Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Resourceful Chitty rescues the Tootings from prehistoric times and takes them on an unexpected tour of Prohibition-era New York, where Chitty wants to compete in the famous Prix d'Esmerelda's Birthday Cake race to the lost city of El Dorado and back again, with misadventures and surprise stowaways along the way."--Dust jacket.
3) Cosmic
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family. Prez is still learning to fit in at his new home when he answers the door to meet Sputnik-a kid who is more than a little strange. First, he can hear what Prez...