Bloomsbury There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom Сашар Луис

Cursed! David was only trying to be cool when he helped some other boys steal an old lady's cane. But when the plan backfires, he is the one whom she 'curses'. Now David can't seem to do anything right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are weirdos. He even walks into Spanish class with his fly unzipped! And when he finally gets his nerve up to ask out a cute girl, his trousers fall down midway! But is this the curse at work or is David turning into a total loser? • Another witty and very clever tale by the master storyteller Louis Sachar

Деннис был другим. Чем же он отличался от остальных детей? Пожалуй, небольшая подсказка содержится в названии его истории • «The Boy in the Dress», дебютная детская повесть популярного британского писателя Дэвида Уолльямса с иллюстрациями Квентина Блейка, станет отличным подарком для детей • Книга на английском языке • The sparkling debut children's novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country, with sparkling new cover look to tie in with later books • Dennis was different • Why was he different, you ask? • Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book • Charming, surprising and hilarious - The Boy in the Dress is everything you would expect from the co-creator of Little Britain. David Walliams's beautiful first novel will touch the hearts (and funny bones) of children and adults alike

Историю Мальчика в полосатой пижаме очень трудно описать. Обычно мы даем некоторые подсказки о книге на обложке, но в данном случае мы думаем, что это испортило бы чтение книги. Мы считаем важным, чтобы вы начали читать, не зная, о чем идет речь • Если вы все-таки начнете читать эту книгу, то отправитесь в путешествие вместе с девятилетним мальчиком по имени Бруно. И рано или поздно вы с Бруно окажетесь у забора • Мы надеемся, что вам никогда не придется пересекать такой барьер • Книга на английском языке • The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about

Matt wears a black suit every day. No, not because his mom died - although she did, and it sucks. But he wears the suit for his gig at the local funeral home, which pays way better than the Cluck Bucket, and he needs the income since his dad can't handle the bills (or anything, really) on his own. So while Dad's snagging bottles of whiskey, Matt's snagging fifteen bucks an hour. Not bad. But everything else? Not good. Then Matt meets Lovey. Crazy name, and she's been through more crazy stuff than he can imagine. Yet Lovey never cries. She's tough. Really tough. Tough in the way Matt wishes he could be. Which is maybe why he's drawn to her, and definitely why he can't seem to shake her. Because there's nothing more hopeful than finding a person who understands your loneliness - and who can maybe even help take it away

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed • Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage • Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart

DI Westphall • No ordinary detective • No ordinary investigations • A twisting new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of Stephen King, Christopher Brookmyre and John Connolly • The body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred years. Yet the corpse is only days old • No one comes forward to identify #Boy9, and DI Ben Westphall's only suspects are the farmers on whose land the well sits. They certainly seem as though they have something to hide. But it might not be what he thinks • Soon, similarities from an old crime emerge and Westphall must look to the past to piece together the dark and twisted events taking place in the present

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

«Мальчик в полосатой пижаме» — роман, написанный ирландским писателем Джоном Бойном • Границы могут разделять нас, но надежда объединит нас • Девятилетний Бруно ничего не знает о Холокосте. Он не обращает внимания на ужасающую жестокость, которой его страна подвергает народы Европы. Все, что он знает, это то, что его перевезли из уютного дома в Берлине в дом в пустынном районе, где нечего делать и не с кем играть. Пока он не встречает Шмуэля, мальчика, который живет странным параллельным существованием по другую сторону соседнего проволочного заграждения и который, как и другие люди там, носит униформу из полосатой пижамы • Дружба Бруно со Шмуэлем приведет его от невинности к откровению. И, исследуя то, частью чего он невольно является, он неизбежно окажется втянутым в этот ужасный процесс

Не так-то просто рассказать в двух словах об этой удивительной книге. Обычно аннотация дает читателю понять, о чем пойдет речь, но в данном случае мы опасаемся, что любые предварительные выводы или подсказки только помешают ему. Нам представляется очень важным, чтобы вы начали читать, не ведая, что вас ждет. Скажем лишь, что вас ждет необычное и завораживающее путешествие вместе с девятилетним мальчиком по имени Бруно. Вот только сразу предупреждаем, что книга эта никак не предназначена для детей девятилетнего возраста, напротив, это очень взрослая книга, обращенная к людям, которые знают, что такое колючая проволока. Именно колючая проволока вырастет на вашем с Бруно пути. Такого рода ограждения достаточно распространены в нашем мире. И нам остается только надеяться, что вы лично в реальной жизни не столкнетесь ни с чем подобным

The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world • On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over great swathes of the richest country in India in a formal Act of Submission to a private corporation, the East India Company. He was also compelled to hand over to the British monarch, Queen Victoria, perhaps the single most valuable object on the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light • The history of the Koh-i-Noor that was then commissioned by the British may have been one woven together from gossip of Delhi bazaars, but it was to become the accepted version

The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment in the fifteenth century. There are five tales in all: 'The Tale of the Three Brothers' Harry Potter fans will know from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune', 'The Warlock's Hairy Heart', 'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot' and 'Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump' complete the collection. These narrative gems are accompanied by explanatory notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore (included by kind permission of the Hogwarts Headmaster's archive)