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Bug-Eyed Monsters
Black Cats: Bug-Eyed Monsters
Jean Ure
Rumour says Mr Snitcher is an alien from outer space. Just a joke - or could it be true?
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/04/2012
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Deadline
Black Cats: Deadline
Simon Cheshire
When Sam and Karen's mum is dragged away by armed police, their whole lives change. With no clues apart from a cryptic message screamed as she leaves, the kids find themselves in a dangerous race against time to stop a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2011
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Nightmare at Trowser's Down
Black Cats: Nightmare at Trowser's Down
Michael Cox
When Dr Trotter is offered a top job at Professor Perfidious's scientific research centre, he jumps at the chance. But when his colleague mysteriously goes missing and the Professor demands he create an army of mutant clones, events start to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2010
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The Spoon of Doom
Black Cats: The Spoon of Doom
Sam Hay
Albert Grub has a dull life. But everything changes when Albert discovers that his dad is heir to the factory of the legendary Piddler's Porridge. Then, when he hears the legend of the Spoon of Doom, everything gets even more...
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Galaxy Patrol
Black Cats: Galaxy Patrol
Jean Ure
When Jake is abducted by aliens, he is delighted. At last he has proof that they do really exist! Not only that, he has been chosen to act as an agent for an alien confederation, stopping evil enemy bugs from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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The Honourable Ratts
The Honourable Ratts
Karen Wallace
A gloriously spooky and unusual tale tells of a strange old house and the very strange family who live in it. It is a family with a difference, a small family whose size and shape have been changed over the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2009
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Dying to Meet You
Black Cats: Dying to Meet You
Michael Cox
Identical twins Hailey and Hugo Huckleberry win the prize of a lifetime - the chance to stay at the castle of their favourite horror author, the mysterious and reclusive Chad Piranha. But all is not what it seems...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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B.A.S.E. Camp
B.A.S.E. Camp
Rob Childs
A pacy thriller set in the world of athletics – B.A.S.E. is the British Academy of Sporting Excellence. But nothing is quite as it seems at the Academy with mysterious goings-on, secret cloning experiments and untold danger that will keep...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2008
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Billy Angel
Black Cats: Billy Angel
Sam Hay
Plumbing. This is what the future has in store for Billy Box. Or does it?
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I Live in a Mad House
Black Cats: I Live in a Mad House
Kaye Umansky
Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more fun. He's spending half term cleaning cars and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. Luckily, friend Flora is on hand to help and have a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2007
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Captain Codswallop and the Flying Kipper
Black Cats: Captain Codswallop and the Flying Kipper
Michael Cox
Captain Codswallop's pirate ship has been stolen by the ruthless highwayman, Dick Turnip. But it seems that Dick is even more incompetent than the captain and his hapless crew. However, the pirates get more than they bargained for when they...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2006
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I am a Tree
Black Cats: I am a Tree
Kaye Umansky
Tim is an ace actor and keen member of the school drama club. So of course he expects to be the star of the end of year school play. But to his horror he finds he's been cast as a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2006
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Eyes Wide Open
Black Cats: Eyes Wide Open
Jan Mark

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Arf and Happy Campers
Black Cats: Arf and Happy Campers
Philip Wooderson

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Arf and the Tarantula
Black Cats: Arf and the Tarantula
Philip Wooderson

