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"Gillian Cross's fine retelling of Homer's epic story captures all the heroism and savagery of war and shows why the 'Iliad' has been called the first tragedy and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization"--Front jacket flap.

"Odysseus ... faces storm and shipwreck, terrifying monsters and the fury of the sea god Poseidon as he makes his epic journey home from the Trojan War [in this retelling of Homer's story]"--Dust jacket flap.

The night Dot and Ryan take a sneaky Halloween visit to a condemned tower, they discover more than they bargained for when they catch a glimpse of an endangered species of bat. It's clear that the bat colony and the tower need to be saved, but Dot and Ryan were never meant to be ...

Jason Banks is a bully. No one likes him and even the teachers are scared of him! It's time that someone taught Jason a lesson and he might just have met his match in the strange pumpkin that keeps appearing on his doorstep. Will Jason ever learn the error of his ways? And can he...

"The creepy Ghost Tower on the hill has loomed over the town for as long as anyone can remember. Now boarded up and dangerous, it's due to be knocked down. But when Ryan and his friend Dot make a sneaky last visit to the tower on Halloween, they discover that it's been hiding a f...

Buddy hates to write and is unhappy about having to keep a nature diary for a week until he decides to survey the night sky and discovers something weird in his neighbor's backyard that makes for a truly interesting diary.

Four young rabbit siblings use their unique talents to devise a way to cross the stream and make friends with the squirrels who just moved there.

Tom, his friend Robert, and Robert's sister Emma attempt to rescue a strange girl Robert believes is the counterpart of Lorn, a tiny person that he met during his own ordeal as a miniature copy of himself.

Dinah moves in with the Hunter family, but her foster brothers don't want her there, and school is just plain weird. The headmaster seems to have some kind of power over the kids, and when Dinah starts doing things she doesn't mean to do, she tries to find out what's going on.

Hunkymania is the latest craze and people can't get enough of Hunky t-shirts, trainers like pigs' trotters, and pig-swill yoghurt. Only Dinah and her friends are suspicious of the hype, and when they set out to investigate they find themselves up against their old rival the Demon...

Dinah becomes obsessed with a popular new computer game. She wins a place at the grand final of a computer game competition, but her friends think she wants to win too much and they are determined not to let her go to the final alone.

It's Ella's first day at her new school and that can only mean one thing: making new friends. But the challenge is even tougher than Ella thought, as the girls in her class just don't seem interested in her. When she stumbles across the book Five Ways to Make a Friend in the libr...