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ALEX RIDER: ARTEMIS FOWL Anthony Horowitz WALKER Eoin Colfer PUFFIN Billionaire Herold Sayle At just twelve years old, Artemis is donating a space-age Fowl is already a criminal Stormbreaker computer to every mastermind, plotting to restore school in the country. But his gift his family’s fortune with a spot of hides a sinister surprise. Can teen corruption and kidnapping. Let spy crack its evil code? the misadventure begin...

SHERLOCK HOLMES: PERCY JACKSON AND THE HOUND OF THE THE LIGHTNING THIEF BASKERVILLES Rick Riordan PUFFIN OUP They call Percy ‘troubled’. Does What is the phantom hound that six schools in six years count as haunts the Baskerville family, ‘troubled’? What about the fact with blazing eyes and dripping that the Greek gods are alive— jaws? This spooky detective story and he’s topping their hit-list? is a must-read classic.

YOUNG : EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES DEATH CLOUD Erich Kästner RANDOM HOUSE Andrew Lane MACMILLAN Emil doesn’t like the look of the The genius of Baker Street. The shifty man in the bowler hat who greatest sleuth in fiction. Before is sharing his train carriage. So he became immortal, who was when the man steals his money, the young Sherlock Holmes? A he sets off on a hair-raising chase brilliant teenager—and a sinister to catch the dirty rotten thief! villain of malign intent...

DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT DETECTIVE AGENCY Derek Landy HARPER COLLINS Douglas Adams PAN MACMILLAN When all hell breaks loose, can the What do a dead cat, a computer wisecracking skeleton of a dead whiz-kid, an Electric Monk, magician save Stephanie’s skin? quantum mechanics, a Romantic poet and pizza have in common? Not much—until wacky detective Dirk Gently comes along!

HOW TO TRAIN TIME RIDERS YOUR DRAGON Alex Scarrow PUFFIN Cressida Cowell HODDER Liam should have died at sea in Hiccup Horrendous Haddock 1912. Maddy should have died on III was just a nerdy little Viking, a plane in 2010. Sal should have not big or hairy or scary at all. So died in a fire in 2029. But instead, how did valiant Hiccup and his they are saved—to ride through midget sidekick Toothless the time! Dragon become mighty heroes?

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POWER OF FIVE: NECROPOLIS Anthony Horowitz Anthony Horowitz WALKER WALKER London is dirty, distant and has been taken over dangerous ... but that’s where by the Old Ones and has become orphan Tom Falconer is heading. Necropolis, city of the dead. Once And he’s got a whole assortment of in, there is no way out… vicious criminals hot on his heels…

STORMBREAKER SNAKEHEAD Anthony Horowitz Anthony Horowitz WALKER WALKER When his guardian dies in Alex Rider is working for the suspicious circumstances, Australian secret service—and his fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds target is the criminal underworld his world turned upside down. of South-East Asia: the ruthless Forcibly recruited into MI6, he’s world of the Snakehead... soon off on his first mission…

CROCODILE TEARS EAGLE STRIKE Anthony Horowitz Anthony Horowitz WALKER WALKER Targeted by a hit-man and under Reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider threat of his past being exposed is relaxing in the south of France by the media, Alex reluctantly until a sudden, ruthless attack on turns to MI6 for help, which his hosts plunges him back into a comes at a high price.… world of violence and mystery.

POINT BLANC: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL IN … THE FALCON’S Anthony Horowitz MALTESER WALKER Anthony Horowitz Featuring full-colour, action- WALKER packed, Manga-style art, this When a dwarf comes into the graphic novel of the second office and leaves a package, Tim Alex Rider story is ideal for Diamond, the world’s worst private- encouraging reluctant readers. detective, is faced with his toughest case yet. NIGHT RISE Anthony Horowitz THE DIAMOND WALKER BROTHERS IN … SOUTH The battle with the Old Ones BY SOUTH EAST continues in the third exciting Anthony Horowitz volume of the bestselling Power WALKER of Five series, from the creator of When a mysterious stranger Alex Rider. offers Tim a wad of money for his overcoat, it seems like a stroke of good fortune…

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