Amelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! Will Amelia Jane ever stop? Now she's causing chaos with a boomerang, scribbling all over the nursery walls and playing all sorts of tricks on Mr Up-and-To! Sometimes the toys manage to trick her back, and she promises to be good from now on. But can the world's naughtiest doll ever be good?
Leanne thinks her school's rubbish - so when she sees an advert asking people to apply to have their school transformed, she sends off a letter. To her delight the tv company pick her school for a makeover. She and her friends are so excited - this will be their chance to get some of their ideas for the playground, dining hall, and classroom put into practice. But as the makeover week wears on, the kids realize that, once again, it's the adults who are taking over and ruining things.
Helen has lived with her mother, a cook for the Bradleys, since she was five. When her mother dies, and her father killed in the Great War, Mrs Bradley says she has to go and live in an orphanage. Helen refuses and runs away, trying to get a another position, whilst looking for her father's family.
When Matt and his family are stranded during a blizzard they take shelter in a roadside inn. The innkeeper keeps staring at Matt, and the other guests ask him weird questions. What's more they cook the strangest breakfasts and their language is out of this world.
Danu used to have tons of friends and did well in school. But that was before her dad went away for work and left her with her cold, workaholic aunt. As a Sagittarius, Danu longs for space and company. When she can't get either, Danu rebels at school, changing from a straight-A student into every teacher's worst nightmare. When a Web site search reveals that she is a Zodiac Girl, Danu is skeptical at first, but soon her zodiac guardians are pointing her back in the right direction. Danu learns that she must take responsibility for her own happiness and that when life hands you a difficult card, it's how you play that counts.
I am the great and mighty Zeus, mortal- give me one good reason why I shouldn't smite you here and now!'Alex's class are learning about the Ancient Greeks. That's why Alex makes a temple (out of loo rolls and a cornflakes box) for the Greek god Zeus. He doesn't expect the god himself to turn up, borrow his mum's nightie and demand a sacrifice at half-past five in the morning. Even worse, Zeus reckons it's time for another Trojan War - in the school playground! Zeus is on the loose
we've been here a week and I've been bored every single minute! said George.
'You haven't,'said Anne. 'You've enjoyed all the rides we've had, and you know you've enjoyed messing about the stables when we haven't been out riding.
My name is Tobias. The other Animorphs can't tell you very much about themselves, but I can. See, I don't have an address. I can't be found. I live in an area of forest by a meadow.
I'm very tired of amelia jane, said the teddy bear. Very, very tired.
So am I, said the clockwork mouse.
She keeps running after me telling me not to do this and not to do that, and....'
If somebody ever asks you to kick her in the face, the first thing she will do is forget that she asked you to do it.
Isabella was over today, and we were working on my hair. I cut my hair really short over the summer and thought that it might grow back ....
Karen can do lots of great tricks with her new yo-yo. But when she takes it to school to show her friends, the yo-yo shows Karen a brand-new trick. It disappears! It is not magic. Somebody has taken Karen’s yo-yo. And Karen is going to figure out just who the meanie-mo is.
Looking out of my bedroom window, counting my unblessings. Raining. A lot. It's like living fully dressed in a pond.
And I am the prisoner of whatsit.
I have to stay in my room pretending to have tummy lurgy so that Dad will not know I am an ......
The Bear scouts met with scout leader Jane about once a month. They usually met on merit badge business. That's what today's meeting was about.
"We've decided to try for the Good Government Merit Badge, Scout Leader,"
said Scout Brother.
It seemed to Lief that they had been walking beside the river forever. Yet only one night and part of a day had passed since he, barda and Jasmine had left the City of the Rats in flames. The faint smell of smoke hung in the still air, though the city was now just a blur on the horizon at their backs.
When the Witch-Queen's soldiers arrive to steal a flying bear, it's the beginning of a great adventure. Temmi tries to save the cub, Cush, but the hunting wolves are too quick -?and Temmi and the cub are taken to the Ice Castle.
My kinsman and myself returning to Calcutta from our Puja trip when we met the man in a train. From his dress and bearing we took him at first for an up-country Mahomedan, but we were puzzled as we heard him talk.
Seems pretty bad, right? Well, his mom was in a punk rock band called "We Hate You." It's just too good to be true. I must have died and gone to heaven. "'But we didn't really hate people,' my mom insists whenever I ask her about it. 'We just pretended we did. To shock the audience.'" What audience? I actually can't believe it, it's the perfect mix of creative and stunningly unoriginal. So they live in Detriot, and Ignatius J. spends some time explaining Michigan's geography to explain where "up north" is. Oh, and they're camping up north.
Also in this stunningly fascinating rogues' gallery is Ignatius J.'s friend, John, nicknamed "Mole." He's a little nearsighted dork who loves history. He goes on over to Ignatius J.'s house in the beginning to show him a book about Fort Deckerdale, near where the group is staying. It says that all the soldiers at the fort mysteriously disappeared. Well, we know it wasn't ghosts, since M.D. Spencer's idea of ghostly behavior is turning up the thermostat.
well, said mum. so that's so that's it ......... it's happened"! the Prime minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, had just made the announcement: Great Britain and Germany were at war.
Dad leaned forward and switched the wireless off.
My name is Tracy Beaker.
I am 10 years 2 months old.
My birthday is on 8 may. It's not fair, because that dopey Peter Ingham has his birthday then too, so we just got the one cake between us.
Alas the day! What will become of me ?
Oh that I, Eggbert Noah Bacon, son of Sir Nicholas
Bacon, half-brother of Francis Bacon, should have come to this.
