met de modewereld. Maar kan ze nog teruggaan naar de oude Harriet die ze ooit was?
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
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After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence--with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods.As the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler closer to a terrifying crossroads--and a choice that will determine the destiny of all vampires.
