A new read from the brilliant David Walliams

Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow.
Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it…?

Back to School...

 

 

Enjoying the start of the new school year or still dreaming of those long summer holidays?  Why not click on the link below and see what you know about school life in books?

http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/quiz/2013/aug/30/back-to-school-quiz

Follow the link below to read the first chapter of the new novel for teen readers, 'More Than This' by Patrick Ness.

A boy called Seth drowns, but then he wakes.  How is that possible? He remembers dying, so how is he  here?  Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this...

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Read the first chapter here:
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/interactive/2013/sep/05/teen-book-club-extract-more-than-this-patrick-ness