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Spooks Away
Black Cats: Spooks Away
Sue Purkiss
Spooker is back for a new school year at the Anne Boleyn Secondary School, and now that the wicked Sir Rupert is out of the picture, he hopes his life will be much easier. But when he goes on a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2005
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Time and Again
Black Cats: Time and Again
Rob Childs
Centres around the powers of a strange-looking watch, found by ten-year-old twins, Becky and Chris. The twins are joined in their adventures by their collie dog, Tan, but someone else at school also wants to get his hands on the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2005
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James and the Alien Experiment
Black Cats: James and the Alien Experiment
Sally Prue
An engaging, well-written, humorous story about a perennially popular subject. James and the Alien Experiment is a comedy about a boy who is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though, who want to improve his rather useless human body...
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Arf and the Tarantula
Black Cats: Arf and the Tarantula
Philip Wooderson
In Arf's latest adventure, he tangles with a tarantula and his sister Gloria's fickle new boyfriend. The added complication of a film crew on location should mean an entertaining read from start to finish.
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2005
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100% Pig
Black Cats: 100% Pig
Tanya Landman
Our hero is a Tamworth pig with attitude. He was imported from Australia to improve the bloodline of the farmer's herd and he is in no doubt about his own importance. But his days of usefulness are numbered and he's...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/12/2004
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The Gods are Watching
Black Cats: The Gods are Watching
Caroline Pitcher
This thriller is set in ancient Egypt and is the story of a young boy, Varro, and his flight from danger as he is pursued along the River Nile by an opportunistic lord. He is believed to be carrying something...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2004
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Changing Brooms
Black Cats: Changing Brooms
Sue Purkiss
Our hero is Jess, the long-suffering apprentice to the demanding and rather self-centered witches, Agnes Moonthistle and Sybil Higginbotham. The top lifestlye TV, Changing Brooms offers all three the chance to get what they really want - using a little...
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Arf and the Happy Campers
Black Cats: Arf and the Happy Campers
Philip Wooderson
Arf expects to have to stay at home during the school holidays, while his sisters enjoy a trip to France. However, because of his customary haplessness, the plans go awry and he finds himself running a camping ground and re-enacting...
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Under the Spell of Bryony Bell
Black Cats: Under the Spell of Bryony Bell
Franzeska G. Ewart
Bryony's back. Her family dreams of starring on Broadway but their first stop is the local Empress Theatre. Bryony, the only non-singing Bell, has to make do with befriending the has-been magician, Ken Undrum. The trouble begins when Ken and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2004
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Quirky Times at Quagmire Castle
Black Cats: Quirky Times at Quagmire Castle
Karen Wallace
Quagmire Castle is the much-loved, but totally dilapidated, home to a motley cast of humans and ghosts. When it comes to saving the castle from demolition at the hands of the gruesome bank manager, Gordon Grabbit, Aunt Tabitha's solution is...
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Eyes Wide Open
Black Cats: Eyes Wide Open
Jan Mark
A collection of six short stories. Find out how: visits from the tooth fairy can make you into a millionaire; a journey on the London Underground becomes a magical mystery tour for two lost boys; and a ghostly sighting in...
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The Gold-spectre
Black Cats: The Gold-spectre
Elizabeth Arnold
A cache of stolen gold, a dangerous ghost seeking revenge, and a promise that's too valuable to break. These are the surprises awaiting city boy Joe when he spends the school holidays with his grandparents in the Scottish highlands.
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Footsteps in the Fog
Black Cats: Footsteps in the Fog
Terry Deary
The children of Meek Street Primary are having a concert starring The Great Marvello, a magician who used to be famous. Mysteriously, Tommy Pickford's ticket is handed to him one foggy night. The concert is thrilling, but when his friend...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/05/2003
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Moonmallow Smoothie
Black Cats: Moonmallow Smoothie
Philip Wooderson
Sam's dad runs an ice-cream parlour, which is steadily going bankrupt due to competition from Karbunkle's mega-emporiums. Mum is getting fed up with Dad's dreams of making money, and moves out. Then one night, a large meteorite with super-freezing qualities...
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Drucilla and the Cracked Pot
Black Cats: Drucilla and the Cracked Pot
Lynda Waterhouse
Drucilla loves living by the river in Londinium. That is, until the day when Pontius Maximus, a leader of the Roman Army, returns a pot to her mother's shop and slips on a toy chariot, embarrassing himself in front of...
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Spook School
Black Cats: Spook School
Sue Purkiss
What could be worse for a ghost than not being frightening enough? That's Spooker's problem as he faces his Practical Haunting exams at the Anne Boleyn Secondary School. Spooker must find a way to spook the most unspookable people imaginable...
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Something Slimy on Primrose Drive
Black Cats: Something Slimy on Primrose Drive
Karen Wallace
A raucous, fast-paced romp through suburbia teeming with slime, snakes and people sleeping upside down. The story is a combination of the spooky and comic genres, and is designed for children between the ages of eight and twelve.
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2003
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Into the Lion's Den
Black Cats: Into the Lion's Den
Terry Deary
Agnes and her fellow Christians are sitting in their cell at the Colosseum, waiting to be thrown to the lions. Cass, the young trainee lion-keeper, is in charge today. Little does he know what a complicated day it is going...
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The Joke Factory
Black Cats: The Joke Factory
Terry Deary
Sharon sits down to a dull Christmas lunch, but one opened cracker later she is dealing with genies, wishes, vicious neighbours and a bizarre place called the Joke Factory. This tale has a twist-and-turn plot that should be suitable for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2002
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Into the Lion's Den
Black Cats: Into the Lion's Den
Terry Deary
After the crocodile and gladiator fight at the Coliseum, Christian Agnes is lined up as the next bit of entertainment. She is one of the noon executions. But Agnes is only ten and she's a teensy bit unhappy. This historical...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/06/2002
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The Wishing Well Ghost
Black Cats: The Wishing Well Ghost
Terry Deary
When Billy decides to investigate the well in the garden he makes a new friend with extraordinary powers. But will he be able to outwit the evil Quintus Quigley? This spooky tale is designed for children between the ages of...
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Something Slimy on Primrose Drive
Black Cats: Something Slimy on Primrose Drive
Karen Wallace
A raucous, fast-paced romp through a suburbia teeming with slime, snakes and people sleeping upside down. The story is a combination of the spooky and comic genres, and is designed for children between the ages of eight and twelve.
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/06/2002
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The Ramsbottom Rumble
Black Cats: The Ramsbottom Rumble
Georgia Byng
Intended for confident young readers this book offers entertaining and witty stories in all genres.
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/02/2002
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Big Iggy
Black Cats: Big Iggy
Kaye Umansky
Iggy the dragon is given his name by Shamus O'Shifty, the first human he meets after leaving his mother. He also comes across a princess who likes playing at detectives, a knight, a horrible jailor and lots of assorted animals...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2001
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Calamity Kate
Black Cats: Calamity Kate
Terry Deary
Calamity Kate is at large on the set of a Hollywood movie where she, her friend the Custard Kid, Otto Premier and the Warmer Sisters all tangle with a series of strange accidents - who let the crocodile loose in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2001
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Dear Ms.
Black Cats: Dear Ms.
Joan Poulson
Kate's new teacher has got everyone writing to each other - in text messages, scribbled notes and even old fashioned letters. So can the boys be friends with the girls? Can Mandy discover Tracey's secret and why is Kate always...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/10/2001
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Treasure of Crazy Horse
Black Cats: Treasure of Crazy Horse
Terry Deary
No one ever bothered about the Cactus Kid. Not till he met Sally Starr. The Cactus Kid boasts he is the toughest cowboy in the whole Wild West. But when he and Sally Starr set out on a treasure hunt...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2001
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Ghost Town
Black Cats: Ghost Town
Terry Deary
Sid the Kid is not a nice man. He is also dead. Calamity Kate is singing her way round the bars of the old Wild West not far behind the fearsome Big Bart. When Sid the Kid and Big Bart...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2001
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