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The Find-Outers is a clever mystery series from bestselling author Enid Blyton, and perfect for fans of The Secret Seven. Ern is back visiting Mr Goon, which gives him and the Find-Outers the perfect chance to explore Banshee Towers. But there's more secrets to the towers than the screaming banshees. Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster the Dog have one last case to solve... First published in 1961, this edition contains the orginal text and is unillustrated.  

The Find-Outers is a clever mystery series from bestselling author Enid Blyton, and perfect for fans of The Secret Seven. Mr Goon is on holiday and there's a new policeman in town. While the Find-Outers are up to their usual games, he stumbles upon a puzzling mystery: the theatre safe has been robbed! The top suspect is Boysie, the pantomime cat, but Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip and Bets aren't convinced. Who could the real thief be? This edition contains the original text first published in…

In the cold and foggy Christmas holidays, it doesn't seem as though the Five Find-Outers and Dog will have anything exciting to investigate. Fatty's got some wonderful new disguises, but there doesn't seem to be any mystery for them at all this time. Then Pip stumbles on a single furnished room in an otherwise deserted house. They try to find out whom the house belongs to, but they're not making much progress - until Fatty decides to go to the house to see what he can uncover. Suddenly trapped…

After the amazing twist at the end of Sweet Honey, the sixth and final book in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series follows Jake, the Tanberry sisters' newly discovered half-brother . . . Jake Cooke has just had the surprise of his life. He's got four half-sisters that he never knew existed. When Jake's talent for trouble causes chaos at home, he runs away to meet his new family. Life in a rundown flat in Chinatown is a far cry from Tanglewood, where the days are filled with beach…

This exciting Read with Oxford story is ideal for children who are becoming indendent readers. Will Biff overcome her fear of bees to help some villagers in Africa to protect ther crops?  

Learn all about our solar system in this fascinating non-fiction book, perfect for young readers ready to begin reading independently.Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling reading series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number…

رواية مؤثرة تقدم تأويلًا مباشرًا يقوم على كبسة زر للمذاق المرير للحياة اليومية، مطعمة بروح السخرية والمفارقة بصورة لا تضاهى، إنها قصة جيل كامل من العرب الذين دمرت حياتهم الإيديولوجيات التي هيمنت على السياسة العربية. تتضمن الرواية أيضًا حسًا فكاهيًا وروح دعابة متميزين ومقدرة غير عادية للكاتب على خلق عالم داخلي، فهي تروي قصة حكواتي لا مقدسات لديه، ينتهي به الأمر في باريس، مواصلًا حياته بين البارات ومحطات المترو، حالمًا بكتابة سيناريو عن والده الفران الأصم الأبكم، ولكنه بدلًا من ذلك يكتب نصًا…

  صور الجاحظ في كتابه البخلاء الذين قابلهم وتعرفهم في بيئته الخاصة خاصة في بلدة مرو عاصمة خراسان ، وقد صور الجاحظ البخلاء تصويراً واقعياً حسياً نفسياً فكاهياً ، فأبرز لنا حركاتهم ونظراتهم القلقة أو المطمئنة ونزواتهم النفسية، وفضح أسرارهم وخفايا منازلهم واطلعنا على مختلف أحاديثهم، وأرانا نفسياتهم وأحوالهم جميعاً، ولكنه لا يكرهنا بهم لأنه لا يترك لهم أثراً سيئاً في نفوسنا.ـ وقصص الكتاب مواقف هزلية تربوية قصيرة وقد عرض الكتاب بأسلوب…

Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna – as he struggles to find his place in society and “become a Rothschild” against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken…

Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks on an exhilarating journey through France and Italy, only to find her endeavours thwarted by the sinister plotting of…