Learn all the basic folds from beginner to expert level, then choose from over 30 projects, all shown with refreshingly simple step-by-step illustrations. This is a comprehensive guide to all the materials, techniques and skills you need to create impressive and attractive models from sheets of paper. Easy instructions are given at every stage, with experienced guidance included where appropriate, to ease the reader through the more difficult procedures. The projects enable you to practice the techniques and to create wonderful working models.

Tiffy and Leon share a flat Tiffy and Leon share a bed Tiffy and Leon have never met... 'I finished The Flatshare in one sitting - it is, as promised, incredibly uplifting and joyous. I spent the last few hours with a massive smile on my face. I have fallen head over heels in love with Tiffy and Leon, and indeed with this book.' Louise O Neill Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly-imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window...

The Australian Secret Service recruits Alex Rider to infiltrate a ruthless gang known as Snakeheads. Alex accepts the assignment, and it becomes his most dangerous mission yet.

While enjoying a full day of their favorite activities, a group of young penguins helps a baby seal that has been separated from her mother.

In The Finisher, bestselling author David Baldacci's first young adult adventure, a young girl is faced with an enormous mystery that could change her world entirely.Welcome to Wormwood: a place where curiosity is discouraged and no one has ever left. Until one girl, Vega Jane, discovers a map that suggests a mysterious world beyond the walls. A world with possibilities and creatures beyond her imagining. But she will be forced to fight for her freedom. And unravelling the truth may cost Vega her life.Wrapped in magic and mystery, The Finisher is the start of an enthralling series for young adult readers from the Sunday Times bestselling author, as you've never seen him before.

"The main focus of the book ... is the concise career descriptions of approximately 180 individual commanders -- of countries and alliances, of military units and militias -- that determined the progress and outcome of the war: they generally made decisions, led the troops, and instilled discipline, morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who found the war in Europe and the Pacific"--Dust jkt.

Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. Jesse and his three friends, Anna, Dave and Mini, crawl out from the wreckage only to discover a city in chaos. The only other survivors seem to be infected with a virus that turns them into horrifying predators...

On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drews put their very lives in peril. This is the first volume of Susan Cooper's brilliant and absorbing fantasy sequence known as The Dark Is Rising.

a ragdoll a postcard from Marrakech a rainbow-stripe hat a dreamcatcher a silver necklace with a pink stone in Dizzy's mum left when she was small. But every year, on her birthday, something arrives in the post - a present or a card with her mum's loopy writing on. Dizzy has kept everything. But this year is different. This year's present is her mum, in person. Tanned and skinny with loads of earrings and a huge smile, Storm is a human whirlwind. She whisks Dizzy away for a summer that puts her whole world in a spin.

Angelina and her cousin Henry show true Christmas spirit when they visit old Mr bell, the retired postman who lives all alone. Their generosity is rewarded when they discover that there is real Santa Claus living right in their own village!