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• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/01/2009

Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him. In LEGION OF THE DEAD, Barnaby finds himself embroiled in a plot that includes a legion of zombies raised from the dead. In Dickensian times, p ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/07/2008

Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. A fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city, with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby. After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the l ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 02/07/2009

Daniel X takes on the wildest threat the world has ever seen -- someone whose craving for fame could destroy the planet! Lights All's quiet in the small town of Holliswood -- television sets, computers, and portable devices aglow in every home, classroom, and store. But not all is perfect. An evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. Camera ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 13/09/2012

Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't. But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him. And Dodger's tale of skulduggery, dark plans and even darker deeds begins... ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 06/03/2003

Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London...Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 25/03/2010

Enjoy eight timeless tales from a magical storytellerThis enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains eight of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent stories. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 02/12/2010

A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head . . . It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best.Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly see ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 09/04/2009

Nobody said saving the world would be easy. Until now, Max and the flock have lived a lonely existence: hunted down, tortured and pushed to the fringe of society; always on the run they have never been able to live a normal life. But things are changing. The flock have finally found acceptance for their unusual skills. Together, they have taken on new challenges and used their extraordinary powers to fight for the greater goo ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/07/2011

Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class - 5,00 ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/01/2010

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and gen ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 05/09/2002

A lively collection of nineteen five-minute stories, ideally suited to the audiobook format. Here are stories old and new, from Perrault's LITTLE RED-RIDING HOOD and the traditional tale of THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF to MArgaret Mahy's HORRENDOUS HULLABALOO and Dick King-Smith's BLESSU. There are stories about animals, magic and mermaids, in t ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/03/2016

Puffin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's The BFG, read by actor, writer, and Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios.The BFG is a nice and jumbly giant. In fact, he is the only big friendly giant in Giant Country.All the other giants are big bonecrunching brutes, and ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/09/2006

Since his childhood in the Deepwoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a lowly crew-member on his father's sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig as plots and treacheries from many years ago bring the lofty city of Sanctaphrax - home of the Ed ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/10/2009

High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix - nominally the Most High Academe but no more than a prisoner in reality - is brewing a terrible plot to destroy the goblins and the shrykes at a stroke, leaving him free to take over once again. Rook Barkwater, a young librarian knight, stumbles upon the truth when he is taken captive and forced to wor ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/03/2016

Stephen Fry reads this enhanced audiobook edition of Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile. The audiobook features original music and 3D sound design by Pinewood film studios.The Enormous Crocodile is a greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little girls and boys.But the other animals have a scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for ... more